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Furniture makers/restorers will often avoid backyard trees because they
often have nails in them. A friend of mine in Suffolk has a wood yard for
a furniture company and they always go over a tree trunk with a metal
detector before cutting. You'd be surprised at what they find. A tree
from near a WW2 airfield had a complete ceramic insulator block inside.
You can imagine what that would do to a saw!
Graham
Another site I visit for photography, had a tree with just a little bit of a
house brick showing. The caption was 'Brick eating tree' I posted a picture
I took of a tree which had had a wire hawser passed round it to support a
fence. In time the tree had 'eaten' the hawser. I can post the picture
somewhere A) if anyone is interested and B) you tell me where :-)
Mike
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