You ever cut down a big tree?
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See that woman? About to her chest....maybe.....
that aint a big tree ------ that's F'n Huuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Cannot begin to imagine the "men" of yesterdays past.....they got the job done!
that aint a big tree ------ that's F'n Huuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Cannot begin to imagine the "men" of yesterdays past.....they got the job done!
Yeah, about 32" was the most I've gone. If the splitter can't split it, I don't cut it.
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Yikes! I did some that made me pucker, but that one is ridiculous. Question is, now what do you do with it when it's on the ground? Build a RR next to it to move it?
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How it was done back then. When I lived in Ohio, many years ago, I owned and operated a tree service and did some pretty big oaks. Even the 4 foot bar on the 075 Stihl wouldn't go all the way through. Cut them down (bucket truc and rigging, cut 'em up and grind the stumps.
My other life. Now I call one of my customers to handle the tree work. They bring them down, I buck them and a buddy takes the wood. They grind the stumps too.
My other life. Now I call one of my customers to handle the tree work. They bring them down, I buck them and a buddy takes the wood. They grind the stumps too.
While I don't doubt those size of trees were cut down in the early days (I've seen the redwoods in WA), something about that photo seems strange. How come all the other trees in the background are a lot smaller/shorter? With a tree that size, no one could move it, so where is the stump? Coincidence that the picture is just the end, perfectly perpendicular to the cut, and nothing is visible of the actual tree. A tree that size, would have been hundreds of feet tall, and would have taken out those trees in the background, especially the one standing nearby (above the head of the fellow on the ladder)
Me thinks Photoshop is someone's friend....
To answer the question, biggest tree I've cut is about 1.5 feet across, I'm too chicken to tackle any big ones....
Me thinks Photoshop is someone's friend....
To answer the question, biggest tree I've cut is about 1.5 feet across, I'm too chicken to tackle any big ones....
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Giant sequoias can grow to be about 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter and more than 250 feet (76 m) tall. The biggest of these behemoths is General Sherman, a giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park. General Sherman stands 275 feet (84 m) tall, has a 102-foot (31 m) circumference, and weighs an incredible 2.7 million lbs. (1.2 million kilograms).
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Years ago, I read the book Tall Trees Tough Men. It's about the logging industry in New England in the colonial through industrial era. Mostly Old Growth softwood (pine), some which were "Mast" trees used for the King of England's ships' masts early on.
I remember one recount of a young "teamster" that joined a crew one morning at breakfast, and was killed in an accident before lunch....
Amazing what they did with little power equipment, but it was dangerous work....
Tough men, indeed!
I remember one recount of a young "teamster" that joined a crew one morning at breakfast, and was killed in an accident before lunch....
Amazing what they did with little power equipment, but it was dangerous work....
Tough men, indeed!
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When I was young I saw a giant redwood cut down. Before cutting it, a team of men spent several days making a "landing" for it such that it would fall evenly on the ground. Even with this care, 30% of that tree shattered into unusable pieces.
I found two websites that give the source of the photo as the Library of Congress.
Here's one, about 3/4 down the page.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hic-pictures-giants-forest-Sierra-Nevada.html
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Here's one, about 3/4 down the page.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hic-pictures-giants-forest-Sierra-Nevada.html
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There were some very large trees that were up here in the early 1900's, In 1910 the biggest fire in North America (3 million acres) leveled just about all the trees in North Idaho, Bordering areas of Canada, and Northwestern Montana.
If you go into the backwoods fairly high up you can still find stumps of trees that are bigger across than a long bed Pickup truck, quite a sight.
And in the museum in Bonners Ferry, Idaho there is pictures of them hauling out trees that were six to ten times taller than the mules that were hauling them, quite a picture.
I am fortunate to have a few of the really old trees that survived the fires and subsequent logging runs, they are BIG Trees, one of the douglas firs died of natural causes a couple years ago, 38" across and 150 foot tall and when we cut it down it was 110 years old and you could see the years they had the fires, burnt rings.
If you go into the backwoods fairly high up you can still find stumps of trees that are bigger across than a long bed Pickup truck, quite a sight.
And in the museum in Bonners Ferry, Idaho there is pictures of them hauling out trees that were six to ten times taller than the mules that were hauling them, quite a picture.
I am fortunate to have a few of the really old trees that survived the fires and subsequent logging runs, they are BIG Trees, one of the douglas firs died of natural causes a couple years ago, 38" across and 150 foot tall and when we cut it down it was 110 years old and you could see the years they had the fires, burnt rings.