Sometimes mother nature delivers up some nice things. This big pine was a lightening kill, right behind my barn. Thought I would stick a pic on here as an example of the southern yellow pine that grows in the red clay hills of north Louisiana. That's a 20 inch bar on the stihl. The tree was 62 years old. Got a 32 ft cut plus a 24 ft cut from it. Only a 500 yd skid across an open hayfield to my mill.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/14000/bigpine.jpg)
We have gotten a lot of stumps that look like that over the past year. Unfortunately, not many of them went to a mill.
I wanna jump in before one of the chainsaw lunatics do. Wayne, yer chain is loose. :D ;)
I wish I had a couple dozen or so of those. My building wants would be lessened greatly.
'bout 1200 miles, boss, no hill for a stepper. 8)
Quote from: Jeff on August 26, 2012, 01:02:32 PM
I wanna jump in before one of the chainsaw lunatics do. Wayne, yer chain is loose. :D ;)
Duuhhh, you mean it's not supposed to be like that ??? I left the scrench in the shop. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...
Thats a perfect Yellow pine, that will give you some select lumber. I cut and all so skidded Yellow pine out in the Rocky Mts. in Montana. We had to cut-em 33' and 25' so that they'd make 2, 16' logs and 2, 12' logs. I loved Montana, beautiful country to log in, i wish i would have stayed out there.
Chains a lot better a little lose then to tight, i believe your story.
Nice looking tree, will stay tuned for the "after" pics of yer lumber stacks.
Nice looking log. Looking forward to seeing at some lumber after you mill it?
John
Nice tree, it takes over 100 years to grow a Red Pine that big up here.
Wish we had some of those in my area too. Plenty of hardwoods but softwoods are few and far between. I occasionally get a spruce but they're so full of knots framing lumber is out of the question.
Very nice tree. I guess I am unlucky. The few trees I have had killed by lightning were blown apart and skorched. Totally unusable.
I see a big pine in my yard is turning brown. The bottom 15 feet is diseased and deformed. I should be able to get several 2 X 4's out of the top. Since it's in my yard, so I will have the experience of cleaning up limbs. Good Winter time project. LOL