600 years old. Beloved 600-year-old white oak tree takes final bow Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
That saddens me to hear of something as majestic and symbolic as a tree older than when Columbus discovered the new world is gone forever.
Our city just lost a 400+ year old white oak last Thursday. First documented in 1640 when the area was settled. According to the news article it was not the oldest tree in the city.
Beloved 600-year-old white oak tree takes final bow This link has a video on the tree, some history and the removal.
WOW!!!!! Incredible Hopefully they can mill some of it and make something nice with it. Perhaps a pew
White oaks are without a doubt my favorite tree in all respects. I enjoy looking at them and when I used to hunt squirrels I would sit near a white oak watching and listening for squirrels cutting on acorns. My favorite wood for furniture is white oak and also my favorite firewood. I will never cut a healthy white oak but when I find one down or dying I find them nice to cut and split.
White oak is one of my faves as well. Only time I ever take down a healthy tree is during a removal, even then I try and talk the homeowner out of taking the tree down if it isn't necessary. We took down a big one for Backwoods Savage this past weekend, it was a relatively healthy double trunk tree but it was hanging on the edge of the creek bank that runs through his property, the creek had already started undercutting it and it was in danger of toppling over and down the bank to the creek which would have made it very hard to harvest. It was the right time to take it down. Upon taking it down we found some windshake damage at the base as well. That oak tree will make him some outstanding fuel in a few years !
When the tree suffers severe wind, the trunk can twist and turn in the winds, and in some species (I see it alot in big oak and ash), the wood in the trunk splits. Imagine wringing water out of a washcloth.....that's the kind of twisting that cause a tree to split inside the trunk.
Wow windshake. That's kind of epic when you're talking about trees that dense and they swing in the wind like that. Now it also make me wish I had more oak but I gotta be happy with what I got off with. Hauling those massive rounds would just be breaking my trailer.
