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Go big or go home

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  1. Farmboy707

    Farmboy707

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    Post your big rounds!
    I was bucking up some ash got this one in half iso core love it 34"
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    Should help towards my 3year plan!
     
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    Guess I'll have to go home since the largest I have is about 27"-28" (I think)
     
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  3. Farmboy707

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    Lol anything over 26" is big in my area their are some silver and sugar maples in the 35-40 range but I haven't borrowed a tractor for those yet.
     
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    54 Inch about 3 years ago and it tapered up 12 feet to 48 inches.
     

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    Another 54" here from several years ago.

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  7. fuelrod

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    Them's some biguns'.:thumbs:
    I'm going home, anything much bigger than 18" make's my everything hurt.
     
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    This is about the biggest I have ever cut. It was a cottonwood around 35".

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    65" where the gas can is. That's a 36" bar on my 441 next to me.
     
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    heres my largest ( not me in the picture ) IMG_3478.JPG IMG_3504.JPG
     
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    husky 288xpw 28 inch bar 36 inch honey locust august 2012.jpg husky 288xpw 42 inch bar 36 inch honey locust march 2013.jpg August 2012 36" Honey Locust Finally milled into slabs April 2015
     
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    Go home? I am not even leaving the house my dead standing oaks are 8-14" average. But that makes it fun and easy work for me.
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    These count? Loaded by a little old retired guy.

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    Had to noodle this one... 54" at the base. Black Walnut - I made this section into lumber.

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    I'll have to dig in the archives. I've done some MONSTERS over the years. Here's a 38" ash we did a few weeks ago....it's becoming lumber for kitchen cabinets as we speak....

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    Have you seen any of the lumber from that yet Scotty? I'm seeing some curly figure in the stump there. :thumbs:
     
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    Fortunately we don't have any big stuff here as our woods is young. We do have a couple around 36-40" but those won't get cut. The biggest we've cut on this place is 34" diameter at the base and that was white ash.

    There are a few big trees in the area though and here are some pictures of my wife with one of the big ones. She is 5' 2".
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    Then there was a time:
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    Not yet. He should be milling it aoon. Possibly this weekend.

    I ripped the stump in half and it does have some curling.....
     
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    Bar exam?:rofl: :lol:
     
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    Resounding THUD when that baby touched down......................:rofl: :lol:
     
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