There goes my new Blade!!!!!!

[alscalls]

A piece of sand stone inside a block of cherry destroyed my new band saw blade in about two seconds........

(Insert gigging smileys that HaMer stole here)

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[HaMeR]

   That sucks!! Hope you get it up & running again soon Al!! 

[alscalls]

Oh its up and running.......Just cost me a new blade........I used a metal detector for nails and bullets......But who woulda thought a ROCK!     

[HaMeR]

  Not me either!! 

[coyotehunter_1]

Well at least there is a bright side... you lost a blade but at least you didn't hit it while turning the wood. A chunk of rock like that, flying at high velocity, could do some serious damage to Al.

[alscalls]

YEEEEEEEOUCH I never looked at it like that.....

I just wonder how the rock came to be where it was??  This was a piece of Crotch cherry, from high off the ground......

It was a VERY old cherry tree and I cant help but wonder all the possibilities......

[shaddragger]

I had a tree to cut down a while back and when the saw got near the heart I dulled three chains trying to get through it. When it finally hit the ground the stump and butt log had two stones grown up into it.

[FinsnFur]

That is weird!

I found a rock like that in a Big Mac once, but never a tree.

[alscalls]

It was about ten feet off the ground +or- a couple feet..........Back when we cut it down (about ten years ago) I remember cause it had this Burl looking spot in it I was after and the tree was dead.

So could the rock have caused the burl?  Makes ya wonder if a Battle was fought where this tree was and an impact caused the rock to get lodged in the tree creating a burl for me to ruin my blade on.......

I have hit bullets and nails and even horse shoes....Barbed wire, and rocks >>......but the rocks were always in the stump....Never up high......

[vvarmitr]

I threw a rock into thee air
Where it landed I know not where.

[Yotehntr]

I believe VV has it... you were a little boy throwing rocks at on time...  

[alscalls]

I thnk the aliens done it.....they are watching me......   I heard they stole a smiley and renamed him after me......