Bullet in Trim

[downsizingnow48]

There is a first time for everything. I am using California white cedar from a local sawmill for jamb extensions on the new windows. The white cedar is much nicer to work with than what is available at the big box stores. Cutting a batch I noticed something shiny. I had just cut through the middle of a bullet embedded in the wood.

 

[ruffdog]

Make up a "legendary" story about the wood coming from a famous saloon and keep it. $$$$

 

[MossRoad]

Reminds me of our old neighborhood..... and why we moved.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

There is a first time for everything. I am using California white cedar from a local sawmill for jamb extensions on the new windows. The white cedar is much nicer to work with than what is available at the big box stores. Cutting a batch I noticed something shiny. I had just cut through the middle of a bullet embedded in the wood.

Same thing happened to me a few years back...and here again, the wood came from a local sawmill.

 

[wagne223]

Timber companies here lease hunting rights to their planted pine forests.

Every property I have been a part of have a shooting lane between rows of pines for checking rifles and some fun.

Every tree for 300 yds down those lanes has been hit with a bullet.

I'm sure the mills love it when those rows are harvested!

 

[Fuddy1952]

I thought of instead of building a US/Mexican wall, why can't we just have a shooting range alone there?

 

[Fuddy1952]

Along there. Spellchecker put in alone.

 

[Oldoak]

Timber companies here lease hunting rights to their planted pine forests.

Every property I have been a part of have a shooting lane between rows of pines for checking rifles and some fun.

Every tree for 300 yds down those lanes has been hit with a bullet.

I'm sure the mills love it when those rows are harvested!

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.

 

[Jstpssng]

It's sometimes interesting what you find when opening up a tree. Other times it's expensive, as any sawmill owner will tell you.
My father had a bolter mill that he used to cut up pine which we would then use to make boxes to plant seedlings in. (Powered by a hit and miss one lunger engine. :thumbsup I don't remember everything he found, but do recall that he split a bullet in half.

 

[oosik]

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.