Some sawmills won't take trees from around a house because they often have metal inside them such as grown over swing chains or nails. Hard on saw blades. Same around fence lines. They have fence wire and nails in them. Saw a picture of one tree that had grown around a rifle. Go figure.
Yeah the saw mill I contracted with was concerned about that. There isn't anyway to know for sure if a tree has a nail in it but I've lived here for more than 20 years and I've never driven a nail into any of the trees. Hopefully there isn't any metal in any of the trees since that can blow up a saw blade at the mill.
