Four truckloads out of one tree top.

But it hurts more afterward than it used to.lol

 

Thanks guys, the water oak and red oak bark is similar in looks. the inside is different. water oak is more white and doesn't smell as bad. It also is not as good of firewood as red oak. but when it's free, i'll take it.lol

 

This is what the leaves look like. the tree get huge.

 

Oh yeah, but I actually like the smell of red oak, It is kinda rank when green but it gets better with some age.I know it means some warm heat and savings on Propane.

 

I once got 12 healthy half ton loads from the top of one oak tree. I had to noodle some of the branches so 2 guys could get them on the truck.

 

Nice work Stihl! It sure looks good when its finished and stacked. I'm still working to get the final few tops cleaned up from 120 big ones downed in 5/12! Most of it is stinky red oak, now starting to get punky on the outside!

 

I just split and stacked half of it, no pics though. was tryin to beat the storms but ran out of gas first. I'll get a pic on the next go round, but it's supposed to rain for the next three days off and on.

 

That tree must have/had a bruiser of a main trunk - makes the limbs I'm cleaning up from my white oak look like twigs

 

It finally stopped raining long enough to finish splitting the wood. 1st truckload

 

2nd truckload

 

3rd load, not a full one, I have already split one truckload a while back and didn't take pics. also my helper for the day.

 

What the stack looks like now,

 

and my sweaty soaked honkey legged self.lol

 

If you're sweating, you're working too hard.
2.5-3 cord there?

 

It was about 85 today, I don't know how much is there really. the rows are about 20 feet long.

 

Lotta work there SS. If I worked in 85 heat like that I'd........... be skinnier than I am tappin on this computer all the time...

 

Took about six hours of work to do it, and I won't lose a pound.

 

Nice pictures good looking wood.