What's the Biggest Log You've Ever bucked?

Yeah, but sawing em down is so much funner.

 

60" maple...was about 11' long log and a 5000# capacity forklift would not load it.
Edit: just out of curiosity I looked the weight up on a log calculator...depending on the exact species of maple, looks like it was somewhere between 10-12000 lbs!

 

Biggest to date…

 

These pics make my back hurt just looking at them

 

Monster honey locust.



About 12' up from the bottom, it crotched.


Way back @ my first gtg's at showrguy's place, I ran a 3120 with a very long bar in a huge log. No idea how big exactly.


I didn't put a tape on this one. 42" bar.

 

5' cottonwood with a 28" bar

 

And then milled it! Wow! That’ll be hard to top. Awesome pics

 

That a 395 with 32 inch bar in an old ash for reference.. I didn’t know about tape measure then but easily over 60 inches

 

Monster honey locust is right!

 

Did you mill that HL?
Seems like I remember you had a thread about milling a big o'l something, not too long ago.

 

Yes sir, it was a nice tree.
Very little sapwood...
And probably 30-35' to first limb...
I wanted some trailer decking sawn from it, but no way to move 16' logs.

 

I've bucked some big Doug Firs(5 to 6' range), but nothing that big. That spruce is huge!

I've seen two log loads too, and was just amazed at the size of those logs. Those were usually big cedars.

 

I didn't take this 8' Monster Oak down, but someone did shortly after this picture was taken in 2017. Located at the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts.

 

Yep, part of it anyway. WOW, talk out some hard stuff. Was a very slow process w/ the csm.


Anyone CSM honey locust?

 

My biggest was an American elm. Didn’t measure it, but 36” bar lacked a little over 4” of getting through it when bucking from both sides. Ended up with almost 7 cords of wood split and stacked from that tree. Hope I never have to process American elm again. This one was a tree on one of our rental properties that I had to have taken down with a crane. Took them 8 hours to put it on the ground. I did the clean up and haul out, so figured I might as well make firewood out of it. It was knarly!

 

I can relate to old sugar maples 660 with 36” bar lil brother helped

your guys are bigger but this is in my yard

lower cut hit barbed wire so we had to cut higher
1/2 hour filing that chain

 

I believe this it the biggest thing I've cut since moving down to misery.

42" dead red oak.

(That's a 24" bar on the 400).

 

Never measured but the biggest I recall was a beech probably around 40 to 45" and the only saw I had at the time was a 16" bar.