Post a pic of your biggest log sawn!

[busenitzcww]

What the biggest log you've sawn? Just busted down a 54"x 15' long bur oak today into 12/4 slabs. Don't wanna do that again for a long time!

 

  

[scsmith42]

Biggest log was 72" black oak, 14' long.



 

 

 

 

The longest that I've milled so far is 12" x 16" x 43'.  I've milled some 44' 4/4 too.



 



 

[barbender]

I know better than to play, "who's sawn the biggest log?" with this group- things get serious pretty quick!😊

[Ianab]

The forum as a whole probably has this to boast about. 







Full story here
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=24954.0

[busenitzcww]

Scsmith that is an impressive beam! It seems like I read about that somewhere else? They went into a restaurant/bar I think? The weight on some of those has got to be insane!

[scsmith42]

Scsmith that is an impressive beam! It seems like I read about that somewhere else? They went into a restaurant/bar I think? The weight on some of those has got to be insane!

Here is the FF thread about milling the big beams:
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=61982.0
There was also a similar thread on the Sawmill Creek website around the same time.

[offrink]

My personal largest is a burr oak. The slabs were 12/4 or 14/4 and 60-62" at the narrow end and 80" at the wide end 14' long. 

[teakwood]

Mine looks pretty small beside the logs above, but it wouldn't fit on my sawmill
It's a tropical cedar

[doc henderson]

 

 

[JRWoodchuck]

Doc I think we need some more info....

[barbender]

Is that some Kansas red cedar, Doc?😁

[NZJake]

Here is a big hardwood log we sawed in after Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu.

[doc henderson]

I wish.  I think it is photo shopped.  I had nothing to compare so put that in. all in fun! 8) :D

[Dangerous_Dan]

2006


 

 

[JJ]

30 years ago DD?
did it cut up with that saw?

what became of that monster?

[Dangerous_Dan]

Don't get ahead of me, I think it's only 14 years.
It had to be split with a chainsaw to get it to fit on the mill.
We milled it into 4x4s and 2 wide slabs.
Not sure where it ended up.



 

 

 

 

 

 

[barbender]

Was that white/green ash, DD?

[Skip]

Looks like a big ole poplar , got some behind the house that should have been cut years ago .

[JoshNZ]

I've not milled it but for interests sake while on topic... Google search New Zealands Tane Mahuta. I don't know who gets to mill it when it falls over but as it's nearly as wide as my mill is long, I won't have my name in the hat =[].

Supposedly a 14ft 5" diameter base. Trunk volume of 108275 bdft xD.



 

[ShapingGrain]

Maxed out my LT40 Wide and then some

[DR Buck]

This one was a group effort.      

Mark Strictland  aka Ga_Boy



 


Dr_Buck aka Me.






Dan _Shade  aka that guy.  ;D



  



This is the largest I've done on my own.



 

[scsmith42]

That was the George Washington log, wasn't it?

[kelLOGg]

It's time for others to join in on this thread. Title says "your biggest log" not 'the biggest log" ;) So here's half of my biggest:





The max for the mill is 32" and it was 34" dia so I had to halve it with a chainsaw which I hope I don't have to do again.

[JV]

Back several years ago I slabbed a 46" dry WO log.  Took 15" and a tank of gas per cut.  I don't know if I could pick that rig up today.    

 

[bwstout]

After looking at all of the monster log I don't have in bragging rights but just my biggest log 

31"x 10' RO


 

[DR Buck]

That was the George Washington log, wasn't it?

It was the "Kennedy" log from the Kennedy estate in McLean Va.   The tree came down in 2005 from root rot and Bobby Kennedy's widow Ethel wanted the mess cleaned up.   We go paid to take it  and made bundle off the lumber.    I'm actually getting ready to plane and clean up some 12/4 pieces I still have for a fireplace mantel in my house remodel.    

[Andries]

 
Soon to be log cabin parts.
Roof decking, faux beams, cladding and spiral stair components.
Western Red cedar, most of these logs were 35 to 45 feet long.

