My brother lost a tree to the recent hurricane. The tree is, he
>believes, a white oak. It has a straight trunk around thirty feet long,
>and is about two feet in diameter at the base.
>
>He was planning to cut it up for firewood, but having priced oak boards,
>I was thinking that it might be more valuable convert it into lumber.
>Has anyone here ever done that or know anything about it? The problem as
>I see it is getting the tree to a sawmill or vice-versa. Oak wood is
>incredibly heavy. He said that it took two people to move pieces cut
>from the top of the trunk that were only 12-15 inches long. Another
>complication is that the tree is in his back yard and my sister-in-law
>wants to get it out of there soon.
I have crossposted this to rec.woodworking. Hopefully those folks will have some ideas.
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