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

Rough...

 

41 inch pin oak.and that’s big enough

 

i failed on this giant chunk of ash.
My 362c just couldn't do it.
I didn't have any equipment to move it around with
We picked it up with my bosses skid steer and will process it there

 

You could invite Rickyblazin over.

 

I'm pretty sure my biggest trees were Max of 50". I've had a few over 40" and that gets difficult when a 20" b&c is the biggest I've got.

Uh yeah, that was a big one. I recall Scotty Overkill needed to tag team that with 2 saws.

 

My strategy on monsters is to make several vertical noodle cuts like this:


Then as you buck from either side, a row falls off allowing you to get to the center more. And wedges, lots of wedges, are your friend. I also use a digging iron to pry chunks if they happen to be at or below ground level, so I don't touch dirt with the chain. Massive 118yr old + Oak base

 

That's probably a better attack mode than I've used on bigger stuff. I'll have to try that out the next time I get some big stuff to cut.

 

Good idea

 

42 inches red oak and with an 026Pro with a 16 inch bar.

Course, the red oak had stump rot so the heartwood was gone in the trunk until about 15 feet up the trunk so the base of the tree was actually the easiest part.
The 026 says it still counts.

 

This was a big one, but I believe the one directly across the road from Dennis's was bigger.

 

For sure

 

Those old time logging crew pictures got nothin on you guys! Cool picture!

 

Largest I ever bucked was a Doug Fir with my 362c with a 25"bar. It was a downed log about 22 ft long and I could cut all around it except for 10 or 12 inch area in the center that I just couldn't get to. I had an antique one man bucking saw stored in the shop that was still fairly sharp. It reached into the kerf with enough left over for about a 12" stroke. Old technology saved the day! I never actually measured the dia. but you get the idea. 50 something inches.

 

21 1/2 inch red oak downed by stump rot in the home woods with a `14" Makita battery chainsaw. 180 watt-hrs for one cut, all of two 5 amp-hr 18 volt batteries. Makita runs two 18 volt batteries in series to create 36 volts. Oddly, my research indicates there are no "40 volt" lithium batteries, they are all 36 volt. Battery volts have to follow the innate voltage potential of a single lithium cell in a geometric progression, i.e a battery car has LOTS of cells in series and parallel. Anyway, I am up to 5 years of wood using only the 14" Makita.