Is this tree big or what?

[Raddad]

I have a Norway Spruce on my property that has a girth circumference of 11 feet and I am always looking for a bigger one. I found a web site that tracks records for trees. The Norway Spruce record is 14 feet! If you have a big tree on your property send us some pictures and look it up on this site.

American Forests: National Register of Big Trees

 

[meledward23]

No big trees on my property. However, the most active tree group that I know of is ENTS (Eastern Native Tree Society).

Check the website out is it very interesting.

http://www.nativetreesociety.org/

 

[Nat]

Here is a pic of a pretty good sized pine we took while visiting Eddie Walker. It isn't even close to the biggest on his place, but it was the biggest I could get Vickie to walk to. Later, Nat

 

[RobertN]

We were in Calaveras Big Trees park last weekend; have been there a few times the last couple of years. The giant sequoia is HUGE. Awe inspiring. There are even bigger trees in Kings Canyon; I want to go there next.

Big Trees

 

[monkeymonk]

we got alot of big trees up here! doug fir,ceadr,pine,madrone.... Theres a cedar in an undisclosed location that would rock the books out here! Heres a pic of the largest tree I've milled so far,the mill can't handle any bigger. We had to use the tractor to help turn it,so it does classify as tractor material. Man that was work to mill got some really wide table slabs out of it. oh yea the tree is a ponderosa pine.

Got the little guy for the wknd so I'm headed to Arcata,then onto richardson grove. Living in so cal with his mom my little guy loves the redwoods. Kings range is pretty make sure to hit glass beach on the way.

 

[SnoFalls]

not many monsters like this left, but some are pretty close if you hike some trails around here ....


I'm not sure the largest W. R. Cedar left on my property ... also some very tall Doug. Fir around (but they don't have the "girth")

maybe I'll scout around some this weekend ...

 

[Spark_man]

Well ... just down the road from where I live, we had a pretty big tree that was destroyed by a thunderstorm in 2002. This particular tree had some history:

Maryland's State Symbol Falls in June 6, 2002 Storm
The Wye Oak, Maryland's State Tree and the largest White Oak in the United States, toppled June 6, 2002 during a thunderstorm in the village of Wye in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Believed to be more than 460 years old, the beloved tree was purchased by the State Maryland in 1939, and was declared Maryland's State Tree in 1941. The purchase marked the first time in American History that a government agency purchased a single tree for preservation. The Wye Oak was one of Maryland's greatest living symbols and was older than the State itself.

Maryland's first State Forester, Fred W. Besley, made the first official measurement of the Wye Oak in 1909. Besley was amazed at the size and breadth of the tree, and it quickly gained notoriety as the "largest and finest specimen of white oak in the country." The tree soon received national recognition in a November 1919 issue of American Forests magazine that created a national Hall of Fame for trees, and include the "Wye Mills Oak" as its first nominee. In 1940, the American Forestry Association held a nationwide contest to locate "the largest living specimens of American trees..." Again, the Wye Oak was the first tree nominated, and held its title until the recent storm, and one of only two trees to have survived since the contest began.

Notable Wye Oak facts:

The tree measured 31 feet 8 inches in circumference, 96 feet tall, crown spread of 119 feet - covering nearly one-third acre.
Lightning rods were installed on the tree in the 1940's, and its crown was stablized by more than a hundred yards of steel cable.
At one time a chicken yard occupied the base of the tree. A large depression in the tree's base remained perpetually filled with water, from which the chickens drank and bathed. It was thought that a mysterious underground spring supplied the pool, but was actually rainwater collected from the tree's branches and trunk.

1937 Photograph:

 

[3RRL]

Well this tree is not on my property either but is nearby in Sequoia National Park, home of the Giant Redwoods. The park is 9 miles from my rural property. This is just one of the mighty Redwoods...maybe only 30' in diameter or about 94' in circumference.



The biggest tree in the park is General Grant it is 268 feet tall, 40 feet at maximum diameter with a circumference of 108 feet at the base.

 

[Pilot]

When I was in forestry school, I had a summer job scaling logs. At Strawberry Valley, northeast of Marysville, CA, the company would send a one log load down the road almost every day. Might be a Doug fir, but more often it was a ponderosa pine or a western white pine. As I recall, these trees would measure over 6 ft. in DIAMETER, not circumference, on the small end of the log, i.e., 32 ft. above the stump. They would sometimes have to cut the butt swell out of them to get them to fit between the uprights. These loads would often exceed the legal weight limits, so they would send them down the road after the scales closed.

The way that company managed their timberlands, I would not be surprised if they still had big trees.

I also scaled coast redwoods out of Eureka and FT. Bragg, where one log loads were common. Coast redwoods grow taller and thinner than the sequoias, often over 250 ft. tall. Some of them would get so big they had to split them to get them on the truck. How do you split a tree 8 or 10 ft. in diameter? Dynamite.

Used to see one log loads once in awhile up here in the Cascades, but now that all the old growth is protected, a 3 log load is unusual.

 

[EddieWalker]

Nat showed one of my bull pines. I don't know if that is a real name for a tree or not, but they are different than the loblolly and long leaf pines that I have. The tree in Nats picture is around 4 feet in diamater. It's a nice one, but not the big boy.

This picture is of my biggest tree. It's a bull pine that is 52 inches thick on the thin side and 74 inche thick on the big side. It's trunk is an oval. I'm 5 ft 11 inches tall and weigh 220 pounds to give some idea of scale.

Eddie