owbguy
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the expense and hassle to get 1 tree to the mill is not worth it. if you had a bunch of them, then I bet someone would be interested. equipment mobilization for 1 tree is a losing proposition.
I would love to have the planks. I could do my living room with them and the wife would be ecstatic.
Good luck with the harvest. Pi r[SUP]2[/SUP] l is the formula for the volume of a cylinder. r and l need to be in the same units (feet). No way you can divide by 80-85 and expect to be near accurate. Folks tend to over estimate the amount of wood in a tree. Once it's cut and stacked the actual yield is a real eye opener to most.
Stem! That's a stem. Holy cow, what do your trees look like?
Check your local craigslist, there are guys all over with mills who make lumber and sell rough lumber. You might could get someone up there to mill it on the spot for reasonable or a heavy share in the output. And you would still have the outer slabs for firewood. Perhaps even jump over to the milling forum and ask there, who knows, might be an AS member near you with a big mill.
I've found it to be reasonably accurate for an estimate. The exact amount is gonna vary with split size, but it gets you in the ballpark.
I'd bet there's another cord in the top in a tree that size.
Stem! That's a stem. Holy cow, what do your trees look like?
Just a figure of speech. We have 400 acres here. Mostly hardwoods and very little over 30". But we are constantly logging and cutting firewood.
Good info, just found it before I read your post. What would you divide by then an why? Yust trying to be somewhat accurate and appreciate the input.
85% is a number I found here and a few other places. It means that if you take a cord of stacked wood some folks are saying that there is only about 80-85% solid wood in the cord due to air space from stacking etc. So you take your final number for cubic feet in the cylinder/tree and divide it by 85 to see how many approximate cords of wood are there. This would mean there is approximately 10-15% airspace which kind of makes sense.
This doesn't take saw kerf or any other kind of waste that does not get added to the final stack into consideration. I'm just looking to be able to estimate that this looks like to be able to figure in the woods how much wood I'm cutting and how much space it will take up at home or storing somewhere else until used or sold.
Got any hedge? Logs or standing?
So by that logic only 6.8 linear feet of that log will yield a tightly stacked cord with 4x4x8 volume. I was born at night ... but not last night.
I have to put my "I'm from Missouri" hat on and say show me.
Maybe that is a challenge to the OP to demonstrate his assertion.
Edited to add it would equate to 4 rounds cut 16" in length and 1/3 of a fifth round 16" in length.
I don't know how many cords are in that log, but I'd have to say "It's enough". :msp_wink:
So by that logic only 6.8 linear feet of that log will yield a tightly stacked cord with 4x4x8 volume. I was born at night ... but not last night.
I have to put my "I'm from Missouri" hat on and say show me.
Maybe that is a challenge to the OP to demonstrate his assertion.
Edited to add it would equate to 4 rounds cut 16" in length and 1/3 of a fifth round 16" in length.
Im even curious now. What would a tree like that bring in a good market, if you could cut to size and bring it to mill. If tree was in perfect milling cond.
So by that logic only 6.8 linear feet of that log will yield a tightly stacked cord with 4x4x8 volume. I was born at night ... but not last night.
I have to put my "I'm from Missouri" hat on and say show me.
Maybe that is a challenge to the OP to demonstrate his assertion.
Edited to add it would equate to 4 rounds cut 16" in length and 1/3 of a fifth round 16" in length.
All righty. Math lesson's over. Let get that dang log turned into firewood. :msp_sneaky:
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