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My opinion, just dump it over the dumpster, The size of the tree you have, it doesn't seem like it'll hurt it. Then it'll be easier to cut up, off the ground. You're call.

Dunno--I one hand my top-handle stihl. My elbow got tweaked from piling and burning the equivalent of about 50 brush piles in a 2 weeks. I just hope it gets better quicker than my knee, which has been screwed up fro five years from, umm, a cub-scout sledding trip.

I've heard that gunstocks are often cut from the buttswell, to take advantage of the curved grain so that very little endgrain is exposed in the tapered sections of the stock. It may be that the log isn't suited for stocks. You might want to see if the stump is available.

I noticed one guy posted a car-related item... It was around 1990, on the I-95 interstate in CT in my crappy '75 Nova and I come up on a traffic jam. Not unusual---but then I came up on the cause, an entire bed in the center lane, kind of laid out in a series: mattress, sideboards, headboards...

I use my 99 Dakota 6cyl 4x4, does fine even over-loaded. I'm able to drive a load out over a foot of snow wth chains on it. Mostly do firewood as a fundraiser for my Scout troop. However, the buggers have moved on from breaking maul handles to my rear window! I just had a custom headache rack...

Worked for tree service back in '87 out of Sherwood, OR. Kinf of place where you learn by doing, no training, mostly alcoholics and cranksters (but some solid guys when sober). The skidders where mostly made of spare parts and snot, but the winches ("wenches") were bomber. Pulled a 12 in...

Doug fir, about 4 ft. in diameter and 120 ft. tall. Fat, irrigated, 80 yr. old second growth; it was along the fairway of the golf course in Tualatin, OR. We backed a skidder up to it and put a cable in it. After the backcut and wedges were in, we PLANNED to pull it over with the cable---but it...

I don't have a rope-in-chipper story, as I'm a one-man op. Just wondering--is it more dangerous to climb alone? I do it fairly often. The worst part (so far) is dropping branches on your rope; sometimes it' s a struggle to get slack. I've had to pull a big branch up to me a few times to untangle...

Sounds like you might want to find out about prescribed fire in Yosemite in CA I heard a guy in charge of it there (well, about 10 years ago) give a presentation on their approach. (Name is VonWankendonk). He claimed that they could reduce fuel loads in even the most fire-prone Sierra forest...

Of course, there is more to it than just breaking strength. I don't have time right now to dig up the specs, but some cheap (non-climbing) ropes are much more likely to snag and/or melt. I've been using Arborplex for years and like it just fine. Because I work alone, I don't rig and lower...

One can hope the price of oil stays high or goes up. Then, small plants could be built locally to burn it, and use the energy to do something like make hydrogen fuel, which can be compressed and shipped by rail to where it's needed. Let's ask the Dems in Congress for funding a demo project...

Another deciduous conifer that kind of resembles redwood (and dawn Redwood) is bald cypress, Taxodium distichum. Dawn redwood was common in OR---you can find foliage and cones in welded tuff formations---fossils from 65 million years ago.

The "Big Tree", or "Giant Sequoia", or just "Sequoia"Sequoia gigantea, grows in the Sierra Mountains in CA, and is the biggest tree by volume; the Coast Redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, grows near the coast of N CA and SE OR and is the tallest. Although both can be planted out of their range, the...

I agree---great efforts there at getting the woods back into balance with a sustainable fuel loading (as in, when it burns, you don't get a crown fire). If only we could get going on the other 10? 40? million acres needing prescribed fire in the west...

Yea, probably how parque flooring is made. It's in short chunks so that you can lay interesting interlocking patterns. With the movement to spiff-up old houses in once high-end urban neighborhoods, I would think that there is increasing interest in it.

I've seen lots of furniture made with beetle holes and stain---it's a look some people actually want over regular, homogenous, light-colored "Danish Modern" type wood. I would mill it all.

Do you mean a parque flooring? The good stuff is tongue&groove full thickness, not thin faced ply. Seems like short pieces would need to be T&G for stability. If you had the equipment, you could crank out the stuff from short chunks no one thinks of milling.

Uh, yea. His neighbor had some log lengths in his firewood pile. It wasn't actually cut into rounds yet--he rescued it just in time.

It's about what you would expect. I know a guy in MA who milled red maple for his kitchen cabinets and cherry for the floor. Fit well with the rustic look of his home built house. He also milled hemlock and white pine for the house; all the trees except for the cherry were off of his 40 acres...

Yes and no. It could add property value for the aesthetic improvement. As far as timber value goes, these trees are commercially mature, and the growth has probably slowed to the point that it woul dtake many years for significant clear wood to form over the cuts. Now, if they were pruned up to...