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I have over 3 DZ mature trees. I thought I could sell the trees for lumber. But since they are in a yard they don't want them for fear of nails trashing the saw blaces.
Why would trees in a yard have nails in them? Not sure I'm understanding you correctly on that point.
FWIW, I do a lot of pallet wood projects and I don't want to ruin an expensive saw blade on a hidden nail in the pallet wood. Well, also a potential injury risk. I bought a metal scanner from Harbor Freight and use that to scan my pallet wood lumber before I bring it close to my miter or table saw. The scanner can find hidden metal in the pallet wood that I cannot see, but I don't know if it would detect a nail buried deep in a tree.
I think I bought my metal scanner on sale for around $20.00, which was about the same price as metal scanners on Amazon at the time.
Maybe a person could sandwich a nail between boards and see how sensitive the metal scanner is. Continue to add boards to see how many inches inside the wood the scanner will still detect the nail.