Massive whiteoak

That is a whopper. Looks like you have a nest property.
 
Given how much larger that tree is than everything around it, one wonders why it was left there when everything else was cut down. Or why it was planted there. Very often, a lone large tree was left to give shade to a house or some other structure. Any chance there is an old homesite there?
 
cubrock said:
Given how much larger that tree is than everything around it, one wonders why it was left there when everything else was cut down. Or why it was planted there. Very often, a lone large tree was left to give shade to a house or some other structure. Any chance there is an old homesite there?
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Maybe, about 30 yards east there is a spring head that never dries up, in a little valley between two hills, it stays noticeable cooler close to the creek. Along that spring head running north to south there is a rock wall, running parallel to the spring, 100% man made.
Found a few old stone footers today, one set made a almost perfect square 9x9
Edit: we know there was pre civil war activity on the property
 
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I almost guarantee that was somebody's hunting shack or cabin. They probably left that white oak standing as bait when it was a young tree of about 100 years or so. It's probably at least 250 now
 
Many neighbors on my street have trees that big or bigger in their yard. One was taken down and took five days with a crane. Cost was over 10 grand to remove.
 
Ikarus1 said:
I almost guarantee that was somebody's hunting shack or cabin. They probably left that white oak standing as bait when it was a young tree of about 100 years or so. It's probably at least 250 now
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It will still work as bait... you can probably find scrapes nearby.
 
Scsmith42 said:
This. That looks like a yard tree.

if it dies, look me up. I can mill it for you.
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I think it is in decline, it appears to have been struck by lightning at some point in time and some of the upper branches that are thicker are starting to die. What is the maximum with that you can cut?
 
Cluck Norris said:
I think it is in decline, it appears to have been struck by lightning at some point in time and some of the upper branches that are thicker are starting to die. What is the maximum with that you can cut?
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I'd say there's a pretty good chance he can mill it.

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I found one of these giants on my father-in-laws farm once while hunting. I set my shotgun on the ground propped up on the tree and put my hand on the tree at the shotgun and stretched around as far as I could reach and moved to where I had reached and repeated. Twice. And I was still not back to the shotgun. Lacked about 2 ft making it back to the shotgun. That thing was 3 times my reach plus another 2 ft.

On the same farm the guy who tended it cut some firewood off the hedgerows and we came along just after he had dropped a large white oak in the field. You could walk up to the trunk as it lay on the ground and it was over head high.
 
This is the biggest tree on my property, i assume old growth. I believe it to be water oak but I'm not anywhere near being a tree guy.
I need to get a proper measurement or something to scale the picture but it's a monster, at least for around these parts.


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We have one that blew out by the roots when Hugo came through. All that they left of it was the root ball and a couple feet of stump that is laying horizontal on the ground. Is laying....I checked it a couple of years ago and it was still there slowly decaying. Base of the trunk measured 21.5 ft in circumference when it fell, almost 7 ft diameter. Theres a couple more big ones there that are over 5 ft diameter, but that was the biggest.
 
Johnny said:
This is the biggest tree on my property, i assume old growth. I believe it to be water oak but I'm not anywhere near being a tree guy.
I need to get a proper measurement or something to scale the picture but it's a monster, at least for around Daytona these parts.


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Looks like willow oak - a member of the red oak family.
 
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