I am carpenter since 30 years...whats the usage for these gigantic oak beam podts and slaps? Special custom order for natural bridges? What is the weight of the uncut trunk?
I had a project a few years ago where we cleared 10 acres of douglas fir a little smaller than these. Nobody would take them for free so we had to mulch them at site. A terrible waste.
From 1992 to 2016 i worked cutting and erecting morticed and tenoned timber frames. Went through a lot of west coast fir, the biggest timber i remember working on was 10 by16 inches 35 feet long. I imagine it came out of a log like this.
This was shot up in Canada during the 1970's. Note the absence of PPE Those were the days. My best friends Dad was a logger in Longview Washington. They had extremely dangerous work but him; like the guys at this mill made excellent money. Those days are lost and gone forever.
Wow, that's a big headrig carriage. I was a millwright in a couple of sawmills, but they were stud mills, and 9 foot was the longest we cut. Pretty impressive.
I don't understand why such a big log is being milled. Wouldn't handling 10' to 16' trunks and boards be much more efficient? Is there a demand for 60' boards?
