I've got OAK---but how to move rounds?

[Ken45]

i figured it would have been too much on the saw...and take really long.

It will be a lot quicker than trying to split it by hand, or your hospital time for body injuries ;-)

Unless you have a really underpowered saw, it should be fine on the saw as long as you don't push too hard. Give the saw a break, and keep your chain sharp.

It might be best to use a skip tooth chain if you're doing a lot of this as it will ease the load and cut down the chip congestion. Maybe some more experienced hands can comment on that.

Ken

 

[Lasher]

My brother in law just had the town drop an oak tree in his front yard. I got them to keep the wood on site so I could have it. The tree at chest high is about 3ft or more. I have been reading the topic to see what people at doing to get the big rounds into a truck/trailer. Here is what I did.

Most of the logs were in 4ft lengths (smallest tree guy would cut them). So I brought a 20 inch bar for my husky 350. Took my time and cut the logs into roughly 16 inch lengths.
I then used a hand truck to load the rounds into the truck/trailer.
For the truck, I have ramps made out of 2x8s with the ramp ends on them. I could pull the hand truck and round up the incline, barely, but with two people it was easy. Once in the bed of the truck, I could just roll the rounds to the right spot.
My trailer has a ramp gate on it. So I just pulled the hand truck up the ramp. This I could do by myself pretty easy, but since I had the extra help nearby I used them.

Without the hand truck, I would have to split/cut them on site. With the hand truck, easy as pie.