Bullet in Trim

[4get gto]

Yep, having working in the pulp and paper industry for years, you would be amazed at the number of bullets that were found in the bottom of the pulp receiver tank just after the pulp came out of the digesters. The hardwood forests here in PA are full of trees with bullets in them from all the deer hunters.

Kinda explains all the deer we have....guys ain't hitting them.

The deer that is.!! :laughing:

 

[mddorange]

The biggest thing I keep finding in the middle of trees I cut down on my property is, barbed wire. I guess the earlier owners didn't want to use wood posts.

 

[CobyRupert]

Interesting. Many years ago I fell an ancient pine out at the end of the garden. The homesteader must have used that tree to hang a gate on - long ago.

Lo & behold - I found a large piece of angle iron deeply embedded - with my chain saw.

Yep, lazy guilders (-a Washington County NY term) that use trees for fence posts! They should be tied to the tree. If the hinge or barbed wire doesn't kill the tree, it usually wrecks the chainsaw or sawmill blade that finds it years later.

Same with "lawn trees". They sometimes grow to be great big trees, and look like lots of lumber. Often people have adds "Free wood, just come and cut it down". But they're full of every nail and screw used to mount birdhouses, cloth lines, tree houses, etc....

 

[dannoGT]

Local small time saw mill operators around here hate trees from edge of farmers fields or from in town as they are always finding rocks, horse shoes , clothes line pulleys, fence and gate hardware, spikes, they use a metal detector but that only finds metal that is big enough to give a good signal

 

[Oldoak]

Kinda explains all the deer we have....guys ain't hitting them.

The deer that is.!! :laughing:

Good one! :laughing:

To hear some of them shooting, they think firepower is more important than accuracy. :confused2:

 

[Jstpssng]

Local small time saw mill operators around here hate trees from edge of farmers fields or from in town as they are always finding rocks, horse shoes , clothes line pulleys, fence and gate hardware, spikes, they use a metal detector but that only finds metal that is big enough to give a good signal

We were on a mill tour a,few years ago and the sawyer told of hitting an old ceramic wire insulator. It made quite an explosion and as a Vietnam vet he said that he instinctively dove for cover.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We were on a mill tour a,few years ago and the sawyer told of hitting an old ceramic wire insulator. It made quite an explosion and as a Vietnam vet he said that he instinctively dove for cover.

Hah. Back in the 50's we were on a rural telephone line. We had the old wall mounted crank telephones, and had to ring "central" to make an outside call. You could call your neighbor if you knew his ring, i.e. two shorts and a long. When it rained, you could hardly get central. The lines were often run through trees...which substituted for a pole, with the insulator mounted on the tree. It was a party line, and that was entertainment for some...to listen to other folks's conversations. Ah, the good old days.

 

[om21braz]

Hah. Back in the 50's we were on a rural telephone line. We had the old wall mounted crank telephones, and had to ring "central" to make an outside call. You could call your neighbor if you knew his ring, i.e. two shorts and a long. When it rained, you could hardly get central. The lines were often run through trees...which substituted for a pole, with the insulator mounted on the tree. It was a party line, and that was entertainment for some...to listen to other folks's conversations. Ah, the good old days.

You can do that today with the right kind of scanner.

 

[Jstpssng]

Hah. Back in the 50's we were on a rural telephone line. We had the old wall mounted crank telephones, and had to ring "central" to make an outside call. You could call your neighbor if you knew his ring, i.e. two shorts and a long. When it rained, you could hardly get central. The lines were often run through trees...which substituted for a pole, with the insulator mounted on the tree. It was a party line, and that was entertainment for some...to listen to other folks's conversations. Ah, the good old days.

A lot of woods and hunting camps had that type of phone back then. You still sometimes find old wires running through the woods.

 

[Rustyiron]

There is a first time for everything. I am using California white cedar.....

A buddy had some Black Walnut cut into 4/4 boards. After many years of air drying I helped him run them through the planer then install them as a wainscot in his kitchen eating area. A shotgun slug made it into 2 boards and we left them there intentionally.