Huge trees

[Wood Doctor]

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.

I once saw a banyan tree in Naples, Florida that was about that size, located right near the entrance to the thousand-foot pier. Hurricane Irma may have wiped it out this past fall. However, I'm not sure.

 

[rwoods]

Not sure if it is still standing but the nation’s second largest yellow poplar was located west of Franklin, NC just a few miles from our old mountain farm. 26 foot circumference. Interesting fact is it had a “twin” that was logged. After they got it on the ground, they found it too big to be dragged out with the mules and oxen so the other was left standing.

Ron

 

[Logger nate]

Great thread, those are some nice trees!
When we were looking at the the add to buy our house it said the largest tree in the county was on the property, it’s big but not largest in county

 

[sirbuildalot]

I spotted another giant today at a Country Club near the MA/CT border.




























This oak measured in at 8' diameter at the base. Not quite as big as the one at Quabbin, but still an impressive tree.

 

[rarefish383]

That gnarly old monster needs to be in some horror movie grabbing kids and eating them!

 

[deberly12]

Jere39 is accurate about the charcoal cutting. it was as bad if not worse in central PA in Huntington county they say there was no tree standing within 10 miles of Greenwood Furnace. The forest service actually put a nursery in to try and rebuild the forest.

Outside of Lewistown, PA there is a place where the canal and the river are 150-200 yards apart and there is a sycamore that is halfway in between that they say has roots in both waterways. I forget exactly but I think it took like 5 people to hold hands around it trunk.

That is a huge cotton wood. We don't have many around here but I got a steal on some fire wood the other year. I have never had a tougher time splitting!!!!

Those live oaks are crazy trees!!! I had never seen anything like them. I was down in Corpus Christi with Christ in Action helping with hurricane relief the other month and I was cutting up a ton of those. Being from PA it broke my heart to see the millions of cords of oak that was just be piled up by the city. I cut some that were 36 inches at the base.

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[moondoggie]

ran in to this old friend yesterday. I usually see it a couple of times a year. It's a beautiful white oak. I had this picture taken for this thread. The picture really gives this tree no Justice the the actual size of it.

 

[rarefish383]

If you look at the driveway lane, and then look at the stump, they are about the same size, it's a bigun, Joe.

 

[spyder62]

I just got home from work and was relaxing when I heard this ungodly sound. My first thought was the huge oak tree out at the curb. But I still had power.

 

[Logger nate]

6’ Pine, the first “limb” must be close to 4’.

 

[Logger nate]

6’ 9” cedar tree, north central Idaho.

 

[Wood Doctor]

The Nebraska state record holder for a pin oak last year was growing about seven miles from my place. Assuming it's still there, the tree is 105 feet tall, 7' in diameter at the base, and the first branch in 35 feet up. Estimated age is 111 years. How it lived through all the tornadoes and ice storms around here is mind boggling. The house next to it is dwarfed by the mass. I'll try to get a Pic and post it. The only trees locally other than cottonwood I've seen close to it in size here are Ginkgo and Sycamore trees. These sometimes become monsters.

 

[sirbuildalot]

The big oak from my first post at the Quabbin Reservoir has been cut down.

I did see some bigguns at Brookgreen Gardens in Myrtle Beach SC. Didn't get any pics though.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Announced by the city council, there are going to be 10,000 ash trees cut down in the greater Omaha. NE metropolitan area during the forthcoming year. Residents are in shock. Many are well over 70 years old. How many of them do you think will be worth photographing before they fall and posting the Pic here?

 

[The barefoot magician]

South west Colorado cottonwood, 10foot base.

 

[al-k]

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

I have been there but lost all my pics when my PC crashed. Nice place, really nice country down there.

 

[unclemoustache]

Dropped a dying sycamore in my yard some time ago. Carved a bench. Here's the link.


https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/unks-chainsaw-carving.317824/