Quoted a big red oak today.

[Wilhelm]

I'm just a firewood hack, but folks know I have a large saw so I get offers to come take big trees that get downed for the firewood. I like running the saw and use the wood so it's all good.

I have a standing offer on the log of a big Oak. Struck by lightning the guys nephew fell it a couple years back. It is in the pasture ABOVE his house, and of course the nephew fell it across the slope.

Most his friends and family have hacked off what they could. The stump measures 48". What doesn't show is the steep grade of this slope and that about 40' to the right and below this log is his house.

I can get a lot of wood above the first branch still, but visions of 40"+ rounds rolling through his house have me on pause.

If memory serves, that first branch to the right is larger than 12", the guy in the pic is about 5'8" he was down by the the little end.

dw

Sent from the fone small keys typos likely.....

Get a split log to use as a chock and start cutting rounds. When you cut off a round, noodle it in half while still chocked or lay it flat and start splitting. Then it won't go anywhere. If you can get a truck/trailer next to that tree, don't let it go to waste.

That is about what I thought, noodle first them buck the round.

A round noodled in half shouldn't go far.
Although on a steep hill even half a round might catch momentum and escape uncontrolled.

Maybe noodle it in three pieces before bucking the round?

Leaving that trunk to rot is a shame!

 

[dougie]

Leaving that trunk to rot is a shame!

I completely agree. I mostly waiting on one of my partners to come of the D/L. One guy did, just in time for his lawn care work to take off again this year, and with the rains this year, if it is not raining, he is mowing.

I'm gonna start on it in the next 2 weeks if I have to go it alone.

dw

Sent from the fone small keys typos likely.....

 

[fearofpavement]

Went by the tree site again today (the one in the OP). Additional progress has been made but basically the tops of the tree are gone, the damaged buildings are visible and he has some of the larger diameter wood cut into rounds. The entire main stem is still intact as is the root ball. He's got a ways to go. I've decided that if I get a phone call, I'm no longer interested...
Not expecting a call though.

 

[exSW]

Went by the tree site again today (the one in the OP). Additional progress has been made but basically the tops of the tree are gone, the damaged buildings are visible and he has some of the larger diameter wood cut into rounds. The entire main stem is still intact as is the root ball. He's got a ways to go. I've decided that if I get a phone call, I'm no longer interested...
Not expecting a call though.

Right about now he's thinking how cheap $1300.00 is.

 

[Jose A.S.T.S.]

Tree work is calculated decisions that could be life threatening home owners really have no idea. It's not just grab a saw and cut. For me it's if I do this and it don't do this then what and if it does what I really hope it don't thank the Good Lord above I have insurance and well go from there. I have seen everything done right and trees not do what they should. Chunking them out from over a house and a piece some how gets away and goes through the roof all the way to the floor a few hundred buck ain't going to fix it.... people don't want to think of that, tree work is very serious that's why I love it.... God has been very good to me and my business and I am very thankful

 

[Jose A.S.T.S.]

I completely agree. I mostly waiting on one of my partners to come of the D/L. One guy did, just in time for his lawn care work to take off again this year, and with the rains this year, if it is not raining, he is mowing.

I'm gonna start on it in the next 2 weeks if I have to go it alone.

dw

Sent from the fone small keys typos likely.....

@dougie If I was closer friend I would love to help ya cut that baby up big stuff like that make me smile its a blast....

 

[dougie]

@dougie If I was closer friend I would love to help ya cut that baby up big stuff like that make me smile its a blast....

The cutting is fun... the loading splitting etc. not so much.

dw

Sent from the fone small keys typos likely.....

 

[Jose A.S.T.S.]

I'm always looking for an excuse to run my big saws if it's to big it will become smaller....

 

[hseII]

Tree work is calculated decisions that could be life threatening home owners really have no idea. It's not just grab a saw and cut. For me it's if I do this and it don't do this then what and if it does what I really hope it don't thank the Good Lord above I have insurance and well go from there. I have seen everything done right and trees not do what they should. Chunking them out from over a house and a piece some how gets away and goes through the roof all the way to the floor a few hundred buck ain't going to fix it.... people don't want to think of that, tree work is very serious that's why I love it.... God has been very good to me and my business and I am very thankful

Thank You for Sharing, and for giving praise where praise is due: He's been good to me too.

 

[hseII]

@dougie If I was closer friend I would love to help ya cut that baby up big stuff like that make me smile its a blast....

Yes.

 

[hseII]

Right about now he's thinking how cheap $1300.00 is.

I'd answer the call if the PO called back, and tell him $1100.

If he said what in the world, I'd remind him that he's already done the easy work.

 

[Jose A.S.T.S.]

The root ball/smoothing out making it look like the tree wasn't there isn't going to happen in a minute, blow a hydraulic hose....your very close to not making money.....

 

[fearofpavement]

Drove by the tree site today that's the subject of this post that started 9 weeks ago. The rootball and about 30' of the attached stem are still unmoved. Guess it wasn't as easy for the guy to knock out as he expected. All the top of the tree is gone.

 

[Jughead]

I estimated a storm clean up job a while back for the property owners Insurance.actually was going to use it for a little bit of a paycheck this winter. $10,800 plus firewood and logs would have put me and my buddy through winter comfortably and fixed the final drive on his Hoe.the came back 2 weeks later and said well your welcome to the logs if you get them out. then they started cutting all of the standing trunks across rocks turning the pines into tooth picks. small stuff we could have milled into something on my buddy's band mill got sawed into firewood and burned with the brush.
What's left? Not much but I still have to cut and drag out with come a longs.
BTW if anyone has any wyeth scott come a longs for sale holler at me.lol

 

[fearofpavement]

@Jughead , not sure what you mean by that post. Did you not get the job but you're still doing some of it? Or are you taking out stuff just in exchange for having it?

 

[Jughead]

they asked for an estimate and done the clean up themselves.then made a bigger mess for me to sort through to scrape and scrounge.free for the taking but afraid that itll only be enough to pay the haul bill on the logs,buy diesel and saw gas.
what firewood we get will have to be hauled out same day because of lowlifes.