Finely got my bars 84 in

Took about 1 month to get them cause they had to be built
But I got them no chain yet thou

 

What size husqvarna are you running that with? I'll bet it's a homeowner saw isn't it

 

Its a Piltz MS180

 

Husky 395

 

Do you even have a tree to fit that bar, or do you plan to take a vacation in Big Sur among the redwoods?

 

Nice! Will it oil it?

 

I got them for cutting stumps into tables root balls can get big quick 4-7 feet
I got 2 of them
One for milling and one for cutting them out of the ground in the woods

 

No have to use an oiler on the other end

 

And here i am getting excited over the 32" i got last week

 

That's incredible! Is it a safe assumption you'll be putting a helper handle on the bar you're going to use to harvest the stumps?

 

I guess size does matter.

 

I just watched a guy with 60" and 088 cutting down a redwood in a video. What the heck you going to cut down?

 

It's not for felling the tree
It's for turning this

Into this

And then Finally into a nice stump table like this

Of course not ever stump table is going to be 7 feet but it's not hard for say a 30 in spurce tree trunk to have a huge root ball to stand on so no need to buy a 5 foot bar and then need a 6ft and then need a 7 footer so I just got the big one right off the bat
The middle pic is 5 foot at the widest point and I didn't get to save more of the roots because I only had a 5foot bar at the time

 

How do you dry a chunk of wood that big? Do you cure or coat it with anything to help prevent splitting that is out of control? Very curious about the drying procedure a buddy is starting to get into some smaller stuff and I'm curious as well

 

I have dried most of my stuff by putting it near the wood stove and no I don't try and stop any cracking I just wait and measure the cracks
Cracks are just character

I am going to check into seeing if a local business will let me use their klin for a fee to speed up the process

 

I would agree cracks are character but I've seen rounds split all but a sliver from drying. Do you hollow out the under side at all? How long does it take? My buddy dried a 4x4x8 foot pile of lumber last winter by turning his garage into akiln. Which consisted of a pile of fans dehumidifiers and a very hot wood stove, he had it up to 150 in his garage, you'd be surprised the amount of cold beer you can drink in 2minutes it takes to fire up in that heat! He said when he hit a certain temp (i believe 148) the garage went from being halfway dry to extremely humid from wood pouring out the moisture, read on the internet there's a magic number to hit and when you do hit it you'll know just like that. Anyways a lot of the wood that he was drying out was from a red oak that was going to go to the city dump, some of which is soaking up stain, and being turned into my window trim!

 

I don't really know how long a green stump would take to fully dry
It would depend on the size and shape
I plan to drill holes in the bottom to be able to help dry and all so to pour in borea care to kill the bugs out and keep them from coming back

I am only working with birch and spruce so far
I haven't finished any thing from birch yet thou
I just got done with a clock and it only cracked to the center but that's spruce

The one thing you dont want to do is seal it 100% it needs to breathe even if only on the bottom or it will rot from the inside

 

You are giving me ideas. How many coats of laquer is that?

 

Not really a laquer it's a 2 part epoxy resin it makes a nice bar top finish
On the clock it's about 4 coats about 1/4 in thick