Everyday day man's tree work and cutting thread

[blacksmith]

Nice work buddy.

Thank you!

 

[Normzilla]

Working on fort Ross road, a coast road above Cazadero. Downed sudden oak death tan oak cleanup.

 

[Normzilla]

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[grizz55chev]

Working on fort Ross road, a coast road above Cazadero. Downed sudden oak death tan oak cleanup.View attachment 163534

Snow on the coast, pretty rare event. Love your area, spent my early summers there as my family had a cabin at Villa Grand between Duncan Mills and Monte Rio. Did a lot of swimming on Austin Creek, clean, cold water and a great rope swing across from the National Forest Office. Great memories of the nort coast!

 

[Marshy]

 

[Basher]

Snow on the coast, pretty rare event. Love your area, spent my early summers there as my family had a cabin at Villa Grand between Duncan Mills and Monte Rio. Did a lot of swimming on Austin Creek, clean, cold water and a great rope swing across from the National Forest Office. Great memories of the nort coast!

Drove in a snowstorm from Fort Bragg up to Eureka one night, was very errie driving through the Redwoods with huge plops of snow falling off the upper limbs onto the hood of the ole Camero.

 

[Normzilla]

Storm tree in Healdsburg. Another crew cut on it

 

[grizz55chev]

Storm tree in Healdsburg. Another crew cut on itView attachment 163751

Nice oak, sadly, it’ll probably end up firewood.

 

[Normzilla]

Nice oak, sadly, it’ll probably end up firewood.

Yes you are right I think so too.

 

[danimal]

Nice oak, sadly, it’ll probably end up firewood.

This one did. I gots 19 cord out of it.
Hooray 288 !

 

[grizz55chev]

This one did. I gots 19 cord out of it.
Hooray 288 !View attachment 164008

My cousin had one similar to yours, we cut the branches for firewood, milled the rest with an Alaskan mill, I’ll look through my pics and see if I can post the process. Used a 064 Stihl and an 044 Stihl, took us the better part of a week, the mill was a 36” granberg. We had to trim the sides of the trunk to make it fit. Made some pretty slabs!

 

[danimal]

I noodled the whole tree onsite- trailered it home.

 

[grizz55chev]

I noodled the whole tree onsite- trailered it home.

Noodling is by far easier than milling, if you’ve ever spent a day with an Alaskan mill, I’m sure you’d agree. Most of the slabs we did were in the 34” wide by 10’ long dimension, took my cousins JD tractor to lift them as they were green,the tree was a blow down.

 

[MustangMike]

7.5' X 2' X 2" Red Oak makes for a darn heavy slab, but I don't have any equipment to move em, often just move em onto a round and roll them like the Egyptians moved the stones. Once I get one end in the trailer, they slide. I usually have to work alone on them.

 

[Wilhelm]

This one did. I gots 19 cord out of it.
Hooray 288 !View attachment 164008

You should have tried putting the tree back up into the ground, it is a rare species that has chainsaws growing out of it!

 

[00wyk]

This one did. I gots 19 cord out of it.
Hooray 288 !View attachment 164008

Be careful to cut around that chainsaw stuck in the trunk. They wreak havoc on chains.

 

[Basher]

I seriously doubt that chainsaw is stuck.

 

[00wyk]

I seriously doubt that chainsaw is stuck.

I seriously doubt I was serious.

 

[Normzilla]

This one did. I gots 19 cord out of it.
Hooray 288 !View attachment 164008

What a beast, makes the 288 look small. Though we know it's not

 

[danimal]

Widest spot on that oak was like 64" ifn I remember rite.
Solid as can be-cept 4ft at the base.
When the root base flipped back over-the ground SHOOK! wouldnt want to B in the way that's for sure.