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

 

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

 

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