Monster hard maple all mine

[miller1]

Buddy called me and said his bro in law is having a huge tree taken down and its all mine if i want it, it is about 4' dia and about 70' tall, at about 15' it splits into 4 trunks that are about 20" dia, they only got about 1 of the splits down today and that gave me 2 trailer loads, 14' tandom axle, i wish they would have done this when it was cold out but i guess i gotta take it when i can get it.

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[flyboy553]

Nice! Now I want to see pics of you and your splitting axe/maul finishing it up! :msp_tongue:

Ted

 

[Dan_IN_MN]

That'll give you some fire wood for a while! Nice score!

Do you have a saw(s) to handle the larger wood?

 

[miller1]

That'll give you some fire wood for a while! Nice score!

Do you have a saw(s) to handle the larger wood?

I have a husky 359 for most stuff and a j- red 2186 with a 28" bar and a 36", haven't used the 36 but a couple times so i might play with it on this, it might make me want to get the j-red modded after i get done, we'll see.

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[Dan_IN_MN]

I have a husky 359 for most stuff and a j- red 2186 with a 28" bar and a 36", haven't used the 36 but a couple times so i might play with it on this, it might make me want to get the j-red modded after i get done, we'll see.

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Are you going to keep the pics coming? :msp_thumbup:

Here's my "big boy" PM800 (82cc) 36" bar. This is my first cut with it. The chain is new but a bit stiff so it's got some run in to be done. After this cut it was hanging really low!

 

[miller1]

Nice! Now I want to see pics of you and your splitting axe/maul finishing it up! :msp_tongue:

Ted

Ya, i dont do the splitting maul on maple, i bring the 35 ton splitter with me, that is still alot of work with stuff this big but it is still fun.

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[tomtrees58]

used it quack silver maple gos bad fast we dump that junk

 

[miller1]

used it quack silver maple gos bad fast we dump that junk

Ill sell alot of it for campfire wood so i wont have to much problem getting it used up before it goes bad, i just cant say no when i am offered a tree. The guys that are cutting it down dropped a limb and busted a hydro line so they cant cut anymore till tuesday, ill take more pics when they drop it all down.

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[Whitespider]

I hate to be the one to bring this up, but... Those leaves don't appear to be hard maple.
Sure is a lot of wood there though.

 

[miller1]

I hate to be the one to bring this up, but... Those leaves don't appear to be hard maple.
Sure is a lot of wood there though.

i thought silver or soft maple when i was cutting the smaller stuff but the i asked the property owner and he called the tree service and they told him it was hard maple:confused2:, it just seemed to cut to easy for hard and the bark was falling off some of the small stuff and it was very slick like soft maple but i dont turn down to many trees no matter what they are, i heat with a owb and sell some campfire wood so i dont get picky.

 

[AIM]

I'm thinking silver maple too.

 

[Whitespider]

One thing is for certain, if'n it is Silver Maple, it's by far the biggest I've ever seen.

 

[haveawoody]

The tiny brown core in the limb wood says norway maple but the leaf looks like silver maple sort of.
Bark looks unusual for silver maple.

I bet it's freemans maple a cross between silver and red and firewood like both.
I bet 4 cords from it or more.

Great score no matter what it turns out to be.

 

[Somesawguy]

Great score. That should help the wood pile out a bit! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Ductape]

Looks like a Silver to me too, but no matter..... great score of free firewood.

That looks like a six cord tree. :msp_thumbup:

 

[ShaneLogs]

Looks good! How many cords you think you will get out of this tree ?

 

[miller1]

Looks good! How many cords you think you will get out of this tree ?

Thats to much for my brain to figure, i was off on my estimation on the dia, i took a tape measure tonight and it is 5' 3" from side to side, this is my j- red with a 28" bar next to it.

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[ShaneLogs]

Thats to much for my brain to figure, i was off on my estimation on the dia, i took a tape measure tonight and it is 5' 3" from side to side, this is my j- red with a 28" bar next to it.

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Looks pretty nice! I like that J-Red also! Happy Splitting!

 

[stihly dan]

If it helps, they say a 12 in diameter is 1/3 of a cord. A 22 in diameter tree is 1 full cord. Then there is the math to follow. Who likes algebra?

 

[zogger]

Mega score! Drive right up to it! It's maplelicous!