Kino B.
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Hello guys, what’s the biggest tree you have ever cut? Pics if you got them.
Biggest tree ever cut?
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52" Ash. Many many years ago.....done with a Homie Super XL and 24" bar. No pics before cells or digital cameras
~44" DBH standing dead Water Oak using my then Echo 450P with 20" bar. Too lazy to look up the photos I took but they're here in this forum somewhere.
064 with 32 inch .404 skip, cutting a big sugar maple. On the stump it was about 50 inches in diameter.
C-72 Homelite with .404 skip with 30 inch. Another sugar maple about 54 inches in diameter at largest part.
066 with 25 inch .404
029 with 3/8 .375 18inch
I've cut other big oaks, elms, sugar maples as well in the 30 to 48 inch in diameter area as well. Too many pics to upload though.
C-72 Homelite with .404 skip with 30 inch. Another sugar maple about 54 inches in diameter at largest part.
066 with 25 inch .404
029 with 3/8 .375 18inch
I've cut other big oaks, elms, sugar maples as well in the 30 to 48 inch in diameter area as well. Too many pics to upload though.
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Quite a few of this size,, some bigger, some smaller with not as many pics. That bar is a 36.064 with 32 inch .404 skip, cutting a big sugar maple. On the stump it was about 50 inches in diameter.
C-72 Homelite with .404 skip with 30 inch. Another sugar maple about 54 inches in diameter at largest part.
066 with 25 inch .404
029 with 3/8 .375 18inch
I've cut other big oaks, elms, sugar maples as well in the 30 to 48 inch in diameter area as well. Too many pics to upload though.
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There's this one...
This one was bigger, technically I was sitting on the excavator when it came down though
58" red oak, husky 395xp with a 36" b/c. 
That's the biggest solid tree I've cut. Here's a 73" hollow ash, felled by the same saw.
Last but not least, this is my second place tree, a 50+" silver maple
That's the biggest solid tree I've cut. Here's a 73" hollow ash, felled by the same saw.
Last but not least, this is my second place tree, a 50+" silver maple
The largest tree ever cut down was a giant Sequoia known as the "President" tree, which stood in California’s Sequoia National Park. This massive tree was felled in 1931. It was about 320 feet tall and had a base diameter of over 20 feet. The President tree was one of the largest living trees in the world, but its size was a result of its remarkable girth and height. The President tree, like many other giants, was cut down in part to study its size and structure, but also due to the desire for large timber during that period. Today, efforts focus on preserving such giants, with many now protected in national parks and conservation areas.
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6’ diameter Valley Oak, SF peninsula. Dead for several years so pretty much exploded when it hit the ground.
Early 066 redeye, 42”
Same saw in sig pic that log was only 40”.
Early 066 redeye, 42”
Same saw in sig pic
that log was only 40”.
This was a slowly rotting old growth live oak. Bout 3-3.5'x 5.5-6' oval stump. I don't usually cut old growth, and don't go out of my way to cut trees this big, but the client wanted to make a flat here to build her future home and better allow her to take care of her aging parents.
Couldn't straight fall it for multiple reasons including a vital rural road a few hundred feet downhill, as well as all the pecker poles. Major transmission lines ran in the direction of the natural lay and there was also potential for uprooting. Every foot mattered, so I stood in the crotches and pieced it down stem by stem (the biggest of which was 32-34" dia.)
Photos may be out of order.
I've also cut 40"+ dia madrones, tan oaks, and fir. The above live oak is the biggest treee so far. Nothing over 150' tall, probably.
Picture 5 looks like a maple I took down years ago. I generally pick smaller as I'm in it for the firewood and those big ones are too much splitting with a maul.064 with 32 inch .404 skip, cutting a big sugar maple. On the stump it was about 50 inches in diameter.
C-72 Homelite with .404 skip with 30 inch. Another sugar maple about 54 inches in diameter at largest part.
066 with 25 inch .404
029 with 3/8 .375 18inch
I've cut other big oaks, elms, sugar maples as well in the 30 to 48 inch in diameter area as well. Too many pics to upload though.
Rykirk
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Possibly a silver maple. I was going to buck on up a massive one a few years ago but learned they produce alot of sparks etc
No pics, but it was a 48" "highly valuable" Black Walnut - rotting in the center. One limb was 24" dia. and about 10' long.
English Al
"Let the winch do the work"
Many years ago an old Chiltern Timberman said to me "You youngsters will never do the really big trees 'cos we've had 'em all". However, here are a couple of 'medium sized' trees we have come across in the years (a lot) that I've been doing tree work...
The tallest tree we ever dismantled was an Abies Grandis (Giant Fir) that was a good 130' to the tips if not a little more. It was probably no more than 4' across the butt but then the root butresses on abies usually result in an anything-but-round base, though they soon draw up to an even diameter for the trunk. Here are a couple of pictures (and please remember this was 40 years ago).
Then there was the windblown Poplar we had to deal with a few years ago.
That's the 076 with the 4' b&c and it didn't quite get through it at the widest point.
The biggest tree we ever dismantled was a Wellingtonia (Giant Sequoia) which we had to drop at the base of the tree so from about 70' we halved and slabbed the trunk down. Luckily we weren't shifting the timber! (Sorry, but can't find the pics.)
The tallest tree we ever dismantled was an Abies Grandis (Giant Fir) that was a good 130' to the tips if not a little more. It was probably no more than 4' across the butt but then the root butresses on abies usually result in an anything-but-round base, though they soon draw up to an even diameter for the trunk. Here are a couple of pictures (and please remember this was 40 years ago).
Then there was the windblown Poplar we had to deal with a few years ago.
That's the 076 with the 4' b&c and it didn't quite get through it at the widest point.
The biggest tree we ever dismantled was a Wellingtonia (Giant Sequoia) which we had to drop at the base of the tree so from about 70' we halved and slabbed the trunk down. Luckily we weren't shifting the timber! (Sorry, but can't find the pics.)
Well, that was a days work
English Al
"Let the winch do the work"
Well, that was a days work
I wish!
We were a team of 3, and if memory serves me right, we did it (including clear-up and haul-away) in three days. And we didn't have a chipper then...
Tree work is and always was hard graft.
