General Tree pics

[skyhuck]

hope fully there is a buyer for the butts but only 3 out of six where solid...but the seconds off the bad ones where not too bad.

this was the last one and i wanted as much timber as possible off it!

 

What sort of price you getting? if you don't mined my asking?

[David oakman]

I would have cut a MUCH BIGGER gob.

 

Did you sell the butt?

 

Not intended as a criticisms just my thoughts.

 

Iwould have puta little bigger gob:001_smile: Elm poor mans coffins thats about all i will get unless i mill myself up some oak before hand.

[Steve Bullman]

im having conti board

[David oakman]

Or try cardboard so the worms can get in and i can feed the local trees:001_smile:

[skyhuck]

im having conti board

 

I'm not having one!

 

I don't subscribe to this dieing lark, I think its over rated!

[Ross Smith]

 

 

nice sat job

[atree]

mattyf,

 

nice job on the horse chestnut,how do u get a nice compact shape from them,do you use your own eye or the groundys?

[Tom D]

I would have cut a MUCH BIGGER gob.

 

Did you sell the butt?

 

Not intended as a criticisms just my thoughts.

 

Gob looks ok to me... Just to be different. I certainly would'nt put a big gob in straight away, if you look at the first pic with the hollow stem a bigger gob would have been into the crappy stuff and resulted in a much weaker hinge. I'd rather a smaller gob of solid timber than a big one of rotten / hollow stuff. You can always make a small one bigger but you cant put a big one back.

 

I notice that quite a few folks on here like a big gob and I'm not saying its wrong but I rarely go further than 1/4 and have not had any problems. Occasionally with big old trees you have to take buttresses or rotten bits into account and then its just whatever fits the situation, but for healthy normal trees 1/4 or 1/5 seems fine. If any one on here has the big trees ticket I'd love to hear the official version.

[Topcat]

Tom. The smaller the gob the easier the tree will fall. it's all about the hinge.If the gob is 12" across by an inch wide there is less wood in the hinge then if the gob was 16" across by 1" = 25% less resistance so tree should fall earlier

[Mr Ed]

Tom. The smaller the gob the easier the tree will fall. it's all about the hinge.If the gob is 12" across by an inch wide there is less wood in the hinge then if the gob was 16" across by 1" = 25% less resistance so tree should fall earlier

 

Not strictly true. With a deep gob you undermine the centre of gravity, for every inch further back into the tree, you move up to a tonne of wood over the CofG, thus making gravity work for you. Also the wider the hinge point, the more control you have. if you need too, you can always bore out the centre.