120 + Year Old Oak (Video)
 

I spent yesterday helping my Dad take down this old oak tree. He sure hated to see it go, it was 15 foot around and about 75 foot tall, he has about 4 more the same size as this one and one of them looks like its dying also, it came out full of leaves at the start of spring and about 3 weeks later all the leaves turned brown. He is going to give it another year and see what it does. By the looks of it that one will be coming down also. Seems like alot of trees around East Texas are dying.




http://s275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/redpatcher0481/?action=view&current=Treevideo.flv

Damn , Nice job !

The way that one crumbled, it was probably dying for a while...

Yeah, thats what we figured. From what I have read it could take years for trees that big to die.

time for a bon fire:c:

That looks like some that we took out at work a few months ago. This first one was over 225 years old.

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...L/trees002.jpg

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...L/trees001.jpg

Can you mill that? Oak is nice wood for building ......use it up....recycle it...

We have one to cut in Dads yard that is over 4' across, it will be fun to take down but kind of sad to see it go. A couple of years ago we had a bigger limb come down out of it and it was over 120 years old.

damn, that's a lot of counting

:pca1:

Yes it is:c:





Ohh its going to get used up, in the fireplace:D


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man that sucker just crumbled! wow -- I have a HUGE cottonwood tree that has limbs dying on it -- seems some HUGE limbs that were cut off years ago are now hollowed out and no doubt holding water... apparently it was quoted several years before we bought the property in 01 of about $10K to remove it!!!

Imagine the history taking place when those trees were being planted!!! Espically the one thats 225 years old.WOW!!!

what a shame, im no tree hugger but cutting down a 225 year old oak? old trees are awesome, only if they could talk.

I was very very suprised that there were not any tree huggers complaining when we cut that one down. There was another one that was half in half out of our cut line and we decided to leave it. It was bigger than the one that was 225 years old. They took all of the wood to a mill to have cut down for lumber, its not like we shreded them.

Yeah, there's really no good wood in that thing to be able to mill anything decent out of it. Its nice you guys had the room to just drop it though. I hate getting into that old wood with my spikes on. Climbing that stuff your never sure just how strong it is, and even when the safety line catches you, you never know exactly what your gonna hit on the swing. I take it you guys pulled it over with the tractor?