What were they doing?

[Climbinfool.]

I know this doesn't belong here but, it plays hell with your chains..... This happens to be about 20 feet up i n a 18" Fir.

 

[Underwor]

Steps for a tree house?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

That was my first thought here. But I find all kinds of shat at 20-30 feet up from the mining days. Telegraph wire, insulators, nails, lags.......

 

[SkwerI]

I think Bob nailed it (tee hee).

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[Underwor]

It just looked a lot like my early carpentering days. Use plenty of nails for the job

 

[HolmenTree]

A few years ago I did a large poplar removal up north in the neighboring town Flin Flon. It was about a 75 footer, tightly wedged between the house and 3 phase primaries. At about 50 feet on my climb I come upon a platform of 2"X6" nailed into the tree with about 20 years of tree grown into some of the lumber!
When I finished the job I asked the owner who built a half finished tree house that high up?
He said when his son was about 10 years old he decided to build a tree house to keep an eye on the neighborhood. Upon finding out what his son was doing he made him get his ass out of that tree and never go up there again!
I asked him what he does today? He said he works for the local mining company maintaining the 825 foot smoke stack.
Man those Flin Flon kids are tough!

One last thing I have to mention, I did talk to that now 30 yr old son last year and he told me up to 400 feet on the smoke stack it can be windier then heck but after that height it calms down to no wind.

 

[Ax-Man]

I always figure the metal zone in a spar to be within the reach of a 24 ft extension ladder. The usual height seems to anywhere from 4ft for anything from clothes lines,squirrel feeders to yard signs up to about 8 to 10 ft. Low limbs can have screw eyes and wire in them for bird feeders and swings. Have to keep an eye out for that stuff as well.

Hasn't happened yet but I am just waiting for tramp metal to go through our chipper. I keep a very watchful eye out for abnormal looking bark when we start to get down toward the bottom end of a tree.

 

[Al Smith]

Might be steps to a deer stand .

 

[GASoline71]

My fave was also hitting concrete in a filled hollow cavity of a tree.

Gary

 

[MasterBlaster]

Or rebar...

 

[Tucker943]

I hit rebar inside a stump with a stumpgrinder once. Don't know how it got there, but I do know how much it cost me.

 

[SkwerI]

The rebar was probably supporting the tree when it was first planted and then never removed. I see trees every day girdled and damaged by the supports put on when they were planted but never removed.

 

[Al Smith]

Lawdy the chit some of the saw mill guys hit would be scarey .Electric fence post insulaters ,horse shoes ,nails ,fence posts .Of course now of days they have metal detecters .

The little 500 population town I grew up in had a mill .The tin roof of the saw shed looked like it had taken a dozen straffing passes from a fighter plane from the big saw spitting carbide inserts hitting metal .My goodness if one of those things would have hit a person it would go right through them .

 

[RIVERRAT]

This was a funny one. Charly didn't see the humor in it.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Last ones were a railroad screw hit by the stump grinder, and an axle from an hydrolic arm found by my chainsaw
respectively in an Ailanthus (30") and a Lombardy poplar (36") on a storage place for the railroad company.