).The smaller and more crooked limb wood I'm cutting into firewood. Yes I know that many don't like cottonwood for firewood but I've burned some along for many many years and find it "acceptable". My only firewood criteria is that it be flammable and preferably free.
That log will have to be quartered to fit on my small bandsaw mill.
I plan to saw the bulk of the log into 1" x 8"s for vertical board & batten siding.
I will cut the larger/better limb wood and upper logs into some pallet lumber and material for some 3 sided horse shelters (horses don't like the taste of it and so don't chew on it). I also want some of it cut into gate slats for making a batch of new gates for the same reason. If I need more I have quite a few cottonwood trees in my woods but they are much smaller. They run 20" to about 26" trunk diameter. There is another huge tree where I'm cutting this one at but it was far enough from the road that the power company would not drop it. I could drop it but I'm sure part of it is hollow, one side has old damage and I would have to drop it between his house and a 1,000 gallon propane tank. Such trees can be a little tricky and I'm not as brave as I used to be...
I'll cut about anything out in the woods but...Diana is standing behind the stump here for scale.
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