[Andries]

Spiral stair 'spring boards' are ripped out of logs that go beyond mill capacity.


 
That's a 36" bar on the MS660. 

[Andries]

 
There's a few truckloads in each build.

[Andries]

Long 5/4 boards have a bit of flex to'em!

[Andries]

When this work first showed up, I hafta admit, it was DanG intimadating!
A visit to @customsawyer set me straight, with a: "c'mon Scooter, just get at'er!" 
Thanks Jake.  ;D 
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[Ljohnsaw]

I don't have any before pictures but I did get some 32" slabs out of a big cedar.



Which became:

 
Then I have these to attack next week - the biggest is 34".


 

[terrifictimbersllc]

Monster Sycamore one of my biggest....
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=58151.msg845841#msg845841

 

[terrifictimbersllc]

Here's another one, 6' x 12' beech, 275 yrs old.  Getting ready to roll it.





Here it is rolled.....




This was a nice day.  

Two months later I shaved down the sides to 5' and slabbed it with my Peterson.  

150 miles from home, in the rain.  

Can't tell you why, other than that I told a nice customer that I would do it so I did. 

[customsawyer]

When this work first showed up, I hafta admit, it was DanG intimadating!
A visit to @customsawyer set me straight, with a: "c'mon Scooter, just get at'er!"
Thanks Jake.  ;D
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You have done just that my friend, and done it well.

[Magicman]

 

 
This has to be my largest and was sawn just a few weeks ago.  37½" butt and 20½' long.  I have sawn 42" & 45" butt logs but they required Bibbying.  They were also not but 10'-12' length.


 
The Log Weight Calculator said that it would have been a "too" heavy log if it had been fresh felled.


 
As it was the loaded handled it but I used the Magic Hook and log clamp to keep the log close to the loader hinge.

[scsmith42]

We opened up a nice white oak log yesterday. It was 48" on the small end and produced some nice RRQS (Thanks Robert!!!!).  We also netted a couple of 2-3/4" full width slabs from it.



 



 

[Don P]

I can't remember what was the biggest diameter, we barely got the 6' bar through a butternut on an old family homeplace so I'm guessing that was it, but it was pretty short. This was the longest at 60'. We needed 2 for 12x12 barn top plates. It took 3 trees around 3' diameter at the butt to get a 12x12 at the small end. The second tree, we had felled, parbuckled uphill, and on the third face opened up a rotten spot I could lay my arm in, so back to the woods we went.



We hauled them out as 3 sided ~12x16's then finished in the work yard on the job.
 



The 60's are on top of the log cribs, we dropped back to scarfed 40+20 on the sheds, the 60' candidates we were finding were too far up the mountain and would have taken some serious work to get out at that length.

 

[customsawyer]

I'm sure there's a picture in my gallery but I'll be dang if I can find it. My biggest was 63" on the butt end and at 55 ft. it was still 49" in diameter. That one broke my heart to make crane mat timbers out of.

[teakwood]

I can't remember what was the biggest diameter, we barely got the 6' bar through a butternut on an old family homeplace so I'm guessing that was it, but it was pretty short. This was the longest at 60'. We needed 2 for 12x12 barn top plates. It took 3 trees around 3' diameter at the butt to get a 12x12 at the small end. The second tree, we had felled, parbuckled uphill, and on the third face opened up a rotten spot I could lay my arm in, so back to the woods we went.



We hauled them out as 3 sided ~12x16's then finished in the work yard on the job.
 



The 60's are on top of the log cribs, we dropped back to scarfed 40+20 on the sheds, the 60' candidates we were finding were too far up the mountain and would have taken some serious work to get out at that length.

 

that is some nice work you done there! e real effort 

[DPatton]

This one took a little chainsaw work and a handful of grease on both sides to get it to fit between the 36" wide uprights on my mill.





This one took quite a bit more chainsaw work ;D ;D ;D, and a 944 Lull forklift to get it on my mill.