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General Forestry => Ask The Forester => Topic started by: alanh on February 12, 2017, 09:04:39 PM

Title: How many bd ft would this monster produce?
Post by: alanh on February 12, 2017, 09:04:39 PM
Ok, I cant figure out how to post a pick from the phone. On a vacation in California, saw redwoods, amazing. So this one tree was 14' 6" diameter, 310 ft tall, how many bd ft of sawn lumber would that be?
Title: Re: How many bd ft would this monster produce?
Post by: Chop Shop on February 12, 2017, 09:45:29 PM
Just over a hundred thousand.
Title: Re: How many bd ft would this monster produce?
Post by: Ljohnsaw on February 13, 2017, 12:34:19 AM
MM would have that done in a couple of days ;)
Title: Re: How many bd ft would this monster produce?
Post by: redbeard on February 13, 2017, 01:56:13 AM
92K lbs
19k bf
Would be log volume.
Squish my mill
Title: Re: How many bd ft would this monster produce?
Post by: Chop Shop on February 13, 2017, 02:09:23 PM
Quote from: redbeard on February 13, 2017, 01:56:13 AM
92K lbs
19k bf
Would be log volume.
Squish my mill

Yer just a little shy!

Just the first 20 foot log would be over 25,000bf
Title: Re: How many bd ft would this monster produce?
Post by: redbeard on March 22, 2017, 04:26:38 PM
I was only off by 575000 BF
Good catch !