arkland wrote:

I was going to prune the top of a 30-foot oak, but on advice of this
forum, I simply chain sawed it down.

I hope you burn in hell for that. Too bad the tree didn't knock you
down and split your skull open on the way down.

I cut up the logs into 20 inch lengths of from 1.5 feet in diameter
down to about six to ten inches in diameter.

The lumber in that tree was probably worth more that you make in a year.