What a load of crap.

[skyking]

Even if you have a couple of "32 chainsaws and knowledge (like I do), without a good splitter I'd jump on that price to see it gone. That crap will kill you if you try and split all that by hand.

 

[AMCRambler]

You will be busting you hump to cut that thing up yourself. How thick is the trunk? Looks like it's bigger than 2 feet thick. That's a lot of tree. If you tackle it yourself I hope you're in shape.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: boomerang

Originally posted by: Damn Dirty Ape
Update: Quote by a tree company that just came by, $600 to remove it from my property (east line, west line and south line) ONLY. Neighbor to the east and west (where it came from) and the city deal with their part themselves.

Wouldn't be bad to have a chainsaw, I do have a 10% coupon at lowes and home depot.

I'd jump on that price. I just can't imagine you finding a better price than that. The tree didn't really look that big until you pointed out the barrel. That thing is way, way too big for the average person to handle. Let the pros do the work and happily fork over the $600.

I understand your feelings, but it is what it is.

My burn barrel does look like a little toy in there.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Around here there would be 50 guys lined up offering to cut it up for free for the wood.

yea normally there would be, but since the whol town was ripped up (curfews, power out 9 days to the whole town practically), there is so much wood people are just piling it on their curbs to be taken away. Even sitting out for the taking until the city gets there, no one is touching it.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Damn Dirty Ape

Originally posted by: boomerang

Originally posted by: Damn Dirty Ape
Update: Quote by a tree company that just came by, $600 to remove it from my property (east line, west line and south line) ONLY. Neighbor to the east and west (where it came from) and the city deal with their part themselves.

Wouldn't be bad to have a chainsaw, I do have a 10% coupon at lowes and home depot.

I'd jump on that price. I just can't imagine you finding a better price than that. The tree didn't really look that big until you pointed out the barrel. That thing is way, way too big for the average person to handle. Let the pros do the work and happily fork over the $600.

I understand your feelings, but it is what it is.

My burn barrel does look like a little toy in there.

Lol yeah that tree is huge. i would love all teh wood from it. heh

My dad lives in Mariam IL. they have a lot of trees down from the storms. They had people come and offer to cut up the 2 trees that fell for the wood. they were nowhere as big as yours but they were still enough for 2 pickup loads of firewood for someone.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
You will be busting you hump to cut that thing up yourself. How thick is the trunk? Looks like it's bigger than 2 feet thick. That's a lot of tree. If you tackle it yourself I hope you're in shape.

its roughly 12 feet in circumference, I think about 4' or so.

I'd like a nice slab for a table.

There is also a concrete little patio behind the barrel, (4" thick concrete) and it's broken into a bunch of pieces too. So insurance apparently will pay to remove a portion of the tree since the patio pad was a covered 'other structure'. Pay to have it removed from the area of the pad, but it so happens that 2 pressure points holding it up are on the pad. Tree people say have to remove about 75 of the tree just to get it of the pad. Might be FTW there financially.

Like some have said I'm really uncomfortable with doing anything to the main trunk, and as I mentioned, no one wants any more firewoood around here either unfortunately.

Insurance adjuster supposed to come back and start a claim on the concrete and see what they will pay for it and the clearing off it sometime today.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: milehigh

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: JLee
Buy a chainsaw. Free firewood FTW. Oak is good stuff.

:thumbsup:

There were more injuries in our area from people using chainsaws than from the storm itself. It sucks that it's taking up your whole backyard...in a couple months that $2000 quote will turn into a $1000 quote.

QFT most here would maim themselves with a chainsaw.

I took down a 30' tree in my backyard. To get the stump out I had to dig a hole up to my neck and about 10' across. It took quite a few weekends.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: milehigh

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: JLee
Buy a chainsaw. Free firewood FTW. Oak is good stuff.

:thumbsup:

There were more injuries in our area from people using chainsaws than from the storm itself. It sucks that it's taking up your whole backyard...in a couple months that $2000 quote will turn into a $1000 quote.

QFT most here would maim themselves with a chainsaw.

I took down a 30' tree in my backyard. To get the stump out I had to dig a hole up to my neck and about 10' across. It took quite a few weekends.

just spent 4 hrs cutting several downed trees at my Mom's house this am with my new husqvarna 350 18" saw from lowes. They were smaller trees and all, but I wish I had weekends I could do those kind of projects like you mention.

I watched and helped my Dad when he would use his saw. Learned some as I came away with only sore forearms this morning

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Damn Dirty Ape

Originally posted by: boomerang

Originally posted by: Damn Dirty Ape
Update: Quote by a tree company that just came by, $600 to remove it from my property (east line, west line and south line) ONLY. Neighbor to the east and west (where it came from) and the city deal with their part themselves.

Wouldn't be bad to have a chainsaw, I do have a 10% coupon at lowes and home depot.

I'd jump on that price. I just can't imagine you finding a better price than that. The tree didn't really look that big until you pointed out the barrel. That thing is way, way too big for the average person to handle. Let the pros do the work and happily fork over the $600.

I understand your feelings, but it is what it is.

My burn barrel does look like a little toy in there.

Lol yeah that tree is huge. i would love all teh wood from it. heh

My dad lives in Mariam IL. they have a lot of trees down from the storms. They had people come and offer to cut up the 2 trees that fell for the wood. they were nowhere as big as yours but they were still enough for 2 pickup loads of firewood for someone.

Anybody wants some wood, pm me and we'll talk about it. free. Between Carbondale and Murphysboro.

