On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:32:52 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

Mike M wrote:


My property is primarily Fir, Cedar, and Hemlock with some Maple and
Wild Cherry. I'm mostly taking out the 130' tall multi headed
Hemlocks so I can sleep better at night.

Wow - that's weird, at least around here it would be weird. We don't see
multiple heads on Hemlock around here. 130' is also a really good height.
Not sure how often you could find that kind of height around here - usually
more like 60' or so.

With some of the Doug Fir
that came down on the neighbors property as I was splitting rounds I
probably put 25% to one side to be resawn for boxes ect. A tree guy
I do some work for hauling chips or excavator work got to log part of
an old growth forest. He's got 5' diameter rounds about 6' long
that's he is taking to the mill to have it cut for doing his floor. He
will also get it kiln dried. Wonderful colors in old fir. I did my
living room trim in clear straight grain fir with an oil finish.

Sweet. I don't think we have any amount of DF around here anymore, let
alone stuff that big around. You can find hard maple around that is that
size or even bigger, but even that is getting hard to find. Nice to be able
to score that and mill it into what you want.

Here's one of them coming down.
http://s1185.photobucket.com/albums/...1040946482.mp4

Here's a picture of the stump from that tree. Took me 3 days to dig
it out and had to rent a bigger excavator in the end.

http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/...ent/photo2.jpg

I'm in the foothills of W. Washington so there still some tall stuff.
The hemlock isn't worth hauling to the mill, and the Doug Fir is
pretty low right now that it's shocking when you go to buy it. I was
going to finance a woodmiser sawmill for the tree guy but it didn't
pan out do to various complications.

Mike M