Project elephant

I'm going to bring it out to the edge of the corn field with the kabota and stack it 2 rows deep on skids. When I'm ready to bring it home I can just toss it in the truck from there.

 

I think you're gonna need more pallets.

 

I thought the same. That tree is a big sum beech (in this case a big sum oak) as they like to say on here!

 

i think the root ball sprang back up???

 

I cut it up that far figuring if it wanted to come toward me that hickory would help guide it up and give me more time to back away.

 

James Miller looks like you will be busy for a while. Great score for sure.

 

I work for Seaaled Air so theres a never ending supply of pallets they consider unusable that work just fine for stacking wood.

 

I used to get some from our shop as well, but my BIL has access to much better ones, so I've been hoarding them.

 

I think billb3 is close. The final tally for my big oak came close to 3.5 cord and it was about 36” at the base.

 

that would look mighty fine quarter sawn too...

 

I stopped at the local saw mill and they told me no one will come out for a single log. Maybe high end walnut logs but that's it.

 

They will come out here for a nice big cherry to but definitely not just red oak. There is a guy near us that specializes in big live edge slabs. He used to use mules but gave up when his last lead mule couldn't do it anymore. So now he needs better access. But he still gets really nice stuff

 

Our mill will only do up to 26" and the equipment we have really won't handle anything larger than that anyway. Most of our woods is under 20" anyway and we really don't have but a few trees over 30" DBH here in our woods. That one will make some nice BTUs.

 

Added some mulberry today. and another bucket of oak. Not much done this week wife had the flu and is just getting better so I got a few minutes free time today.

 

Finally split some of the mulberry we cut in 2018. Nice and dry.

 

I still have about 20' of this one to put on the ground. Just trying to figure a good way to drop it. Neighbors fence on one side driveway on the other and trees every other direction.

 

Probably your picture file is too large. Try cropping or using a smaller file size of the photo.

 

Thank you.