Big one is 44"x109", small is 38" x 109. Calculator shows Black oak at 7000# and 5500# respectively. Would make good lumber but if I get it it will be firewood. Each piece is more than my truck or trailer is rated for. Each piece makes 8 cookies 16" thick? Is that right?
Thats a lotta firewood. PITA unless you have equipment. Good luck! Jason The Wood Wolverine would be all over that!
Cutting them 16" will get you 6 full 16 inchers and there will be a 13" piece minus what you lose for each cut left for the last piece... Cutting them 15" long will get you 7 chunks, with a thin cookie left over (109" - 105"+ 7 saw cuts = thin cookie)
18" will fit on the splitter and in the stove. I have an 18 and 20 inch bar. I usually cut wood using my bar to measure length. That's still over 1000# per cookie. Once marked I'll have to switch over to the 066 with 32" bar and still have to double cut. There's alot of noodling and splitting in those logs.
I'll bet you won't need much noodling. Once it is 16 or 18 inches long, it will split the same whether it is a foot around or 5 feet around. Well, at least if you work from outside in. Probably not going to break it in half with a maul, and it wouldn't help much if you did. Cut it up into cookies in one trip- nobody is going to be picking them up. Then bring some splitting gear and do one round, throw it in the truck, stack it, and enjoy a well-earned beer. Repeat until finished.
I did a smaller oak that way. 38" diameter, bucked it up and split one truck load at a time....so 4 cookies into a 6.5' bed at a time. Just got a new to me truck with a crew cab. Extra room for family of 5 but short on the bed length. Really want a pickup bed trailer or short dump trailer.
