What I found in my Ash!

[Flatbedford]

This was completely inside an 18" or so round. I was working around it breaking off junks. When I split the left over middle I heard a metallic jingle noise. Luckily, the noise made me stop and look so I was able to avoid a direct hit. I scrounged this wood with a friend who mills with his Alaskan mill. We work together, he mills the big straight stuff and I get the rest. This round came from only a few feet from the section he milled. We lucked out twice, but not milling through it and second time by not bucking through it either. It would have made quite a mess of his nice, new 38" ripping chain.

That split won't fit in the stove door with that darn bolt sticking out of it!

 

[iskiatomic]

That split won’t fit in the stove door with that darn bolt sticking out of it!

Looks like it's time to break out the sawzall.


KC

 

[savageactor7]

Yeah no kidding your buddy lucked out big time. Back a few years ago I had a big bolt like that embedded in a log too. Burned it in the Shenandoah R77...that took some huge chunks.

 

[ansehnlich1]

all I can say is.....

sonofbeechthatsanastyboltyagotthere

 

[FLINT]

I always cringe when i see people putting nails and bolts in trees.

 

[hareball]

Wow! Glad you both missed direct contact with that bolt!

What kind of damage would one expect by a saw coming in contact with that?

 

[rathmir]

Hitting that with a saw would mean its pretty much new chain time, I would think. I guess it depends on how fast you are cutting.

 

[CJRages]

Set the split across the top of two equal height rounds. Then pound that thing out with a hammer and a large punch or small metal pipe. That bolt could come in handy some day!

 

[Skier76]

Makes you wonder what they were attaching to the tree back in the day! That's certly more than you need to secure a bit of fencing....

 

[wood spliter]

Nails or lags in a tree you have to hate them. Especially if you break a piece of equipment on it.

 

[Flatbedford]

I think it is a 1/2" bolt. It doesn't really make sense to me what it was for now that I think of it. There is a nut and washer on it, but no other material there. Unless whatever was bolted to the tree rotted away and the tree just grew around the bolt. How old would an 18" or so Ash tree be? This round came out of the first 6 feet of the tree, I'm not sure where in those six feet though.

 

[billb3]

I put a bolt in a hurricane damaged tree to stop it from splitting further.
I didn't want to lose the shade from that tree over my driveway.


Was it low enough on the tree to have held a hammock, dog, horse or bull
Although I'd use an eye bolt.
High enough could have held a treehouse.


A bolt through a branch is less likely to kill a branch than a wire around it for a birdfeederor bird house.

 

[Flatbedford]

I don't remember where it was exactly. The tree was on the ground when we got there. Between cutting the wood, carrying it to the truck, unloading and stacking at the house and them splitting a month later all I know is that it was from the bottom 6 or so feet of the tree.

 

[Jamess67]

Looks like it would be better served as a conversation piece instead of a piece of firewood.

 

[Flatbedford]

Possibly, but the only people I know who would want to converse about it are here at hearth.com.

 

[karri0n]

Possibly, but the only people I know who would want to converse about it are here at hearth.com.

remake this thread every 3 months when everyone has forgotten about it :coolgrin:

 

[billb3]

Looks like ironwood to me ...

 

[Stlshrk]

Maybe there was a gate hanging off of that tree. Given how deep you are saying it was in the wood, it may be hard to tell what was once a pasture.

 

[Flatbedford]

That's what I was thinking. It was in a lightly wooded area behind some houses that looked about 30 or so years old.