I am going to cut them down with a chainsaw.
If I had a crosscut big enough for these, I would like to use it. But I don't. I decided that felling the trees with a chainsaw is one bit of modern convenience I will take. In no small part because I am scared to death of these monster trees, which way somewhere in the order of tons. If they were to fall on me, there would be no more me.
My thought is that the felling process has very little affect if any on the outcome of the finished product.
If I were to mill these timbers, and then 'finish hew' them, that would have an affect. As it is, the timbers yielded are likely going to be a bit wavy, which is exactly what I want. Rather than have perfectly straight mill run timbers, I am going to have some crooked natural timbers, excellent stock for scribing but useless for mill or square rule.
I am looking forward to the loud, thunderous impact of these logs when they fall to the ground. No tree I have ever cut down will compare!
DLB
