oak tree

[Furby]

Yeah, I work about 4.5 miles from there.
I could call in some favors and have my boss drive the fork truck up, but I'd have to empty the stuff off my bigger trailer and I wouldn't have any way to unload it once home.
Toolbox puts the quarters in the ball park of 2000-2500 pounds.

[Reddog]

Well if you are using a favor to get the fork truck, use another and get the flat bed trailer and tractor.  ;)

[Furby]

Don't think I haven't thought about it! :
But there is no way to afford the diesel, it hit $3.49 here today. >:(

And I STILL don't have a way to unload.

[Reddog]

Well if you hauled it to Stump Jumpers you would. ;)

[Furby]

Thought of that too.......... : : :
$$$$$$$

[SwampDonkey]

Where's all those portable sawmills up there? ;D

[Timburr]

14 plus pages dedicated to one tree and nearly a year in the making!!!  It'll be commanding it's own website soon!!  ;D ;D

Has it arrived 'home' yet ???

[Furby]

I worked on it for a couple hours yesterday after work.
Maybe one more day on it, plus some work while milling it.

[SwampDonkey]

Snow's coming Furb. Too far away for me to be neighborly.  :-\

[Furby]

That was the main reason I was trying to get something done on it.
Got the strap and chain off of it as the ground is getting a little hard now.
Once we get some snow on the ground, it'll be sitting there all winter as I'm simply not messing around with stuck vehicles and such, there or here.
I get stuck often enough as it is. :

[turningfool]

it'll still be there come spring waitin for us

[Phorester]

Trees store wonderfully well on the stump, eh?

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

Trees store wonderfully well on the stump, eh?

I think you'll find this oak is no longer on the stump. They FINALLY felled it in October and have been working on getting it ready to mill in their spare time since then...

Course, who am I to talk? I've still got my cypress sitting in the back yard with not a single slab taken yet... But there's always 2008 if the Lord lets us live to enjoy it...

[pasbuild]

Sooo guys any boards yet ???

[Reddog]

So...........is it boards..............or firewood...............or turned to dirt?   ;D

[SwampDonkey]

Probably lots of nice spalt by now.  ;D

[Dan_Marino]

Oh my!  Where's the end?  I read every post like it was a chapter and was getting excited for the end and then - wham - nothing.  was anything made out the tree?

[The-Burl-Hunter]

when people say like 5' in diameter or 6' 7' or so on that means like taking a tape measure and wrapping it totally around the trunk until you get to the starting point of the tape right?  ???thanks

[DouginUtah]

Burl-Hunter,

What you are describing is called circumference. Diameter is measured straight across from one side to the other side.

Circumference = 3.14 * Diameter      (3.14 multiplied by D)

Diameter = Circumference / 3.14      (C divided by 3.14)

[SwampDonkey]

Like Doug said, and if you only have a carpenter's tape instead of a D-tape (diameter tape) or logger's tape (some have a D-tape on the back side of the tape) you can wrap your tape around and divide by 3.14 to get it's diameter. ;D

[old joe]

Welol I read the whole thing and winter is gone.  What happened to the Tree.  Is it boards or what???

Joe

[Scuba_Dave]

The tree I had taken down in the back yard was 54" straight across
I had them take down 3 trees & I cut everything up
Now I have an Oak tree to come down - it's smaller, not by a lot

[baronthered]

sounds like another tree odyssey in the making. I'll look forward to reading about it too.