Bigger Oak Tree?
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The Wye oak.Political Correctness'.........defined
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That's a biggun!
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I've seen bigger.... it's not in my yard though......."....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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That's what she said..... Lol
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Here's a little one on a plantation near Charleston, SC. My wife gives it some scale.
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That is one ugly tree......Political Correctness'.........defined
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There is a big oak tree at one corner of the town where we lived in MA (Harvard). It served as a reference point for the original town boundary in 1732 --- and it still does. It is known as the Boundary Oak.
Surveys and boundaries are fun in New England -- ancient property deeds often describe plots of land in a rather qualitative fashion.
The Boundary Oak is pretty big, and it looks -- like a very old tree. Its health has waned in recent years, and it was almost cut down, but the town tree warden (who is also an arborist), worked hard on rescuing it, and (last I knew) it was still standing at the corner of Stow Road and Codman Hill Road (the Bolton/Harvard border).
I couldn't have find a photo on line (to my surprise), and I don't have one.
If I manage to remember, I'll snap a photo of it sometime when I'm down there for something.
EDIT: Yeah, the poor old Wye Oak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wye_Oak
It was recorded as the largest oak tree in America, apparently.
My parents had seedlings from it which they planted, many years ago -- but they were munched upon by squirrels and didn't survive to maturity.
EDIT^2: There was a massive "Liberty Tree" on the Campus of St. John's College in Annapolis MD. It dated to the Colonial era. Turns out, to my chagrin, it wasn't an oak, it was a tulip tree -- "the largest... in America"
http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/html/liberty.html
It apparently met its demise at some point, though.
EDIT: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/oct99/25/pmliberty25.htm
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beautiful trees, there are some huge old trees in England and Ireland that have such large decayed heartwood gaps that people have set up full size dining room tables, chairs, china cabinets and ran lights into.
Fredville Estate in England...
600yrs old.
gotta love oaks
We had a beautiful white oak behind our house that debs grandpa remembered as a little boy, one day it started looking bad, in a short while was dead, Sudden oak deathis what thay call it.
sad
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This thread reminded me of a podcast story about the Treaty Oak in Austin, TX. If you love trees, this will make you mad, but it's a good story, nonetheless.
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Wide or tall?
'Cause I have a pin oak in my backyard that is 110-115 feet tall. It's only about 5 feet wide though.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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They just cut down the biggest pin oak in the world in my hometown situated just outside the student union at the university. Got oak wilt.
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Here's a little one on a plantation near Charleston, SC. My wife gives it some scale.
Have one that's been outside my property in the forest just like that one. I had to chew the neighbor a new arsehole a few years ago when he decided to cut off a large limb from a completely healthy hundreds of years old oak tree. Pissed me off, especially since there is fire wood from dead crap laying all over the forest floor for his outside firepit. You just can't beat stupid out of people sometimes.HT SYSTEM-
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@tonyb
You were just mad cause it was blocking your naked arse from view when you locked yourself out of the house with just a robe on in the winter...."....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) -
Avenue of the Oaks at Boone Hall Plantation near Charleston. First trees planted by the owners sons around 1743. They told us the avenue was the inspiration for the trees at Tara in the movie version of Gone with the Wind.
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EndersShadow wrote: »@tonyb
You were just mad cause it was blocking your naked arse from view when you locked yourself out of the house with just a robe on in the winter....
Nah, I do that out the front of the house. How do you think I get the neighbors to chip in and buy me drapes ?HT SYSTEM-
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