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  1. frwinks New Member

    joined: Oct 27, 2006
    52 posts
    The Hills of Mulmur
    Nice score!!!
    gotta love da big oak rounds :coolsmile:

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  2. chad3 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Feb 13, 2007
    453 posts
    Southeast CT
    Mine was about 32" red oak and fell the exact wrong way. Once down, it made me run the 28" bar down the backside before I could run it over the top and cut down the front. I couldn't move any of these once they hit the ground. Had to split them right there. It was def. a lot of work. Pretty good wood, but at some point wood is a bit easier at a smaller diameter.
    Chad
  3. aandabooks New Member

    joined: May 29, 2008
    141 posts
    Central Illinois
    Put a shorter bar on the the big saw and go to noodling. That is some of the easiest splitting available. Get them down to quarters with the saw then the maul and wedges will be much easier.
  4. guest5234 New Member

    Not being funny but that is a very very small oak compared to the ones I have growing near me in the uk...just cut down an oak that was dead and about 300 yeras old which was at least 4 times the size of that base....we grow big oaks over here.
  5. free75degrees New Member

    joined: Apr 6, 2008
    433 posts
    Boston Area
    No, my wood is bigger than yours!

    Just kidding 300 years is crazy. I just got some 108 year old ash and that was really hard to handle. 300 is nuts.
  6. WoodButcher80 Feeling the Heat

    hey Neil , what kind of oak are we talking about?!?!? thats a bigg'un
  7. Pagey Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 2, 2008
    2,419 posts
    Middle TN
    Red Oak a friend felled in Auburntown, TN.

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  8. chad3 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Feb 13, 2007
    453 posts
    Southeast CT
    Pagey,
    How did he cut that down with that saw safely? If you can't cut half way through a tree, it will go screwey on you at some point. Nice tree, but I would have used a different saw.
  9. guest5234 New Member

    Take your lunch with you when you start to walk around some of the oaks around me...
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  10. WoodButcher80 Feeling the Heat

    THATS AS BIG AS THE CLOCK TOWER IN YOUR TOWN SQUARE!!!
  11. guest5234 New Member


    Look at the branches, how does that base hold hundreds of tons of wood?
  12. Pagey Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 2, 2008
    2,419 posts
    Middle TN
    I'm not sure which saw was used, but he and his brother have several different saws/bars.
  13. cannonballcobb Member

    joined: May 4, 2008
    83 posts
    ATL
    That ain't nothin'.

    Here in the USA, we got you beat. ;-P

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  14. Spikem Member

    joined: Nov 2, 2008
    242 posts
    Middleboro, MA, USA
    You measure the bar in feet, not inches, for cuttin' that sucker down!

    :)
  15. BJ64 Minister of Fire

    joined: Jul 24, 2008
    608 posts
    NE Oklahoma
    Yea but we will all know who cuts that tree. Their picture will be in every post office till they are nabbed and the before and after pics. After the boyscout BB gun Fireing squad gets done with them. :)
  16. mobetter New Member

    joined: Dec 17, 2008
    117 posts
    Indiana
    Here's one right out our back door, It's a four banger with the three front trunks measuring ~ 30" The rearmost is ~ 48" . It's a monster I'd guesstimate about 7 to 8 ft diameter. Pictures truly don't do it justice. No I haven't cut it, and hope I'm gone when the day comes. I wonder how many tons that brute weighs.

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