Well I have been looking for the Craigslist scrounge that would put me up and over 6 cords, and I found it this weekend! A homeowner had a 50+ year old maple taken down, and had kept/given away all the easy stuff and was left with these huge stumps.
I was a little intimated at first, its the biggest tree I have ever cut, I am guessing 28" across. You can see a shoe in the picture to the left for perspective, I should have put my saw on the round, just didn't think of it. My Farm Boss did an awesome job, didn't bog down (muffler mod likely helped) and just tore through it. I got the load below that you see, and also a second load similar in size.
I cut the pieces off to length, as the trunks were about 5 feet long still, and then noodled them into quarters (something I learned how to do on this forum).
Everything went great and I had a good time, only bummer was something I have heard all of you warn about: A nail in the middle! Smack dab in the middle of this huge tree was a 3 inch nail, buried in the center of the round, and of course I hit it! Oh well, it was worth a sharpening for this much awesome maple!
The maple will go into the stack for next year!
I was a little intimated at first, its the biggest tree I have ever cut, I am guessing 28" across. You can see a shoe in the picture to the left for perspective, I should have put my saw on the round, just didn't think of it. My Farm Boss did an awesome job, didn't bog down (muffler mod likely helped) and just tore through it. I got the load below that you see, and also a second load similar in size.
I cut the pieces off to length, as the trunks were about 5 feet long still, and then noodled them into quarters (something I learned how to do on this forum).
Everything went great and I had a good time, only bummer was something I have heard all of you warn about: A nail in the middle! Smack dab in the middle of this huge tree was a 3 inch nail, buried in the center of the round, and of course I hit it! Oh well, it was worth a sharpening for this much awesome maple!
The maple will go into the stack for next year!