large oak tree

JimDRIl

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I had a large white oak, 5' diameter, cut down, my neighbor and I cut up the branches and split a lot of firewood. Now I'm left with a few huge trunk sections to get rid of. I'm thinking of setting fire to these but I'm concerned they'll mostly sit and smolder and not burn up all the way. I'd like to hear of others' experiences with something like this. The tree mostly died last year and didn't leaf out at all this year. If need be I'd pay to have it hauled away, but I'd much rather burn it.
 
In many places there are folks who would come and pick up your log to take to a small sawmill, if it is nice enough that someone would want it. I think it would be hard to get it to burn quickly or effectively.
Zach
 
There is a market for big logs if its solid!! My neighbor makes a lot of money on the side dropping these big trees and sawing the big logs into lumber. He had one big silver maple that was almost 5' in diameter. He took it to the mill to be cut up. Mill offered him $1,000 for the log. He took the money and left them with the work...
 
Do as Mike suggested and see if a sawmill wants it. That would make some nice oak boards. Probably worth some money. Hal
 
Here is what I did.
The six inch wide bucket ripped right thru the roots.
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Don't know where you are but some areas have mill that specialize in these large trees. They saw them for special use. Saw one where a dining room floor was done with 4 boards. Also tables made with one board ect. Good luck
 
Where I live there is a guy with a small sawmill. He hauled away a walnut log for me and later sent me a $300 check. The log was in the back yard. Most people want nothing to do with yard trees.

I took him 5 18 inch red oak logs. He later dropped of a pick-up load of red oak boards. Garage smell good.

He recently hauled away a tulip popular log. It was about 5 ft in diameter. He had to cut it in half to load it. Still waiting on some popular boards. Wish I had gotten some walnut boards instead of the money.

Check around. If you are close to Terre Haute, I'll give you his name.
 
(quoted from post at 15:50:16 08/02/13) I had a large white oak, 5' diameter, cut down, my neighbor and I cut up the branches and split a lot of firewood. Now I'm left with a few huge trunk sections to get rid of. I'm thinking of setting fire to these but I'm concerned they'll mostly sit and smolder and not burn up all the way. I'd like to hear of others' experiences with something like this. The tree mostly died last year and didn't leaf out at all this year. If need be I'd pay to have it hauled away, but I'd much rather burn it.

Uh, where I come from they call that a major source of firewood. Block it up, split it into sizeable chunks with wedges and go from there. I mean no offense but you're trying to toss the best of the firewood. It's kind of like the people that throw away wood that's "too crooked to burn". Huh?!
 
Get a big saw....or hire a tree company to cut it into slugs....then use your saw to cut the slugs into manageable pieces....then split it. A splitter on a skidloader would be handy as a pocket on a shirt in this scenario.
 
Ya you got that right. Too many nails from kids TREE FORTS. also CLOTHES lines and such. Does a hell of a job on the saw blade What really got me is to watch a real pro of a saw mill operator in action.
these guys just look at a log and can find every nail even several inches in! I was impressed!.It is something with how the bark is deformed.
 
My Dad always said the knots would last a lot longer, you are throwing away the best firewood, we always cut everything up into pieces we could load on truck, never left anything but the brush, a good sharp chain on a big saw will work, neighbor had a old sears saw direct drive and we cut a lot of very large oak trees out of an old forest, like i said we never left anything that would burn. Gene
 

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