Here in France we get an allocation of wood from the communal forest, a few years back I started on a huge beech tree, I broke a chain on the first cut, then several more before it was finished, turned out a German bomber crashed right there after being shot down by the Canadian air force in 1943 and broke into thousands of pieces, 75 years later the young trees of the day were fully grown and ready to fell complete with the remains of a Junkers inside them, fortunately no live rounds.
I have a similar story I would build a desk for a friend and he had received from his father a very nice plank of ash. I bärjade saw it but I upptänkte soon there were black spots after a while it turned out that there were small pieces of metal, it turned out that the plank came from a military training feild, so it was full of shrapnel, my friend still has no desk.
Probably a whole lot of trees dans les Ardennes and other battlefields in east France are full of bullets and shrapnel, from both world wars, not to mention the 1983 Chernobyl radio active cloud that is said to have stagnated over Alsace. MAybe you can even find bits of the Airbus A320 that crashed on the mont Saint Odile forest.
As an arborist, I've found that the best metal detector in the world is a brand new chain. "In this world you'll have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
Ace the sound effects garbage. Nobody cares about bluegrass. Every TV show is drowned out by that shytte. Otherwise great video. Thank you. Wood is good.
Thing is, if the chain breaks on a chainsaw, it can whip out in any random direction at high speed, where it remains a thick metal chain with loads of chunky blades attached. You can lose limbs, or your life. I'd probably carry a metal detector if chainsawing trees was my job. You could make one yourself, or else buy one and modify it. It's just a box of electronics, and a coil on the bottom. The coil size affects range, sensitivity, and what size of objects it will pick up. But just keeping it standard would be a good start. Put the electronics on your belt, take the head, with the coil in it, and attach a handle. Then scan round anything you were going to cut into. Test it out on v.rious sized objects first. You could try winding your own coils, enamelled copper wire round a suitable object for a bobbin, and have them able to swap out with each other. An alternative would be one of those stud finders that builders use, very cheap. They detect metal as one of their modes. They also detect large pieces of wood, so obviously you'd need a way to discriminate the two. Assuming that's possible. It's something I'd investigate. There is armour you can buy for working with chainsaws, and I'd certainly invest in that, but preventing a metal strike in the first place is valuable. If anyone wasn't aware, chainsaws are dangerous as fuck. And that's even when they're used properly, which is unusual for a tool. Maybe now there are light and powerful electric tools, a reciprocating saw might be a better alternative. You'd have to make it tough, but that's no problem. Much less inherently dangerous than a chainsaw. Why are chainsaws used, particularly? Wouldn't an ordinary reciprocating wood saw, powered, be safer and just as much use? Or is it that chainsaws are versatile and have lots of uses?
Green ham, your reply was very informative. I don’t work with such tools but I have children who do. I am forwarding your comments to them as I’m sure they do not prepare for the possibility for coming across metal objects when they use chain saws, hedge trimmers, etc. Thank you for taking the time to write this.
@@janetmerrill5303 No problem. I expect a safety course would mention this, it would be worth taking a 1 or 2-day course, just to cover stuff that might not occur to someone. They have the experience of other people's mistakes to teach about. You have a lot to lose, potentially. I also think it's worth investing in the armour. I dunno if chainsawers use metal detectors or not, perhaps it's not possible. Striking metal is a known worry among those people though. Definitely worth getting all the information you can, fore-warned is fore-armed and all that! Glad to help!
In the 1950’s I was taught that a spiral twist square nail was used for pounding into concrete. Thanks for sharing this video and continuing the excavation of hardware from the log. Wishing you and your family a terrific spring season. Cheers.
Whatever other uses for spiral nails,they have been used for a long time assembling shipping pallets. Which a lot of them are white oak. Rejected wood not suitable for whiskey barrels gets turned into shipping pallets. The combination of white oak and spiral nails is pretty formidable. Pallet remanufacturers just cut the pallets apart,removing those nails is one tough proposition.
I remember my father saying, in the 50's when working in the saw mill, they used to hate when a load of Norwegan spruce came in. They had been shipped over from Norway . He said that one of the old sawers would yell out swearing, my F~*-ing blade, he said ,inside the tree was fragments of WW2 bombs, that had imbedded themselves inside the tree, it then grew over the hole, came to the mills here and snap, they used to wreak the blades.
It's called a "screw nail". It is hardened steel and the design prevents 'backout' and seriously resists being removed with a claw hammer. If you're building a shed or a barn use these.
25 years ago or so buying nails for a deck project (not at my home) I purchased a box by accident, they were galvanized and size I wanted till I opened the box and saw the twist. The box was mixed in with other nails I went to buy, somebody put them in/on the wrong shelf area. What the hell, I did not want to waste more time going back to the H D so I used them without issue. I used that box last so I think I still have about a 1/4 box full out in the shed.
Thanks for taking the time to dig out and show us all what you hit in your last video. Keep on enjoying your mill and making videos we all do enjoy watching them! God bless
I’ve seen this type of nail. Used to be iron but may be steel. Thank you so much for taking the time to dig it out for us! It is still a beautiful and useful piece of wood.
In my area, it was common during the 70s and 80s to nail timber battens on top of worn out metal roofs, then lay new pressed metal tiles. Those spiral nails are exactly what was used to fix the battens. Much harder to remove than normal nails. Thank you, from New Zealand.
Well done and a great effort! Really enjoy watching you tackle these unknown trees. The inside surprises you find cutting into a log can be awesome. I salute you and your attempts. Keep up the great work!
While sawing logs from deep in the woods recently, I found a lead slug, an arrow head, a bunch of regular nails and spikes (prob from an ancient tree stand) and a complete hunting arrow, which the tree had grown around for maybe 20 years. It's hard to know when to give up on a log.
@@VTKingdomsawing My dad just bought one. I'm ready to see how well it does. So many trees around here had barb wire nailed to them at one point or another.
@@falllineridge yeah in areas where hunting forbidden to use lead shotgun pellets steel shot can be an issue as I found out Greetings from the uk 🇬🇧👍🇮🇹🐾🦊
My friends are fallers ,On residentual property , Ive seen them hit , a chain grown into a tree , barbbed wire , and the worst one, an axe lett stuck in , and grown around . My dad had a sawmill with an over and under blade set-up . The teeth are pounded in on an arc , so they can be changed . Tending the cants taken off the log , was the most dangerous job in the mill . Theyd hit a rock or a piece of metal , and the teeth would come off like bullets .
