How's this for a foreign object?

[kelLOGg]

I hit barbed wire in one of a customer's pine logs so I told him I would have to cut the bottom 2 feet off because I couldn't get the wire out. OK, he said and the bottom 2 feet laid on the ground at my mill for 2 years. It came time to split firewood so I added the pine to the mix for the fire pit. Here's what I found. Makes the barbed wire look like child's play. About 3/4" diameter and a foot long with 6" exposed. Glad I stopped sawing.



 

[WV Sawmiller]

   Looks like an old J-bolt for hanging a gate. It would probably have left a mark if you had sawed into it. :D

[Chuck White]

I've sawn through a couple of those telephone company J-bolts in the past!

I now know for sure that a Wood-Mizer Double Hard 10° blade will cut all the way through, but afterwards it will leave unwanted marks on your lumber!   :

[Crossroads]

That would make unwanted sounds lol

[SawyerTed]

And the air would turn blue! ;D ;)

[rusticretreater]

That object looks rather domesticated to me. 

[doc henderson]

Whew.  you had me going.  I saw an abdominal x-ray about 40 years ago.  the radiologist identified the object as a wind-up alarm clock with the bells on top.  He stated that had they got a third film in a tangential view, he could have told what time the alarm was set to go off.      8)      these days it would be a smart phone.  well time to go to work...  :D

[Magicman]

 

 
This is my all-time most 'foreign' object to find inside of a log.


 
Yup, it's a broken off T fence post that was approximately 45' up the log from the butt.

[doc henderson]

2 band blades and 5 chains need sharpened in Sawmills and Milling

[longtime lurker]

This is my all-time most 'foreign' object to find inside of a log.

Yup, it's a broken off T fence post that was approximately 45' up the log from the butt.

Hurricane or tornado country.


 
  This picture was taken post Cyclone Larry in 2006 but it's still there today and the tree is quite healthily growing around it

[doc henderson]

[kelLOGg]

VWSawmiller goes to the head of the class.  8)

It was a bear to get it out but I got a lot of light wood kindling in the process. The upper J-bolt had been removed (I never hit any foreign matter in the remainder of the log). I should have just burned it out but for some stupid reason I was determined not to.



 

 

[Chuck White]

Well, you're ahead of me, I've never hit a gate hinge!

Usually that sort of stuff is found in "Yard Trees"!   :

[Magicman]

 

 
When I sawed through them I was wondering "what was that"?


 
OK the round one was a bolt but what about the other?


 
Looks like it could be a Monkey Wrench.


 
Yup, it was a Monkey Wrench!!!

[kelLOGg]

Oh, that's where I left it. I've been looking for that. ;D

[DMcCoy]

Have any of you eastern guys ever hit a musket ball?  I hit bullets and shotgun pellets but our foreign object history is less antique.

[Magicman]

That would be very doubtful because we are talking 150+ years ago when muzzleloaders were in regular use.  Lead balls would not have retained their round shape and would not have penetrated much past the bark.

Yes, I hit bullets quite regularly.


 
Here is an ERC that had been shot with steel shotgun shot.  It destroyed the blade.

[petefrom bearswamp]

Not while sawing but hit a bullet with my planer 3 days ago.
Like MM hit a good number of bullets when sawing along with arrow head 20' up in a Red pine. Guy must have been squirrel hunting.

[TroyC]

Looking at all these 'foreign objects' makes me think I might need a metal detector.......   

[dbroswoods]

Don't need a metal detector when you have a sawmill you'll find all the metal with your blades😃😃😃

[moodnacreek]

I used to hang that stuff on the wall, ran out of room. The trick is to not find any.

[Magicman]

I wish that I had kept all of the metal that I have dug out of logs during the past 20 years.  :

I have two metal detector wands on my truck, but they are for the customer's use, not mine.  I don't hit metal often enough to for either of us to scan every log.  I can usually see evidence that will identify suspicious logs that may need to be scanned.

[kelLOGg]

Have any of you eastern guys ever hit a musket ball?  I hit bullets and shotgun pellets but our foreign object history is less antique.

Yes!
see reply 102 in Most unique foreign object. in Sawmills and Milling (forestryforum.com)

[moodnacreek]

Horse shoes used to be a common hit. The age and location of the tree is good to know. Young trees inside boundaries or quite safe save for broad heads, hunting bullets are no problem. Old trees on the side that where there when the people where should not be put on a mill. They are almost guaranteed to wreck a saw.