When a saw is big but still too small

[Joel/ak]

Watching the show timber titans on the weather channel.

This group found an old ceder they need to cut so it can be airlifted.

A 72" saw was flown in and still not big enough without walking around it.

Can't imagine that but yet I can, if that makes sense.

Only had to walk a cut a few times with my 800p 36" where I live but it's real rare.

What's the biggest bar they make? What saw has the power to run it?

 

[Joel/ak]

Since the crew was being flown in and out due to terrain. They tried a 2 team attack.

Reach as far as possible with the big saw and a 2nd sawyer during an under cut with a smaller saw.

They are on Vancouver island and trying to avoid it cuz of the terrain but you do what you have to.

Pretty interesting show that shows different tactics and ideas that I don't think about

 

[RandyT]

Stihl has a 59" for the 088/880/881 and Husqvarna did or still does supply a 72" for the 3120XP which are both 120cc class sizes. I have personally ran both of those saws with that bar on them. Normally run a 36" but with my nephews stump grinding business have had several that the 36" wouldn't quite reach the center. going all the way around it.

 

[texas42]

Also on the same show they have "Climbers" that top those cedars 100 foot up - that's scary to me

 

[BleedingOrange]

Not long ago I watched loggers in a skill competition use a V8 powered saw to cut thru a huge log in a matter of seconds. Not sure what the diameter was, but it zipped thru like a hot knife thru butter.

 

[Joel/ak]

Also on the same show they have "Climbers" that top those cedars 100 foot up - that's scary to me

Wouldn't catch me doing that. I respect gravity.

 

[oosik]

We moved down from Alaska in 1982. For the first ten years we heated with wood. I initially had the mistaken idea that bigger trees could be processed into firewood easier.

Found out - real fast - this was wrong. My ancient Ponderosa pines are enormous. 34" to 38" on the butt cut. 90 to 105 feet tall. My Huskvarna saw had a 26 inch bar. Falling these big trees was not a whole lot of fun.

Huffing the gigantic rounds up onto the splitter was not fun either.

So I did the logical thing. Had the property selectively logged and started felling the smaller pines for firewood.

 

[Joel/ak]

We moved down from Alaska in 1982. For the first ten years we heated with wood. I initially had the mistaken idea that bigger trees could be processed into firewood easier.

Found out - real fast - this was wrong. My ancient Ponderosa pines are enormous. 34" to 38" on the butt cut. 90 to 105 feet tall. My Huskvarna saw had a 26 inch bar. Falling these big trees was not a whole lot of fun.

Huffing the gigantic rounds up onto the splitter was not fun either.

So I did the logical thing. Had the property selectively logged and started felling the smaller pines for firewood.

Thats why I cheat. I use hydraulics.

You still won't get me 100ft in the air topping a tree. I'll do anything atleast once but I don't like heights. Don't care what it pays

 

[Skeans1]

Watching the show timber titans on the weather channel.

This group found an old ceder they need to cut so it can be airlifted.

A 72" saw was flown in and still not big enough without walking around it.

Can't imagine that but yet I can, if that makes sense.

Only had to walk a cut a few times with my 800p 36" where I live but it's real rare.

What's the biggest bar they make? What saw has the power to run it?

Largest that’s commercially sold is a 96” bar by Cannon. Saw wise you’re normally talking something like a hopped up 090 to run that.

That said most super large stuff is cut by cutting a window into the tree and cutting inside that window.

 

[xyz123]

This guy mills hardwoods with a 76" clone G888 and afm bar.