this is coming down tuesday,3' foot diam. at chest height, was asked if we want it,there has been so much wood lately and im out of room , i have today to figure something out and decide what to do
Throw it in a pile behind the garage, stack the rounds like fences around the flowers and bushes, but go get it. Figure it out later. It won't rot in your yard over the winter even if you don't get it processed. You can show us the pics later.
it's killing me thinking about it ,i'll have to noodle the trunk into quarters then maybe split it some more, then the clean up because this is not a home demo as we are so accustomed to around here so i have to leave everything neat,i am going to ask the tree co. about them bringing the trunk to my yard ( just a couple blocks maybe a couple pizzas would help )im trying to figure something out, and of course there has to be metal in that trunk from birdhouses or a clothesline or whatever after all these years, does anyone have a way to estimate the age of this beast?
Age all depends on the growing conditions. With little or no competition for light they can put on the meat pretty fast. My neighbor had a 37" DBH red oak taken down 2 years ago. I was suprised to find that it was about 100 years old. I had thought it would be much older. (The tree guys rolled that one into my yard.) Right you are about metal. Who knows what is lurking within that trunk. Look for the blue stain before cutting.
I had an oak smaller than that come down about 6 years ago and sit on the ground since then I bucked it this year and only the outer couple of inches were bad with the large majority of the wood in good shape. Probably would rot faster if it were cot to length. Point is it won't go bad quickly; get it to your yard and deal with it in spring when there is space in your stacks again.
That tree will be coming down in pieces with the lines that are running through it and a house on both sides. You could probably pick and choose what you want to keep of it.
they chip stuff that would make us all cry( 8-10 diam.) i will get some just dont know how much we are working on ideas today, cuttting is not the problem ,moving the trunk is and we dont want to make a noodle field in the yard and be raking for days , i have mounted the 36'' bar in anticipation and maybe something as simple as cutting on a tarp may be the answer. as this is a crane job they cut and then feed it to the chipper its wastfull but time is money to them.here's another shot of the canopy
im not cutting it down just cutting logs on the ground ,they lower a guy into the tree with a crane , he ties in then ties off a limb, cuts it and its lowered by crane then repeated until done i dont have the guts to hang from a crane these guys have skill and ... you know
Looks like a high dollar job ! Lots of obstacles & hazards. the 16' trunk will sure make some primo firewood !!!
big dollar is right , has to be 3500. +, im basing that on jobs in the area that i knew the price of.( and there is no mountain scenery in the background, i wish there was)
