One of the largest pines I have seen..

[Kyle]

Wasn't a bad price at all for the history. Due to the age alone (ignoring the fact it is so soft) I would personally hesitate to call it junk.

Now what came of the huge walnut slab?

Which one?

 

[paulross]

This is my first attempt at posting pictures in this forum, so bear with me. Here's a picture of a field pine I felled a couple of years ago on our property. Small end 32" on the big log; recovered 6 12' logs. The tree died because of drought. Coincidently, the ring count also gave a birth year of 1835. For some reason this tree was left standing throughout successive clearcuts. Two more trees of equal size are still alive on our property; both are clear without branching for 50 feet. I'm waiting for another drought or hurricane to take them down.

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Here are two more fun pictures. Here's a big Sycamore I took down 2 years ago. It died because its roots were damaged when a land conservation group rerouted a stream nearby, cutting off its water supply. It measured 5 and 1/2 feet in diameter at breast height. Solid as a rock. Sycamore rarely gets this big because it usually rots at the base and dies. This tree was so big I had to eighth the logs rather then quartering them. I recovered 1500 bdft. of 20" wide quartered (actually eighth) sycamore boards from the 4 main logs.

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[NCPete]

Nice big tree, Paul!

 

[scsmith42]

This is my first attempt at posting pictures in this forum, so bear with me. Here's a picture of a field pine I felled a couple of years ago on our property. Small end 32" on the big log; recovered 6 12' logs. The tree died because of drought. Coincidently, the ring count also gave a birth year of 1835. For some reason this tree was left standing throughout successive clearcuts. Two more trees of equal size are still alive on our property; both are clear without branching for 50 feet. I'm waiting for another drought or hurricane to take them down.

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Here are two more fun pictures. Here's a big Sycamore I took down 2 years ago. It died because its roots were damaged when a land conservation group rerouted a stream nearby, cutting off its water supply. It measured 5 and 1/2 feet in diameter at breast height. Solid as a rock. Sycamore rarely gets this big because it usually rots at the base and dies. This tree was so big I had to eighth the logs rather then quartering them. I recovered 1500 bdft. of 20" wide quartered (actually eighth) sycamore boards from the 4 main logs.​

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Paul, welcome to NCWW! What a GREAT first post! I'm envious over those wide QS Sycamore boards! Thanks much for the pix too.

When you have a moment, please post a thread introducing yourself.

Regards,

Scott

 

[Kyle]

Those are some nice trees. There are 3-4 just like that on the corner of our farm that are still kickin' so they get to keep on keepin' on. This Pine was actually from a clearcut in Lincolnton.

Super Sycamore..Got my eyeball on one similar if it starts to look a tad ill.

 

[Dusty Sawyer]

My FIL was born in 1922 and he grew up in western NY. When he was a boy he had an older gent for a neighbor who told him that it was not uncommon to see pine trees that scaled 3' at 90 in the air floating down the Erie Canal to a mill. I cannot imagine what they looked like as a standing forest - now that is something I wish I had the privilege to have witnessed.

Hope you have the best of luck with the yield and with the seasoning ...

I grew up in the same area and used to bike along the Erie Canal as a kid. From what I understand there is a fair living still to be made along the Canal as well as some of the great lakes by dive-locating and salvaging some of those logs. Now that's what I call hard core lumbering.