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Is this to big to cut down.....cottonwood!

Started by ArnoldFarms, March 18, 2014, 10:33:56 AM

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ArnoldFarms

I haven't milled it yet, but we have some cottonwood by the river bottom at the house.  I guess I'll utilize it for a chicken coop I'm working on and save it for other projects.  Good to know its got some uses (as I learned on here). Here's a huge one by the river. Lol it's probably to big for us to do anything with.  That's my wife hugging the tree, she's 5'11 and has long arms lol  so that gives you an idea how big it is. 

  
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LeeB

A big one for sure. How tall? How far to the first branch?
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Chuck White

Looks like a job for a swingmill on that tree.

Huge is a good word for it!   :o
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POSTON WIDEHEAD

WOW.......that tree is straight all the way to the ground. Good pic.
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chopperdr47

Amazing tree. Check with the Aussie's. They'll cut it and quarter it with a monster chainsaw, mill it and stack it all before their first Foster's.
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Cedarman

If you cut that tree down, what would your wife have to hug? :D :D
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POSTON WIDEHEAD

Quote from: Cedarman on March 18, 2014, 03:15:26 PM
If you cut that tree down, what would your wife have to hug? :D :D

She could sit on the stump......and it would be big enough for a picnic it appears.
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Quote from: chopperdr47 on March 18, 2014, 03:08:35 PM
Amazing tree. Check with the Aussie's. They'll cut it and quarter it with a monster chainsaw, mill it and stack it all before their first Foster's.

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JustinW_NZ

Fosters, now there's something not worth drinking!

Nice tree, cuts like butter that stuff, I should post up some pics of the ones in parks around here, they get real big!

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yup, thats a plumper for sure :) the water is going to just fly when the chainsaw hits it!
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dgdrls

Nope, have Lucas could travel!  ;)

here another large Cottonwood, used to pass by it daily
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Seaman

That is an awesome tree! Where is Arnold Farms? So as us swing mills can fight over it!
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thecfarm

That critter wiil make some noise when it hits the earth.
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Jeff

That tree deserves to stay standing if you don't have a real need for cutting it down.
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Jeff

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POSTON WIDEHEAD

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WDH

I hope that you let the big cottonwood live on.  Cut some smaller ones. 
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js2743

I agree with Jeff, it should be left standing. 

Peter Drouin

Quote from: WDH on March 18, 2014, 08:38:16 PM
I hope that you let the big cottonwood live on.  Cut some smaller ones. 




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blackfoot griz

Short story then a question.
Years ago, a friend of mine was hired by the City of Missoula to take down a massive cottonwood on city property that had somehow been determined to be a hazard. Word got out and there were some protesters.  He asked me to watch his stuff while he went to work.  Up the tree he went and limb by limb he did what he was hired to do.  There was even a cop on standby as a crowd had gathered up on the hill chanting "don't cut the tree". When he dropped the last section of the trunk--I was amazed. It was basically hollow.

My friend asked  the protestors to please come down and look at why he did what he was hired to do. They too were amazed that the tree was still standing and apologized.

My question it a common trait of cottonwoods to "hollow out" like that?

missouriboy

I enjoy cutting big cottonwood. It doesn't take to many like that one to make a load. Maybe something to think about is to cut it so the little ones can grow doesn't make any sense to me to let a  tree grow to be over mature and go bad and take away from all the other trees trying to grew.

Ocklawahaboy

Quote from: WDH on March 18, 2014, 08:38:16 PM
I hope that you let the big cottonwood live on.  Cut some smaller ones.
+2

Ocklawahaboy

Quote from: missouriboy on March 18, 2014, 09:48:36 PM
doesn't make any sense to me to let a  tree grow to be over mature and go bad and take away from all the other trees trying to grew.
I'd say that depends on whether the land is being managed for a wood lot or natural value. 

backwoods sawyer

see what tree hugging does ::)
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