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04-20-2011, 07:35 PM
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They look like small maple leaves, judging from thos on the ground from last Fall.
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I have only seen them this big in pictures..I would imagine it is an awesome sight to see! 
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04-20-2011, 07:56 PM
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I've seen some huge trees but this one is the biggest and gnarliest. This one is simply pissed off but really full of character! Too cool laying on your back peering through thos branches at the blue sky and listening to the wind goe through the limbs. Very spriritual experience.
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05-05-2011, 07:27 AM
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As trees go, this one is poor form for timber. It would be classed a "wolf tree", open grown, taking more space than is should. If the twigs are opposite one another on the branches, it may be a maple. You can't tell much about random leaf samples beneath a tree as they can blow in from away. Cottonwood is in the poplar family, and as mentioned, will be obvious once the seeds fly. It is indeed a big tree, likely about 200 years old.
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05-05-2011, 03:47 PM
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A tree ( burr oak ) on my place. Can you spot the wife ? She under the tree and waving at the camera. The trunk of the tree is right center, you can see a patch of sunlight on it.
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05-05-2011, 07:38 PM
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We planted 2 Bur Oaks when we moved into our new house and they are really growing, neat trees.
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06-16-2011, 05:32 AM
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I've got a tree out the back of the farm I nicknamed the coffee table tree as the trunk is thick enough to make formal dining tables. A few years ago one branch broke off in a storm and took 3 other big branch's with it. cutting thru several of the branch's my MS390 Stihl chainsaw with a 20" bar needed 2 cuts to get right thru the branch. All up I reckon I got close to 9 tonne of firewood out of it and thats leaving some of the big thick branchs there to season. I've got several big trees here mainly red gums, huge peppermint box and quite a few other varieties of gums.
Cheers Bryan
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06-16-2011, 10:43 AM
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Do you have any pictures?
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06-19-2011, 10:08 PM
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Matt in tree
My son and his stringbean school mate in a burnt out Mountain Ash in the Grampians Mountain range in Victoria Australia
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G'day from Tim in Australia.
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06-20-2011, 05:06 AM
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Now rhar's something you don't see every day...thanks for sharing. 
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08-04-2011, 11:22 AM
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looks like a silver maple i had in my front yard i had removed because it was swaying way too much inthe wind...and it had a base that was wider across than my 4ft level.
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12-21-2011, 11:56 AM
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Great Photos and Great tree, that makes me love country life quitely. 
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12-23-2011, 06:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan1
cutting thru several of the branch's my MS390 Stihl chainsaw with a 20" bar needed 2 cuts to get right thru the branch. Cheers Bryan
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Thats when you break out the MS 660 with the 36" bar.
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12-24-2011, 12:06 AM
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your not compensating are you???
Hehehehe
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G'day from Tim in Australia.
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12-24-2011, 04:56 AM
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Boy Iam I glad those long bar chain saw days are gone.
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12-25-2011, 12:44 AM
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The'largest' cottonwood in Md is located about a block from my office. Now I gotta go shoot THAT puppy! They put a bronze plaque at the base. I might take a tape and a 'helper' to measure the base.
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04-09-2012, 08:27 PM
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04-09-2012, 09:20 PM
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Definately one huge tree. It has got to be several hundred years old. Trees that grow that big, don't do it overnight.... Keep us posted once you know for sure of the species.
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04-13-2012, 10:32 PM
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I'm going to have to lean a yardstick against Md's biggest 'Cottonwood'.
It's located a half a block from my work, but I never remember to 'shoot it'.
Big ol' boy!
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04-24-2012, 09:43 PM
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Can you imagine the changes in the world that tree has seen over the years?
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04-30-2012, 08:24 PM
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Is that city park anywhere around Tri-cities area in Washington? My wife's aunt and uncle live in Kennewick and when we visited them they took us to a park that looked like that.
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