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HOLY BALLS! That is a large tree. I bet your trailer was squatting pretty good. Not sure I would want to tackle that sucker. Lots of BTU's there. Have fun!
 
Six foot accros is a good sized red oak, six foot around, not so much.
Easy splitting, but I would count on it for year after next, and keep looking for something else gor next year.
 
Methinks that was 6 ft. DBH from the photo. Big red, good firewood. May take 2 years to dry down to 20% moisture though.
 
The tree was six ft across at bottom- not around -- No rot , it was solid as a rock. This was on a small water front lot where the house was being torn down to build a new one. The house needed to be moved forward on the property to accommodate set backs the county imposes. The section in the picture is from about 25 ft up the tree.

Yes trailer squatted a good bit but dumped everything I put in her. I did not take the bottom of tree. Even with the loader and Timberwolf tw5 - I would have to noodle the heck out of that thing to manage it. I like the limbs better ! More btu's and easier on everyone and everything involved in the process !
 
, I agree that the tree looks older.Maybe 350-400 years. Where you from Singingwood? I live in the 45 minutes south of San Fran
 
Some of those guys that do carvings would give there left nut and first born for that stump . I would make a big grisly bear !!


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gents,,look at the right tree pic closer.....serious split and hole right up the side. bet a lot of the bottom was rotted...

No doubt. All the big old growth stuff I have bucked into firewood here lately (mostly urban trees) were rotted out at the base. Large old maples and box elders were rotted in the centers, and full of mushy goo. Lots of black oaks (which are a type of red oak) in California that I dropped were full of water in the stump area, and gushed when cut into. A big leaf maple stump I cut up recently was about 6 ft DBH, and the landlord there was thinking it would make a great bear carving. I do not know why people are stuck on bear carvings. There are other subjects like this example:

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And this one being carved in a park in the UK:

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No doubt. All the big old growth stuff I have bucked into firewood here lately (mostly urban trees) were rotted out at the base. Large old maples and box elders were rotted in the centers, and full of mushy goo. Lots of black oaks (which are a type of red oak) in California that I dropped were full of water in the stump area, and gushed when cut into. A big leaf maple stump I cut up recently was about 6 ft DBH, and the landlord there was thinking it would make a great bear carving. I do not know why people are stuck on bear carvings. There are other subjects like this example:

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And this one being carved in a park in the UK:

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Gotta 'hand' it to him, that a unique carving
 
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