I hate when these get CUT!!!

[thatchipperguy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QowWxVMa57M

[coxy]

got to love deer hunters  around here the never put a stand in soft maple or basswood  its always in cherry oak hard maple  ash think they know ill be the one that going to cut the logs

[Autocar]

Same thing around here never in a low grade tree always walnut or white and red oak   :D . Good thing you noticed it, that would of been the end of the chipper knives.

[Jeff]

when I was the head sawyer for Billsby Lumber, I used to see that crap time ant time again. Hanging out of logs.  We bout a lot of wood by the cord, so didn't necessarily see every log until it was in the process of being processed. Many times fence or wire hanging out of them. One time we got a decent oak log in that still had the wooden ladder rungs nailed to it.  Totally out of line to cut and ship something like that.

[1270d]

I cut a nice hemlock once and as it fed through the processor I could hear a loud banging sound.   Lifted it up and on the bottom side out of sight was a row of screw in deer stand steps.   Did a real number on the delimbing knives.   

[killamplanes]

U otta see a large circle grade mill feed a rr iron nail{what deer hunters use to use before these new screw in type pegs} Threw. It can easily get to 5k dollar problem they tell me :'(. And the expensive part is not the saw blade. Its the 3 men behind the mill and the 6 after the saw blade standing there watching one guy change it so they can all go back to work.  That's why here I don't even think about questioning a log to go to the large mill with metal.   

[62oliver]

Don't those machines have metal detectors? I assumed they would, farm equipment, like silage choppers have been using them for decades.

[thatchipperguy]

Nope. No metal detectors. Just have to keep your head on a swivel.

[Bigfoot870]

Chipping hardwood...............what do the chips get used for?
Also, shouldn't the feller buncher and skidder operators watch for this sort of thing, as well as the chipper operator? (Especially, whereas everyone knows he's new at the job.)

[timberlinetree]

Good eye! I saw a piece of power line go into a chipper. It was wipping a round and going fast into the chipper and stalled it. Luckily no one was hurt or killed. It was aluminum so no damage,but a mess to get out.

[thatchipperguy]

The chips get sent to Packaging Corporation of America and used to make cardboard. The Skidder guys catch them sometimes but when there in a bundle of wood you sometimes can't see them till you start chipping that bundle. I found two more trees on that job with steel in them. 🌲

[whatwas]

I work in the Quarry (rock crushing). and some crushers have electro magnets suspended over the feed conveyors to pick up metals (loader teeth, hammer heads etc) but the what seems to work better is metal detectors that  will shut the feed conveyor off when they detect metal passing under them.

[chevytaHOE5674]

Last winter I was cutting on a Federal sale in the middle of the night in a snowstorm. Grabbed onto a Basswood tree and knock it to the ground, started feeding it through and saw sparks flying. Had to do some serious sharpening/hammering to the top knife to get it back into shape.