@@dd-jm1md Y'know it's weird... I've been an artist most of my life. I went to school for it. I honestly don't remember "Artistic Board Cutting" in any of the available classes...
I contacted a grand son of a blacksmith. I explained to him about the spiral in that one nail. He said someone made that nail on a forge. He guessed it was the 1830's to the 1870's that making nails in a spiral for strength were popular and so they do not back out of the wood. It was a short lived thing because it was too hard to remove them. The government used some about that time but the extra expense to spiral them was needed elsewhere. Like the civil war. Thanks for showing them. Whole and undamaged they could sell for over ten dollars or more a nail.
About 40 years ago, a friend and I were cutting down some old apple trees for an older gentleman. When we got to the very last tree we hit something hard inside. My friend commenced to using an axe to find the culprit. It was an old horse shoe that someone had, long ago, placed in the fork of the tree and the tree had fully encased it as it grew old. My friend kept that piece of wood with the horseshoe for years as a conversation piece.
In Seneca Falls NY there is or was and old scythe in a tree left from a man going off to the Civil War. It is or was listed in historical sites in the state. The tree could have fallen by now, but I remember seeing it as a kid.
Forty years ago I had screwed an very substantial eyebolt with a very substantial hook permanently attached to the eye into an oak tree for hanging a hammock. Over the years the tree grew and eventually covered the eyebolt so only the hook could be see. Eventually the tree overtook the hook too so only a very small glint could be seen. I eventually cut the tree down but saved the portion with the bolt & hook. I split the log so the whole screw & hook could be seen. Strangely enough no one was as impressed by it as I was. It stayed out in the weather until it was returned back to nature.
My grandpa had an old Frick 00 circle saw and he actually sawed through a horseshoe 😂 he said that log hopped around on the sled and sparked so bad it almost cought the sawdust pile on fire!
Same thing happend to me years ago. Horse shoe sharpened to work like a big staple to slide fencing pole in. An English oak had grown round it, till it was completely in side the tree. It took hours to grind a five foot circular saw back to shape. The saw was steam engine driven, in a moving bench, so took some stopping. We cut a lot of English oak, for boatbuilding and many a time came across shrapnel from bombs after the war.
@@LeeHill66 screws are a low quality way to avoid learning wood carpentry joints. And yes american houses are ALL built in low quality standards. It's a sad reality. And forget about future generations being able to reuse wood we use with nail screws too.
The only nails I ever used with the twist like that were for putting t111 siding up. They are galvanized and not a finish nail but not a flat head either. They really held tight. To all you eco-terrorists out there. Do you have any idea what you're really doing? How did you get to that tree? Did you drive out there and maybe walk a little ways? Not very green to drive out there. Oh you say you have a hybrid or electric car! Not very green still. Either power plant or some gasoline was used to get there. Now let's talk about all the plastics and metal in that car or truck then add them nice tires. None of that is green. As for well you're saving trees no you're not. Commercial operation is going to go out there cut trees and if they can't cut them into boards they'll find a way to use them for something else. They're going to cut land that they have actually planted the trees. When you driving down the road and you notice all the trees are in a straight line guess what those trees were planted by lumber companies and paper mills. That's their property it would be no trees there. So if you really want to be green and save the planet you need to stop using anything with wood fibers in it. Yeah that includes your toilet paper. Napkins. Kleenex. Those new paper straws to save the sea turtle that had a straws yeah they got to go to. Paper cup got to go. Plastic cup got to go. Styrofoam cup yeah you guessed it has to go. Are your clothes cotton or they a mixture of man-made fibers and cotton? Yeah man made fibers aren't good for the environment they got to go. Bleaching cotton and then dying it yeah that's not good for the environment so that's got to go too. You can use cotton but it can't be treated in any way. So if you really want to save the world make it lean to out of natural products such as would you find delaying around not bought not cut. Leaves that kind of thing. No shoes nothing natural about shoes. All those nice soap products you use to get all cleaned up yeah they got to go too. Anything that has to be transported to the area you live got to stop by it. None of that is green.
My friend, bless you and your work. You take old world knowledge, and blend it with new world tech. You, and folks like you, keep America running. I'd love to work for you, as you know the trade, and you're a good dude. Keep on keepin' on, man.
Something extremely satisfying & relaxing about your video. I love you patience, calm background music and especially cool overhead video shots. Thank you.
Perhaps investing in a decent metal detector for these logs would save you in time, frustration, and blades. The other option is use bimetal bandsaw blades. They tend to tolerate cutting metal without too much issue. They cost a lot more, but last much longer.
By metal detector you mean to get a handheld metal detector and check the logs beforehand or is there some kind of metal detecting accessory for those cutting machines?
Handheld metal detector is all u need. My father bought an old abandoned drug store here in Louisiana that was made of cypress to make tongue and groove flooring for his new home. We used a handheld metal detector to rid the wood of nails before plaining them and it worked well. Still missed a few but found hundreds.
There are almost certainly metal detectors that you can pass the log through. Probably kits for quite cheap. It's basically a coil of wire with alternating current. The metal acts as a core for the coil making the resistance to the alternating current change quite drastically when the metal goes through the loop. So you need an amplifier and either headphones or a loudspeaker. When the frequency changes you know there is metal. A hand-held metal detector such as you occasionally see people "treasure hunting" at the sea shore might do. I don't know how close you would need to be to detect a nail of this sort. People find wedding rings buried in sand using such things, so I suppose you could find a nail. Maybe you would need to run the sensor down the log on each side. Possibly you would need to experiment a bit to find out how much wood and how much metal. Say put a nail under 1 plank, then 2, then 3, etc., until you can't detect it any more. Hand-held detectors on Amazon for round-about $100. I'm guessing it would not take many avoided broken saw blades to pay for itself.
You learned a lot from that log! I'd buy 20 of the 2x4's but it would need to come to NC. Believe me they are better than what you can get in the big box stores. Awesome video👍👍
@@GilmerJohn I was thinking about that. I know in the 60s nd 70s there were people that used to go into the woods and drive nails into trees in hopes of hurting loggers when the chains hit the nails.
@@GilmerJohn "We love trees" Proceeds to drive hard ceramic nail into it. I don't know about you but when I love something I don't stab it with a knife.
Glad to see that you were finally able to get those 2x4’s out of that log, even with all the nails. I got the impression that this log was trying to outdo the one last year where you said that you had never gotten so many nail strikes in one log.
Wowsers Wes! You got a lot of nice looking two by fours but that log fought you tooth and nail...sorry had to go there. Thank you so much for sacrificing five blades and all your time to satisfy our curiosity about what was in that tree. Great video, thumbs up.
