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Originally Posted by porsche tech

“I've heard that a lot of mills won't take trees that come out of residential lawns. The reason is that it's common to find nails, screws, etc... inside the trees. And having their saw blades hit metal is bad/expensive”

I heard the same thing and I was going to mention that but I would think that by now they would have a way to X-ray them or something before cutting. That was 20 years ago or something but I still remember what an aggravating mess it was!

I'm in some online wood working groups, and I've heard it repeated recently when folks ask "I've got to cut down a tree" or "I was told that I could have a tree" "...can I get it milled?"

I've got some oak and pecan trees in my yard, and a bunch of them have metal in them. One has what's left of a basketball hoop embedded in it. One has a scar where I think metal cable was wrapped around it and the tree has grown over it, and several have screw eyes deeply embedded. I've even got a young live oak that has grown around the 6' metal stake that was original there to hold it up when it was newly planted.