Big Trees

[TWINKLE_TOES]

We have had fast growing trees, shade trees, pretty colored trees, how about BIG trees.

Who thinks they have the biggest tree on TBN? I'm not sure how to define whether "big" means tall, most board feet, or biggest around. This will seek it's own level. Winner has to provide a picture for proof. So even though I think I have the biggest I can't win, no digital camera. First liar never has a chance anyway.

I have a cottonwood that is 15 ft around at the base./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Sorry about Texas/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Thomas]

TWINLKE_TOES,
You may have me beat but not by much.
I have a big bull pine and the base is almost 14 feet dia. well over 100'tall.

I won't be surprise if the lighting was to ever strike it. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

I call it minute maid,for it seems every minute or so a branch or pine cones fall. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif


Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

Thomas, that's a BIG tree.

I think you have the biggest so far, I have really never measured my tree and your <font color=blue>almost 14 feet dia</font color=blue> sounds a bit more accurate than my guess. In addition I think the Bull pine is about the same at the base as it is 10 ft up. My cotton woods change a fair amount in Dia. from the base to 10 feet. If it comes down to you and I, I'll measure. Is a Bull pine the same tree the that little Joe and Hauss Cartwright hid behind on TV?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[gordon]

Lets see if my math is correct thats a 57 1/2" diameter tree. I'd have to get out one of my longer bars to drop that one!!!
But you've got me beat on size, my current property was high-grade logged a couple of years before I bought the property. So the largest I've got right now at DBH is 36"+or-. I'll be dropping a few of the larger ones for firewood. Little or no value for timber.
Gordon

 

[cowboydoc]

When I was clearing this ground that we built on there was an oak that was about 6ft. in diameter which is pretty big for an oak. My wife really liked it and didn't want to have it knocked down so we left it. Well last year sure enough it got hit by lightning and it split in two with the one half falling right on my new bridge that I put in to access the newly cleared ground. Insurance payed for the bridge and cleaning so I came out ok on it but boy was it a pain to clean that big old sucker up. As soon as it gets dry enough I'll have wood for 10 winters!!!!
Richard

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Twinkletoes,
Here in the NW, there is a lot of interest in "champion" trees. If I am not mistaken, the "standard" for measurement (other than height, of course) is "girth @ breast height" (gbh), i.e., tape-measured "circumference at 4 ft above the ground.

This is intended to get above any "buttress roots" onto the "trunk" proper, and, since many trees are not really "round", the actual girth is given, rather than a "diameter...which might vary with the "compass-heading" of the measurement( not to mention that handling those giant calipers to measure a standing tree can be a bear. (Do we have a long-sentence contest?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif )

What does anybody think of adopting the gbh standard for TBN "Big Trees?

/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Larry

 

[Thomas]

TWINKLE_TOES,
I measure the pine twice above the base..15'4" dia., /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif but
I'm going to have to disqualify myself./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
The pine has 4 main trucks which grown together from the base up to 4 feet.

How in the heck did the word bull pine become....anyone know??

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Twinkletoes,

I just got a call from the "plane geometry police". They said that if Thomas' tree is really 14 feet in DIAMETER, it should be about 44 feet around. No wonder its over 100 feet tall. ( If his 14' diameter is "a bit more accurate" than your guess, you must have been WAY off/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif .)

I guess your tiny cottonwood doesn't have a chance /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif .

(I'm thinking maybe that big tree is a "bulls..." pine. You could hide a herd of Hosses and a flock of Little Joes behind that one /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif.)

Larry

 

[DFB]

Okay, I had to put my Sorels on and go take look. There is a big ol' maple that marks the corner of the propety line here in ME. Circumference measures an 1" shy of 14' @ 2 feet up off the ground and 17' 3" @ 5 foot up. Its' got such a wide crown I wonder if it might have been stumped off years ago.

 

[Thomas]

TWINKLE_TOES, Wasn't the Ponderosa Ranch name after the ponderosa pine tree?

Those two did spend alot of time in the woods didn't they,and the only time they went to town was get supplies or business...didn't spend much time w/ the ladies, /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif maybe ole Willy made up for it. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

DFB,

It's bigger at 5' than at 2'? That's interesting /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif.
What happens if you go up still further?

Larry

 

[Kubota-monkey]

This picture was taken for or five years ago? Circumference of the tree- About 30 Feet or more.

The Ben from MA /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

 

[Kubota-monkey]

Excuse me I meant diameter... Replace that with circumference!

The Ben from MA /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Hey CoolBen,

I'm bettin' that tree is in California,... not Maine!

/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Larry

 

[Thomas]

Now would that be a Redwood tree on the other side of the Mississippi, /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif and if you have trees like that on your land I wouldn't be surprise if a timber company came knocking on your door.


Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[DFB]

Just beyond that bulge it branches out with 7 or 8 main leaders. That's what makes me think it might have been intentionally cut before or maybe the main leader just broke years ago. Hey LH, when ya gonna register?

 

[cowboydoc]

Ben,
MY GOSH that's a big tree!!!!! That would build alot of house. Heck you could build a house in that tree!!!

Richard

 

[Thomas]

DFB,
Maybe you have a King's tree. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
Remember the year not to long when the evergreen from Tamworth,NH was donated to the White House lawn,and the loggers came arcoss a big tree w/ graving on it.
Come to find out after studies were made it was mark for the King of England for the mask on his ships,and I believe its still against the law to cut down those trees.

You maybe in a prime location for such a tree. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

<font color=blue>"from the base up to 4 feet."</font color=blue>

Thomas by Larry's definition your legal. And for lack of anything else, we can use his.

I did brave the mud and blackberries and mine is 15' 11" around at 4 ft, and 15' 6" at 6 ft. For heigth I would recommend the longest shadow at high noon, but since that dosen't happen in the Northwest until July, maybe something else./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
I'm holding off on any height measurements until the Redwood and Sequioa votes are cast.

Also I had counted Bird and Ernie out and then I stumbled across this:
http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/urban_forestry/pdf/Registry.pdf

 

[Bird]

Lots of things are big in Texas, but the trees ain't one of them./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird