05-31-07, 08:51 PM | #1 |
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a lil tree
my buddy says "hey man can i burrow your big chain saw?". i say" of course not.. what ya need cut?" he says" oh just the bottom piece to this lil tree in the yard"..
yep i show up i bring 2 saws the 360 stihl and ole pa the 088 stihl.. good thing i put the 60" bar on the 088.. the bobcat would not pick it up whole had to cut it in too..the lil 360 is in the picture btw... like i had nothing better to do than sweat my butt off this evening.. zooker
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Your'e a good friend... Now I've just got a few little old post holes to dig....Ya Busy??
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Hollow them out and stick a trolling motor on the back and you sneek up on the ducks next hunting season.
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atleast he didnt' ask you to split them.
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I used to cut firewood for about 8 years and sell it, I cant see using a bar over 18 inches tho, to easy to put the tip in the dirt..we have cut honey locust trees down that each section is about 4 feet around, looks like ya did a good job zooker, where they heck ya buy a chain that long? must be about 75 bucks for one
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$90 each actually $11 to have it sharpened.. the chains we use at work on a holtec are 8 FEET long..
i put the third piece on the trailer but bottomed out the springs..i had to go back and get it.. i have split them pop has a wood splitter.. zooker
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What Type Of Tree Was It Zook?
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It's a hardwood. Hickory, oak, maple, somethin like that.....
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white oak..
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How big is his splitter???
My dad and I cut and sold firewood for many years back in Ohio, nothing even remotely close to that though. |
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naw i cut it down to 15" long before we split it..
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Good money can be had if this type has no "cat" faces. The bark needs to be straight and the tree is solid and with no low limbs.
They don't necessarily care for 8' logs but will except them, but 10' and longer is prefered.
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bassnman, ur right for the most part, but some "cat" faces (basically scars form some sort of injury) can be purely superficial and not affect the actual wood. Also, this type of thing (a single tree from a guys yard) is usually only attractive to a furniture shop or some guy with his own mizer. In which case, some limbs or defects can be more valuable because it creates swirls and unique patterns in the grain. Believe it or not, some trees with bug holes are actually more valuable than the same tree without bug holes. It's called "character wood" or "distressed".
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wow lunker hunter you seem to know a little bit of everything i really enjoy your posts.
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not hardly. But my degree is in Forestry, also i'm a forestry and wildlife consultant in South Arkansas. That's about all i know about.
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Alot of these logs are sent overseas. We recieved $2600.00 for just one and that was less than it was worth.
We have recieved slightly less for other white oaks. "They" apparently wanted just those that were untarnished and clear of any diffaults. However, your right about the cat faces and limbs that are present, they do make great looking furniture etc... bassnman30 (logger and wood bowel turner)
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What gets me about the exports (especially Japan) is that we'll sell them some cheap a$$ wood and they'll make veneer out of it, stain it, and sell it right back to us for 10 times what we sold it to them for. In otherwords, we'll sell them cottonwood and they'll it back to us as Cherry.
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