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    Default big saw, giant log

    check this out hope it works


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    that guy is crazy

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    8" & 10" Lucas Mills, bobcat, 4wd tractor, 12 ton dozer, stihl saws.

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    Quote Originally Posted by weisyboy View Post
    that guy is crazy
    You mean you wouldn't like to give it a go Carl? 3000 year old sequoia, big bar on an 086

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    Duck me, that's a nice log....:tstup: gotta be close to 18' diameter hey?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigidi View Post
    Duck me, that's a nice log....:tstup: gotta be close to 18' diameter hey?

    When i was there a couple of years back I got to see the giant sequoias and on display they had a crosscut slice from the trunk of a fallen giant standing on edge. I am 6' 8" and i didn't even make a third of the height of the slice. they are a wonder that anyone who appreciates timber needs to see once in their lifetime at least.

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    #### travis, I don't wanna just see one, I wanna slice one!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigidi View Post
    #### travis, I don't wanna just see one, I wanna slice one!!!

    Don't we all..... dont we all.....lol. I got some seeds to grow some but they will never be big enough in my lifetime to cut.

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    I took a panorama of General Sherman while I was there but it is too big a file to post on the forum. That is the biggest living thing on the planet (giant sequoia) and you really appreciate the magnitude of it when you see the people at the foot of it looking like ants.

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    Good comparative tree size website here

    The Living Big Trees

    Has pics of sequoia trees, and tallest and widest living eastern and westerns coast Oz tree.

    Check out the diameter of the Tingle in the last pic on that page, the base is as big as a big sequoia but it tapers of pretty quickly and sequoias grow taller than tingles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Good comparative tree size website here

    The Living Big Trees

    Has pics of sequoia trees, and tallest and widest living eastern and westerns coast Oz tree.

    Check out the diameter of the Tingle in the last pic on that page, the base is as big as a big sequoia but it tapers of pretty quickly and sequoias grow taller than tingles.

    Some nice trees in there. A lot of them I have seen in the flesh. I lived in W.A. for about 7 years and loved it down in the tinglewood country. There used to be a bloke somewhere near nornalup with a little shop on the side of the highway who used to carve sculptures and such out of wood, when I was last there he had a very large table made from a slab of tinglewood about 6 inches thick about 6 or 7 feet wide and probably 12 feet long. I now live in the mountain ash (Euc. Regnans) region of Baw Baw shire in vic, and have seen most of the recognised "big Trees" around here. I spent 3 months roughly working in California and got to see the giant sequoias unfortunately I didn't get to see the redwoods further north. maybe one day.

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    aint nothin with what grows here!!! well we found some 2.4dia kauri pines a few years back . that is a tree to dream off . as long as you dont have to load it and cut it up to mill it .a big tree now is 1.2 dia . and very nice they are too . happy cutting bob

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobsreturn2003 View Post
    aint nothin with what grows here!!! well we found some 2.4dia kauri pines a few years back . that is a tree to dream off . as long as you dont have to load it and cut it up to mill it .a big tree now is 1.2 dia . and very nice they are too . happy cutting bob

    That is honestly tiny compared to the sequoias and I reckon the tingles would be somewhat larger as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Travis Edwards View Post
    That is honestly tiny compared to the sequoias and I reckon the tingles would be somewhat larger as well.
    Yeah just popsticks Eh!

    The stoutest living single-trunk species in diameter are:
    African Baobab Adansonia digitata: 15 m (49 ft), Big Baobab, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
    Montezuma Cypress Taxodium mucronatum: 11.62 m (38.1 ft), Árbol del Tule, Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico.[
    Giant Sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum: 8.85 m (29 ft), General Grant tree, Grant Grove, California, United States.
    The biggest living tingle is ~7.8 m in diameter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Travis Edwards View Post
    When i was there a couple of years back I got to see the giant sequoias and on display they had a crosscut slice from the trunk of a fallen giant standing on edge. I am 6' 8" and i didn't even make a third of the height of the slice. they are a wonder that anyone who appreciates timber needs to see once in their lifetime at least.
    Agreed!! they are a spectacular sight.

    Apparently in the past some were felled for slabbing but their great height and weight meant that they shattered badly on hitting the ground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobsreturn2003 View Post
    aint nothin with what grows here!!! well we found some 2.4dia kauri pines a few years back . that is a tree to dream off . as long as you dont have to load it and cut it up to mill it .a big tree now is 1.2 dia . and very nice they are too . happy cutting bob
    There are pictures of Kauri being felled by a group of axemen. They must have 3-4 meters in diameter.

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