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Offline lbgradwell

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Cool photo.
« 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.


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Re: Cool photo.
« Reply #1 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
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Re: Cool photo.
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Cool photo.
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2013, 08:09:22 PM »
Photos, Dr.?

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« Last Edit: January 14, 2013, 08:20:42 PM by rusty »
Just a weathered light rust/WD40 mix patina.

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Re: Cool photo.
« Reply #5 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. 
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Re: Cool photo.
« Reply #6 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...

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Re: Cool photo.
« Reply #7 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
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