Huge trees

[sirbuildalot]

Most trees in my area aren't really all that big. A "big" hardwood tree would be 4-5'. Very rarely I may see a tree closer to 6'. Not very often though, and hardly any bigger than that.

However, There is a reservoir in my area named Quabbin reservoir that is the largest body of water in the state. I had to pass it today to pick up my quick attach plow. There is a really large old tree at one of the entrances I have seen before. I figured I would snap a pic of it for you guys. It is the largest tree around that I know of, and that I have personally seen up close. I measured the base and it is about 8'6" in diameter.







For reference I have a 6 foot "wingspan"







What is the biggest tree in your area?

 

[unclemoustache]

This willow is near Billings, MT.

Yeah, I know I'm wearing white socks with black shoes. I don't care.

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[buzz sawyer]

This willow is near Billings, MT.

Yeah, I know I'm wearing white socks with black shoes. I don't care.

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That's better than black socks and white shoes.

 

[buzz sawyer]

I'll have to get photos of a couple big sycamores in the area.

 

[KiwiBro]

Kauri.
Not sure of diameter, but it's a big'n

 

[svk]

We don't get large trees. By far the easiest way to find a big tree is drive around a town looking for a cottonwood or silver maple.

Here are a few indigenous ones from around the hunting cabin that are of exceptional size for their species.

White pine


Jack pine


Aspen


Red maple


Another aspen

 

[jrider]

I used to date a girl who lived in mass. She took me out to the quabbin and its some real nice land.

 

[Mad Professor]

I used to date a girl who lived in mass. She took me out to the quabbin and its some real nice land.

Good fishing, lakers, landlocks and smallies.

Where was the big oak in OP? Rt 202?

 

[Polish hammer]

Out land borders a nature center in south eastern wi and about 100ft off the lot line on one of the walking trails was the biggest tree in our county it’s a giant cottonwood the last time it was measured it’s was over 21’ dbh!! It is just amazing to see.. I don’t really have any good pictures that show the true size but just some of the branches that are laying by it are incredible

 

[sirbuildalot]

Good fishing, lakers, landlocks and smallies.

Where was the big oak in OP? Rt 202?

It is off of rte 9. The entrance near the belchertown town line

 

[Wood Doctor]

Out land borders a nature center in south eastern wi and about 100ft off the lot line on one of the walking trails was the biggest tree in our county it’s a giant cottonwood the last time it was measured it’s was over 21’ dbh!! It is just amazing to see.. I don’t really have any good pictures that show the true size but just some of the branches that are laying by it are incredible

Eastern cottonwood trees can become enormous. I ran into one at at the Lewis nnd Clark state park in western Iowa ten years ago and then found another just 12 miles south of my place in Gretna, NE near one of my friend's houses. I'll try to take a Pic of that one and post it next week. We think it might be pushing 100 years old. Occasionally, they become hollow:

 

[Polish hammer]

Absolutely awesome

 

[Marine5068]

Most trees in my area aren't really all that big. A "big" hardwood tree would be 4-5'. Very rarely I may see a tree closer to 6'. Not very often though, and hardly any bigger than that.

However, There is a reservoir in my area named Quabbin reservoir that is the largest body of water in the state. I had to pass it today to pick up my quick attach plow. There is a really large old tree at one of the entrances I have seen before. I figured I would snap a pic of it for you guys. It is the largest tree around that I know of, and that I have personally seen up close. I measured the base and it is about 8'6" in diameter.







For reference I have a 6 foot "wingspan"







What is the biggest tree in your area?

That looks like an Oak.

Eastern cottonwood trees can become enormous. I ran into one at at the Lewis nnd Clark state park in western Iowa ten years ago and then found another just 12 miles south of my place in Gretna, NE near one of my friend's houses. I'll try to take a Pic of that one and post it next week. We think it might be pushing 100 years old. Occasionally, they become hollow:
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[Wood Doctor]

Here's one worth examining:

Is that a Stihl 090 he's holding? Not sure.

 

[Jere39]

Around here the Tulip Poplars are the tallest trees, and some are 40+" diameter.

Not giants of the west. Some of the Beech are bigger at the base, like 50+" diameter.


And a couple of the Oaks start out monstrous well over 5' diameter,

but they mostly split then within the first 20' up into multiple trunks.


(those leaves are from a different tree reaching into view.)

I know these are not in the running with some of what you all see. Much of the wood in SE PA was cut in the late 1800's and made into charcoal for the iron forges, so trees in our big woods top out at something under 150 years old.

I still sometimes sit on a nearby stump and think of what the world has been through during their lifetime.

 

[rarefish383]

This is a great thread! I'm going to my MIL's to mow her leaves today. I'll get a pic of the giant Poplar in her side yard, I'll put the tape around it to show the girth. This is the "Angle Oak" in Charleston SC. The spread of the drip line is about 200 feet, Joe.

 

[morewood]

Here's one worth examining:
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Is that a Stihl 090 he's holding? Not sure.

I have some pics at home, but some of the poplars in Joyce Kilmer Forest in WNC are that big. Patch of forest that wasn't logged out in the early 1900s and then preserved. I have seen pictures of the Chestnuts in the area that were incredible, one showed a family standing inside a hollow one. I'kk try to remember to post them later.

Shea

 

[Multifaceted]

This is a great thread! I'm going to my MIL's to mow her leaves today. I'll get a pic of the giant Poplar in her side yard, I'll put the tape around it to show the girth. This is the "Angle Oak" in Charleston SC. The spread of the drip line is about 200 feet, Joe.

Some of those Living Oak trees in the low country of GA/SC are just massive.

I'll echo another poster and mention the Sycamore around me, some of them are gargantuan. They're everywhere near me, anywhere there's a creek, there's Sycamore sprouted up like weeds.

 

[rarefish383]

This is the Tulip Poplar in my MIL's side yard, we got the tape around it at about chin height, Joe.

 

[Multifaceted]

That's the biggest tulip I've seen, wow!