> "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is
> > the third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a
> > while back.
> >
> > Darn hunters!
Was cross cutting a 2x8 with a radial arm when one of the blocks popped
open to reveal a 50 cal machine gun slug. Was awful glad I didn't hit it.
The lumber must have come off a military practice/firing range.
In article <[email protected]>, Garage_Woodworks
<.@.> wrote:
> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is the
> third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a while
> back.
In nearly 30 years of teaching a high school woodshop, I would say it
was almost a yearly occurance.
I would use Pennsylvania grown hardwoods almost exclusively in the
program and could come across bullets and shot in almost any species.
They never caused any damage to the blades, although I'm sure a
jacketed bullet might.
I used to collect the boards as teaching aids, but after a while I had
so many in the box, I started giving them away to my woodworking
friends.
Joe
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:38:40 -0600, "none of the above"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>With lead in the wood, you may be
>liable for damages in California.
>They have very stupid laws that
>undamaged 3rd party people can
>sue for damages caused by products
>that have lead in them.
>
Wow.. glad I moved!
I never thought of that before, but a lot of my turnings would/wood probably
qualify for that dumb ass proposition 65 warning..
mac
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On Mar 16, 10:39=A0pm, "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote:
> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? =A0 This is=
the
> third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a while
> back.
>
> Darn hunters!
>
> --www.garagewoodworks.com
Hello Brian,
It never happened to me as a woodworker but I'm sure I wounded
a few trees in my time as a hunter. Here's a question; Was this lead
shot, i.e. buck shot or steel? I thought lead would "work" as easily
as wood. I met a turner who had made a bowl that bore several lead 38
bullets- at least that what I thought they were based on their size.
He was able to turn and polish the bullets so they blended in very
nicely with the walnut.
I do not know the penetration of lead into wood but I would
think it is not too deep, and unless the tree was really old I wonder
what type of "wound chanel" you'd be presented with.
Anyway, deer really tastes better than tree but sometimes the
tree moves in front of the deer faster than the eye can see.
Marc
If it was lead shot deep in the wood it would have had to been there for
awhile, the lead shouldn't penetrate to far because of how soft it is. I'd
bet that 50 cal round had been in that tree for awhile, the do a lot of
damage to trees, so my guess would be it was a well healed wound/scar.
--
Mike
Watch for the bounce.
If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
If ya see it, it didn't go off.
Old Air Force Munitions Saying
IYAAYAS
"Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote in message
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> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is
> the third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a
> while back.
>
> Darn hunters!
>
> --
> www.garagewoodworks.com
>
>
"Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote in message
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> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is
> the third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a
> while back.
>
> Darn hunters!
Only once, is some cherry. Lead cut easily though so not damage to the
blades.
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mar 16, 10:39 pm, "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote:
>> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is
>> the
>> third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a while
>> back.
>>
>> Darn hunters!
>>
>> --www.garagewoodworks.com
>
> Having hit a deer last week, I don't "darn" hunters unless they don't
> take a big enough crop. This year, they didn't. I guess State Farm
> will be thrilled.
State Farm huh? Hopefully you killed the deer as I would not be surprised
if they went after his insurance company. ;~)
"mac davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>
>>State Farm huh? Hopefully you killed the deer as I would not be surprised
>>if they went after his insurance company. ;~)
>>
> Could of been worse.. a friend hit a PIG...
> Didn't kill it though... but wished he had...
>
> He wasn't going to tell his insurance company that it happened, but the
> pig
> squealed..
Booooooo! LOL...
On Mar 16, 11:38 pm, "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote:
> >Here's a question; Was this lead
> >shot, i.e. buck shot or steel? I thought lead would "work" as easily
> >as wood.
>
> Lead. It is really soft. It's not a huge problem, so far it hasn't been in
> any critical places in the pieces I have found it. I have only found it in
> walnut so far.
Odd. Walnut is the only wood I've found shot/bullets in. On the
surface, that's quite a coincidence until you learn that I work in
walnut more than any other wood...
Cheers,
Jeff
On Mar 16, 10:39 pm, "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote:
> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is the
> third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a while
> back.
>
> Darn hunters!
>
> --www.garagewoodworks.com
Having hit a deer last week, I don't "darn" hunters unless they don't
take a big enough crop. This year, they didn't. I guess State Farm
will be thrilled.
On Mar 16, 10:39 pm, "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote:
> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is the
> third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a while
> back.
>
We once used locally sawn sycamore for roof underlayment
on a sugar house. The boards were full of .22 slugs. It turns
out the tree which was in a pasture, had a "NO HUNTING" sign
on it, which in my home town was always a popular target.
--
FF
marc rosen wrote:
> On Mar 16, 10:39 pm, "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote:
>> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is the
>> third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a while
>> back.
>>
>> Darn hunters!
...
> It never happened to me as a woodworker but I'm sure I wounded
> a few trees in my time as a hunter. ...
...
> Anyway, deer really tastes better than tree but sometimes the
> tree moves in front of the deer faster than the eye can see.
I've only found one I recall in lumber I was woodworking which didn't
bother me much.
I get really ticked at all the buckshot in the barn and the house I
find, though... :(
--
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:55:22 -0500, "tom" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is
>> > the third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a
>> > while back.
>> >
>> > Darn hunters!
>
>Was cross cutting a 2x8 with a radial arm when one of the blocks popped
>open to reveal a 50 cal machine gun slug. Was awful glad I didn't hit it.
>The lumber must have come off a military practice/firing range.
>
WOW!
buckshot, no big deal..
large caliber, steel jacketed slugs.. major deal!
mac
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:10:09 -0500, "Leon" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:c543eb28-b90a-46f7-8e2f-3d376e0326a1@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>> On Mar 16, 10:39 pm, "Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote:
>>> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is
>>> the
>>> third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a while
>>> back.
>>>
>>> Darn hunters!
>>>
>>> --www.garagewoodworks.com
>>
>> Having hit a deer last week, I don't "darn" hunters unless they don't
>> take a big enough crop. This year, they didn't. I guess State Farm
>> will be thrilled.
>
>State Farm huh? Hopefully you killed the deer as I would not be surprised
>if they went after his insurance company. ;~)
>
Could of been worse.. a friend hit a PIG...
Didn't kill it though... but wished he had...
He wasn't going to tell his insurance company that it happened, but the pig
squealed..
mac
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"Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote in message
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> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is
> the third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a
> while back.
>
> Darn hunters!
>
> --
> www.garagewoodworks.com
>
>
Never that I know of, but uh I have on several occasions cut through a
finish nail and it left a very shiny spot in the wood. No harm to any
blades so far and I have been doing this since the early 90's. :~)
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:01:58 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Garage_Woodworks" <.@.> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> How often do you come across buck shot pellets in your lumber? This is
>> the third time I have cut through a pellet in some walnut I purchased a
>> while back.
>>
>> Darn hunters!
>
>Only once, is some cherry. Lead cut easily though so not damage to the
>blades.
>
I guess it more lubricates them then dulls them...
I turned a bowl with a few duck shot pellets in it.. I thought it just added a
bit of character..
mac
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