White Oak
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Hogwildz
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I did not count the rings. It was quite a tree. It was three stems. I was never able to get a picture that really showed how big it was.
Those "tables" were probably about 300 pounds each and down in a little stream. I would have needed a crane to get them out.
Those "tables" were probably about 300 pounds each and down in a little stream. I would have needed a crane to get them out.
Has to be more than three cords.
I just did a big red oak that was a single trunk and just 31 inches at chest height and got 3 and a quarter cords out of it. Didn't save anything under 4 or 5 inches either. It was pretty damn tall but still ......
I spent a Summer hosing the dirt off a big pine tree stump that went over like that and when all the dirt was off it carved it up.
Didn't have a tractor then so the chunks had to fit in a riding mower cart.
It C/S/S about 3 cords from it. I left about 1/2 cord of small stuff for her to burn in her fireplace, I left some in the woods because it was full of massive crotches and unsplittable, and I left some in the woods because it was just too darn hard to get it up to the driveway. This tree fell in rocky woods down hill from the driveway. As the rounds got bigger it became harder and harder to get it out out. I dragged the bottom 40 feet or so of it up to the driveway with my F250 in 10 foot chunks. The last was so big that I broke my 1/4" wire rope a couple times.
We cut the last of it into about 8" cookies so we could bust it up and get the wood out of the stream to avoid creating a dam.
This tree may have yielded almost a season worth of wood, but it was a ton of work to get home and make into firewood. I don't think I'd tackle another with such a high degree of difficulty again.
We cut the last of it into about 8" cookies so we could bust it up and get the wood out of the stream to avoid creating a dam.
This tree may have yielded almost a season worth of wood, but it was a ton of work to get home and make into firewood. I don't think I'd tackle another with such a high degree of difficulty again.
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