how big is your wood

[mikeyny]

I got some pretty big stuff last year. I ended up with a pretty big chiropractor bill in the end.
This is probably just small potatoes to some of you logger folks.

Mike

 

[philaphire]

Suburban guy here - pics don't show scale, I'll try to get out and pose a similar pic - although I've already split the biggest pieces.... be sure to scroll down as I added another pic later in the post

https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/10881/

 

[nshif]

Looks pretty typical for here on the west coast, I have an oak bigger then that coming down when the snow clears. But that is a damn nice tree

 

[DiscoInferno]

Here's the contents of a tree-service dump truck I got last spring; the big pieces are mostly red oak. If I had to haul those myself, I would have had to do a fair bit of splitting on-site first.

 

[Eric Johnson]

That's a nice looking piece of maple, Mikey. Love to bury my splitting maul in that baby. Not bad either, Disco. Sad to lose such a nice tree, though.

 

[mikeyny]

I wish I had what it takes to chop one of those big trees down. It was between 2 house's in a city near me. One of the tree guys I know took it to task. He must have got big bucks for that one. He used a crane for most of it to limit the collateral damage. All I had to do was roll the big pieces up into my truck. We used a few planks and lots of OOOOMPH to get them into the truck. I have been very fortunate to have connections like that. Sometimes he drops stuff off at the house for me already cut to size.

Mike

 

[DiscoInferno]

That's a nice looking piece of maple, Mikey. Love to bury my splitting maul in that baby. Not bad either, Disco. Sad to lose such a nice tree, though.

What's even more sad is that there are several oaks larger than that one that have blown down in the woods off my street in the last couple years. Whenever my daughter and I go walking back there they taunt me; each one is probably a year's worth of wood. No practical way to haul them out even if I had a saw that size, and unclear legalities in any case. (County parkland.) They actually might make decent sawlogs, since they are aways from houses. Ah well, termites gotta eat and ants gotta nest...

When I look at a tree that size, I alternately wonder how it could possibly fall down and how it could possible stay up.

 

[Metal]

Here's a few pics trees I cut down this year (they grow 'em big here in Kansas you know). I think I will just leave them as rounds and burn them in my double barrel stove built from old oil railcars : )

 

[titan]

nice wood;good thing yer burning it in a barrel stove,ohterwise you'd need 10 years to season them rounds.