10 out of 10 for effort you’ve got there in the end and like you said it’s beautiful wood shouldn’t be wasted in the burn pile, would love to known where it grew to get all those nails in it rick
I'm speculating here but that might be a hardened concrete nail, typically installed into concrete using explosive charged nail guns. It would explain why it killed your saw blade so effectively. To test if it is hardened steel, put it on a grinder and see what kind of sparks it produces. Shorter, redder sparks indicate a hardened steel. Long yellow sparks are more typical of the mild steels used in timber nails.
Another possibility might be that the spiral nail that stopped you last week was a pallet nail, normally shot from a nail gun. The mistreatment that pallets get during their lifetime would require a heavier duty, stickier (spiral) fastener in order to hold up well... Forgive me for putting it this way, but these pallet construction fasteners absolutely need to be as tough as....uh, nails. Gary
When I owned 7 acres of Coastal Redwood after we bought the house there there were some logs (shorts) from several trees that were removed for the house. I contracted a saw man to plank them out in big lumber 4x4 4x6 and 3x6. I was going to build a heavy wood crib. He started and ran into a knife. It was old and eaten as these were Redwood. So That was it so I thought - then he ran into a pistol. It was a very old one and and he figured it was over 100 years old at that time. It was so melted and was in a crotch of the tree that was grown over.
@@ericastier1646 It was a solid block or rust. I suspect so but it was so bad without breaking it apart you could not tell what kind. I can only guess it was a six-gun.
“Already to invested” lol been there so many times. I totally get that comment sometimes you just have to finish at all cost even if you should just burn it and start over it’s the principal of the matter lol
When you have as many friends as you do they can pressure you into almost anything,hahaha. I have noticed one thing and that is you don't seem to enjoy sawing as much as before. It would be nice to see you smile once in and while. I always look forward to your videos. God Bless.
years ago I met a logger from Belgium who said that when they were about to price out a logging area from a forest they went to the local bars and had a few drinks. while there they struck up a conversation to find out where battles were waged. If there were battles in a certain area they wouldn't but the timber. Clever!!!
2x4x12 at the local store go for over $13 / ea., at 25 pieces that's over $325 worth of lumber. You could buy a box of 10 brand new blades and have change left over. I would almost say it's worth it.
My son has an HFE-30 almost like yours he got himself a metal detector,... scans over the log several times ,.. Hadn't had a strike in years. The Metal detector he bought even picks up bullets shot into the logs. No more head aches.
Between 1648 and 1700 the Dutch used their windmills to power heavy duty band saws which were cutting the local huge oak trees. Using wind power the Dutch outproduced the rest of the world and built themselves a fleet so huge that by comparison the US carrier fleet looks like a hobby. Today you use gasoline, but over here we defenitely would use electric power for this type of sawing. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thanks for the video! It was a genuine PITA, but you did get some really nice lumber out of it. BTW, I'm impressed with that little mill! Nice honest machine designed to get work done. 😀
You are good to humor us & show us what was in that log. 😍 And, you surely don't need anger management courses, because you really stayed calm through all those nails!! What brand metal detector do you use? My hubby builds things with scrap antique wood & needs to buy one. Thank you.
Good video Wes! So you gave in to pressure to find out what was hidden in the log! Looks like you got some good 2x4's out of it, and as you said, if you didn't have the ability to sharpen & set your own blades, it would not have been viable. Live & learn! Stay safe & well. 👍👍
This is mesmerizing to watch, very cool. Crappy to see that happen to you with the nails. When you cut a 2x4 do you really cut it that dimension or smaller? Never seen a commercial 2x4 exactly that dimension, always smaller. Those are gorgeous boards, I can only do small stuff re-sawing with my little bandsaw. Edit: just watched your other video and see what you were doing with the true 2x4 boards. Also watched the bee video where you hive up the swarmed bees. Nice. We sponsor a bee hive in our garden and just had the keeper over on the weekend opening it up and we saw the queen and she had been a busy girl....good busy hive so far. Cheers👍🏻😎
The nail looks like a hot-dipped galvanized spiral nail used for outdoor framing such as decks. Easy to drive in but not so easy to remove. Enjoy watching your videos. Come visit some time. Keep up the good work.
Given the size of that tree trunk you'd have to wrap a lot of wire around it, abs then pump a lot of current through it. Problem is induction heating works best when the target is in the center of the coil, and the nail is near the trunk's outer layers.
I usually just dig a hole then clamp and pull straight up, the coil idea sounds like something I want to try. I have no idea what Vasil is yapping about but small hole, small coil and the heat should travel down, clamp and pull straight up.
A 1910 house was just de-constructed in my neighborhood. Talk about finding nails, but lots of older-growth full-dim 2x4 were salvaged, along with some stunning quarter-sawn flooring.
Nasty “big “ nail. Lots of costs, labour intensive, diesel fuel, grease, maintenance of machinery and equipment, monthly payments of machinery and equipments, many, many blades, chainsaws and chains, gas, work clothing. Darn!! How do you keep you great 😊 spirits. Your a great sport I assure you! We love watching your show either on my iPad ou the big tv screen. Fascinating work. We learn so much from you. For all you do we thank you so much!! Please take care, be well, wish you health, happiness and prosperity for you and your family.
As a Christian minister, who is semi- retired and now my wife and I are homesteading, it is so nice to see a channel like yours that is clean, God fearing and well versed. I do believe this is probably our favourite channel and we can only hope that one day our channel can touch as many people in a positive way, the way yours does. So thank you so very much. God bless and keep you always.
My Grandpa built his house back in the early thirties and used that type of nails, he had so many of those in his basement and upstairs in his garage they all had square heads on them. Wow i was getting frustrated for you with all those nails.
I put 25 years in saw mills of N. California, and the office of one mill had on display items found in the logs over the years. Bullets, both lead and brass were found hourly, and did no harm to resaws or planer knives. Nails were always a problem, even seen railroad spikes and barbed wire. They also had an old muzzle loader inside a hollow spot in a log that the tree had partially grown around.
Par for the course for a log that came from a backyard or park that people have been hanging their hammocks from or whatever, not usually a problem with an actual forest.
good job old mate for putting up with it to show us the dramas you can cop doing this sort of thing as I often thought of buying one of these cutting machines. The one I was thinking of is the circular saw type though
I had a friend in Maine that had an old saw mill his grandfather built on the family farm and he would not take yard trees ever just because of nails and I owned some property that had roughly 30 huge old pines and called several people with mills and they wouldn't touch those pines being in and around the the yard so there you have it don't know what your blades cost but I don't imagine there cheap. Like the videos stay safe!
