A few weeks back Gary Conklin (NCTurner) forwarded me a craigslist posting concerning a large tree. Normally I don't do tree removals, because the cost is usually more than the wood is worth. However, in this instance there were a four things that when combined, tilted the scales in favor of the removal.
Item one - the tree was black walnut.
Item two - it was over 38" in diameter!
Item three - the owner did not want any $ for it.
Item four - it had blown over during the recent tornados, and the root ball was still attached. All that I had to do was cut it up and to pile the remaining debris for the owner.
Yesterday fellow NCWW member Philip Crawford arrived at the farm at 6 am, and we headed over to Four Oaks to get the logs. Man, it was hot, but at the end of the day we had loaded one very nice butt log onto the trailer (10'6" x 38" diameter) one nice second log on the trailer (30" diameter with some nice crotchwood on one end), several 2' - 3' crotch sections, a couple of crotchwood bowl blanks, and as a bonus a 37" diameter 8'6" long red oak log! We also carved up half of the root ball to bring back to the farm in order to experiment on milling some gun stock blanks.
Philip got a real workout, and definitely had a lot of opportunity to hone his chainsaw skills. A long, hot day but very worthwhile in the end!
Thank you Gary for giving me the steer on the BW (one of the crotchwood bowl blanks has your name on it), and thank you Philip for all of your hard work!
Scott
Item one - the tree was black walnut.
Item two - it was over 38" in diameter!
Item three - the owner did not want any $ for it.
Item four - it had blown over during the recent tornados, and the root ball was still attached. All that I had to do was cut it up and to pile the remaining debris for the owner.
Yesterday fellow NCWW member Philip Crawford arrived at the farm at 6 am, and we headed over to Four Oaks to get the logs. Man, it was hot, but at the end of the day we had loaded one very nice butt log onto the trailer (10'6" x 38" diameter) one nice second log on the trailer (30" diameter with some nice crotchwood on one end), several 2' - 3' crotch sections, a couple of crotchwood bowl blanks, and as a bonus a 37" diameter 8'6" long red oak log! We also carved up half of the root ball to bring back to the farm in order to experiment on milling some gun stock blanks.
Philip got a real workout, and definitely had a lot of opportunity to hone his chainsaw skills. A long, hot day but very worthwhile in the end!
Thank you Gary for giving me the steer on the BW (one of the crotchwood bowl blanks has your name on it), and thank you Philip for all of your hard work!
Scott