I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. I have attached a picture of a dead log that I came upon while trapping a year or so ago. Around my neck of the woods, most of our woods have been logged within the past hundred years so there are not too many big trees. The story behind this tree goes back to when my father was young. He also came upon it while hunting, but at that time it was alive. He contacted the forest service and they came out, took some measurements and samples. It came out that it was a chesnut oak around 900 some years old, and I cannot remember the exact diameter(it must be around 7 feet, judging by me standing beside it). Anyway, this tree fell around 10 or so years ago and I don't think many people know about it, because it is in a very rough spot on the mountain that is not easy to get to.
I thought it would be cool if I could cut a chunk out of this log, and make some things out of it for my dad. I just wasn't sure how hard it would be to get good wood out of it with it being dead for so long. I would just go try it, but I'd hate to haul my chainsaw about a quarter mile up a creek thats about as steep as a cows face, just to find out I couldn't get anything out of it.
I was just wondering what you guys might think.
Thanks for looking.
I thought it would be cool if I could cut a chunk out of this log, and make some things out of it for my dad. I just wasn't sure how hard it would be to get good wood out of it with it being dead for so long. I would just go try it, but I'd hate to haul my chainsaw about a quarter mile up a creek thats about as steep as a cows face, just to find out I couldn't get anything out of it.
I was just wondering what you guys might think.
Thanks for looking.