(the scheduler….didn’t.. so this was posted a bit after noon ) Should have been at 8:30 AM

I cut these final rounds on Friday afternoon and will be breaking them up Saturday morning for splitting later.

Man, that was a big tree. It fell in April due to wind….literally pulled the roots out of the ground, and I have spent the summer cutting the tops, branches, and most of the smaller parts of the trunk for firewood for later this winter. I gave about a cord to my neighbor as he was short for this year. Plus about 5 ricks to Ed as he is 75 and just failing physically and can’t cut and split his own any longer.

I did a quick count of the rings and extrapolated a bit and determined this tree was about 130 years +/- old….A nice white oak. A shame to use it for firewood, but no sawmill will take a yard tree for fear of nails.

Big wood

This is the last of it, and it needs to season a winter before burning.

For size reference, that saw is a 1976 36 inch bar McCulloch Double Eagle 80. What a beast of a saw. Made for someone who is more man that me, I gotta tell ya.  4 hours cutting with that thing and I am DONE. My forearms and wrist are toast.

Better than bucking a crosscut saw with another person though.

Each 16 inch thick round weighs between 450  and 550 lbs,  so that is about 3 and a third tons of wood. It’ll lose 15-20% of it’s weight due to evaporating water over the winter though.

Still gotta split it and stack it yet, so the work ain’t done.

I burned some calories today and will burn many more in the near future. Better than a gym membership.