 

[slag]

I'm a firm believer that more is better.. I have a craftsman (poulan) saw that is a turd.. gutless, not that great all around, and cold blooded. Had it for 5 years and if it saw that tree, it would literally fall apart.

I recently picked up two other saws, a McCullough(sp) pro, and a homelite super xl for 10 bucks apiece, both with magnesium shells.

I think either one of those could tackle the tree, but the homelite is the only one with an 18 inch bar and i dont think it would even be big enough. I'd have to put a 24 incher on it to cut through the trunk.

They just dont make them like they used to.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: slag
I'm a firm believer that more is better.. I have a craftsman (poulan) saw that is a turd.. gutless, not that great all around, and cold blooded. Had it for 5 years and if it saw that tree, it would literally fall apart.

I recently picked up two other saws, a McCullough(sp) pro, and a homelite super xl for 10 bucks apiece, both with magnesium shells.

I think either one of those could tackle the tree, but the homelite is the only one with an 18 inch bar and i dont think it would even be big enough. I'd have to put a 24 incher on it to cut through the trunk.

They just dont make them like they used to.

QFT, McCulloch honestly, truely do not make them like they used to. My mom (and about half a dozen other family members) worked there around the time that the owner sold to Black and Decker. They replaced durable metal parts with plastic parts that would wear out so people would have to replace it. A lot of steps that went in to quality checks (ie: xraying the flywheels for cracks) were dropped. The pre-B&D McCullochs are excellent, post... not so good. I won't get a Black and Decker anything because of it.

 

[Genx87]

Slice that sucker up and laminate it into furniture and profit. That looks great when done right. Use the rest for firewood imo.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: slag
I'm a firm believer that more is better.. I have a craftsman (poulan) saw that is a turd.. gutless, not that great all around, and cold blooded. Had it for 5 years and if it saw that tree, it would literally fall apart.

I recently picked up two other saws, a McCullough(sp) pro, and a homelite super xl for 10 bucks apiece, both with magnesium shells.

I think either one of those could tackle the tree, but the homelite is the only one with an 18 inch bar and i dont think it would even be big enough. I'd have to put a 24 incher on it to cut through the trunk.

They just dont make them like they used to.

QFT, McCulloch honestly, truely do not make them like they used to. My mom (and about half a dozen other family members) worked there around the time that the owner sold to Black and Decker. They replaced durable metal parts with plastic parts that would wear out so people would have to replace it. A lot of steps that went in to quality checks (ie: xraying the flywheels for cracks) were dropped. The pre-B&D McCullochs are excellent, post... not so good. I won't get a Black and Decker anything because of it.

You like DeWalt?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
QFT, McCulloch honestly, truely do not make them like they used to. My mom (and about half a dozen other family members) worked there around the time that the owner sold to Black and Decker. They replaced durable metal parts with plastic parts that would wear out so people would have to replace it. A lot of steps that went in to quality checks (ie: xraying the flywheels for cracks) were dropped. The pre-B&D McCullochs are excellent, post... not so good. I won't get a Black and Decker anything because of it.

You like DeWalt?

I perfer Makita and Milwakee.

 

[alkalinetaupehat]

Given that solid lumber furniture can be very expensive, I'd have to agree with several other posters that you should build some furniture from all that, especially if such an opportunity for FREE OAK lumber has literally landed in your backyard.

I would love to have a chance to build a solid oak bench for the backyard, and now that I think of it a neighbor has a tree from a June 12th storm last year which nearly totaled out our truck. It's pretty massive too...mwuahahaha

 

[ViviTheMage]

firewood isn't cheap....

keep the trunk, build something from it.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: alkalinetaupehat
Given that solid lumber furniture can be very expensive, I'd have to agree with several other posters that you should build some furniture from all that, especially if such an opportunity for FREE OAK lumber has literally landed in your backyard.

I would love to have a chance to build a solid oak bench for the backyard, and now that I think of it a neighbor has a tree from a June 12th storm last year which nearly totaled out our truck. It's pretty massive too...mwuahahaha

When all is said and done it's going to be cheaper to buy the oak in lumber form than the tools needed to build your own boards.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Tree gone from our property lines, details in original post.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: slag
I'm a firm believer that more is better.. I have a craftsman (poulan) saw that is a turd.. gutless, not that great all around, and cold blooded. Had it for 5 years and if it saw that tree, it would literally fall apart.

I recently picked up two other saws, a McCullough(sp) pro, and a homelite super xl for 10 bucks apiece, both with magnesium shells.

I think either one of those could tackle the tree, but the homelite is the only one with an 18 inch bar and i dont think it would even be big enough. I'd have to put a 24 incher on it to cut through the trunk.

They just dont make them like they used to.

They had a 35" and 2 25" ones. Had to come from either side. So far I've used this Husqvarna about 6 hours and really liking it.

Twice when cutting pressure points holding it up (using a bobcat w/ chain to hold), it pulled the bobcat on its nose like a toy.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
QFT, McCulloch honestly, truely do not make them like they used to. My mom (and about half a dozen other family members) worked there around the time that the owner sold to Black and Decker. They replaced durable metal parts with plastic parts that would wear out so people would have to replace it. A lot of steps that went in to quality checks (ie: xraying the flywheels for cracks) were dropped. The pre-B&D McCullochs are excellent, post... not so good. I won't get a Black and Decker anything because of it.

You like DeWalt?

I perfer Makita and Milwakee.

Good man.