Thanks again guys...............I'm going to make some time during the holidays to finish the other half of the branch. Went over the guys house who gave me the branch this weekend, he had cut the rest of the tree down. Boy was it full of knots and branches. It was about 8" in diameter and not a piece 5 ft long with out a branch or issue. We managed to cut three pieces which will make some billets. I hope to get 4 to 6 workable billets out of it. we'll see.
Thanks again,
DBar