How would you resaw this?

[Bob Eustace]

Gosh you guys make big trees!

[steve_g]

Two man pit saw?
SG

[Roy Harding]

I'd sub-contract it out.

[scottp55]

I'd ask Russ to get us a bigger train:)

[myxpykalix]

what would give you the cleanest cut, and what i'd use is one of those japanese
Shark Corp 10-2610 Takumi Dozuki 9-Inch Super Fine Cut Saw:eek:

[Ken Sully]

This is what I would use

http://wimp.com/australianchainsaw/

[srwtlc]

Here's the two man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-kyap7IAE) version.

If one ever gets the chance to stand amongst a redwood grove in N. Cal, do so, it's awesome to see!

[myxpykalix]

"WooooW...I got to get me one of them":eek:

[scottp55]

Here's a link to a pic of a guy resurfacing a 32/4X15X18' "PANEL" for a TRUE piece of wall art. Wonder where the heck that piece wound up.:)http://oldphotoguy.com/p333085964/h1A8AC2AE#h1a8ac2ae

[genek]

Large logs that were to big to be sawed by the Saw mill were split into sections that the saw mill could handles. My great grandfather had a saw mill. that could handle trees as big as 5 foot in diameter that was run by a water wheel. I have a painting of the old saw mill.

sometimes they actually would use black powder to split the logs... This I learned from my grandfather and watched my grandfather and dad split a tree to be sawed by the new saw mill that my grandfather had that way.

[CNYDWW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vODXyUmkEoo

[Tom Bachman]

Here's the two man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-kyap7IAE) version.

If one ever gets the chance to stand amongst a redwood grove in N. Cal, do so, it's awesome to see!

I did just that this past June. And AWESOME barely describes it.

A small grove which dwarfs my car!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/toms94/California%20trip%202013/The%20trip%20out/Day4Theredwoods097a_zpse29f5f3d.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/toms94/media/California%20trip%202013/The%20trip%20out/Day4Theredwoods097a_zpse29f5f3d.jpg.html)

A "sizable" tree with my wife in front.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/toms94/California%20trip%202013/The%20trip%20out/Day4Theredwoods093a_zps020fa764.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/toms94/media/California%20trip%202013/The%20trip%20out/Day4Theredwoods093a_zps020fa764.jpg.html)

Here I am in front of the General Sherman, the largest living thing on earth. Just a note here, I'm probably 40 feet closer to the camera than the tree. The tree is 38' in diameter at the base.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/toms94/California%20trip%202013/The%20trip%20out/Day4Theredwoods074a_zps99df98a6.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/toms94/media/California%20trip%202013/The%20trip%20out/Day4Theredwoods074a_zps99df98a6.jpg.html)

[waterwheelman]

I grew up in the Columbia River Gorge area of Washington and Oregon. As a kid in grade school (about 1955) I remember seeing log trucks on the highways that had a single log of Douglas Fir that filled the entire width of the truck. That would make them about 6 to 8 feet in diameter. It was a common site in those days. It was considered old growth timber, and it was still available for harvest. Now days the only old growth trees you can find are in state or national park lands. The biggest Doug Fir log you might see now days would be about 2 or maybe 3 feet in diameter. In the lumber yards the timber is labeled as "Hem-Fir". It's mostly Hemlock which is an inferior wood to Doug Fir for structural use. There is no such a species as HemFir. :)

[myxpykalix]

Tom.
You both look like "Lilliputians":D If you're close to my age you'll get it:)

It is amazing the majesty of mother nature.:eek:

[bleeth]

David I beg to differ with you. There are many plantations of Hem-Fir trees in undisclosed locations throughout the Northwest. They are tended by families of Sasquatch, a gentle, secretive creature that lives on Spotted Owl Eggs.
(That's one of those big Redwoods I'm leaning against in my "Avatar". It was around 15 or so in diameter.)

[ssflyer]

Living in Northern California, I've seen a few... :D
Still looking for the sasquatch, though!

[waterwheelman]

Dave I think you are referring to the pot growing plantations we have now. After all this is Washington State. Hem-Fir is just a ploy to throw the feds off track. ;)