Double helix nail. Used for bowling alleys. Hardened like Drywall screws. (Oil hardened. Dropped in oil after heating) modern nail, i used them building a bowling alley 1974 putting the lanes together. I imagine sold as flooring nails, since they don't back out. Was surprised to see what looked like a chisel point. Usually blunt so they don't split the flooring. The nail will never move up the trunk, as growth is out on a tree. So height from ground should give you an indication as to what they were used for. Signs for posting, target hanging, etc.
Similar story, the last pack of timber (Sweet Chestnut) that I has sawmilled (bought from a small wood in Kent, UK) broke a few teeth from the blade. Managed to dig out a German MG 131 bullet from the log, still in great shiny condition too. It was at least 7" into the log. Interesting as not many trees grow in the air at 15,000 feet..
Aloha, For hidden troubles, the trees that gave me the most objects were trees that were also found in an ancient fence line. Fencing swallowing is a past time for these trees. The weirdest swallowed object: a cast iron park bench in New York Central Park!
I've both seen and used that nail. it is a 16 high carbon spiral steel nail , treated for rust resistance to be used in concrete to attach pressure treated wood to a concrete base. it's the next generation from the steel cut nail, much, much stronger and wear resistant. if you buffed it, it would shine like silver.
While in Tech School I worked for a furniture company in NC. They would buy pine and maple harvested off Fort Bragg. Full of bullets and steel. Ran it through the metal finder still hit junk we missed.
that looks like a concrete nail !, and they are supposed to be made of considerably harder material ! (that's what it looks like to me). Y'LL have a good day.
That is a really neat portable mill! When cutting large lumber, such as 8x8 or 6x6 timbers, are there ever deep nails or metal that the end consumer is going to run across when trying to shoot in a 16 penny nail?
I'd like to see a video of how you sharpen the blades. Also, when you saw these logs, do you have any way of measuring how thick the boards are? I haven't seen you measure before cutting. Those boards all seem to be of different thicknesses. Really rough cut. Are they right at 2 x 4 as a rough cut board would be at a commercial mill?
We had a tree cutter come out and fell a dead walnut. He went through three chains before figuring out how to deal with the problem. He was pissed. Found out that previous owner had filled the cavity in walnut tree with concrete where a large limb had broken off.
15 or 20 years ago I remember that there was a group of "save the forest" people that went in to logging areas and pounded those spiral nails in to trees to sabotage logging and mills. They seem to have disappeared now, but the nails are still around.
Good job. Good job lumber prices are way up - you can afford the new blades!,. Like the vid, a utuber who reads the comments and responds positively. Well done. You need to invent a Sawyers X-ray machine or get Superman cornea grafts!!.
hello mark from australia i just watched your show for the first time it was ver interesting to see you sawing these log it was very heart bracking for you to come a cross so meny nails the cost of these saw blade,s must be so excpencive for you to buy keep you the good work by now from the land down under lol
Here in France we get an allocation of wood from the communal forest, a few years back I started on a huge beech tree, I broke a chain on the first cut, then several more before it was finished, turned out a German bomber crashed right there after being shot down by the Canadian air force in 1943 and broke into thousands of pieces, 75 years later the young trees of the day were fully grown and ready to fell complete with the remains of a Junkers inside them, fortunately no live rounds.
Great story! And history lesson!
wow amazing the young trees grew up with wounds and shrapnel
love to see my country shooting down Nazis in random RUclips videos!
I have a similar story I would build a desk for a friend and he had received from his father a very nice plank of ash. I bärjade saw it but I upptänkte soon there were black spots after a while it turned out that there were small pieces of metal, it turned out that the plank came from a military training feild, so it was full of shrapnel, my friend still has no desk.
Probably a whole lot of trees dans les Ardennes and other battlefields in east France are full of bullets and shrapnel, from both world wars, not to mention the 1983 Chernobyl radio active cloud that is said to have stagnated over Alsace. MAybe you can even find bits of the Airbus A320 that crashed on the mont Saint Odile forest.
As an arborist, I've found that the best metal detector in the world is a brand new chain. "In this world you'll have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
Ace the sound effects garbage. Nobody cares about bluegrass. Every TV show is drowned out by that shytte. Otherwise great video. Thank you. Wood is good.
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Thing is, if the chain breaks on a chainsaw, it can whip out in any random direction at high speed, where it remains a thick metal chain with loads of chunky blades attached. You can lose limbs, or your life. I'd probably carry a metal detector if chainsawing trees was my job. You could make one yourself, or else buy one and modify it. It's just a box of electronics, and a coil on the bottom. The coil size affects range, sensitivity, and what size of objects it will pick up. But just keeping it standard would be a good start. Put the electronics on your belt, take the head, with the coil in it, and attach a handle. Then scan round anything you were going to cut into. Test it out on v.rious sized objects first. You could try winding your own coils, enamelled copper wire round a suitable object for a bobbin, and have them able to swap out with each other.
An alternative would be one of those stud finders that builders use, very cheap. They detect metal as one of their modes. They also detect large pieces of wood, so obviously you'd need a way to discriminate the two. Assuming that's possible. It's something I'd investigate. There is armour you can buy for working with chainsaws, and I'd certainly invest in that, but preventing a metal strike in the first place is valuable. If anyone wasn't aware, chainsaws are dangerous as fuck. And that's even when they're used properly, which is unusual for a tool.
Maybe now there are light and powerful electric tools, a reciprocating saw might be a better alternative. You'd have to make it tough, but that's no problem. Much less inherently dangerous than a chainsaw. Why are chainsaws used, particularly? Wouldn't an ordinary reciprocating wood saw, powered, be safer and just as much use? Or is it that chainsaws are versatile and have lots of uses?
Green ham, your reply was very informative. I don’t work with such tools but I have children who do. I am forwarding your comments to them as I’m sure they do not prepare for the possibility for coming across metal objects when they use chain saws, hedge trimmers, etc. Thank you for taking the time to write this.
@@janetmerrill5303 No problem. I expect a safety course would mention this, it would be worth taking a 1 or 2-day course, just to cover stuff that might not occur to someone. They have the experience of other people's mistakes to teach about. You have a lot to lose, potentially.
I also think it's worth investing in the armour.
I dunno if chainsawers use metal detectors or not, perhaps it's not possible. Striking metal is a known worry among those people though. Definitely worth getting all the information you can, fore-warned is fore-armed and all that! Glad to help!
