PICTURES of the BIGGEST tree you have cut down or have seen cut down.

[Sizzle-Chest]

Shuka-dangy-darn thats a big log you got there!

 

[Sizzle-Chest]

Robert, here's the link to the "Big Trees."
John
http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=12433

them Wershintuners think they got big trees up there, but I tell its only cuz all they do is look at em. Here in oregon, we got bigger trees and we aint afraid to cut em neither!

 

[rbtree]

I never heard of Earl Roberge's "Timber Country, Logging in the Great Northwest". Is it worth finding? What era does it cover? Many good pictures?

heres a link to some really amazing pictures of the giant sequoia logging
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ger&start=20&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N

Great pics link!!!

Roberge shot all the pics for his book, so it covers the period from 1975 to back a few years.

I also have Van Pelt's great book--got it autographed at his book signing.

 

[Rob Murphy]

Tree lopper

Have a look at this guy!!

 

[Husky372]

That guy either has a screw loose, or balls of steel, or both. But either way you would never catch me up there. No way no how. Even when I was young and dumb I wasn't that brave.

 

[smcowboy1974]

Hey Gypo I have a Massey Harris 55 with chains on it. Tractor weighs almost 10,000 lbs. I could pull that rock maple on snow or on regular unfrozen ground. You should put some chains on your tractor. IT makes a big difference. It's a 1951 382 cubic inch gas job. About 3-4 gallons an hour useage with moderate load! Max load about 6 gallons an hour. It sucks a lot of gas but for the power it's worth it!

 

[Chris J.]

Hey, John, the neck on my wife's Godin electric guitar is Rock Maple from Canada.

Please forgive the digression....BTW at about $350.00 which includes a great gig bag, the Godin Exit 22 is a d@mn nice guitar.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hi Lucky, the Maple log had 485 ft. in it if I recall correctly. It was two winters ago.
It was worth about 500$ as a sawlog. Logs this large seldom make veneer.
It's the white sapwood they want for veneer and this one was well over 50% heart.
I sawed it down with an 066 with skipchain.
Knothole that Maple sure makes good guitar backs and bowling pins too! lol
It's amazing what a tractor will pull on slopes and flat, but when it's icey you can't beat chains.
John

 

[Gypo Logger]

Here's the butt log of that tree. It was at least 5000 lbs and had 2.4 cubic meteres or at least 500 ft. on the Doyle log rule.
John

 

[Al Smith]

Well,one good butt deserves another.This is the butt log from the large red oak.I would guess over 8000 lbs,a tad over 4 ft at the bottom,16 + feet long.My guess is around 1100 to 1200 bft.Hmm,I have a bigger log,how about that.

 

[Tree Sling'r]

I need to dig up more picture, but here is a picture of just my saw and a 6800bf Red Cedar I jacked over a few weeks ago. Nothing special, but it saved out and I got an atta boy.
Tree Sling'r.

 

[Tree Sling'r]

Here are few more from a job I had outside of Forrest Ranch, CA for Erickson Aircrane this past winter. The picture with my saw in the undercut was a Doug Fir with 13,400 Bf. The other is a different tree, but same strip.

 

[1Alpha1]

Holy crap......you guys are dropping some seriously big wood.

I'm amazed and in awe..........

 

[jokers]

Well,one good butt deserves another.This is the butt log from the large red oak.I would guess over 8000 lbs,a tad over 4 ft at the bottom,16 + feet long.

Al,

According to the Forestry Forum log weight calculator, that stick weighs nearly 13,000 #s.

Did you have a hard time finding a mill to take it?

Russ

 

[Al Smith]

Holy crap......you guys are dropping some seriously big wood.

I'm amazed and in awe..........

You have to bear in mind that is northern California[I assume],where the largest trees on the planet reside.I would imagine that a 24" tree is considered an ornamental shrub.
On the subject of huge trees,I was having a telephone conversation with a saw shop owner in Oregon,about a year ago.He made the remark about huge trees and all the hub hub about their cutting.He said if I were to ever visit that area I would not think any had been cut because of the amount still there.
In all my travels,land and sea,I have never been to the Pacific north west but maybe some day I will.

 

[Al Smith]

Al,

According to the Forestry Forum log weight calculator, that stick weighs nearly 13,000 #s.

Did you have a hard time finding a mill to take it?

Russ

Well my favorite sawyer is on sabatical leave,so to speak.I am in the process of building a rubber tired bandsaw mill with a 34 hp Wisconsin engine for power.As a coincidence,I cut up a Ford escort yesterday to get the spindles and tires for the saw.I have the track section nearly done,and now am starting on the carriage assembly.[junk yard saw,ha.]
The top 2 logs on that tree would have made good peelers but I am going to quarter saw them.I most likely will have to rip the butt log to do anything with it,or have another Ohio AS member attack it with a swing mill.
There is a large circle mill about 8 miles from me but I don't trust the guy any farther than I could throw him,so to speak.
The logs are cribbed up off the ground and sealed with anchor seal.They should be fine,for a while.