Hammer Noble Fir I cut

[Burvol]

I fell this tree a couple of weeks ago. I'm sorry for the crappy quality of the pictures. I was sent some hard copies from my Dad (he took the pictures, we cut together) and just snapped a digital photo of a crappy hard copy, but it's here.
This was an old Noble Fir that was a little over 6ft. on the stump where I cut it. I came up quite a ways to get away from the swell & into some better wood. Down low I bored into it, and she was a tad soft. The heart was better up a bit. The log looks a little small cause I'm up on a small stump and 6' 2". the long ways was up and down. The tree was around 140 feet tall with a busted top at 40". The sucker was probably 220' tall if it had it's top. Nobles grow really tall in the Cascades.

If I would have cut her a couple feet lower, I could have stood next to the butt and said she was 8ft! You get the point, it was one of the bigger sticks I have ever cut. Give me a some wing logs & you got 4-5 loads...pronto!

 

[ShoerFast]

WOW!

Nice story and pics.

 

[Burvol]

Thanks, it went down really nice, I put a good hinge on it and had no problems....thank God!

 

[forestryworks]

nice job burvol

thanks for sharing

 

[reachtreeservi]

That's a big tree !

 

[ShoerFast]

Thanks, it went down really nice, I put a good hinge on it and had no problems....thank God!

I had never cut anything close to that big, 36" DBH Yellow pine being a fairly good tree here.

I would consider felling something like that something you have to pay to do, it seems so much fun.

It would give me a bad dreams if i spent 2 seconds thinking about hanging that tree up on another about the same size. That would be a mess.

 

[Tree Sling'r]

Your noble fir is our shasta fir. Same species, jug butted, but fun to cut. Some is soft and other is hard as nails on the but.

 

[Burvol]

So is the stuff that is hard weather checked and full of pitch? Our Nobles are really creamy on the stump, but are strong in the buck (this size anyway).

 

[slowp]

Did you salvage the limbs for big wreaths? Noble is hard to tell from Silver Fir if the limbs with needles are 60 feet up the tree. I used to fret about that while cruising. Then an old cruiser told me not to worry, the price was the same for both. Was that ever a relief.

We suspected that a world record Noble was cut in a timber sale here back then. The sale buyer had a special order and got permission on the flat areas of the unit, to doze out beds for the trees to land in. The butt logs made for nice 3 log loads--2 smaller bunk logs then the big one.

Good job.

 

[056kid]

Awsome!!

Nice job.