Large red oak

[Birchwood Logging]

We cut a nice red oak today it had around 1800 feet in the old red

  

[EricR]

did you load that with your skid steer

[Birchwood Logging]

Yep loaded it with my 232 cat skid steer it's a strong little loader I load the big ones one end at a time hear is another pic

 

[thecfarm]

As I say,I can hear it groaning from here. I make my NH tractor groan a lot too. That is a big oak. I had ALOT of white pine that size.

[Birchwood Logging]

Hear is another pic it was 30 inches at the tip

 

[beenthere]

A lotta firewood in that one...  ;)

[Birchwood Logging]

I do split all my end pieces up in to firewood but that big boy went to the mill :-)

[ga jones]

What was it at the stump?

[Birchwood Logging]

Around 52 inches it was pretty consistent from the but to the log

[Birchwood Logging]

That truck load was a little over 2200 feet and could have hauled a little more lol

[ga jones]

I cut a lot of 40 you don't see many 50 plus 

 

[ga jones]

 

 

[Birchwood Logging]

Them are some nice oaks

[ga jones]

 

  today's sale.

[ga jones]

Nice dozer. I'd like to have one like that. Easier on steep slopes than a skidder. Be nice to put skid roads in also.

[mesquite buckeye]

Those all look pretty nice. ;D

Looks like they grew really fast too.

[CX3]

That is a dandy. I probably cut my largest red oak today. It was 32 at 8'  and had 6 logs in it. Dont really know the footage of it. Pretty big for around here though. Nice trees keep the pics comin I enjoy them

[shortlogger]

That's some nice timber , is it coming out of the ridges around here you only find hardwood that big in the creek bottoms

[barbender]

Wow! You guys grow some huge hardwood

[terry f]

   Is there a reason that most hardwoods seem to be cut backwards, where the wedge is taken out of the log instead of the stump.

[Kemper]

Might be cutting the stump so low the notch has to go there. I prefer my notch to be on the log side, but since we got our feller buncher I don't do much notching anymore.

   Is there a reason that most hardwoods seem to be cut backwards, where the wedge is taken out of the log instead of the stump.

[ga jones]

Yes low stumps to maximize footage. And the veneer. .I never saw a humbolt cut until ax men came on tv.

[ga jones]

You also don't need to lug around a big bar. We cut everything with 20 inch bar.open face bore cut is all that's used around here.they grow like that in all different terrain .theres little mechanized logging here.

[beenthere]

Is there a reason that most hardwoods seem to be cut backwards, where the wedge is taken out of the log instead of the stump.

Likely has to do with softwood cutting in the West, and the fact that lumber lengths were in 2' increments. Mills were not happy having a 16' log (16'6") that because of a notch had to knock off 2' at the lumber trimmer. So it was passed on down the line that butts couldn't have a felling notch removed or the log would be scaled back 2' at the scaling station (used to be done by scaler before weight scaling happened). That quickly meant the loggers would get penalized so the fellers were instructed to use the humboldt notch so the 2' scale deduction couldn't apply for that reason.

Whereas in the East, most logs were hardwood converted lumber sold random length. More length on the log butt end meant more wood, so to speak.

Many variations and reasons likely spin off from some generalizations of the two customs.

[Ed_K]

That was a real nice tree  8) .Any red oak 40" plus up here will be all spider cracked.
One thing I was wondering about is your truck,is it pointing towards home?I always set my truck pointing out,just in case.