I was about to put this log on my sawmill but found a nail and culled it . I didn’t want to waste the wood so I decided to chunk it for motor fuel . While cutting into lengths the chain saw found another nail and the wood spliter found about 25 more 
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I have a tree that I had a nylon rope wrapped around about 45 years ago for a clothes line. The tree bark grew around the rope and it’s fully inbedded in the tree now. I suppose the same would happen to nails and you wouldn’t have a clue they were in there. 
whodof thunk.
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I once cut up an apple tree from an old, abandoned farm, the chainsaw started throwing sparks like a good angle grinder.
It was half a blade from a scythe, embedded in the wood!
No need to file that chain anymore.
I later learned this was called like “sacrifice edge steel” a old believe that if you broke something sharp (a scythe, scissors, saw-blade, a knife) you should hide the sharp piece on your property (in a wall, in a tree, under your bed) this was to keep trolls, witches, demons, ghosts and such away from you.
This was old folklore, used long in to the 1950s.
I found more evidences of this with my chainsaws… 
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Interesting supersticion.
Sometimes some trees pull up stones as they grow somehow, no idea how. I remember father in law once fell a lime tree all afternoon. It was full of rocks inslnside, and extremely old.
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Something to be said about the first vehicle. It runs on carrots and makes it’s own gas. Of course the exhaust pipe is a little inconvenient for the driver.
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Tone, I’m confused. A year or so ago you showed us a different pickup of yours, resently you bought a Volvo car (or did that never happen?) and now the Mazda pickup. Which one should we expect to see burning wood?
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JO , I haven’t (yet) bought a Volvo because the seller doesn’t have the ownership settled, but a Mazda B2600 appeared for a reasonable price and I didn’t hesitate to buy it.
Hmm, the Mazda E2200 has a diesel engine and it wouldn’t be fair to put firewood there and cheat with diesel fuel… 
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I haven’t heard in a tree. But having a sharp object like a knife under your pillow or over your door, is supposed to ward off evil. However, leaving a knife in a tree, is supposed to bring bad luck at least to the person with the chainsaw trying to cut it up. 
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Hi Sean, this could maybe have the purpose to protect the tree itself, as i have found them in fruit trees, in the old folklore it mentions it must be hidden carefully, because the evil could “hypnotize” for example a bird to pull it away.
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I think that is closely related. There is a mention of Deuteronomy during war you can’t cut down any tree with valued fruit. Jewish folks aren’t allowed to cut down fruit trees at all because fruit trees are compared to mankind.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/961313/jewish/Cutting-Down-Fruit-Trees.htm
The Apple tree in Particular is valued or considered sacred by ancient celtic druidic and norse traditions.
Now if you mix traditions it could be more like, a knife under the pillow wards off evil spirits, and if you are Jewish/christian, sticking a knife in the tree would ward off the Celtic/norse goddesses/faeries that managed the trees.
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Walking along the river banks here you can find exposed tree roots with rocks embedded in the roots sometimes finding semiprecious rocks in the roots. These will make a cane or staff out of it gives it a really cool artistic look.
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It snowed here as well, spring is very welcome now. The road to the farm is water bogged, I need to dig out the 30 years neglected ditch this summer.
Anyway, I was wondering how you get your fuel out of the wagon, I don’t see any openings/hinges more then on the top sides?
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Regards Johan, the front and back sides open below, so it is possible to dig out the fuel below, well, the slats are also easy and quick to unscrew
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Ok. That is good, I could not make that out on the pictures. There is usually some language involved when things do not work as intended. This lesson I have learned many times 
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Taking every oppertunity when the weather is not crappy, which it’s been most of the time since mid Oktober.
Two loads today. One of them cut and split.
A few more to go before the ground thaws and too muddy to get to it.
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Such nice birch. Wuld sell for a premium here, highly sought after fuel.
Arr l hate that sound those fans make from time to time. Means the bearings are geting worn…
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The fan is ok Kristijan. It just needs a puff of compressed air and it’ll be as good as new again
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Sorry to bother you guys but wanted to share my enthusiasm. The new toy is more then competent, no profile onthe tires and mud, wow. Steering in reverse is still tricky, forward is ok. Maybe this going to be my Fergie. It has a Kubota four cylinder, indirect injeted. Might be a good woodgas candidate.
Gonna be cold next week , hauled a crate
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