The joy of urban logging

[captjack]

I left a few of these rounds sit on the sidelines for a few years now - today I decided I might as well split them up before they go bad - This was in the middle of a 3ft round - this was not the base of tree eitherThis tree came down on a water front home in Annapolis Md. and she was a big one !!! Not sure what year someone put this flag pole holder on this tree but it must have been a long long time ago - Chain Killers for sure

 

[VW Splitter]

That is a biggen. What do you do with the 2 halves after you split it down the middle? Looks like 1/2 a round might possibly still be a little heavy to scoot back to the splitter, that is if it stays on the log tray.

 

[captjack]

You pull with all your might and slide right side back onto lift - the left side split you slide off the top of the 4way back on to the beam and if it gets away from ya - you jump like hell out of the way - let it hit ground and get back on the tractor to pick it up hahah

That is a biggen. What do you do with the 2 halves after you split it down the middle? Looks like 1/2 a round might possibly still be a little heavy to scoot back to the splitter, that is if it stays on the log tray.

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

My grandfather heats with wood. He gets wood from a family friend who owns a tree cutting business. They just dump the wood in his back yard and he takes it from there.

They (the tree cutters) have a metal detector and mark the tree so everyone avoids the metal bits in the tree. My grandfather has taken some pretty interesting metal bits out of his stove.

 

[Mad Professor]

We had an oak like that come into a big circle mill I worked at. Was clear without branching. Was a bitch to get onto the Carriage, then after each squaring cut we had to CS off the slab. When a huge cant we started milling........

Two cuts then it stopped the 440V circular saw.

Carriage would not back out of log. Whe had to use a small log as a battering ram.

We found the tree was part of a split rail fence gate, they used 4 horse shoes to slide the rails into

 

[Acornhill]

I left a few of these rounds sit on the sidelines for a few years now - today I decided I might as well split them up before they go bad - This was in the middle of a 3ft round - this was not the base of tree eitherThis tree came down on a water front home in Annapolis Md. and she was a big one !!! Not sure what year someone put this flag pole holder on this tree but it must have been a long long time ago - Chain Killers for sure View attachment 640366 View attachment 640367 View attachment 640368 View attachment 640369 View attachment 640367 View attachment 640368 View attachment 640369

You are over by me, I have a farm in Centreville off Burrisville Rd, yup dealing with big old wood, especially when it’s on the roadside and is 200 years old, you never know what you are going to find in it, if only that tree could talk, the tree was 65” across, my buddy used his 925 Homelite to cut the finale but stump in half, yeah he was not happy [emoji38] but I knew it would not be good, the tree was on Riva Road, I wonder how many signs etc were nailed on that tree over 200 years


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[capetrees]

Cut a large maple years ago, it started to rot from the top down, about 3' diameter. Went to cut the base and almost exactly half way through from all angles, we kept hitting something metallic. Couldn't get through it but we knew the wood was cut through. Lifted the trunk upwards with an excavator and sure enough, there was an old sign post, maybe used to hold the tree up when it was a sapling. Grew around it over the years.

 

[LondonNeil]

Oh yeah, the joys of urban logging. I've had nails, bricks, wire washing line, electrical wire, chicken wire, chain link fence wire, barbed wire and a horseshoe. The horseshoe was buried near the middle of a 22" oak just few inches from the ground, staining went 10 to 12 feet up the trunk. I've only been scrounging for 3 years!

 

[captjack]

Im in Claiborne Fields now but moving to the old farm at Shrewsbury ! I had the lil horse farm on Burrisville rd for years - on the corner of Coonbox and Burrisville. We should get together sometime.

You are over by me, I have a farm in Centreville off Burrisville Rd, yup dealing with big old wood, especially when it’s on the roadside and is 200 years old, you never know what you are going to find in it, if only that tree could talk, the tree was 65” across, my buddy used his 925 Homelite to cut the finale but stump in half, yeah he was not happy [emoji38] but I knew it would not be good, the tree was on Riva Road, I wonder how many signs etc were nailed on that tree over 200 years


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[nighthunter]

I found a solid horse drawn cart axle in a large ash, I got sick of wrecking chains and pushed it over with a digger

 

[VW Splitter]

When a round get over 30"dia I will usually noodle it down the middle and let one half roll onto the log lift, and the other half falls right next to the lift. that way when you split the half , you just have 1/4 to deal with. A 1/4 round can weigh 200 lbs.