Medium size white oak

My dad’s friend Tom has been letting us get wood on his property. Told dad he has a real big oak tree he wants down. Today was the day. Not knowing what to expect as big to me is 35” plus, I took too much saw. That’s ok, I’d rather this than not enough.

 

Oh heck, here we go.


After clearing a lot of bark with my wedge banger, I found no more signs or metal and decided to go low with the notch.

 

36” bar for reference.


Aimed for the field.


Trailer load #1.


PI everywhere too.


Overloaded the trailer on #2.





I’m left with the main stem. Think I’ll mount the 28” on the 394 for that.

 

Beauty notch and sweet log. There will be a ton of nice splits from it.

 

Perfect stump and felling. Did you hit any metal? Serious amount of purple chips. Hope you don't find any metal bucking the rest.

I need more practice felling with a longer (25" or longer) bar.

 

Sweet, I like me some white oak. Good job dropping it.

 

Not sure if you can see but I hit more on the notch. Focus isn’t quite right.


Not looking forward to hitting more but if I do, oh well. Seemed to not do tons of damage, wire was very thin in there.

 

Pretty good size trunk but I'm getting itchy just thinking about it.

 

No signs yet, I didn’t let any bare skin show while working on it. Definitely makes me a bit nervous.


Trees with all that dead limb wood make me a bit apprehensive. I could have thinned the holding wood and made it fall faster but I just wanted to get outta there so nothing fell.

 

I got a little on my arms from the red maple cut I'm working. Nothing severe just a spot on each forearm. I was cutting in short sleeves and the big tree had some large PI vines on it.

 

I wish the sapwood wouldn't go to punk so quickly on them. Whole buncha good wood under it though.

Also bonus for the Jackyl sounds.

 

Made some nice size rounds.


Didn’t avoid metal though.


Noodle-rama. The Isocore bounced off a round 3 times. I gave up quick.



Beginning to think this is black oak and not white.





One trip and done.




Had to work in short sleeves today. Hopefully didn’t catch any poison.

 

Make some lumber and build yourself a boat with that oak. You can name it “ ole Ironsides II”

 

Perfect looking rounds minus the metal.

 

Very nice job

 

That's a "black oak" if I ever seen one!

 

Ends up I did get a little on my right forearm and just below glove level on both arms. I started with the Ivarest and used lye soap in the shower. Never got real itchy, just knew it was there. I’ll definitely be more mindful next time.

 

That's a nice score, Jason. Glad the PI wasn't too bad.

 

Jason very nice score on the oak, hopefully there was not too much metal in it. Looks like there was a lot of barbed wire fencing. Congrats