I found an old tap

[Quebecguy]

Whoever forgot to remove this cast iron tap out of this sugar maple probably isn't around anymore. I've chiselled out some wood to show the spout better. I was lucky in that my chain was pretty well worn out anyway so it is in the scrap pile now. The tree was uprooted by the wind last autumn - I would never cut a healthy, mature maple as I plan to keep sugaring for a while yet.

 

[oosik]

Looks like you pretty well center the saw on the tap. I did the same thing with my chain saw - LARGE engulfed chunk of angle iron in big Ponderosa pine. As luck would have it - I found it with my chain saw. Best we could figure - something to do with a gate originally being hung off the pine when it was much younger.

 

[ericm979]

I found some metal in a 5' Madrone I was cutting up. I never saw it but the chain went dull suddenly and when I went to sharpen it there were some broken teeth. I had to take a lot off but it's still useable.

My place was a farm from the 1880s to 1930s. There's old fence and pipe everywhere. I think this tree got used to hold up fencing when it was small.

 

[3Ts]

Found a pair of pliers in a crotch of a tree with a chain saw. Tree had completely engulfed them and was in an area that was on the outskirts of town when the home was first built.

 

[Thomas]

Finding tap lot better finding horse shoe...ouch.

 

[crazyal]

The worse I've found was a rock that somehow the tree grew around. It was about 2 feet up. No sparks, just all of a sudden started cutting slow. After a few moments I stopped but the damage was done.

 

[Coyote machine]

Barbed wire, buried in tree. Resharpened chain, hit more right after! Dang I was Poed!
Lots of sawyers leave out the first ten feet of any tree because of metal that will ruin their mill blades.

 

[goeduck]

Famous tree up our way, at least you would know metal is in there. At least for a few more years anyway.

 

[Coyote machine]

Is that the Lance Armstrong tree?

 

[orezok]

Famous tree up our way, at least you would know metal is in there. At least for a few more years anyway.
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That must be a “magic” bicycle! It has no shadow!

 

[yomax4]

Cut up a Lot of Barbed wire. Worst was a log chain that was used to hold the tree fork together on a big old Elm. Ruined the saw chain but the log chain was still in pretty good shape.

 

[goeduck]

Is that the Lance Armstrong tree?

Could be if it tested positive for steroids. :laughing:

 

[redman135]

Around here if the tree is willow ,lombardy poplar , or cotton wood you check for evidence of old fences as these trees were often planted as posts. Then cut at chest high to avoid the wire.
The most interesting item I saw in a tree was an old cross-cut saw left in a fork of a pinus radiata.