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Phisherman

21/03/2008 11:31 PM

60' fallen pine

A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?


This topic has 13 replies

Rr

Rick

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 2:21 PM

Phisherman wrote:
> A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
> storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
> How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?

Find someone with a portable mill and cut it "through-and-through" in
6/4 and 8/4 slabs. All sorts of uses for nice slabs.

R.

MM

"Mike Marlow"

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 8:19 PM


"Phisherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

>
> Not sure the kind of pine (in east TN). I posted 3 pictures in
> A.B.P.W. Hopefully someone can identify it. A good portion of the
> bottom is without branches.

Kinda looks like a red pine. Makes ok lumber, but it's not one of the
better trees for it.

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-Mike-
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MM

"Mike Marlow"

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 6:18 AM


<clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:31:19 -0400, Phisherman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
>>storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
>>How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?
>
>
> Lots of Knotty pine lumber. Or mediocre firewood.
> For good (straight pine) lumber you need forest grown pine with long,
> straight trunk with no low branches.
>

Around here, we'd call it crummy firewood - only good for campfires.

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-Mike-
[email protected]

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Phisherman

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

24/03/2008 10:42 PM

Not sure. The needles are in pairs, small cones in groups. I need to
do more research to ID this pine. Looking at various ways to cut some
slabs to make chair seats, there's more wood here than I need.

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:19:16 GMT, Pat Barber
<[email protected]> wrote:

>White pine or yellow pine ???
>
>Makes a BIG difference in which way to go.
>
>Phisherman wrote:
>> A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
>> storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
>> How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?

Pn

Phisherman

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 6:55 PM

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:05:34 -0500, dpb <[email protected]> wrote:

>Phisherman wrote:
>> A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
>> storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
>> How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?
>
>Any idea of what kind of pine? One of the white pines would be useful
>for much if there is any length w/o large branches.
>
>Don't say where you are, west of the MS pines are very commonly used as
>firewood (quite successfully, btw) as there isn't much hardwood.


Not sure the kind of pine (in east TN). I posted 3 pictures in
A.B.P.W. Hopefully someone can identify it. A good portion of the
bottom is without branches.

PB

Pat Barber

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

24/03/2008 2:19 PM

White pine or yellow pine ???

Makes a BIG difference in which way to go.

Phisherman wrote:
> A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
> storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
> How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?

Ll

"Lee"

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 4:59 PM

Camp fire wood...if you handle it at all be prepared to have your gloves and
possibly your clothing ruined by the sap...lots and lots of sap after that's
gone more sap lolol
"Phisherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
> storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
> How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?

jn

"joe"

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 2:13 PM


>
> Lots of Knotty pine lumber. Or mediocre firewood.
> For good (straight pine) lumber you need forest grown pine with long,
> straight trunk with no low branches.
>
not even mediocre firewood, unless you enjoy having your chimney cleaned
frequently.

jc

Gg

"George"

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 12:22 PM


"Phisherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
> storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
> How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?

Call the turning set over to help dismember. Lumber it won't be if it held
branches all the way down, but turnings and kindling you have in abundance.

Rent a shredder after limbing, and make sure you have long sleeves and
throwaway gloves.

Shallow root systems do that a lot.

dn

dpb

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 12:05 PM

Phisherman wrote:
> A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
> storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
> How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?

Any idea of what kind of pine? One of the white pines would be useful
for much if there is any length w/o large branches.

Don't say where you are, west of the MS pines are very commonly used as
firewood (quite successfully, btw) as there isn't much hardwood.

--

dn

dpb

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

23/03/2008 9:34 AM

Phisherman wrote:
...
> Not sure the kind of pine (in east TN). I posted 3 pictures in
> A.B.P.W. Hopefully someone can identify it. A good portion of the
> bottom is without branches.

Sorry, my news server doesn't host binary groups...

If it wasn't a specimen planting, in E TN a goodly bet would be a yellow
pine; if it was, could be quite a number of choices.

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ca

clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 8:23 PM

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:21:17 -0500, Rick
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Phisherman wrote:
>> A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
>> storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
>> How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?
>
>Find someone with a portable mill and cut it "through-and-through" in
>6/4 and 8/4 slabs. All sorts of uses for nice slabs.
>
>R.

Sounds like possibly southern yellow pine - and lumber quality if not
"clear"


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ca

clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada

in reply to Phisherman on 21/03/2008 11:31 PM

22/03/2008 12:11 AM

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:31:19 -0400, Phisherman <[email protected]>
wrote:

>A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
>storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter.
>How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?


Lots of Knotty pine lumber. Or mediocre firewood.
For good (straight pine) lumber you need forest grown pine with long,
straight trunk with no low branches.

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