You think we wouldn't ask? 🤔 The removal of the nails, blade change, sawing the log. Allllll captivating. I could watch for hours. 💪
In the 1950’s I was taught that a spiral twist square nail was used for pounding into concrete. Thanks for sharing this video and continuing the excavation of hardware from the log. Wishing you and your family a terrific spring season. Cheers.
Concrete nails were hardened steel, used many in the early 60's
Whatever other uses for spiral nails,they have been used for a long time assembling shipping pallets. Which a lot of them are white oak. Rejected wood not suitable for whiskey barrels gets turned into shipping pallets.
The combination of white oak and spiral nails is pretty formidable. Pallet remanufacturers just cut the pallets apart,removing those nails is one tough proposition.
I remember my father saying, in the 50's when working in the saw mill, they used to hate when a load of Norwegan spruce came in. They had been shipped over from Norway . He said that one of the old sawers would yell out swearing, my F~*-ing blade, he said ,inside the tree was fragments of WW2 bombs, that had imbedded themselves inside the tree, it then grew over the hole, came to the mills here and snap, they used to wreak the blades.
As an owner/operator of a 15 wide, I feel your pain. Heard every nail as the mill hit it. Thanks for plowing through.
It's called a "screw nail". It is hardened steel and the design prevents 'backout' and seriously resists being removed with a claw hammer. If you're building a shed or a barn use these.
25 years ago or so buying nails for a deck project (not at my home) I purchased a box by accident, they were galvanized and size I wanted till I opened the box and saw the twist. The box was mixed in with other nails I went to buy, somebody put them in/on the wrong shelf area. What the hell, I did not want to waste more time going back to the H D so I used them without issue. I used that box last so I think I still have about a 1/4 box full out in the shed.
@G Forbes...Finally! Someone with common sense!!! THANK YOU!!! Anyone with half a brain could look at it and tell it was a screw nail!!! 👍🙄🤦🏻♀
Thanks for taking the time to dig out and show us all what you hit in your last video. Keep on enjoying your mill and making videos we all do enjoy watching them! God bless
"Nobody ever puts just one nail in a tree."
That's a pretty good quote! I'll try to use it myself sometime.
I believe you just did.
I’ve seen this type of nail. Used to be iron but may be steel. Thank you so much for taking the time to dig it out for us! It is still a beautiful and useful piece of wood.
Metal detectors ftw.?
apparently that log wasn't grown, it was nailed together.
In my area, it was common during the 70s and 80s to nail timber battens on top of worn out metal roofs, then lay new pressed metal tiles. Those spiral nails are exactly what was used to fix the battens. Much harder to remove than normal nails. Thank you, from New Zealand.
Well done and a great effort! Really enjoy watching you tackle these unknown trees. The inside surprises you find cutting into a log can be awesome. I salute you and your attempts. Keep up the great work!
While sawing logs from deep in the woods recently, I found a lead slug, an arrow head, a bunch of regular nails and spikes (prob from an ancient tree stand) and a complete hunting arrow, which the tree had grown around for maybe 20 years.
It's hard to know when to give up on a log.
Really amazing the stuff that makes it into trees.
I really need to invest in a blade sharpener
@@VTKingdomsawing My dad just bought one. I'm ready to see how well it does. So many trees around here had barb wire nailed to them at one point or another.
@@falllineridge yeah in areas where hunting forbidden to use lead shotgun pellets steel shot can be an issue as I found out Greetings from the uk 🇬🇧👍🇮🇹🐾🦊
My friends are fallers ,On residentual property , Ive seen them hit , a chain grown into a tree , barbbed wire , and the worst one, an axe lett stuck in , and grown around . My dad had a sawmill with an over and under blade set-up . The teeth are pounded in on an arc , so they can be changed . Tending the cants taken off the log , was the most dangerous job in the mill . Theyd hit a rock or a piece of metal , and the teeth would come off like bullets .
You sacrificed for your art, and for your audience, and for those reasons WE LOVE YOU!
This isn't art...
@@Anomaly.Filmworks It art art: surely it’s performance…
@@dd-jm1md Y'know it's weird... I've been an artist most of my life. I went to school for it. I honestly don't remember "Artistic Board Cutting" in any of the available classes...
@@Anomaly.Filmworks are you suggesting nothing was created here? You are perhaps a snob?
@@dd-jm1md just because something is created doesn't automatically mean it's art.
Oh wow! Thanks for doing that. I’m sure you have much better things to do but we really appreciate you indulging us. 😁👍
No worries, Stan. Glad it's over!
@@falllineridge I’m so sorry another nail. I bet you are glad that’s done.
I contacted a grand son of a blacksmith. I explained to him about the spiral in that one nail. He said someone made that nail on a forge. He guessed it was the 1830's to the 1870's that making nails in a spiral for strength were popular and so they do not back out of the wood. It was a short lived thing because it was too hard to remove them. The government used some about that time but the extra expense to spiral them was needed elsewhere. Like the civil war. Thanks for showing them. Whole and undamaged they could sell for over ten dollars or more a nail.
About 40 years ago, a friend and I were cutting down some old apple trees for an older gentleman. When we got to the very last tree we hit something hard inside. My friend commenced to using an axe to find the culprit. It was an old horse shoe that someone had, long ago, placed in the fork of the tree and the tree had fully encased it as it grew old. My friend kept that piece of wood with the horseshoe for years as a conversation piece.
In Seneca Falls NY there is or was and old scythe in a tree left from a man going off to the Civil War. It is or was listed in historical sites in the state. The tree could have fallen by now, but I remember seeing it as a kid.
Forty years ago I had screwed an very substantial eyebolt with a very substantial hook permanently attached to the eye into an oak tree for hanging a hammock. Over the years the tree grew and eventually covered the eyebolt so only the hook could be see. Eventually the tree overtook the hook too so only a very small glint could be seen. I eventually cut the tree down but saved the portion with the bolt & hook. I split the log so the whole screw & hook could be seen. Strangely enough no one was as impressed by it as I was. It stayed out in the weather until it was returned back to nature.
My grandpa had an old Frick 00 circle saw and he actually sawed through a horseshoe 😂 he said that log hopped around on the sled and sparked so bad it almost cought the sawdust pile on fire!
Same thing happend to me years ago. Horse shoe sharpened to work like a big staple to slide fencing pole in.
An English oak had grown round it, till it was completely in side the tree. It took hours to grind a five foot circular saw back to shape. The saw was steam engine driven, in a moving bench, so took some stopping. We cut a lot of English oak, for boatbuilding and many a time came across shrapnel from bombs after the war.
