World Record Trees

Jeff · December 20, 2003, 08:44:59 AM

rebocardo · December 20, 2003, 01:00:44 PM

Amazing! General Sherman is 2,000 tons!

Ianab · December 20, 2003, 04:44:07 PM

thats pretty amazing stuff eh

I'll put these trees in as runner ups in the big tree compettion

ttp://www.hokiangatourism.org.nz/waipoua/tane_mahuta.htm

More info on this page especially about a really big one that was lost in a forest fire in the 1890s

http://www.insights.co.nz/story_behind_i.asp

This page talks about the swamp kauri.. logs that have been buried in swamps of up to 50,000 years and are still solid

http://www.kauri-museum.com/html/MoreInfo.html

Now as for the 150 year old tree thats 4 inches high..... :

Umm... I guess you just have to watch your step in that forest?

Ian

Stan · December 24, 2003, 12:25:35 AM

Well I have seen those bristle cone pines up close and personal, and to me they look like shrubs. :-/ I don't know about them growing in Colorado, but there are a bunch in the White Mountains that form the California/Nevada border.

rebocardo · December 25, 2003, 03:36:05 PM

How about the fig tree with roots 396 feet long! That will not tip over in a storm anytime soon, I do not think you will be yanking it out of the ground anytime soon with a pickup truck either :-D

SwampDonkey · January 23, 2004, 03:52:37 PM

This is how we grow'm on the Charlottes

Yours truly in the foreground.

And this is how we log'm

8)

Paul_H · January 23, 2004, 04:20:49 PM

Saints preserve us SwampDonkey! yer a wee Leprechaun yea are!

SwampDonkey · January 23, 2004, 04:44:40 PM

You better get out your 20 m logger's tape with pi-cm on the reverse to measure the dbh of these pumpkins. Those little 7.5 meter d-tapes aren't long enough. :D

Anyone care to measure high side of these trees on 60 % slope? Don't forget to remove the moss.

;D ;D ;D ;D

Stephen_Wiley · January 23, 2004, 11:08:19 PM

Hey Swamp,

Why did ya lean that stick up next to it* It's blocking the full view of it .....or were you afraid you might not be seen. :D :D :D

Metal Mosquitoes - yep they use them around here too!!!

* (tree in foreground)

SwampDonkey · January 23, 2004, 11:31:15 PM

@ Stephen

Lepricauns are pretty strong eh? ;D

And I needed something to lean on to

Stephen_Wiley · January 23, 2004, 11:42:25 PM

QuoteAnyone care to measure high side of these trees on 60 % slope? Don't forget to remove the moss.

;D ;D ;D ;D

Sure.........sounds like fun. Just need to know how high the first structurally sound lateral for a tie in is. (Need to know which rope to use). 8) 8) 8)

Unfortunately, that's a long haul from here. Kevin is closer and may want to have the fun !!!

Stephen_Wiley · January 23, 2004, 11:45:17 PM

Quote@ Stephen

Lepricauns are pretty strong eh? ;D

And I needed something to lean on to

Sure must be------- that stick must be apx. 2' dbh by what min.of 60' in height ???

SwampDonkey · January 23, 2004, 11:52:58 PM

@ Stephen

hmmm it was a 50 meter tree, and I recall no limbs untill 20 meters up. That place was almost a nightmare to work in because they had left alot of log waste back in the 40's and we had to climb over alot of those cedar remnants with up to 30 cm dbh hemlock growing out of the sapwood and moss. We were sampling juvenile stands, well juvenile for the NW coast. ;D

SwampDonkey · January 24, 2004, 12:08:12 AM

@ Stephen

Yeah, the stick was a good sized tree for New Brunswick stadards. It was sitka spruce I believe. I've been in groves of Sitka growing on fans of land slides where they seem to grow best. The average dbh was 2.6 meters (max 3 meters) and the average height was 65 m, maximum around 75 meters. $20,000 pumpkins (15,000 to 20,000 board feet) definately more than 2 semi's will hold. I think 8000 board feet (bangor log rule) unmilled is a big load of wood ;D

The MOF wouldn't let us log'm though :'(

L. Wakefield · January 26, 2004, 07:23:49 PM

hmm- trees like that on the EAST coast- who knew? I'd've thought it was out west somewhere. lw

SwampDonkey · January 27, 2004, 05:24:23 AM

@ L. Wakefield

NO NO NO :D

The Charlottes is an abbreviation for the Queen Charlotte Islands on the west coast of BC. This speciman was found on Elizabeth Island.

Ever try to take a picture from inside a bubble ;D

L. Wakefield · January 27, 2004, 04:13:02 PM

Oh good. That makes me feel better. I looked at your 'home' map and I didn't recognize the name- and then you said it was a 'good sized tree for New Brunswick standards'. And down the garden path I went. But it sure looked like trees out west. (I wish they grew that way here..) lw