American basswood. 261 16" bar for comparison. If it's not hollow it's going to cost me half a day atleast

Can you tell by banging on it with the back of your ax or a hammer?
I'd guess yes from pic.

There’s a lot of stretcher boards in that tree!

American Linden AKA Basswood.

Ms 881 .....

I heard there was a secret chord, that David played and it pleased the Lord...

Guaranteed hollow.

500i with a 25" bar

There's some beautiful looking pieces there

Around here most any basswood over 18 inches is gonna have rot started. I would guess one that size would be just a little less than 0% chance of being solid. Good on you for getting it down with a Sthil. That takes some skill and determination to tackle a job that big with such subpar equipment. lol

Donnersurvivor, a cross section of that would look really cool as the base of a huge glass top table. What a shape.

And if it barber chairs on you , you maybe meeting him lol

This saw has likely witnessed $1,000,000 in tree work with only a handful of wear parts replaced, only thing subpar is the operator.



I'll toss a big hollow chunk in my yard as a dog house, I like to keep up the white trash appearance.



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Hallelujah!

How many wedges to keep it from setting back on you? I'm sure the top was out before you started in on that base.

I had to climb it and bomb out the canopy, added a large rope while I was up there and had a guy put some pressure on it. I didn't want to use a longer bar/bigger saw and end up wrecking another chain so I just ringed it with the 25" bar and stepped back and let the machine pull it down

That was a dandy