I've got OAK---but how to move rounds?

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LISound said:
i figured it would have been too much on the saw...and take really long.

It will be a lot quicker than trying to split it by hand, or your hospital time for body injuries ;-)

Unless you have a really underpowered saw, it should be fine on the saw as long as you don't push too hard. Give the saw a break, and keep your chain sharp.

It might be best to use a skip tooth chain if you're doing a lot of this as it will ease the load and cut down the chip congestion. Maybe some more experienced hands can comment on that.

Ken
 
My brother in law just had the town drop an oak tree in his front yard. I got them to keep the wood on site so I could have it. The tree at chest high is about 3ft or more. I have been reading the topic to see what people at doing to get the big rounds into a truck/trailer. Here is what I did.

Most of the logs were in 4ft lengths (smallest tree guy would cut them). So I brought a 20 inch bar for my husky 350. Took my time and cut the logs into roughly 16 inch lengths.
I then used a hand truck to load the rounds into the truck/trailer.
For the truck, I have ramps made out of 2x8s with the ramp ends on them. I could pull the hand truck and round up the incline, barely, but with two people it was easy. Once in the bed of the truck, I could just roll the rounds to the right spot.
My trailer has a ramp gate on it. So I just pulled the hand truck up the ramp. This I could do by myself pretty easy, but since I had the extra help nearby I used them.

Without the hand truck, I would have to split/cut them on site. With the hand truck, easy as pie.
 
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