I believe I remember my dad using nails like that 60 years ago. He called it “an anchor nail” or words to that effect. Great job.
They are pretty hard steel alloy. Usually hot dipped. They are a bear to remove too. Used for joist hangars and other brackets.
It's a spiral cut nail. Commonly used for deck boards before screws were widely used for that purpose.
@@LeeHill66 screws are a low quality way to avoid learning wood carpentry joints. And yes american houses are ALL built in low quality standards. It's a sad reality. And forget about future generations being able to reuse wood we use with nail screws too.
The only nails I ever used with the twist like that were for putting t111 siding up. They are galvanized and not a finish nail but not a flat head either. They really held tight.
To all you eco-terrorists out there. Do you have any idea what you're really doing? How did you get to that tree? Did you drive out there and maybe walk a little ways? Not very green to drive out there. Oh you say you have a hybrid or electric car! Not very green still. Either power plant or some gasoline was used to get there. Now let's talk about all the plastics and metal in that car or truck then add them nice tires. None of that is green. As for well you're saving trees no you're not. Commercial operation is going to go out there cut trees and if they can't cut them into boards they'll find a way to use them for something else. They're going to cut land that they have actually planted the trees. When you driving down the road and you notice all the trees are in a straight line guess what those trees were planted by lumber companies and paper mills. That's their property it would be no trees there. So if you really want to be green and save the planet you need to stop using anything with wood fibers in it. Yeah that includes your toilet paper. Napkins. Kleenex. Those new paper straws to save the sea turtle that had a straws yeah they got to go to. Paper cup got to go. Plastic cup got to go. Styrofoam cup yeah you guessed it has to go. Are your clothes cotton or they a mixture of man-made fibers and cotton? Yeah man made fibers aren't good for the environment they got to go. Bleaching cotton and then dying it yeah that's not good for the environment so that's got to go too. You can use cotton but it can't be treated in any way. So if you really want to save the world make it lean to out of natural products such as would you find delaying around not bought not cut. Leaves that kind of thing. No shoes nothing natural about shoes. All those nice soap products you use to get all cleaned up yeah they got to go too. Anything that has to be transported to the area you live got to stop by it. None of that is green.
Siding nails, I still use them.
Spiral shank with a smaller ish head.
My friend, bless you and your work. You take old world knowledge, and blend it with new world tech. You, and folks like you, keep America running. I'd love to work for you, as you know the trade, and you're a good dude. Keep on keepin' on, man.
Something extremely satisfying & relaxing about your video.
I love you patience, calm background music and especially cool overhead video shots.
Thank you.
Perhaps investing in a decent metal detector for these logs would save you in time, frustration, and blades. The other option is use bimetal bandsaw blades. They tend to tolerate cutting metal without too much issue. They cost a lot more, but last much longer.
By metal detector you mean to get a handheld metal detector and check the logs beforehand or is there some kind of metal detecting accessory for those cutting machines?
Handheld metal detector is all u need. My father bought an old abandoned drug store here in Louisiana that was made of cypress to make tongue and groove flooring for his new home. We used a handheld metal detector to rid the wood of nails before plaining them and it worked well. Still missed a few but found hundreds.
There are almost certainly metal detectors that you can pass the log through. Probably kits for quite cheap. It's basically a coil of wire with alternating current. The metal acts as a core for the coil making the resistance to the alternating current change quite drastically when the metal goes through the loop. So you need an amplifier and either headphones or a loudspeaker. When the frequency changes you know there is metal.
A hand-held metal detector such as you occasionally see people "treasure hunting" at the sea shore might do. I don't know how close you would need to be to detect a nail of this sort. People find wedding rings buried in sand using such things, so I suppose you could find a nail. Maybe you would need to run the sensor down the log on each side. Possibly you would need to experiment a bit to find out how much wood and how much metal. Say put a nail under 1 plank, then 2, then 3, etc., until you can't detect it any more. Hand-held detectors on Amazon for round-about $100. I'm guessing it would not take many avoided broken saw blades to pay for itself.
@@jimbo62 how many time you see nails in trees?
I have see lead bullets before and fence wire, fence staples not nails.
Your burn pile was an 1870's "Go West Young Man" cabin.
You learned a lot from that log! I'd buy 20 of the 2x4's but it would need to come to NC. Believe me they are better than what you can get in the big box stores. Awesome video👍👍
I do admire your patience,they have this problem in London with some trees containing shrapnel from ww2, greetings from the UK
Get yourself a metal detector, and locate any metal in the logs. My logger friend who works in a mill said that's what they do. Saves $ in blades.
For a bit of time the "Eco-Terrorists" were putting ceramic rods into tree just to damage saws used to eventually harvest the wood.
Damn Clickbait
@@GilmerJohn I was thinking about that. I know in the 60s nd 70s there were people that used to go into the woods and drive nails into trees in hopes of hurting loggers when the chains hit the nails.
@@GilmerJohn ceramic? Oof. That's not fun
@@GilmerJohn "We love trees" Proceeds to drive hard ceramic nail into it. I don't know about you but when I love something I don't stab it with a knife.
One thing: you get really good at changing out blades!
Glad to see that you were finally able to get those 2x4’s out of that log, even with all the nails. I got the impression that this log was trying to outdo the one last year where you said that you had never gotten so many nail strikes in one log.
Wowsers Wes! You got a lot of nice looking two by fours but that log fought you tooth and nail...sorry had to go there. Thank you so much for sacrificing five blades and all your time to satisfy our curiosity about what was in that tree. Great video, thumbs up.
10 out of 10 for effort you’ve got there in the end and like you said it’s beautiful wood shouldn’t be wasted in the burn pile, would love to known where it grew to get all those nails in it rick
A farmers fence line I would gusse
I'm speculating here but that might be a hardened concrete nail, typically installed into concrete using explosive charged nail guns. It would explain why it killed your saw blade so effectively. To test if it is hardened steel, put it on a grinder and see what kind of sparks it produces. Shorter, redder sparks indicate a hardened steel. Long yellow sparks are more typical of the mild steels used in timber nails.
Another possibility might be that the spiral nail that stopped you last week was a pallet nail, normally shot from a nail gun. The mistreatment that pallets get during their lifetime would require a heavier duty, stickier (spiral) fastener in order to hold up well... Forgive me for putting it this way, but these pallet construction fasteners absolutely need to be as tough as....uh, nails. Gary
I agree it’s a nail for concrete
You are a calm and patient man. Hat off to you.
