Awesome! Thats a lotta wood. Any estimates how much youve pulled in, and the percentage of your 3 yr plan that fulfills? Looking good! Sca
I am guessing 2 cords in the round at my house and 2.5 cords between my two friends. The big log is proving to be a real bear. The first few rounds left about a 4 in dia. circle of uncut wood in the very center that the 24 in bar of the chainsaw wouldn't reach. I have an old coarse tooth, long hand saw that we used to reach in to cut that. It is slow going but we learn as we go. I already have about 11 cords of processed wood on site and we burn about 2.5 cords a year.
Well then, celebrating adding another year onto your plan. Thats awesome. Im betting we go through 5 cord here this year. We're up to 3/4 of a cord now. Glad to hear its working out for you! Sca
Wow. That is a monster, especially for a yard tree. I’m surprised they didn’t sell it to a mill to turn it into some primo lumber.
The story I have gotten is that, with the demise of old growth and old second growth, very few have the equipment anymore to handle the really big trees. Most mills are set up to handle reprod at about 30" max. The site Supt. looked for buyers with no takers. I got the explanation from him.
I got a load out by myself today of six rounds. Has not been as bad as I had expected. Didn't damage any chains. I just cut as close to the ground as I dared then drove the dog in, hooked up the winch and tipped the round over. Any remaining uncut wood just snapped or split away. The little winch has not even breathed hard dragging and hoisting those rounds up to the trailer deck. I am impressed! I split up a bunch of triangle chunks to drive under the rounds to stabilize them to the front of the trailer. I had to make two new hoisting dogs as the others had become malformed from so much pounding. Comes of using unhardened mild steel I guess. Changed my design a bit also. The big log is looking considerably smaller!
They climb the tree, cutting limbs as they go up. Once they have a spar pole they cut and topple the logs in as long a length as the have room below. Pretty standard procedure where they can't drop the whole tree I guess.
Are you going to save a couple of the big rounds to use as chopping blocks ? They are certainly big enough to be.
I have been waiting for the framers to use up all the lumber in the way next to the last big log of Doug Fir. Tuesday I heard a chainsaw at the site and rushed down to make sure that no one was cutting up my log. Turned out to be the Site Supt. The lumber was gone and he needed to get the log moved to stage the crane to hoist the trusses to the second floor. By the time I got all my gear together to lend a hand, he and his helpers had bucked it up and rolled all the rounds to the other side of the site. He only wrecked two chains in the rock ballast underneath. Better him than me I guess. I took out my last load right then and called my buddy to let him know that there were 5 rounds of fairly straight grained stuff left for him. He should be able to back right up to it and split to manageable chunks and load his pickup. I told him to get on it in a hurry because already bucked rounds disappear fast. I was in such a hurry I didn't get pictures. I guess this ends the "close in Doug Fir" saga. I was glad to get as much of it as I wanted. The Supt. says he will give a call if he has anymore trees on future sites!
Not so quick There is still the ss part of the css It would be interesting to see the volume you get from that.
I I enjoy the splitting but am trying to forget the stacking right now. I will post a picture of the rounds stuffed about the yard!
Pictures of what I have to start css'ing. The rounds and large splits got to the fence and around next to the wood shed. I am hoping between 2.5-3 cords but having a lot of large rounds is hard to judge. This does not include two loads to my friends and the 5 remaining rounds or the limb wood. There are also 2 gnarly rounds cut from the butt swell left on site that I am ignoring for now.
