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Your Best Guess
« on: June 02, 2003, 08:39:19 pm »
Tree service guy came in after dark a couple days ago and dumped off 3 logs all from the same tree the butt log is one inch shy of 18' and 35" one way and 38" dia the other. I called it an 18-36" my Doyle scale says it has 1156 bd ft :o.It is a black oak how much does this log weigh? :-/ Give me your best guesses I know my payloader won't touch it and my prentice 120 won't either. I hate big stuff like this I can saw twice as much footage from smaller logs in the same time it takes to cut one big one.
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Re: Your Best Guess
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2003, 09:08:38 pm »

By my calculations, not less than 8000 lbs.

Wish you could weigh it!

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Re: Your Best Guess
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2003, 09:15:39 pm »
7986.245  lbs   plus or minus a bunch
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Re: Your Best Guess
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2003, 06:20:37 am »
  Some where between 5 and 6 tons.  It would make a good days sawing.  You are right about the smaller logs.  I can turn out the most bdftage with 16 to 18 inch logs then I can any thing else.  After about 24 inches it slows down to like I am sawing 8 inch stuff.  Yea I know, need a swinger!
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Re: Your Best Guess
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2003, 08:13:40 am »
Sounds like it would make two nice eight footers  ;)
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Re: Your Best Guess
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2003, 10:45:47 am »
I think it will end up as two 8 footers I should be able to lift them with the payloader
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Re: Your Best Guess
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2003, 03:12:31 pm »
I come up with about 135 cu ft.  Red oak weighs 64 lbs/cu ft. So, my best guess would be about 8600 lbs.

Density would also come into play.  If the growth rings are tight, then weight would be more.  Wide gowth rings would weigh less.
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Re: Your Best Guess
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2003, 03:45:47 pm »
I'd still have to do some serious hacking with the chainsaw before I could saw into that beast
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Re: Your Best Guess
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2003, 10:44:54 am »
The growth rings are very tight looks like more than 200yrs ???.I'm going to count them. If it ever stops raining long enough to  >:(
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