This is nothing to what you guys do, But a 20 inch red oak i'm working on. Will be finished bucking it tommorrow.
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This is nothing to what you guys do, But a 20 inch red oak i'm working on. Will be finished bucking it tommorrow.
i wish we had wood like that where i live. i'd crap my pants if i saw a tree that big
That's a small one compared to the one i got to cut up next. I figure that one is only 24 or 25 inches accross at the base. It's about 20 in the pics you see.
donthraen
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just asking--you don't have trees wear you live or are they just very small---you should try a cottonwood
donthraen
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This is nothing to what you guys do, But a 20 inch red oak i'm working on. Will be finished bucking it tommorrow.
that is some pretty wood it will make some nice heat
Yup, Wish i had a mill. It would make some nice boards too. It was blowed over by a storm last year along with 15 more. Some a lot bigger.
donthraen
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I was picturing a table or benches---If I had the money I would get or make a mill to do it but still nice fire wood you're pretty lucky with those logs (good size)
donthraen
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shame on him---Glad you don't see some of the wood I cut up for fire wood you would shoot me
It helps pay them for me, I don't have to pay the electric or gas bill in the winter. I agree it is a nice log for the mill. It will feel good this winter though.
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donthraen
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exactly rite:agree2:
Bucked some bigger stuff today. 20 inch bar on saw.
donthraen
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Bucked some bigger stuff today. 20 inch bar on saw.
don't you just hate not having a chainsaw mill but still dam nice heat---That's about the size of black walnut Iv been cutting good wood but hard on chains
Yep, It would be a blast to mill some oak. But i have no way of getting the long logs home. Guess they could be milled in the woods.
donthraen
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Ive been thinking of making or buying a portable one that attaches to the bar---With all the flood cleanup from the river I have lots of big gorgeous logs---They'Ve bean in the water for ???how long and most are so stained I cant tell what kind they are but I no theirs different kinds---I still have tuns more to draig out---Some are stuck in the silt 10-20ft below the water---That makes for pretty big and heavy logs
Greystoke
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Cody, you are so graciuos, lol. Put up a picture of a power buck. I can see what might have happened. Tall wood uphill. Nothing you could have done about it most likely, unless I can't see a stump LOL.
Just ribbin' ya. Lucky Cutter has a power buck on his personal AS page. I gave him flack over it. It's a sign you guys are good fallers. No fake stuff
Yeah, unfortunately it was just some gnarly ground and you were bound to get some breakage...actually saved out better than I thought it would as I had to throw it across a couple of v notches. Good thing it was a sitka spruce and not a redwood!
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Brian13
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I was wondering if anybody had a video of the wheeling technique. Or any other bucking technique. I would like to be able to see what is being described, so it makes a little more sense to me.
I saw far too many nice large Oaks bucked up into manageable pieces for the cleanup crews to load after the two hurricanes that blew through here on '05(Rita) and '08(Ike). It was sickening seeing all of the 30"+ oaks chopped into 18-24" chunks for those cleanup guys to take to the chipper. That's worse than firewood, IMO. Those trees would have made some beautiful lumber, but were simply chipped into mulch/chips for only God knows what purpose.
JL
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