On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:58:04 -0000 (UTC), Mike Duffy wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:27:56 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:
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>> Shucks, Popeye would have had that damn tree down,
>> and sawed into lumber in 15 minutes!
>
> I'm not sure Hank. In the video:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH-vCjSk4Hs
>
> it takes 12 seconds, (Time index 03:05 to 03:17),
>
> but the other guy actually cuts down the tree.
>
>
> And he cut it into firewood, not lumber. I think Dave's tree (his
> municipality's) was rotten and huge.
>
>
> I had a bunch of other trees bending towards a different neighbour taken
> down a few years ago (maple & beech & white ash), and the crew asked if
> they could take their time and remove 12' logs instead of just cutting
> shorter pieces.
>
> They left them on the property but came by later to pick them up for his
> hardwood furniture shop.

It's a pity that Dave's tree will end up as firewood at best. A local wood
store buys in big slabs that have all sorts of faults, checks etc and they
fill the faukts with coloured epoxy making huge, natural-edge table tops.
Despite the rot, I bet there's plent of recoverable wood in that maple.