Yard tree

smwwoody · August 27, 2011, 03:20:02 PM

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

smwwoody · August 27, 2011, 03:29:43 PM

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

treefarmer87 · August 27, 2011, 03:37:42 PM

3 logs filled up the whole truck

smwwoody · August 27, 2011, 03:48:10 PM

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 · August 27, 2011, 04:13:35 PM

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

smwwoody · August 27, 2011, 04:32:56 PM

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 · August 27, 2011, 04:40:32 PM

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 · August 27, 2011, 05:21:52 PM

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 · August 27, 2011, 06:04:47 PM

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 · August 29, 2011, 07:19:42 PM

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

smwwoody · August 29, 2011, 07:54:23 PM

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 · September 03, 2011, 03:00:07 PM

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 · September 03, 2011, 03:10:56 PM

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 · September 03, 2011, 03:44:47 PM

shelbycharger400 · September 03, 2011, 03:48:10 PM

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 · September 03, 2011, 03:50:58 PM

I didn't know smwoody was so short. :

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Banjo picker · September 03, 2011, 03:56:15 PM

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

smwwoody · September 03, 2011, 04:01:59 PM

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 · September 03, 2011, 04:04:25 PM

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

lumberjack48 · September 03, 2011, 04:26:10 PM

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 · September 03, 2011, 04:31:20 PM

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

smwwoody · September 03, 2011, 09:25:02 PM

We didn't load it.

clww · September 03, 2011, 09:57:24 PM

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!