The big tree service pine….

[Crossroads]

Someone asked for me to post when I milled the big butt cut from the tree service pine that I posted pictures of a while back. Well, I milled it up yesterday and as expected, it had a lot of steel in it. The 3/8" lag bolt I could see, broke as I tried to remove it. I made a heavy cut there to get below it, but either found it or something else. Dropped 2 more inches and made it through the log. Rolled 90° and found more metal about 2/3 through the length of the log. The blade was still cutting though, so I dropped 6" for my next cut and found something I couldn't cut. Dropped 2 more inches and made it through the log. Rolled 90° again and made a cut at 24 3/8" to set up for 3-8" cants. Rotated 90° and started a cut, but found more metal. Decided to separate the 3-8" cants and work them up individually. I ended up finding metal in 2 of the three, but got the 4- 6x8's that I was after and a few 1x8's as well. Note: these were all blades that were on their last sharpening, so I didn't mind sacrificing them to satisfy my curiosity about this log. The next log up was completely free of metal and produced a nice pile of 1x8's that I had an order for. After scanning the 6x8's with a metal detector, 2 of them had steel buried within.