How big do these look?

[treemandan]

I am asking to get some insight on the perspective you get when looking at the pics of trees online and just in photos and such. Lets here some replies in regards to the size of these trees please... then we can talk bout how much.

 

[BlackenedTimber]

I am gonna go with 55-60 ft. I am sure I will now be torn apart by every poster from this point forward

T

 

[logging22]

75 to 80. What species are they?

 

[treemandan]

I am gonna go with 55-60 ft. I am sure I will now be torn apart by every poster from this point forward

T

Your are half right about the height but I think you are just paranoid on the other. It is very hard to look at that pic and tell. You really can only tell if you are there or the pic has a good point of reference which this one doesn't. Even with a P O R it still will look about half as big in a picture. I am learning this my self.

 

[jomoco]

Between 65-70 footers to my eye.

jomoco

 

[BlackenedTimber]

It's all meant in good fun the Dan. I enjoy the heated discussion on AS.

To me, from my living room, it looks like I could hit 'em with a 60' boom. But maybe I am blind.

T

 

[treemandan]

75 to 80. What species are they?

two lipped poplar. I guess no one can see the hole in the base of the last one. 2 people could fit inside.

But I say bigger still and I might even be able to prove it. Not that I am trying to prove anybody wrong about anything.

I will put my guess in and say that you could run a line up to the tippy top of one of the trees to a point on the ground and that line would measure bout 120 feet give or take.
I think a good TIP would be about 80 give or take

 

[treemandan]

Between 65-70 footers to my eye.

jomoco

I am just going to call it right there. If you say that then I guess it does look about half in pic of what it is in real world.
3 foot dbh on the third furthest tree. The fourth is a tad bigger. can't you see that big hole?

 

[M.D. Vaden]

First guess maybe 75 feet on one of the first ones and like 36" DBH trunk on one of the bigger ones

Pretty tricky with few points of reference.

Looks nice, like the approach for a golf hole fairway.

 

[treemandan]

No body get bent outta shape on this. I will see if I can take another pic with some kinda thing you are able to tell with. What is that? Oh a ruler! I will put a measured two by up there and retake the pic or something.
I was just trying to see if it was really true that things look smaller in pics. Those last two trees are well over 100 feet tall.

 

[treemandan]

Between 65-70 footers to my eye.

jomoco

an that is exactly what I thought when i saw the pic then I saw the job. The place is big.

 

[BlackenedTimber]

Things definately look smaller in pics. I was thinking that the two farthest to the left were about 20-24" DBH. Pretty deceiving without a point of reference.

 

[buzz sawyer]

I lightened it up a little so you can see the hole. Also looks like a rifle or shotgun on the first one. That gives some perspective. Looks like maybe 40+" dbh?

 

[scotvl]

45' to 55' I'd guess.

 

[treemandan]

I lightened it up a little so you can see the hole. Also looks like a rifle or shotgun on the first one. That gives some perspective. Looks like maybe 40+" dbh?

A four foot pitch fork I think.

 

[Toddppm]

You have the ladder laying down there that helped with my guess. That first one in the foreground I'd say is about 30-36" dbh and all of them around 90-100 though that seems like too much.

 

[ozzy42]

Bigger than a bread box

 

[outofmytree]

I think 30 metres (95 feet) and 1 metre (3 feet) DBH on the largest.

Time for job obviously depends on method. Out of a bucket, 3 man crew, 2 days if the chipper can get nice and close.

I havent climbed a Poplar but I am told they are soft and unreliable?

 

[blueatlascedar]

I think 30 metres (95 feet) and 1 metre (3 feet) DBH on the largest.

Time for job obviously depends on method. Out of a bucket, 3 man crew, 2 days if the chipper can get nice and close.

I havent climbed a Poplar but I am told they are soft and unreliable?

I've climbed a ton of tulip poplars and they must be handled gently. The wood doesn't hinge whatsoever and is very brittle. The plus side to these are easy to spur up and it can be chipped in large diameters since is so soft. These grow everywhere around my area and can grow very large. Some of the largest trees in my county are t. poplar. Easily reaching 100+'. In the mountains, especially deep hollows where light is scarce I've seen them top 125+' with no branches for the first 80'-90'. We used to spur race these back in the day since they are straight and thin bark. Man you can run up these things.

 

[NCTREE]

Poplars get real tall but 3 or 4 cuts and the tops are out. They are one of my favorite trees to wholesale.