Chainsaw Bar Length?

[vtsnowedin]

Not trying to hijack the thread, but what dmccarty says about trees dying with no apparent cause reminds me of the sugar maple in my side yard, it was about 25 years old and 16" across at the base when cut down, about 8 years ago I noticed many of the limbs were dying for no apparent reason, the limb dieback got progressively worse until close to two thirds of the tree was dead. when I cut it down two years ago I found no hollowing of the trunk and no sign of disease. The only reason I could think it might have died is because back in 2002 and 2003, we hired an excavating contractor to come in and dig a new foundation hole, although the hole was at least 25' from the tree trunk, a LOT of heavy dump truck and front end loader traffic crossed dozens of times over at least a third of the roots and I suspect soil compression was the reason for the dieback.

An extra four inches of fill if sterile soil can smother the roots and is all that is needed to kill a tree no matter how large. Add in some road salt to the fill and even less will do it. I don't know if root compression can also do it but most cases of traffic applying root compression also involve the importation of some contaminants or over fill.

 

[2458n]

There may have been some disease in the area. Might want to check with extension service. In Ohio we ate suffering fom the emerald ash bore. This is killing off ash trees in about 4 years. The Dutch Elm disease killed about 200 million trees. This bug is going to kill over a billion trees. You do not realize how common ash trees are until you see a area where this has happened.

 

[vtsnowedin]

There may have been some disease in the area. Might want to check with extension service. In Ohio we ate suffering fom the emerald ash bore. This is killing off ash trees in about 4 years. The Dutch Elm disease killed about 200 million trees. This bug is going to kill over a billion trees. You do not realize how common ash trees are until you see a area where this has happened.

I'm trying to market mine now while I can. Talked to a cabinet maker just yesterday that wants a couple of eight foot logs of clear number one. Wish he needed more. I'll sell all the small stuff as cord wood this year and next and ship the saw logs as I can get the mills to take them.

 

[DeereMann]

Doggone invasive pest species are wrecking the landscape. Dutch elm fungus, oak wilt fungus, emerald ash borer, gypsy moth, etc. etc.

Pretty soon there won't be any nice hardwoods left. Dutch elm wiped out the elms here, oak wilt has taken many of the hard oaks (black & red), gypsy moth outbreaks have wiped out some nice forests, now here comes the emerald ash borer. Everybody planted ash trees as the 'safe' replacement for the others. Hah!

Anyway, I'm about done with hard oak removal & processing after 22 years. But that's why I needed 3 pro quality saws. The tree service guys wanted about $1000 a tree and I had 70 of them. I burned most of them for heat, but I wish I had access to a mini sawmill. The red oaks would have made gorgeous furniture.

Oh well.

 

[MossRoad]

Axe works too!

To be clear.... the axe never works.:laughing:

 

[vtsnowedin]

To be clear.... the axe never works.:laughing:

I don't know what you are talking about. A good sharp axe is what they used to cut down all the old growth timber east of the Mississippi. The two man crosscut saw came in late but modern chainsaws didn't come into common use until after WW2. Slow of course but it will get the job done if you have the time and know how to sharpen it.

 

[turnkey4099]

To be clear.... the axe never works.:laughing:

True dat!

Harry K

 

[Egon]

To be clear.... the axe never works.:laughing:

Yes; so true:thumbsup: