how much does a tree weigh.

[Tully]

Ok..I want to get an approximate but as accurate as possible figure on the weight of a few of the veteran trees im managing.

How do you work out the weight of a tree ( without cutting it down ) ?

[dodger]

Ok..I want to get an approximate but as accurate as possible figure on the weight of a few of the veteran trees im managing.

How do you work out the weight of a tree ( without cutting it down ) ?

 

 

 

 

when buying timber it appox 28 cube to a ton depending on species but that the advange

[josharb87]

species dependant, last week took a green elm down, butt was approx 4.5ftx7ft and the hiab with a 3.3ton lift wouldnt lift it more than a foot, today done a sycamore, stem was approx 4ftx20ft and lifted it no prob

 

what are the trees?

[Tully]

Fagus and Quercus. Fairly large specimins.

I just wonder how you would go about the method to do so.

Would you have to climb every limb with a tape measure?

I've just never thought about it before.

[Billy]

Oak is a ton per 1m3 and Beech is probably similar, a big-ish oak could easily weigh 30-50 tons or more. I've been invlved wiht building a timber framed building using chestnut trunks as up right parts of the frame and the pairs of trunks 3ft by 30-45ft joined by a pair 12x12 chestnut beams the weights rnaged from 14 to 20 tons.

[Highland Forestry]

In forestry applications, very roughly, one cubic metre is approximatley one ton.

I often to timber stocks on harvesting sites up here and I always use this:

 

Length x Height x Depth x 0.6 = Answer

(all in metres)

 

The 0.6 bit is a calculation which alows for air spaces between logs as well as for softwood such as sitka and pine.

 

If the tree is still standing, it will be hard to determine exactly what the weight is, but if you can work out roughly how many cubic metres you'll know.

[Highland Forestry]

when buying timber it appox 28 cube to a ton depending on species but that the advange

 

What kind of timber is that?!!?!!!! more like 28 cube to a lorry load..

[Andy Collins]

In forestry applications, very roughly, one cubic metre is approximatley one ton.

 

Just to be pernickerty and a tad pedantic, I take it you mean a tonne its just with our metric/imperial measures it can be easy to get in a muddle.

[Mark Bolam]

Is there some kind of laser hypsometer(?) device that can help in measuring tree volumes?

[dodger]

What kind of timber is that?!!?!!!! more like 28 cube to a lorry load..

 

 

 

not at all father had a large saw mill in the 80s it used to fell appox 45 acres aweek just to keep it running at any one time it had a million cube of timber in the yard, lorrys would carry between 400 to 500 cube which was about 17 to 20 ton