Giant firewood tree
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WOW! now that IS... a big one! what size saw, bar length? big tree and a mighty big grin to match! way to go!!! I guess you showed that tree a thing or two... 
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Nice job - The 660 is a workhorse -
?? QUESTION IS?? did you rope the tree since it was over 10 feet tall?? !! JK !! nice to see a real tree taken down by a person with real experience! enough wood there to keep you warm a dozen times before it sees the stove....
There is no wood that is useless, some are far down on the btu scale for sure, but not worthless. Let that wood dry, theres heat in there.
StihltheOne
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I absolutely agree. The fact of the matter is, I run man size Blaze King stoves and get 10 plus hour burn times with this wood. I agree, it is not oak or maple. Out here, trees are scarce and this is our best option. It is interesting, the wood of these big ones is actually quite good, it burns about like elm. This tree will produce about 12 cords .
StihltheOne
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We used a 660 with a 36 inch bar ad my 090 with a 47 on itWOW! now that IS... a big one! what size saw, bar length? big tree and a mighty big grin to match! way to go!!! I guess you showed that tree a thing or two...
Woos31
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I second the blaze king stoves Stihltheone! Hands down best stove money can buy in my pea brain opinion. Growing up in eastern Oregon, dad loaded ours with red fir and tamarack (western larch) which at times felt like it was enough to melt iron. I couldn't imagine shoving one full of oak or hickory for some eastern gents here, more than one occasion at 0*F was EVERY window in the house open LOL! Nice 66 and nice stick too by the by, safe cuttin sir
Like a Boss.....nice job
StihltheOne
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As of Sunday afternoon, all of the limbs are cut to 16 inches, all of the brush is in 2 piles and the field is clean and ready to go. All that is left to do is noodle the huge pieces down to a reasonable size to put on the splitter and whittle up the trunk. I will have a weekend finishing that much and a day or so splitting.
StihltheOne
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Thank you. The man who actually fell it, beat me to the tree by the way is 73 years old and can out work just about anyone! We had 4 of us on t he saws, and 1 on the tractor/cleanup and loading, who by the way is also 73.
zogger
Tree Freak
Nice one! I am winding up about a total of 12.5 cord from oakzilla here. This is counting the first go around when the tree guys trimmed all the limbs. I'm still not near done, took a hiatus when my 394 needed some repairs then the weather went too wet and nasty for me to bother with it. I'll get back to it soon, saw is fixed now.
stihly dan
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Looks like that was the last tree standing on earth. The pic kinda looks creepy to me, as I don't recall ever been outside and not had a view of a tree in my life. Not even on a trip to the big city.
That's a big tree for sure, how much wood in there?
That's incredible.
A big aspen up here is a shade over a half cord. There are some dandys up and down the hill from my hunting cabin but I've only had to buck one that fell across the road and it was already punky. I'd say they would push closer to a cord.
Even a big Norway pine up here would only go a cord and a half if you scrounged limbs and all.
StihltheOne
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I'm not sure yet, I have 5 cords home of just the little stuff. Maybe 12 or more
zogger
Tree Freak
There are some huge trees up and down the east coast. They aren't redwoods, but some spreads are simply incredible, and if you milk the branches out, tons of wood. Oakzilla, near as I have seen, was around the third largest tree in the county here, and last one to be cut down. there's a lot around *almost* as big though.
I know tomtrees has gotten some whoppers off of long island, they get killer good moisture there and the warm gulf stream currents. When all the american elms died off though, we lost a lot of old giants. These were old since earliest settler days trees in a lot of cases, villages grew up around them. Most of the rest of the old growth have been long ago logged off though.
If you need any help splitting, I am busy that day! lol I try to give cottonwood away so I don't have to split it
