A Crackerjack Surprise

Last week I spent four days knocking around a tree farm or two, some manufacturing facilities and a sawmill.

The forest products industry in Wisconsin is a $20 billion (yes that is B as in Billion) industry in this state.

At the mill I got to talking to one of the guys about crap that they find in saw logs from time-to-time. You know - like bits of barbed wire, nails and other clutter.

They had an entire collection of exotic stuff that their metal detectors flag before a log has an opportunity to mess-up their expensive German machinery.

Like this pitch fork that a tree has grown around.


Or better yet - this old-school broadhead that was found inside a chunk of cedar.

There was more-

Bullets.

Children's toys.

Screw-in climbing pegs.

You name it.

A Crackerjack Prize in the occasional log...