34 year old baby giant.....

[rbtree]

This open grown redwood was nearly as wide is it was tall. Planted a mere 34 years ago, it produced about 24 yards of chips. The four logs weighed 15-17000 pounds. We worked the lowest branches off an orchard ladder, and used an 11 foot long stick saw. Then, I went up on the Wraptor, set a lowering line, came down and started rigging the limbs. Dan Martin of Big Huge Trees Tree Service finished the limbing. I craned the sticks out two days later. Butt cut close to 56". Now that's some growth rings!

Too bad I didn't do a better job of explaining to Adam how to use my camera. The focus is way off on the images, same for the video, but those are barely acceptable...

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[MasterBlaster]

Wow, crying shame to kill such a nice specimen.

 

[rbtree]

Sort of... but, as is usual, it had outgrown its space... and in a mere 34 years!

 

[Limbrat]

Quite a chunk of wood for a 34 year old. Very nice work.

 

[flushcut]

How big were the growth rings?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Some fat wood for a smaller tree. Nice to see some hustle on a ground man too.

 

[rbtree]

Halldin's a good kid... and a competent climber.

flushcut, have a go at the math..... if the butt cut was about 56", and the tree is only 34, what would be the average growth ring width?

 

[squisher]

Yah but what was the biggest or bigger rings? Trees usually start slower and I bet that sucker was just starting to turn it on.

 

[SouthSoundTree]

I can't see Rogers link in this thread or another. Roger, did you p.o. the Tapatalk folks?

 

[rbtree]

Can't help ya with that Sean. Turn on your puter....... But this brushy teenager had 1/3 the brush of the giant that you helped us with....