When was your wood born?

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Kevin*

Kevin*

Burning Hunk
Nov 29, 2011
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SNOHOMISH, WA
Best we could count she was born about 1400, 41" w/o bark and this section is about 80' up from the stump, we could get a better count with sanding and a magnifying glass but it's just going into the firebox.
Each 6' section weights about 2800 lbs, it is a Douglas-Fir from Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National forest in the mountains between Index and Skykomish WA



 
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I assume, haven't ventured uphill to the stump end but it has been down for a little over 2 years and we did have a good winter storm about then with wet ground.
 
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Thanks for sharing your interesting post.......
 
Oh look it's BB, he is back....hope all is well......
 
Thanks to Verizon my connection was dead for 12 days. Hope everybody enjoyed the break. >>
 
How'd you get those out of the woods? You work for USFS or a logging company? I bet a lot of woodturners would like some old growth fir like that.
 
A large part of southern Maine burned in 1947, so there's not too many trees older than that.
 
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Creekside said:
How'd you get those out of the woods? You work for USFS or a logging company? I bet a lot of woodturners would like some old growth fir like that.
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just paid my 20 bucks for 2 cords and went out with a trailer and winch. They roll pretty easy up the car ramps, think it's called parbuckling.
 
I estimate mine was born mostly around 1909 or later. The large swath of public land near my house was the site of iron smelting and mining operations until 1909. At that time the area that is now a forest was all clearcut for charcoal or farming. In 1909 the local iron operation closed, and I assume other nearby iron operations closed too. There are some big old trees that were probably between farm fields, near homes, along roadsides, etc. but the majority of the trees have grown since 1909 or later. A lot of the forest has probably been clearcut at least once since 1909, so the majority of trees are not nearly as large as they would be in a really old forest. We have plenty of nice, big trees but it is far from what a virgin forest would be. None of my trees are even close to the age of the old Doug Fir in the original post.
 
Oldest I had was a white oak that had the top blow out in a storm. I hadn't planned on cutting it down, but when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, so I had the trunk quarter sawed and turned into my kitchen cabinets. Counting rings told me that tree probably started growing during the US civil war.
 
700 year old Doug Fir at $10/cord! 2800lb chunks that he's processing inside!?! Just picked'em up with my trailer and winch...
Damn that is a heck of a setup!
I estimate most trees that go through my saw are 40-70 years old.
 
Kevin
you get the high score award for Best Pictures. You win the Oscar.
They can stand right alongside all those great historical photos of logging camps taken on box cameras 100s of years ago!
However.....
You are missing all the pics of how those monsters got to your shop!!
Nice shop by the way, looks like you could perform surgeries there.
I want to see cutting and loading pics.
 
Kevin Love the pics:Here is some douglas fir i had purchased in the 80's . 2X12 by 16 foot .Alot did have about 8 to 9 hundred rings on the end. Came from a distillery that was surplused . 6 million board feet for sale . at $0.50 a Bd Ft. IMG_0024 floor2.jpg IMG_0025 floor.jpg
 
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^ That's purty!
 
Applesister said:
Kevin
you get the high score award for Best Pictures. You win the Oscar.
They can stand right alongside all those great historical photos of logging camps taken on box cameras 100s of years ago!
However.....
You are missing all the pics of how those monsters got to your shop!!
Nice shop by the way, looks like you could perform surgeries there.
I want to see cutting and loading pics.
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Sorry, I didn't take pics this time around cutting and loading. I will next time but here some from the time before. I have since switched it up to cutting a 6' section a winching down the hill, then put the rope under the log and winching in rolls it up the trailer. Dealing with 6' is much easier then 12' or more.

For locals, there's still lots of this log to be had guys/gals! It's up beckler river road out by Skykomish just before Troublesome creek campground. I love cutting, gathering and splitting wood, it think it's a problem I should someone about. I get wood for/ with my 2 buddies who burn and it's not enough saw time.

 
solarstar said:
Kevin Love the pics:Here is some douglas fir i had purchased in the 80's . 2X12 by 16 foot .Alot did have about 8 to 9 hundred rings on the end. Came from a distillery that was surplused . 6 million board feet for sale . at $0.50 a Bd Ft. View attachment 150792 View attachment 150793
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That's real nice, just need a fire going and some snow outside. wish I knew a wood carver who has a need for a log like these, then at least some of this would live on.
 
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