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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: lbgradwell on January 14, 2013, 06:30:05 PM

Title: Cool photo.
Post by: lbgradwell on January 14, 2013, 06:30:05 PM
I just received my copy of the January Supplement Woodworking Catalogue from Lee Valley. I think this is a pretty cool photo...

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While splitting a log from an old tree in her yard, Lee Valley staffer Rachel Buchanan was surprised to find this adjustable wrench embedded inside.

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/lbgradwell/LeeValley_zps056f164b.jpg)
Title: Re: Cool photo.
Post by: 1930 on January 14, 2013, 06:36:04 PM
That is a very cool photo, I know of a stainless steel exhaust system embedded in a tree 20 years ago where the tree has nearly completely grown around it
Title: Re: Cool photo.
Post by: EVILDR235 on January 14, 2013, 08:06:58 PM
About 25 years ago my daughter leaned her collectable 1960s Stingray bicycle againest a maple tree. It is still there because the tree ate it.

EvilDr235
Title: Re: Cool photo.
Post by: lbgradwell on January 14, 2013, 08:09:22 PM
Photos, Dr.?
Title: Re: Cool photo.
Post by: rusty on January 14, 2013, 08:18:23 PM
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bicycle-swallowed-tree-wash-154527745--abc-news-topstories.html
Title: Re: Cool photo.
Post by: john k on January 14, 2013, 09:17:32 PM
Interesting, about the bike and the wrench, how did the wrench handle get broken though?   Looks like a clean cut, by the wood splitter?  I helped straighten a 40 inch Railroad wrench that was discovered in a tree stump.  Did not do the stump chipper any good at all. 
Title: Re: Cool photo.
Post by: lbgradwell on January 14, 2013, 09:21:53 PM
...how did the wrench handle get broken though?   Looks like a clean cut, by the wood splitter?

I was surmising the wrench cracked as the branch forced it...
Title: Re: Cool photo.
Post by: oldtools on January 15, 2013, 01:47:25 AM
Interesting, about the bike and the wrench, how did the wrench handle get broken though?   Looks like a clean cut, by the wood splitter?  I helped straighten a 40 inch Railroad wrench that was discovered in a tree stump.  Did not do the stump chipper any good at all.

I remember that thread, very interesting...
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=5807.msg37014;topicseen#msg37014