Posted by jdemaris on November 04, 2010 at 12:04:23 from (67.142.130.31):
I mentioned last week the size of some of trees in one of our woodlots. A few people thought I "mistyped" when I mentioned 12'-14' diameter trees, and thought maybe I'd meant inches. Got several maples, hickorys, cottonwoods, and red oaks up to 14 feet diameter. Not a lot of fun when cutting and splitting into firewood, but I usually don't cut the big old trees and unless they're getting ready to fall anyway.
Had nice weather yesterday (for a few hours) and took our little 7 year-old kid on a nature-study out back. He's being home-schooled, so technically - according the State of New York, this was official schooling. We did some measuring a few nearby.
I'm sure there are people with much bigger trees out west, but some of these are pretty nice and big, for hardwoods.
This is a red oak that measures 13 1/2 feet diameter at shoulder-height at 15 feet at ground-level.
This one measures 11 feet at shoulder-height . .
This red oak recently fell over. Thus the reason why I'm cutting some for firewood. This one is 14 1/2 feet at should-height.
This is one our biggest shagbark hickorys. Measures 9 foot at shoulder-height.
This one is a soft-wood, i.e. white pine. Still a nice tree. Measures 14 feet at shoulder height. Got a few cottonwoods like this also.
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