Here it is .......#2 largest walnut in Mi , it’s just a few miles south of me . For reference , that barn on the left side is at least a 30x40 and on the right is the old farm house . I measured the circumference at bh a few years ago . Unbelievable! If this tree ever had to be taken down I think it would take a major trim job on one side first . Maybe Scotty can chime in on that ?
That's a biggin. I could probably feed most of my carving habit just from the branches that fall & get trimmed off of it every year. I'll guess roughly a 4.5' diameter so around 14'3" circ. Honestly, the trunk isn't as impressive as the crown. There's a Sycamore I pass every now & then, the diameter of the trunk on that could house a small family if it were hollowed out.
222 inches. Growing up we had a huge walnut tree in our back yard. My aunt, who'd been born in 1900 on our place said it was a big tree when she was a child. The farm has been in our family since 1880, and family lore is that it was a big tree even then and that was part of the reason they built the first house there--that huge tree shaded the house on summer afternoons. After I went into the Army, and my widowed Mom remarried and moved away we rented the old farmhouse out. One of the rentors cut it down and we figured he sold the wood. He told my Mom he'd tried to "smoke a squirrel out of the tree and it burned down." I was in uniform, a thousand miles away and couldn't do anything.
I'm gonna say between 14'and 18' circ......... That's a hog for sure! Good to hear from you wishlist!
Here's some of the walnut trees I played in as a kid. Tarzan ropes and zip lines with old wooden pulleys. The big one is almost 13 feet in circumference.
Perhaps a better question would be how much firewood could you get from a tree that size? Hey, that one looks familiar. Perhaps I've seen it in person sometime; don't remember for sure. Do you tap that one for syrup?
