pictures of 50+ dbh white oak

[rebocardo]

Someone wanted to see some pictures of the white oak I mentioned in the Wanted section. Roughly 50 DBH. My Husky 365 measures almost 45 inches with the 28 inch bar pictured.

[rebocardo]

Here is a side view:



It is breast high at the back cut because of the slope of the ground, fwiw.

[rebocardo]

This is a picture around the 40 foot mark:

[rebocardo]

One more picture from the front, that gives you an idea of how big the trunk/branches were. Some of them were over 80 feet long and 20 inches at the trunk.

I have about 2 cords of firewood so far and that was only from the small stuff I have cut up.

The bigger part of the branches are still on the ground in 10 foot lengths because I am having trouble moving them without a cant hook.

I usually use my high lift jack and 6 foot pry bar, but, on this tree I gave up and ordered a cant hook from Bailey's along with some ripping chain. Hoping it is here tomorrow.

[DanG]

Like WOW, even!  That is some chunk of wood.  Cute helper, too.

[Norm]

That's one huge WO!

Is that your daughter John, she's sure a cutie.

[rebocardo]

Yes, she is my daughter, one of three girls and all are cute. Before the oldest turns 16, I am buying a Remington 870 so me and the boyfriends can come to an understanding real quick  

The wood is beautiful, it is dark red to pinkish in the middle. Almost looks like it is bleeding.

[Furby]

WOW! That IS some tree!  

[Oldtimer]

Why the 2' high stump?

[Kevin]

Nice tree John.
Who dropped it?
Did it go a little to the left of the intended lay?

[sandmar]

oooooooooooooo.eeeee! Nice tree! I noticed it is conveniently on asphalt Mine always fall in mud or muscadine vines...you must be living right John  
Sandmar

[rebocardo]

I did not drop it (note the ad in the Wanted forum). Which is the reason for the high stump (at the back the stump is almost 4 feet high). I would have done an open notch at ground level and not wasted the best wood.

Going from the evidence, the height and humbolt notch, I guess the tree bounced up off the parking lot and rolled over to the side when it hit the ground. Sure left a big hole in the parking lot and did some heavy cracking. If you look closely, the notch is the lower right.

I had wanted to drop off a few truckloads of firewood in the intended parth of the tree at the lot's edge and the first few feet of the lot. Mostly to prevent the kind of damage the tree ended up doing. Second, so it makes splitting the tree in sections easier so I do not bury the bar in dirt or blacktop.

I will have some pictures of the wood after it is cut up into boards. It looks pretty nice  

[sandmar]

oh wow,
I am sure a tree that size did plenty of damage..a shame they didn't listen to you or let you put that tree on the ground...some people have to learn the hard way..or so my wife keeps telling me

Sandmar

[SwampDonkey]

Yes, I'de say that tree is a real bruit. I can imagine it hit the ground DanG hard. Reminds me of a Monty Python movie when they tried using a trogan horse to seige the castle and they put it inside the castle and left. Then the guys inside slung it back at them, among other projectiles, and they all screamed 'run away, run away!!!'  

[rebocardo]

I have not even cut the trunk yet and I have been getting some nice 2 x 10 x 72 boards from the branches. The biggest branch measured 19.50 w and 38 h !  I think it was 80 feet long, hard to tell since I had to skid it out of the small swamp area in sections with my truck.

It was kind of dangerous in the swamp area because the branches took out a lot of smaller birches when they fell from 40+ feet up. Spring board city.

I see how everyone likes crotch branches and such, so on one branch fork I cross cut it and got two nice 28 inch long slices that shows both branches and their rings. Sort of looks like a figure 8.

The guy did what he was suppose to, get it cut down ASAP as cheap as possible, without killing anyone or hitting any property. So, I can't fault him. Plus, I ended up meeting him and he seems like a swell guy.

[Buzz-sawyer]

Rebo
Did the guy really get over $1000 to drop that tree?

[rebocardo]

No, he got $1500!  took him about an hour to drop it all from what people told me.

Then the school that rents the playground decided I was taking too long to remove the tree (I said 30-40 hours min.) so they hired him to remove the trunk sections. I had already removed everything from three sides outside the playground and inside the playground.

So, he came with his truck (5 ton) and PTO winch/crane and could not move the ten foot sections because they kept digging into the mud and curb and he could not lift them or winch them.

So, after watching this I offered to help and ended up using my hi-lift jack, my pry bar,

my chain (he did not have one long or big enough ... 5/16 does not cut it with a 7,000+ pound log imo),

and my hook so he could drag them out (uphill) because he was totally stuck. Basically,  I lifted them off the ground, stuck cut logs under them to roll on, put my chain around the log, and had him pull them out with the truck.

Previously he was using his cable in a choker setup with the hook coming back onto the cable.

While cutting up the branches, I found another dead oak about 80 feet high that was totally rotted with the bark falling off. It was long enough to hit the playground and lay across it.

I said I was not going to put my saw to it, too dangerous, and I was going to try to pull it over.

So, they paid him to cut that down too along with a big dead branch on another oak that came over the playground. I think he only got $100 for that, took him a few minutes. I am cutting it up for firewood, if there is any usable wood after I remove the poison ivy and such.

So, he got $1500 for the tree to be felled, $100 for the rotted oak, probably $500 to winch the logs out into the parking lot using my tools. I said he had a good take :-D

[SwampDonkey]

Your just lucky the church didn't ask to be paid for the logs you's cut and removed. They would around here, or at the very minimum they would expect an even trade.