Big Logs

[Autocar]

I finished a little job today I had 12 trees one red oak 11 white oak. I scaled them up the red had 971 bd.ft. the 11 white oak had 9000 bd. ft. The biggest butt on the white oak was a 16 foot butt log with 841 bd. ft. I took pictures of them on the first load,if I can ever figure out how to put them on here Iam sure you guys would get a kick out of them. They sure look pretty when you get them loaded up  ;) The red cut four logs and the first two were grade and the third and fourth was common. The white cut pretty well grade butt logs and the second was common and third was pallet.

[loggit]

size matters   

[Bandmill Bandit]

the bigger the better. i cut one one that was a 42inch bell on the stump trimmed it with the chain saw and it was about 38" ish tapered to about 34". had to get a bit creative to get that sucker down to size. It was a 19 foot pine . Made 8x8 posts and 4X12 beams out of it and the the next up sister stick out of the same log for a customer. Also cut 2X10 for his deck joist out of the rest of the tree and one more 16 foot piece. deck was 16x 32 finshed.

[Autocar]

Fish Ive tried twice to e-mail you but they all come back not sure what the deal is .

[tycoon139977]

biggest logs ive yarded where some spruce 7 ft on the butt

[captain_crunch]

Big Logs ???

[clww]

That's what I advertise for with my side business-"Big Trees". The bigger the better!

[tycoon139977]

just out of curiosity, how big of trees are there back east? around here the average is about 30 in on the butt and 120-140 ft tall i believe. but the biggest ive yarded was about 7 ft on the butt and around 180 ft tall. it was some nice spruce first 26 ft and the next two 40 ft logs on them all had absolutly no limbs, made some darn good saw logs

[madmari]

I found a stand of hemlock with a tree at dbh of 52"- think it's the state record. A big white pine will go 30".
Hard maple will get to that size as they are sap producers for syrup and are sacred cows. ;D

[bill m]

In my area you can still find some nice timber. These pines ( average 28 in. dbh ) cut 86 feet to a 10 inch tip.




Some of the hardwood on this job cut 60 feet to the first limb.

[thecfarm]

bill,good job on that stump.I've seen some guys that I guess they can't bend over to cut a tree.
Here's a picture of a white pine,that is a yard stick.




There were many more this size too.
When my father and me was cutting we chased down the biggest ones we had.Had one that was 52 inches across. The tractor groaned some on that one. We cut all the ones over 42 inches.At the time they were peeling the big ones by hand and getting them around the debarker. Since they redid the mill they can only take 42 inches now. My Father said he could never remember them cutting this place off.I can not remember how many logs we got out of some. I always said I would take pictures of some of them when my Father and me was cutting.I never did.We was always so busy cutting,no time,or so I thought.I know this size is no big deal on the West coast,but pretty big for around here.Yes,you may found a few this size,but we probably had at least 50 this size.Still a few this size on my land.

[Autocar]

I agree one hundred percent keep the stumps low  ;D Generally veneer buyers cut them off a little but remember your selling board feet so if he rejects it the sawmill will buy it. And that extra bd. ft. will add up.

[treefarmer87]

thats a GOOD cut on that stump. i need to cut that low

[Bobus2003]

A stump should be no more than 6" High on the up hill side.. USFS rule.. I cut as low as possible, just cause i hate bouncin over them in the Skidder or Skid Steer

[tapper2]

Here in the Adirondacks, we find these trees from time to time. There's alot of big white pine and hemlock,oak in this area, but as madmari said, the sugar maples can get HUGE. If we head over to the back of our land that borders w/NYS land, you can regularly find Oak thats 30"+ @ the butt perfectly straight and White Pine thats 46-48"  with at least 20' logs. Those would fetch a dime but........New York State property.

[clww]

90% of the trees I remove are residential trees in customer's back yards. Last year I did one that was 86", one that was 50" and one that was 38". Those were the three largest diameter, and all oaks. The tallest I've ever had was a measured Red Oak at 131 feet tall. The latest one I started this past Thursday. A big Red Oak, 49" DBH, and 90 feet tall. At 50 feet, it's still 30" diameter.

[Magicman]

Not the biggest by any means, but I just sawed 7 SYP logs that yielded 7238 bf of framing lumber.  My largest was a lightning struck SYP that yielded 2781 bf of framing lumber.  Not a record but darn good sawing.