Time For Some Big Saw Cuts

[THALL10326]

One pass, 088 Stihl, Virginia. Lets see some big wood!!!!!!!

 

[CaseyForrest]

Thats it?? I could chew through that with a 455....Ive even got a 36" bar for it.....probably faster too.

 

[Freakingstang]

This is the only big cut I have a pic of.

That is an 066 with a 36" bar. Not the biggest tree I have felled, but the biggest with a picture. lol
This is huge in these parts. The standard issue bar length for the loggers in the area is 20"


-Steve

 

[CaseyForrest]

Theres 36" of bar in that stump.

 

[THALL10326]

Thats it?? I could chew through that with a 455....Ive even got a 36" bar for it.....probably faster too.

WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, I NEVER,lolol

 

[CaseyForrest]

Gotcha!!!!

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Yeah, but that ain't cedar.



:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[CaseyForrest]

Mark..Im sure it would be argued...."It doesnt matter!!!!"

 

[spacemule]

This is the only big cut I have a pic of.

That is an 066 with a 36" bar. Not the biggest tree I have felled, but the biggest with a picture. lol
This is huge in these parts. The standard issue bar length for the loggers in the area is 20"


-Steve

Are those burn marks on that log?

 

[Freakingstang]

Are those burn marks on that log?

The two black spots? I don't think so, cause they were all the way up the butt. I'm not sure exactly what those are.

-Steve

 

[buzz sawyer]

The two black spots? I don't think so, cause they were all the way up the butt. I'm not sure exactly what those are.

-Steve

The marks look like what I've found from steel or iron in a tree. Found a 3/8" x 4" long eye bolt that had grown over in a large pin oak a while back. Dad and I kept splitting the wood away until we isolated the steel. Lucky you didn't hit anything!

 

[Freakingstang]

The marks look like what I've found from steel or iron in a tree. Found a 3/8" x 4" long eye bolt that had grown over in a large pin oak a while back. Dad and I kept splitting the wood away until we isolated the steel. Lucky you didn't hit anything!

I did hit a small piece of barbed wire on the oposite side of the marks, it took the edge off real quick. lol I had the file on hand after that, but never seemed to hit anything else. The trunk section is still sitting where it was dropped, and I cut it twice and saw the black marks 10 foot or so up the trunk. We ran out of daylight before i finished cutting the butt log, so it is possible there is still something in there. I'll have to be extra cautious when I go back down there to finish it in a week or so.

 

[geofore]

what they are

The two black spots? I don't think so, cause they were all the way up the butt. I'm not sure exactly what those are.

-Steve

I can tell you they are stains from nails or wire in the tree. I suspect there was a fence nailed to that tree years ago. The iron leaves a stain that can go many feet up in the oak tree but not so far in a walnut.

 

[geofore]

Barbed wire

Normally the barbedwire fence is only about 4' high and the stain goes up another 6' so you lose the first 10' of any oak tree on a fenceline, if you are going to saw it up into boards. Just to be safe use the first 10' for firewood. Whether it was a three strand or four strand fence it's usually only 3 1/2'-4' high.

 

[Lakeside53]

Yeah, but that ain't cedar.



:hmm3grin2orange:

And not much sap in that one!:biggrinbounce2:

 

[coveredinsap]

Read 'em and weep.

Alpina w/36" bar buried in a Monterey Pine....and only about a third of the way thru the cut.

 

[046]

what about using a metal detector?

Normally the barbedwire fence is only about 4' high and the stain goes up another 6' so you lose the first 10' of any oak tree on a fenceline, if you are going to saw it up into boards. Just to be safe use the first 10' for firewood. Whether it was a three strand or four strand fence it's usually only 3 1/2'-4' high.

 

[THALL10326]

Read and Weep, huh

Read and weep, why. It is a big tree pic thread, maybe you miss the point of the thread. Its not to see who has cut the biggest tree. BTW, nice tree, not bad at all.....

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

I can tell you they are stains from nails or wire in the tree. I suspect there was a fence nailed to that tree years ago. The iron leaves a stain that can go many feet up in the oak tree but not so far in a walnut.

I milled some water oak a week or two ago with the same blue stain. I dug into it and found nails. You might find it interesting that when you cut or sand many types of hardwood, including some oaks, the dust that settles on you will stain your skin the same color. I've left the shop many times looking like a hybrid smurf!

 

[CaseyForrest]

Read and weep, why. It is a big tree pic thread, maybe you miss the point of the thread. Its not to see who has cut the biggest tree. BTW, nice tree, not bad at all.....

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