Promise delivered Stupendously Large Chinkapin Oak Down!!!!!

Some of you may remember in January I posted a picture of a large Chinkapin Oak in a cemetery that I was going to take down with a wicked widow maker. I ended up not doing it in January due to the ground thawing. Well I got it down yesterday. I said in my original thread it was about 4' due to taking the picture from the road. I lied its about 6' at the stump. One of the pictures has me leaning against it. I'm 6'2". I'm not going to get as much wood as I thought as the trunk was hollow. I had about 12-16" of solid wood around the outside. The hollow goes up about 7'. My father in law rented a lift and I took the limbs out of the west side of the tree to get it heavy to the west to fall into the field. Some of the limbs are close to 30"dbh near the trunk. He cut the notch with 25" bar and I felled it with a 20". He wanted to give me a break as I had been in a bucket for about 4 hours. Saws used were a Ms261, Ms311, Ms441, and a Ms250 for ground clean up. My dad brought his drone out but I was focused on cutting and forgot to tell him to get it ready for the felling. It was so cold the batteries only last about 8 minutes. All in all it went well, it went where I wanted it to.

 

Wow, that's a big tree! Good job doing it safely! In spite of the hollow section you will still get a LOT of wood. Either you have one heck of a beard, or you wanted by the FBI. I won't tell them where you are.

 

Lol, My real job necessitates the augmentation of my face.

Some of the 30"dbh limbs meet each other and they get big. I'll measure the biggest section when I finish cutting it up Monday morning. I left the rest whole so no one decides to help themselves to it. I've found if nefarious rapscallions have to put in work they move on.

 

Nice!!! Lots of wood there, for sure.

 

I figured the carpenter ants had attacked him. ~smile~

 

That's quite the workout for those saws. Nice work. How much ccs wood do you estamate will come out of that job?

 

Very nice-great work and pics...and you are correct on the scourge of humanity, if they cant grab and go they will leave it alone...Looking forward to the sum total of effort...

 

Curious, why was the tree felled?

 

Died 3 years ago sadly. it was absolutely stately

It was "pasture grown" so it was fat and wide. Knowing the life span of Chinquapin Oak I'd guess it was 150 years tops.

 

Wow did you cut that down? I'm not even close to having the experience to touch that monster.

 

Well done. That is way too big for my Husky 555 but I see you have a much larger Stihl. If I had a 288xp maybe, but not with that widowmaker hanging over my head.

 

Dude, you've got a little something on your face.

Impressive tree!

 

That tree looks even larger this time, Backwoods Savage ! (memory must be getting fuzzy! fuzzier?)

 

Glad there was a 'reason.' I thought it was cut for no reason, which would be a shame, I hate to see big trees go. The pic you posted did not look at all like a tree that died 3 years ago!

EDIT: Why are you guys saying 'widowmaker?' The large crown or what? What makes this a widowmaker? (Excuse my ignorance!)

 

It is in reference to the large limb that has broken off and is hanging up in the tree just waiting to come crashing down an a time when someone is underneath the tree....(like cutting it down....) and changing any plans they had for the rest of their life.

Many people have died this way, experienced and not, it should always be taken seriously.

No ignorance.

Welcome aboard Yawner and remember to start looking up before you cut down!

 

It hasn't had leaves in 2 years. It was about half full 3 years ago. It had a couple vertical leaders break off so water started in on it and the carpenter ants. Between the two she was done.

 

Just a little