Sad day tomorrow..

We are refinishing our kitchen with oak flooring we had milled from a few oaks we felled in our woods. Any chance you'll get some/attempt to get some millable lumber out of that tree, Mark? It looks like that trunk has a couple of board feet in it. ;)
 
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Does anyone ever talk with the trees when they put them down? I have and heard of Indians back in the days praying for trees when cutting them down. All the best with the removal.

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I thought it was fascinating.
 
I'm really glad to here other professionals express that kind of sentiment about a tree. One of the privileges of our job is that we get to spend time in trees that no one else has ever been in. To me it is entering into history- it may be tree history but history none the less. So sometimes we are the first person to be in them and sometimes sadly the last. Who knows Mark-a month from now you will probably start a new relationship with another great tree. Good luck!
 
I fell bad when we cut down big trees. We just cut down a large ash last week. We have been removing the dead and cabling it for years now and this past summer it only had one limb left alive. It was around 60" dbh. We have to grind the stump still, to get the flare out so the homeowner can have a flat area in the yard, we have to grind at least 14' of stump/flare/etc. Good thing our grinder has 114hp
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When I tell a friend who is part native america about big trees we cut down, she asks me if I said a little pray for it, usually I do say thank you to myself for it.
 
Yeah Mark that is sad. I've got a tree here with the same story only it's a Macrocarpa. It's still doing well though so the story is happy for now:) but have removed about a hundred centurions this winter......sad but not as sad as the 250-300 yr old oak of yours! Would be interesting to count the rings on that one! I'll start the guessing with 260 yrs?
 
My Logo is a White Oak due to being the Charter Oak as the CT state tree which is a White Oak. Some serious thought has gone into which tree is my favorite, and the White Oak is my winner, that is why it is my LOGO. I have a spiritual connection in many things and Trees are one of them. I have to say Mark that the Tree wouldnt want anyone else but YOU to do the task! Enough said right.... Be safe doing it and if ya do have a conversation with her, ask her to have your back when doing some real bad ones! Believe! You can always plant another White Oak in her memory!
 
Good luck on the removal Mark. This is a oak in my neighborhood we are working on in the next couple of weeks. The large limb on the ground was alive until last year.
 

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Sad doing jobs as those Mark .had to to a few real old white oaks at the George School.. roads and housing were more of a priority tried moving building in a different location , didn't work . like to see pics
 
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Does anyone ever talk with the trees when they put them down? I have and heard of Indians back in the days praying for trees when cutting them down. All the best with the removal.

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When im fellin' a tree i always lie and tell her that im rich and smart and i love her, talk her into layin right down where i want her to.
 
Hey Mark is that Steve in the tree on the left? Kinda cool seeing brothers climb and prune together.
I think its awesome to have the same Arborist care for such a tree for so long and through so much.
 
To give perspective, in the first two pics you can see the lowest limb towards the right weighed in at 6,700#. The upper leader in ftoak4 and 5 (pic 12 and 13 from left) weighed 8,000#. And the larger log with the decay was just over 9,000#. Still not happy about removing it.
 
That was a nasty long tear out for any tree to recover from.

Was any millable lumber saved?

Please tell me you didn't use a bucket rather than climb Mark?

Regardless you did a great job putting down a truly massive and noble old oak.

Did you count how many picks?

Looking forward to the vid.

jomoco
 
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