I can’t seem to find the post about large trees that I thought I had seen a while ago, so I guess I’ll start my own. Feel free to add. This tree is in Simsbury, CT. I’ve wanted to post it for a while. Today happened to bring me through the area with my three younger kids, so we stopped to check it out. The boys getting ready to get to work on it! (Not really) it’s about 10 feet across. that is a 25 foot tap measure the boys have around the circumference . It’s about another 5 feet that they came up short. So it’s close to 30 feet in circumference. For reference, I’m 5’10” and about 285 lbs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Do they know the age of the tree? I'm assuming they dedicated it long after it was planted seeing as the circumference was 23' when they did the engraving?
You're going to have the authorities after you standing there with chainsaws at the ready. That is one big tree. Maybe make a dining table from a cookie?
Wow! That one is amazing. Thanks for the pictures Woody. Nice seeing you again even if we didn't get to talk this time. Beautiful family you have too.
On second thought I decided to post these pictures again because of the title of this thread. This is a cottonwood with my wife in the picture to show just how big it was. I think Armbru84 would have liked to cut this one.
If we're gonna post big trees this one is my favorite. Live Oak located at the Houmas House in Darrow, Louisiana. The guy in the pic is me, 6'2 .
Imagine Pac-manning that thing. Shoot, you could make a roof for a Holz Housen with one of those cookies....
I've always looked at trees like this one, and wondered, how the #*@& can those branches go out that far and not snap!!! They go out for miles! And they stay like that for years and years! It's a wonder to me .
I don’t know the answer to that question, but my guess is that it is probably one of very few that might be left from the colonial times. CT was basically nearly clear-cut in the 16-1700s for farmland. While 3.5 million people currently reside in CT, statistics say that the state is significantly more forested than it was in the 1700s.
That is for sure! The oldest (not in the pic) just turned 14; there always seems to be at least two of them willing to fight at any given moment! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have a large bur oak in the bottom land of my wood lot that has a deer stand in it. I use lag bolts to get up to the stand but at one point I step out onto a branch before climbing further. It is not as risky as that sounds because the branch is at least 2 feet across at the trunk. I know this tree has not been registered as one of the big trees in my state but it is no youngster. It completely dominates at least 1/2 acre of bottom land. When photobucket stopped being a decent place to store pictures I lost track of my picture of a much larger tree out west in Oregon.
I posted this a couple years ago. A White Oak south of Mechanicsburg, Pa. that I work in every 2-3 years. I was told by the homeowner that when his great uncle was just a wee lad, he sat under this tree. He heard the cannons and could see the gunpowder smoke in the air from the battle of Gettysburg.
