Well you folks probably thought I gave up! We finally finished the tree yesterday. It was a 15 hour day for me and atleast 12 for my Dad, cousin, and co-worker, I left at 6:30 am and had the tools out of the truck at 9:30 PM!
I had my saw rebuilt and tweaked by our own Mastermind. It ran very well and I am so far really pleased. It is a stihl 088, the tiny tach was reading 11,500 rpm with the 70" bar out of wood. In the wood I was seeing about 8000-8500 rpm which it seemed to like. I was touching up the chain every other pass. I went through 3.5 gallons of fuel and thankfully did not hit even one staple in either of the logs! We pressure washed both logs before milling. The log yielded 7 slabs ranging from 42" to 54" wide 9 feet long and 3.25" thick, I estimated that they weigh about 450# each.
A few of the slabs are incredibly spalted and when I unload them off the trailer I will try to get pics of the spalt.
I also found a tilting flatbed trailer with a 9,990 gross weight to assist me in recovering logs better. I mounted a 5 ton BeeBee brothers manual winch up front along with a 3 ton chain fall I can hook onto the other corner which allows me to suck some big logs onto the trailer.
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