A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind storm, just missing my deck. The tree is just over 2' in diameter. How can I use this much wood? logs? Chain saw party?
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60' fallen pine
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Lots of Knotty pine lumber. Or mediocre firewood. For good (straight pine) lumber you need forest grown pine with long, straight trunk with no low branches.
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Around here, we'd call it crummy firewood - only good for campfires.
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Call the turning set over to help dismember. Lumber it won't be if it held branches all the way down, but turnings and kindling you have in abundance.
Rent a shredder after limbing, and make sure you have long sleeves and throwaway gloves.
Shallow root systems do that a lot.
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not even mediocre firewood, unless you enjoy having your chimney cleaned frequently.
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Any idea of what kind of pine? One of the white pines would be useful for much if there is any length w/o large branches.
Don't say where you are, west of the MS pines are very commonly used as firewood (quite successfully, btw) as there isn't much hardwood.
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Find someone with a portable mill and cut it "through-and-through" in
6/4 and 8/4 slabs. All sorts of uses for nice slabs.R.
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Not sure the kind of pine (in east TN). I posted 3 pictures in A.B.P.W. Hopefully someone can identify it. A good portion of the bottom is without branches.
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Kinda looks like a red pine. Makes ok lumber, but it's not one of the better trees for it.
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Sounds like possibly southern yellow pine - and lumber quality if not "clear"
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If it wasn't a specimen planting, in E TN a goodly bet would be a yellow pine; if it was, could be quite a number of choices.
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White pine or yellow pine ???
Makes a BIG difference > A large, seemingly healthy, 60' pine fell over this week due to a wind
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