Red Oak 8ft × 30 in. With all those knots is it worth turning into firewood? I already got three cords from this tree. With all those knots it'll be a pain to split
First question is, how else would you get rid of it? If you have a machine to load and haul way, I’d really consider it because those pieces are just a pita to deal with. Yes you’ll get good solid burnable wood, but they are time vampires. I would think about taking all but that last few feet on the left and turning it into firewood and dumping that last bit.
I was thinking of either putting on marketplace if someone wants it or cutting it into small enough rounds to get on my trailer and take to yard waste site. Splitting it will suck
X2 only I was going to say 12" and either noodle or split. Maybe "edit" the log cutting the nice sections to normal length and chunk down the rest. Ohio dave I look at logs like that and shy away. Too much effort IMO. If you have plenty of wood sources leave it. Of course its a great excuse to run the 500. Im always looking for excuses to run mine. EDIT: after reading other replies I agree with FBM fodder.
I would leave but its in my yard right next to our patio. And the 500 siezed up. Right now my biggest working saw is a ms250
I would hate cutting that up with your 250. It could be done but a big pain in the... Maybe time to rent a big saw for a day. As long as you have to cut it up, I would say save what you can. The rest goes to trash. I doubt anyone would want it like it is now. Good luck Dave.
Any interest in logs like this Dave? Knotty sugar maple. Big ole yard trees are a dime a dozen around here. It was a t a score a couple years back and luckily I didn't have to take it. Sad thing is the wood is very dense in trunks like this so primo btu's.
Yes. Its not as intimidating as it may look…but that is only if you have a hydraulic splitter. Buck it up normally the best you can if you have a big enough saw. Then put the crotches centered on the splitter wedge and those branches tend to peel off like a tear line on a piece of perforated paper and then you just continue splitting it as you would a normal round. That’s why branches tend to break off along those lines during wind storms. It’s already pre-weakend there. Sometimes they’re a little bit misshapen, but who cares? It’s BTUs and once it’s glowing red, they all look and feel the same. And those parts of the tree are really dense and long burning.
Knotty wood (and stump wood) are dense and great BTU's, but as others have said can be a PITA to split snd stack. But I save it for the heat and I seemingly like to suffer...lol These huge rounds from a big oak we took down in the spring were a royal pain to handle and split because of the size and the knots, but I got a ton of dense wood from them and albeit it was a challenge, it'll pay off in a few years when they heat the house in the dead of winter. If I didn't have a machine to handle them, I'd have blocked them up into manageable pieces prior to splitting or even blocked them into firewood pieces if the knots were that horrible.
