Goodies from the Yard Tree

[bigealta]

Got some love from the big oak today.

 

[bigealta]

Tree was dead standing for 2 years 36" dia at base.

Over 50% moisture on some of the saturated trunk pieces.
Lots of fun with old nails and recent screws.

And this:

See the shiny bit on the bottom right in the cut?

It's 1 of 2 nails that took out 5 teeth from my chain.

And i finally had that chain hand filed pulling straight as could be making cutting both sides of the 32-34" Dia trunk a breeze with the 18" bar. Cuts were lining up almost perfectly. Dang it!

 

[bigealta]

Here is how she’s sits now.

 

[johneh]

Do love those yard trees NOT

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Its like a wooden museum, if museums hated chains. I've heard of some guys leaving the bottom 6 feet of the tree alone for fear of nails and had some success. But then again.......... treehouses.

 

[ScottLewis]

That's why sawmills only want trees from the deep forest, and will not take a tree that was in somebody's yard.

 

[bigealta]

That's why sawmills only want trees from the deep forest, and will not take a tree that was in somebody's yard.

Yes that and they are usually twisted and knotty grain.

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Yes that and they are usually twisted and knotty grain.

I scrounged a few ash trees that were in someone's yard. Much harder to split made me question whether it was ash.