Yard tree

[smwwoody]

Took a little red oak out of a yard near by here are the first 3 logs

[smwwoody]

They will be turned into lumber and returned to the land owner

[treefarmer87]

3 logs filled up the whole truck

[smwwoody]

Yea and that one is small compared to the poplar i have to do next week.  The poplar measures 22 feet around chest high  that is 7 foot diameter chest high.  I would love to find someone with a lucas or similar mill to break the log down on site.

Woody

[treefarm]

I guess they don't call it Gold Hill for nothing! :>) Thanks a beauty! You suspect there's any iron in it? tb

[smwwoody]

theere is some iron in it as there are two real small blue spots on the butt.  i have figured t trash at least one chain and 2 bands sawing it.  It will end up as flooring in the 1750's built house whos yard it came out of

[shelbycharger400]

could be a wagon wheel in their..lol

a stump we burnt at a buddys house, was by the barn,  found a early 1900's baby carrage wheel.  not shure where it is right now

[SwampDonkey]

There is a 12" diameter iron clothes line pulley in one of my hard maple yard trees. It's in there somewhere, it ate it. :D

[Banjo picker]

Speaking of clothes lines....I took a big sweetgum down that had a car jack that it had growed up around...they must have drove it into the tree with a sledge hammer...used it to tighten the cloths line that had been attached to it ....Tim

[clww]

WOW! That's a big Poplar! Got any pictures?

[smwwoody]

I will get some of the poplar saturday when I take it down.  It is in the front yard of some 1700s slave quarters.  If it could talk it is no tellin what that tree would have to say

[smwwoody]

We got the Big poplar down this morning.  It measured 7"2"  inside the bark across the stump

I will get a few more pics up tonight

[SwampDonkey]

Look out grandma, when that thing comes down in the yard. Crown in itself will make some dents, then the but making a bounce or two. ;D

[smwwoody]

[shelbycharger400]

i was wonderin if that was solid or not..lol..  are you standing up in their?   

that shure would be a nice stump when they dig it out for a nice desk ! 

[beenthere]

I didn't know smwoody was so short.  : :

;D

[Banjo picker]

Nice pic. of the jack in the block out also...How far up the tree was it hollow....Tim

[smwwoody]

That is the farm manager for that section of the old plantation.  The original owner of the plantation General  Cocke left notes in his personal journal about Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson spending many hours in discussion under the poplar tree in front of the lower house.  as far as anyone can tell that was the only poplar ever in the front yard.  

[smwwoody]

she was hollow about 30 feet up to the crotch where a dead limb broke out of it a few weeks ago

[lumberjack48]

smwwoody should count the rings, see how old the tree is, interesting, that is one big tree.

I cut a 46" White Oak , it was by Upper Pigeon lake on the South Round lake road, it was 320 to 340 yrs old, there was just a pencil dot in the center, a beautiful tree.  

[treefarmer87]

that is the biggest tree i have seen around thes parts. What did you load it with?

[smwwoody]

We didn't load it. 

[clww]

That giant willow oak I cut up in Norfolk we counted rings, aged it between 200 and 215 years! One old tree. It blew over during the 2009 November Nor'easter we had.
Thanks for showing us those great photos, smwwoody!

[smwwoody]

I have a few more photos coming

[smwwoody]

Here is my son Dan after it hit the ground

[SwampDonkey]

One thing about being in the north, is that a large tree is always old. I cut a 20 inch dbh white ash one time with 22-25 rings to the inch, so 220-250 years old, forest grown. Some old white pines on grandfather's place are probably over 300 years old, they were never properly aged, but survived two forest fires in the last century. Charcoal still on some that burnt a little into the heart, at least 130 feet tall and well above the average canopy height of the forest, 4-5 feet through the but maybe even 6.

[SPIKER]

One thing about being in the north, is that a large tree is always old. I cut a 20 inch dbh white ash one time with 22-25 rings to the inch, so 220-250 years old,...

those oldest trees in world (known oldest) are not all that big in wind blown areas of California for diameter they are really only bushes when looked at next to that popular that came down...

mark

edit in I think those are in the 3500+ years old range Bristle cone pines & sequoias what a difference in form ;).   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_longaeva  and oldest living one is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_%28tree%29 at 4842 years young. 

[SwampDonkey]

There has been a few red spruce aged up in the NE here and some are over 400 years old, almost 500 actually, and no where near 20 inches. ;)

[Ironwood]

I cut a few hickory saplings in the shadow of my BIG red oaks in my forest, the hickory was 4-5" and 50-60 years. Neat.

Ironwood

[smwwoody]

Here are a few more

[Ironwood]

Photo's 3 and five are awsome.


Ironwood

[smwwoody]

I like them a lot too

[Ron Scott]

Very trustworthy that there were no widow makers above. ;)

[OneWithWood]

Pretty awesome tree!

Do you always cut without personal protection equipment?

[clww]

That one made a thump when it hit the ground, didn't it?

[smwwoody]

Ron And One with wood

You guys caught me at one of my very bad habits.  When I am in the woods I would not even think of working without all of my PPE. 

when I cut a yard tree every now and then I never even think about putting it on.  This has to stop now.  I just changed my estimate templates to read on the bottom "PPE SAVES LIVES".  Maybe this will help remind me.

Thanks for the reminder

Woody

[WDH]

That definitely exceeds my capabilities!

[Banjo picker]

 



Here was my wake up call...Tim

[customdave]

Ouchhhh! , Tim now you have to tell the story....


                                       Dave

[beenthere]

Tim
Hope that isn't a fresh one there. Seems you had one somewhat similar a while back der.

[Ron Scott]

We need to give yard trees as much or more respect as the wildland trees. More injuries/deaths seem to be caused by risks taken with yard trees.

[WH_Conley]

Here is another one. Don't have any idea the man's level of experience. I would guess homeowner.

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Man_Trapped_Under_Tree_129263968.html

[mad murdock]

I cut a few hickory saplings in the shadow of my BIG red oaks in my forest, the hickory was 4-5" and 50-60 years. Neat.

Ironwood

Man, that would make a NICE baseball bat!  woudl be one strong hickory stick!

[Banjo picker]

It was the same lick...I have not cut a single tree without a hard hat on since...Promised the wife, and have kept it....For those that didn't get the story first time...a condensed version is I cut a gum to finish a load of pulp wood , and didn't notice the grape vine wound around a smallish cherry....that was close by...as the gum is going down it pulls the cherry which eventually breaks and blind sided me...Tim

[metalspinner]

smwwoody,

What are the plans for that poplar?

[smwwoody]

Still looking for someone with a swing blade to break it down. If not I will quarter it with a chain saw and bring it back to our mill