Massive 118yr old + Oak base

Cruising FB and CL for free wood, I stumble upon this beastie.


So I messaged and set up the appointment. Wow! This thing is huge.

The homeowner made those buck cuts. They were a few inches too large for my stove so I decided to make shorter ones and deal with the leftover chunks.




Here is one of those cookies. I counted 118 rings.

Noodling them down with the Husky HackedUp 365sp w/ a 20". It screamed down through this wood creating a mountain of noodles. I decided to put the 24" on for the following trips, which had a more aggressive chain as well.




Crazy heavy chunks of wood. I'm going to measure one today and play the guessing game.

 

Some pics in no special order.

Standing next to it, almost up to my boo bee's!

 

The 24 loaded the saw much better. I also brought a big garbage bag full of noodle home for fire starter.

 

Last load.

Tried to peel as much bark as I could. It wrecked havok on my full chisel chains.



I did rock it once, glad I had the stump vice along.


That is a 42" bar...





I packed it almost to the cap roof. Did I mention I hate firewood'n with a cap?

 

So after my body recovers, I have a nice mountain of blocks to split...

It wasn’t red oak or pin. Not certain beyond that.

 

Wow! Nice score, Jason!

 

Beautiful stuff. Great BTU's!
By the stump shape and bark I wouldn't have guessed it was oak.

 

nice looking work The Wood Wolverine! My full chisel 20" chains took a beating from my noodling on Tuesday. Had the extra and still had to sharpen. I used the 36" chain to buck only. Ive never ripped first,although i couldnt complete one cut and tried it that way. Very impressive how it tore through and noodles were flying. How much wood do you think it yielded?

 

The Wood Wolverine you hit the BTU score. Lot of work, but it looks like it was pretty accessible.

 

That's a great question. I'm always curious too. I'm going to guess conservatively and say 2. I'll chime back in when splitting and stacking. I plan to take a scale out and weight a block today. This stuff is sooo dense and heavy.

 

Yeah that's an odd looking oak...biggin too

 

Yep, it was, I parked pretty close. The only thing, it was a pretty steep incline but carrying was downhill. Doesn't get much better.



Here's the tree in 2011 on Google street view. Doesn't really look as massive as it was.

I imagine when it fell it went across the road quite a bit.

 

Looks like nice straight grained wood too. The stuff i cut was gnarly and knotty (yard tree) so the noodled chunks will need to be noodled to fireplace size. Me or my friend dont have a splitter. Id use the Fiskars, but after 3 whacks i give up. I enjoy hand splitting but not killing myself in the process!

 

I have no doubt it’s oak, just not sure which variety.

 

It's Oak.
It's firewood.
All you really need to know.
Did you bother with any of that branch wood?
Find any metal?

 

The very first pic was how I rolled up on it. All the top was gone, and it looked like it had been gone for a while.
I sure did hit a small bit, and right after a couple swipes on the 135dl chain. Took the wind out of my sail. It didn't do too much damage, just blunted the chain again.

 

What a beast.

 

Just looking at the pictures, IMO, that is might be water oak. A lot of times is has a good bit of sapwood and smaller heart. Bark looks similar too. this is water oak that's been down about a year.

 

That's a biggun


Guess the homeowner got what he wanted, then started into that and decided heck no!!

That saw handled the noodling great.