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Thickest barked trees

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  1. sirbuildalot

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    I was looking at the Black Locust I scored this morning and thought wow!!! Black Locust has some awfully thick bark. I measured and some is 1 and 3/8” thick. Got me to wondering what trees have the thickest bark?
     
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    Was bucking some oldish BL yesterday. Tossed a nice 12” round on the pile and a 8” piece of wood fell out LOL
     
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    I don’t cut much bl, but from y’all’s pics posted everyday it looks thick.
    Chestnut Oak has some thick bark.
     
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  5. sirbuildalot

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    I don’t see BL pop up too often, when I do I jump. The load I got this morning I scored by a mere 10 minutes. If I had called 11 minutes later I would have been second in line. I contacted him within a half hour of the ad going up.
     
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    Everyone forgot about the Sequoia I guess. By far, the thickest bark.
     
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    I can only reference what I've worked on and those trees are on another level.
     
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    How thick are we talking? Must be pretty impressive!
     
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    Holy moly!!! I just read that Sequoia bark averages 6”-10” thick. Some extreme cases are up to 24”. Bark thicker than most trees total diameter. Wow!!!
     
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    I think there's a couple of trees on the west coast that have toughened up thick bark to help resist/recover from fire.
    White oak in Oregon/Washington state is one I can think of.
     
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    That reminds me of long leaf pine. It’s unbelievably fire resistant.
     
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    Did you post a thread of your score SBA? Id say BL bark. I still marvel at how thick it is.
     
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    The big ponderosa pines and Douglass fir trees here average 2” - 4” thick bark at the base. It’s their natural defense against wildfire. It’s impressive, but you end up with a lot of bark scraps after a day of splitting.
     
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    I will pick only trees that I have cut on for firewood. My pick is cottonwood. I thought the Sequoia were protected.
     
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    Our big pine trees have some pretty thick bark. Never measured it though.
     
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    I got some chest oak a couple months ago, yea thick bark but so much lighter weight than the whire and red. Dries fast too
     
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    For sure. Some of the popples have very thick bark, similar to Black Locust in texture. This one is only about 100 yards into my woods.

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    We don't have too many of those here...
     
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