Today....

[Jehinten]

A chunky pin oak removal from this week. The tree was 100' tall and somewhere near 48"dbh. The second to the last log pick (laying horizontal in the second pic) was 9700lbs. A little heavier than we had intended, the line strength on the crane is 10,000lbs.

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[Matias]

What else are you going to do with sweat gum? There's much better stuff around here to make stuff out of. I'm just glad to see it stay out of the dump. That's where most of the sweat gum ends up. No one even wants it for firewood.

Not saying there isn't better wood, but when I see a decently girthy, straight log of anything that's got some character to the heartwood, I just wanna make some cabinets, bed frames, amp housings, etc.

I know what you're saying though; people throw away black walnut, English walnut, Cedar, Fir, white oak, black oak, blue oak... you name it, people throw it away.

 

[oldoakman]

When I was in business I had an acquaintance that had a bandsaw mill the I took anything that could be milled to. I had a ton of cherry, oak, poplar and white pine milled by him. My next equipmentbinvestment was going to be my own mill. That never happened though.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Collecting milled wood can become a compulsion. Like any hoarding or collecting disfunction it can overwhelm one's life. The next move is a 12 Step support group.

Wood Collectors Anonymous

Hi...my name is Tom. I collect Interesting Lumber.

 

[Serf Life]

My mill pile is becoming my fruiting fungus pile…

 

[Bendroctanus]

I thought I was alone…..

 

[Bendroctanus]

Hi, my name is Ben and I collect interesting wood in an ambitious and optimistic hope that someday I could make something out it even though I live in a constant time deficit.

 

[Bendroctanus]

This should become its own thread. WCA.

 

[rico]

Nice half day of work on a Sunday! Nasty 210 ft back-leaning fir. Brushed out and wooded down to 18-20 inch at 160-165 ft. Finish her up in the mañana.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I thought I was alone…..

Hi Ben...

 

[rico]

 

[Matias]

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Get it

 

[cory]

Nice half day of work on a Sunday! Nasty 210 ft back-leaning fir.

HFS. Smh.

Hella work there. These lil cabins in the woods surrounded my massive trees, do they get squished alot from storm damage or not so much cuz all the trees work together. Or a lil of both?

 

[Steve Connally]

Someday I'd like to climb one of those. Bucket list stuff.

 

[rico]

HFS. Smh.

Hella work there. These lil cabins in the woods surrounded my massive trees, do they get squished alot from storm damage or not so much cuz all the trees work together. Or a lil of both?

They do get squished from time to time, but not as often as you would think. I will say that when its wet and really blowing down here the wife and I grab the dogs and get the fuck out.

 

[oceans]

Hi, my name is Ben and I collect interesting wood in an ambitious and optimistic hope that someday I could make something out it even though I live in a constant time deficit.

Hi, my name is Eric and I collect cool pieces of wood. I used to have a pile of wood and another pile of intention. Then I finally got a saw mill. I thought that would make everything ok, but now I have an even bigger pile of wood and pile of intention, but somehow less and less time.

 

[Matias]

Hi, my name is Eric and I collect cool pieces of wood. I used to have a pile of wood and another pile of intention. Then I finally got a saw mill. I thought that would make everything ok, but now I have an even bigger pile of wood and pile of intention, but somehow less and less time.

May I refer you to https://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/wood-collector’s-anonymous.48749/

 

[Bendroctanus]

Hi, my name is Eric and I collect cool pieces of wood. I used to have a pile of wood and another pile of intention. Then I finally got a saw mill. I thought that would make everything ok, but now I have an even bigger pile of wood and pile of intention, but somehow less and less time.

It’s a safe space.

 

[southsoundtree]

Part of today is for moving milled wood under cover.

Yesterday, we finished a 3 cable and 2 brace system to replace an old Cobra system in a backyard cherry.

 

[TreeVB]

We got to play with the 300 ton to remove 6 nasty willows. Pretty amazing what this thing can do.