Yesterday afternoon before the rain came I verified the specs on the sawmill. This morning I selected and fell the first victim. Decided to start small and work my way up.

Hemlock?

Loblolly Pine.

What did you verify?

Clearances, belt tension, belt tracking, all the stuff recommended in the “read before you operate manual”. lol

24 years old... what was the diameter?

Garry-

Looks like a fast growing tree.

Didn’t measure it.

Raining again but I’m ready when it stops.

That's a brute of a log. How are you moving them?

Tractor with a boom.

Sweet. Looks like a great setup.

Just went and measured Garry, 13” give or take a sixteenth.

They are, and are the primary species grown across the south. My family has over 300 acres of it planted. I and the missus put a good many of them in the ground ourselves.

It's a pioneer species and reseeds everywhere.

Up in the lowlands some of the scrub spruce in the muskeg are 300 years old and are only an inch in diameter and maybe 3 feet tall.
Need microscope to count rings.

Looks more like 13 inch radius than diameter. Just optical illusion I guess.......jk

It is the angle the picture was taken. I have some that are 28” diameter. lol

When I get one of those babies on there I’ll post a contrast pic.

The 13” was the measure 9’ up from the stump.

Here is the stump measure.




Doing the math on this tree that is a few feet away, it’s diameter is 22”.

That stunted black spruce grows so thick it seems a bunny would struggle to fight its way through it. This one looks to be somewhere between eighty and a hundred years old. The rings are so tight you need a very sharp saw and a magnifying glass to accurately define them. Took it off a friends property in North Pole.

Those tight ringed conifers make the best paper.Dense fibre.

What are you planning to do or make with the slabs?