sawing through a 12' stump

[treemandan]

.

Initially, I grabbed a bigger tree service working around the corner and asked them to come do it. He bid $100 to drop the trunk, or $350 to drop trunk and grind the stump, but he would not haul the trunk away without an extra $250. I said "no thanks" and I'll figure it out myself.

That techinque no good? "Technique" he says.

 

[treemandan]

" twelve foot stump " he says also.

 

[arbadacarba]

I have a 395 with a 32 incher that pretty much takes care of everything i need it too. What i usually try to do is start in deep and then start walking around driving 3-4 wedges in as i go. Then when it's cut off it should just push off the stump. But for as big and tall as the one you did, it needed to be felled. Good job though.

:agree2:Good advice! Keeps you from getting the tip or the bar pinched.

 

[Raymond]

Yeah, I know. It ain't easy bein' green.

This was my first tree 'off the ground' in a bucket truck I recently bought.
I have not yet learned to climb, and at 43, I may just hire climbers.
I got 'er done, and only smashed a small section of fence, which I promptly replaced!
So, let me have it about my sloppy work, but it's not all bad for my first big tree.
thanks!
Kapt K

You have a bucket truck but not a big or even a medium size saw?
Boy if that ain't ass backwards?

 

[treeseer]

After seeing the "before" picture, it's clear that a lot of saleable wood was wasted, not to mention the loss of the asset (what was the complaint, nuts falling?)

You might have mad a lot more money by contacting buyers for that walnut wood. Now the HO will probably cut his leg off trying to untangle that mess. A waste, all around.

 

[buzz sawyer]

What an incredible, crying shame. Unless this tree was dead?

Sylvia

You took the words right out of my mouth. I just hope the wood is not wasted.

 

[treeman75]

with no experience doing big trees you are going to get hurt

 

[TreeW?rx]

What an incredible, crying shame. Unless this tree was dead?

Sylvia

I agree. I am thinking of the amount of money that could be made selling the lumber to local wood workers. Unless the tree was sick or totally dead and dries out you could have harvested a lot of sell-able wood. I would have my own wood shop running for a long time on that.

 

[pdqdl]

I have tried to sell wood around here, but there just doesn't seem to be the market for it. Local woodworkers never seem to materialize when you need them.

There are two veneer mills within 60 miles of my shop. I can't get enough money for walnut logs to pay for the time & trouble to haul them there.

I suspect the wood market in Iowa is similar.

 

[Mr. Woods]

black walnut $8.99/bf

Just searched online and found walnut priced at $8.99 per board foot.
Now if someone nearby had a portable mill you could give him some to do the milling and make $$$$. Of course it has to have a market. I also found Des Moines Woodworkers Association. Some of those guys would know its' value.
With this scenario you could have done the job for just the tree if you could sell the material.
With good management that tree could have brought in thousands of dollars.

Or maybe I'm wrong.

 

[Mr. Woods]

correction (spoke too soon)

Just went to craigslist and found it for only $1.00 per board foot. Wow. That is super low for such a nice wood. If I lived down there I would floor my entire house in it.

 

[Mike Van]

No sawmill or veneer mill I know of will touch a yard tree log. Their equipment & time costs too much to get ruined by hardware. Bandmill owners with 25.00 blades might, but not the big boys.

 

[Ax-man]

Interesting thread,

Hey Kaptain, looks like you moved up the ladder. You still doing that chipping service thing???

I agree what a shame and a waste of a good tree.

But, that wood is not worth that much. The local sawmill guy here has been busting his Walnut logs into firewood because there is no demand for sawn Walnut boards. Wood turners are hard to find and if you do find them my experience like has been mentioned is they usually don't show up or get picky about what they want. I don't bother with them anymore let alone try and make money off of them.

Larry