Picture of wood from 7' diameter cottonwood

[StihltheOne]

We have well over 6 cords out already. This is what is left of the tree. For reference, the large round in the center of the picture is 37 inches in diameter.

 

[lefturnfreek]

Got any other pic's of that monster? i would love to get my hands on 1 of them.

 

[StihltheOne]

Got any other pic's of that monster? i would love to get my hands on 1 of them.

 

[Gugi47]

Very nice.

 

[lefturnfreek]

Hola... I'd be on that like my wife to my pay cheque...

 

[flotek]

That's very Large

 

[mga]

does cotton wood burn nice?

 

[hedge hog]

A lot of ash but burns decent.
A pain to split


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[sb47]

does cotton wood burn nice?

Well it is wood and it will burn, but it's a stinky wood, both the smell of the wood to the sent it has when burned.
Good camp wood though, if burned outdoors.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Cottonwood splits easily after you dry it in the round for half a year and let the bark fall off. Green cottonwood is almost impossible to split--stringy beyond belief. Once dry and barkless, it really has almost no odor when burned, but nobody ever waits for it. So, it gets a bad rap.

 

[StihltheOne]

We burn 10 to 12 cords a year. Really not that hard to split after dry. Lots of ash, but it's what we have. It is possible to go 20 miles and not see a tree, s o we will take what we can get and be thankful

 

[livemusic]

We have well over 6 cords out already. This is what is left of the tree. For reference, the large round in the center of the picture is 37 inches in diameter.

Curious, was it dead?

 

[SWI Don]

I started to think a comment about Cottonwood until I saw you were from WY. That's what you guys got out there. That is a monster!

My brother, the arborist, has some stories about some huge cottonwoods, but we generally don't burn them much back here in IA. They tend to be some of the bigger tricky removals around here just because they get so massive and are close to buildings etc that precludes the notch and drop method.

 

[StihltheOne]

Curious, was it dead?

Yeah, it was comprised in a careless fire 4 years ago

 

[StihltheOne]

About have it cut to manageable pieces. This is the 9th pickup load so far. There has been 6 cords out in addition to this. Looks like 6 more loads like this to go, including the stump.

 

[bikemike]

It would make good saw race cants

 

[StihltheOne]

Finally finished up the tree today. It yielded just at 15 full cords. On to the next, it will be even larger!

 

[firefighter938]

That picture of your truck is funny. Fully loaded, heaping over the cab and it's not even squatting.

 

[JeffHK454]

That picture of your truck is funny. Fully loaded, heaping over the cab and it's not even squatting.

That's two fold...a heavyduty truck and crap wood, It is one heck of a project tree though!

 

[crowbuster]

wow. All I see are a lot of backstops for throwing knives and tomahawks. That's a lot of wood.