2:30 Lazy bums. Pick up the pieces and toss them. Nice drone video! Thanks for solving the mystery.
When I owned 7 acres of Coastal Redwood after we bought the house there there were some logs (shorts) from several trees that were removed for the house. I contracted a saw man to plank them out in big lumber 4x4 4x6 and 3x6. I was going to build a heavy wood crib. He started and ran into a knife. It was old and eaten as these were Redwood. So That was it so I thought - then he ran into a pistol. It was a very old one and and he figured it was over 100 years old at that time. It was so melted and was in a crotch of the tree that was grown over.
was the pistol loaded ?
@@ericastier1646 It was a solid block or rust. I suspect so but it was so bad without breaking it apart you could not tell what kind. I can only guess it was a six-gun.
@@martineastburn3679 thanks for the additional details. I can only imagine why someone would have hidden it there. Probably not with good intent.
He gave into the chorus in the back saying "Do It. Do It."
“Already to invested” lol been there so many times. I totally get that comment sometimes you just have to finish at all cost even if you should just burn it and start over it’s the principal of the matter lol
I know that was time consuming (and expensive). Thank you for all you do and keep up the good work.
I must admit that I was one of the people that was dying to know how many nails were in that log. Thanks for ruining your blades for us lol
I'm glad you know about sharpening blades. Makin 2X4's can be a learning experience.
When you have as many friends as you do they can pressure you into almost anything,hahaha. I have noticed one thing and that is you don't seem to enjoy sawing as much as before. It would be nice to see you smile once in and while. I always look forward to your videos. God Bless.
Mabe a simple pin pointer could help. You're a amazing guy, God keeping blessing you and all your family.
‘Goring Kerr’ built a Metal detector to put the Trees through when the Battle of the Bulge forest was to be harvested, heard this in the 1970’s
years ago I met a logger from Belgium who said that when they were about to price out a logging area from a forest they went to the local bars and had a few drinks. while there they struck up a conversation to find out where battles were waged. If there were battles in a certain area they wouldn't but the timber.
Clever!!!
2x4x12 at the local store go for over $13 / ea., at 25 pieces that's over $325 worth of lumber. You could buy a box of 10 brand new blades and have change left over. I would almost say it's worth it.
Plus the money from selling all the nails!
My son has an HFE-30 almost like yours he got himself a metal detector,... scans over the log several times ,.. Hadn't had a strike in years. The Metal detector he bought even picks up bullets shot into the logs. No more head aches.
Between 1648 and 1700 the Dutch used their windmills to power heavy duty band saws which were cutting the local huge oak trees. Using wind power the Dutch outproduced the rest of the world and built themselves a fleet so huge that by comparison the US carrier fleet looks like a hobby.
Today you use gasoline, but over here we defenitely would use electric power for this type of sawing.
Greetings from the Netherlands
love that machine. with it you can go back in time and have your "two by fours" actually be 2" x 4" :D
That was the tree they nailed up and skinned catfish!
Thanks for the video! It was a genuine PITA, but you did get some really nice lumber out of it.
BTW, I'm impressed with that little mill! Nice honest machine designed to get work done. 😀
Enjoyed your video very much and thank you for sharing it with us.
In retrospect - that log should have stayed in the burn pile.
I don't think you can burn that much iron/steel easily.
I think it should have been sold for its scrap iron content. :)
@@pulaski1 😂good one!
@@pulaski1 good one. almost more metal than wood
Best line this year, "Ima get a chainsaw that's less important."
*Angry AdMech Noises*
I agree with the fact that a Husqvarna 65 is more important. Mine is 45 yo and still going well!
I’am so glad you got something from it god bless you and your family
You are good to humor us & show us what was in that log. 😍 And, you surely don't need anger management courses, because you really stayed calm through all those nails!! What brand metal detector do you use? My hubby builds things with scrap antique wood & needs to buy one. Thank you.
June 2021: look at all that timber....this guy must be a millionaire !
That wood you call a burn pile.... Man - I could build myself a nice something with those.
those drone shots are beautiful!
"My grandpa planted that tree in 1911. Grandma used to hang 'Happy Birthday' signs on it every year."
--The old property owner
Idea: mount one or more metal detectors to the saw assembly and scan for nails on every pass.
Yes !!!!!!!- but won't work for stones, stone arrowheads, Buick parts that have turned to rust, Charlton Heston cigars from Planet of the Apes........
Your suggestion is to attach a metal detector... to a metal saw ??
@@derekchauvinisahero2010 the sensors are directional... right? The affordable detectors e.g. security are limited range i.e.millimeters... right?
I am curious. Why do you not use a metal detector on the logs before you start milling them?
Man, everyone that asked you... "what did you hit" should add a like and comment to every single one of your videos.
Good video Wes! So you gave in to pressure to find out what was hidden in the log! Looks like you got some good 2x4's out of it, and as you said, if you didn't have the ability to sharpen & set your own blades, it would not have been viable. Live & learn! Stay safe & well. 👍👍
This is mesmerizing to watch, very cool. Crappy to see that happen to you with the nails. When you cut a 2x4 do you really cut it that dimension or smaller? Never seen a commercial 2x4 exactly that dimension, always smaller. Those are gorgeous boards, I can only do small stuff re-sawing with my little bandsaw.
Edit: just watched your other video and see what you were doing with the true 2x4 boards. Also watched the bee video where you hive up the swarmed bees. Nice. We sponsor a bee hive in our garden and just had the keeper over on the weekend opening it up and we saw the queen and she had been a busy girl....good busy hive so far.
Cheers👍🏻😎
I'm not an expert but in my days of handling 2x4s those look massive in comparison
I feel your pain ... 4 nail hits is my record. But on a positive note - look at that wood.
The nail looks like a hot-dipped galvanized spiral nail used for outdoor framing such as decks. Easy to drive in but not so easy to remove.
Enjoy watching your videos.
Come visit some time.
Keep up the good work.
Interesting video .I enjoyed it. Nicely done. Keep up the good work. Thank You.
Hypothetically, could you use an induction coil to heat the nail, char the wood around it, and hopefully pull out the nail?
Given the size of that tree trunk you'd have to wrap a lot of wire around it, abs then pump a lot of current through it. Problem is induction heating works best when the target is in the center of the coil, and the nail is near the trunk's outer layers.
I usually just dig a hole then clamp and pull straight up, the coil idea sounds like something I want to try.
I have no idea what Vasil is yapping about but small hole, small coil and the heat should travel down, clamp and pull straight up.
He was Rippin' pissed on that last nail.
