16,000 pound piece of fire wood

One pick on this crane tree weighed 16,000lbs.

It's difficult to appreciate the size of it until you get to the last picture.

WOW.​

EDIT: It was supposed to be a thumbs up, not a frown - up there in the top left corner...

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Wow, I am impressed. That would take some hefty rigging slings and whatnot to lift. Wow.

Wow, the must have been working that MS200T really hard opcorn: .

How many ton crane was that?

i cant see the leaves. what kind of wood is that? cottonwood?


somebody is cutting in circles! great pics, thanks

Who's the hottie with the ponytail... Oh awesome pics.

WOW!! Great pics, I just dont think I would be standing under that.

skid row said:

WOW!! Great pics, I just dont think I would be standing under that.

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WOW!

thats exactly what i was thinking!
kinda' looks like he was talking on the phone in the one pic.




LMAO!

and they were putting it into a dumpster....

Jkebxjunke said:

and they were putting it into a dumpster....

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Thats what I was thinking also.

Adam

The crane is a 90 ton crane from Able Crane. They did an exellent job.
The rigging was a triple line block on the crane, two 10,000 lbs slings and two 1 inch steel chokers.
The pony tail girl is......... well she might not want me to put her name on the net.
The tree is a black oak.
The wood is going in a roll off dumpster but it is not going to the land fill, it is going to be made into fire wood.
There was five of these loads.

15,000 pound pick of the butt. It was 66" dbh.

90 ton crane must be nice to work with. We use a 22ton and a 50ton crane on a regular basis but I have wanted a bigger crane on a few occasions thats for sure.

Not quite 16,000 pounds, but not too far away!

nice butt log! is that thing going for firewood too?

oldirty said:

nice butt log! is that thing going for firewood too?

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Yep, it is full of tramp metal.

oldirty said:

nice butt log! is that thing going for firewood too?

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Yeah, eventually, if I ever get it cut up. I wanted to sell it to a sawmill but none of them have equipment to handle a log that size and they also said they won't mill anything that grew along a road. It eats chains for breakfast, one cut through that thing and I gotta touch my chain up. All of the blocks will have to be quartered before I even think about splitting them, and I need some serious wedges just to finish my cuts, or else it will close in on the bar and trap my saw!

joesawer said:

Yep, it is full of tramp metal.

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ahhh, residential trees. too bad about that.

How are you determining the weight on those???