Nice job on cutting true 2x4s there and ace is a great name for that pine tree
A 1910 house was just de-constructed in my neighborhood. Talk about finding nails, but lots of older-growth full-dim 2x4 were salvaged, along with some stunning quarter-sawn flooring.
It hurts when I hear that little bzzt. How many chains did I lost because of that...
This is what life is! Wish that where my property. One day
Wow! A new scrap iron wood channel!
Nasty “big “ nail. Lots of costs, labour intensive, diesel fuel, grease, maintenance of machinery and equipment, monthly payments of machinery and equipments, many, many blades, chainsaws and chains, gas, work clothing. Darn!! How do you keep you great 😊 spirits. Your a great sport I assure you! We love watching your show either on my iPad ou the big tv screen. Fascinating work. We learn so much from you. For all you do we thank you so much!! Please take care, be well, wish you health, happiness and prosperity for you and your family.
As a Christian minister, who is semi- retired and now my wife and I are homesteading, it is so nice to see a channel like yours that is clean, God fearing and well versed. I do believe this is probably our favourite channel and we can only hope that one day our channel can touch as many people in a positive way, the way yours does. So thank you so very much. God bless and keep you always.
Thank you for the encouraging comment!
@@falllineridge My privilege. Thanks again.
Perhaps a Go Fund Me page for this log is in order.
My Grandpa built his house back in the early thirties and used that type of nails, he had so many of those in his basement and upstairs in his garage they all had square heads on them. Wow i was getting frustrated for you with all those nails.
I put 25 years in saw mills of N. California, and the office of one mill had on display items found in the logs over the years. Bullets, both lead and brass were found hourly, and did no harm to resaws or planer knives. Nails were always a problem, even seen railroad spikes and barbed wire. They also had an old muzzle loader inside a hollow spot in a log that the tree had partially grown around.
Square nails have a higher carbon then the nails we buy today.
used horseshoe nails are what the old timers used to make twist steel gun barrels because of hi quality in nails.
Par for the course for a log that came from a backyard or park that people have been hanging their hammocks from or whatever, not usually a problem with an actual forest.
good job old mate for putting up with it to show us the dramas you can cop doing this sort of thing as I often thought of buying one of these cutting machines. The one I was thinking of is the circular saw type though
I had a friend in Maine that had an old saw mill his grandfather built on the family farm and he would not take yard trees ever just because of nails and I owned some property that had roughly 30 huge old pines and called several people with mills and they wouldn't touch those pines being in and around the the yard so there you have it don't know what your blades cost but I don't imagine there cheap. Like the videos stay safe!
I know how it is once you get so far into something your like screw it I am going to finish it, but dang man, those 2x4's cost you a LOT in blades...
He sharpens his own blades...
Have you thought about a metal detector ?? Just messing with you. That log would have made me want to cuss 😂 😂
You can buy small metal scanners to chk wood cheaper than new blades.
Double helix nail. Used for bowling alleys. Hardened like Drywall screws. (Oil hardened. Dropped in oil after heating) modern nail, i used them building a bowling alley 1974 putting the lanes together. I imagine sold as flooring nails, since they don't back out. Was surprised to see what looked like a chisel point. Usually blunt so they don't split the flooring. The nail will never move up the trunk, as growth is out on a tree. So height from ground should give you an indication as to what they were used for. Signs for posting, target hanging, etc.
Similar story, the last pack of timber (Sweet Chestnut) that I has sawmilled (bought from a small wood in Kent, UK) broke a few teeth from the blade. Managed to dig out a German MG 131 bullet from the log, still in great shiny condition too. It was at least 7" into the log. Interesting as not many trees grow in the air at 15,000 feet..
Like you said, at least you got some good 2x4 out of it. God Bless.
The “ garage sale log “ your buddy must have taken that tree down where 2 roads meet and every soccer mom nailed up garage sale signs on it.
Or some tree hugger hates him
The square nail with the mild spiral, resembles a nail used to drive into concrete.
So basically with that log... nailed it in so many levels ;)
Aloha,
For hidden troubles, the trees that gave me the most objects were trees that were also found in an ancient fence line. Fencing swallowing is a past time for these trees. The weirdest swallowed object: a cast iron park bench in New York Central Park!
When you cut down in the 3 places place the sharp part of the hatchet in and twist or bend over. Nicer on the wood next to it if needed.
I've both seen and used that nail. it is a 16 high carbon spiral steel nail , treated for rust resistance to be used in concrete to attach pressure treated wood to a concrete base. it's the next generation from the steel cut nail, much, much stronger and wear resistant. if you buffed it, it would shine like silver.
While in Tech School I worked for a furniture company in NC. They would buy pine and maple harvested off Fort Bragg. Full of bullets and steel. Ran it through the metal finder still hit junk we missed.
that looks like a concrete nail !, and they are supposed to be made of considerably harder material ! (that's what it looks like to me). Y'LL have a good day.
It's a spiral shank flooring nail.
Maybe you need to invest in a metal detector. Saves a lot of headaches. Love the videos, keep up the great work.
That is a really neat portable mill!
When cutting large lumber, such as 8x8 or 6x6 timbers, are there ever deep nails or metal that the end consumer is going to run across when trying to shoot in a 16 penny nail?
I'd like to see a video of how you sharpen the blades. Also, when you saw these logs, do you have any way of measuring how thick the boards are? I haven't seen you measure before cutting. Those boards all seem to be of different thicknesses. Really rough cut. Are they right at 2 x 4 as a rough cut board would be at a commercial mill?
We had a tree cutter come out and fell a dead walnut. He went through three chains before figuring out how to deal with the problem. He was pissed. Found out that previous owner had filled the cavity in walnut tree with concrete where a large limb had broken off.
15 or 20 years ago I remember that there was a group of "save the forest" people that went in to logging areas and pounded those spiral nails in to trees to sabotage logging and mills. They seem to have disappeared now, but the nails are still around.
It was old growth cedar, 1000 year old trees. They are pretty well all gone now. They also cut the heads off so you couldn’t pull them out.
Biden is trying to nominate one to head up the BLM. She was part of group that was spiking trees with 10" spikes
Good job. Good job lumber prices are way up - you can afford the new blades!,. Like the vid, a utuber who reads the comments and responds positively. Well done. You need to invent a Sawyers X-ray machine or get Superman cornea grafts!!.
hello mark from australia i just watched your show for the first time it was ver interesting to see you sawing these log it was very heart bracking for you to come a cross so meny nails the cost of these saw blade,s must be so excpencive for you to buy keep you the good work by now from the land down under lol