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| It's branches hang precariously over my house and the acorns keep bonking me on the head! - --- the squirrel This is the Florida State Champion Live Oak that grows a few miles from here.
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| No!! Squirrels are born to have acorns fall on them! He's got to learn to enjoy free food! Resin |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 8:02
| it apparently made your house disappear??? whats that all about.. lol ken ps: i was wondering about painting those wounds.. or maybe filling them with cement ... what do you think about that???? .. but mostly.. i am really irritated with mowing under it.. and am wondering if i can raise the soil level 2 or 3 feet ... meanwhile telephone-poling it ... |
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| If you cut it down, you will then have to cut it up. Is it worth the hassle? ;-) |
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- Posted by salicaceae z8b FL (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 9:40
| I don't have a saw big enough! The big scars are where gigantic branches broke off - probably during hurricanes. Although sometimes the limbs on these huge oaks spread out so far and become too heavy for the tree to support and they collapse under their own weight. |
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| Seems kind of spooky with all that white moss hanging on it. A real majestic tree. |
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| Thanks, salicaceae. Considering repeated hurricanes, that doesn't look bad at all. The Wye (white) oak in MD also had a massive side branch laying on the ground. The tree was downed in a Tstorm around 2000 or so. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 12:32
| It's incredible!!!! This is the kind of tree I would stop the car to take a pic. I have an album on my FB devoted to just big trees. It would be understandable if a limb needed to be removed to keep the house safe, but I passionately hope you can find any alternative to cutting it down. If you don't mind saying, where in FL Z8b are you? Tree below is in Geneva, AL, a "living witness" tree, certain to have been alive at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed. |
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- Posted by fineartmarcella (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 19:08
| OMGosh, this is such a wonderful tree please learn a way to 'get along' with it and leave it for the next generation who lives in your house/property. I can't imagine buying a place that has this tree in the yard! Beautiful! |
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| "Tree below is in Geneva, AL, a "living witness" tree" That tree needs to come down, it's dangerous. Kids might climb on those low branches and then fall off. It's also a very poor specimen, awful stem straightness, worthless knotty thing.
(not really ;-) j.k. . . . |
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- Posted by salicaceae z8b FL (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 21:43
| OK - Just to clarify, I was trying to be funny here. I am NOT interested in cutting this tree down. It isn't on my property, but is in a little park, just north of Gainesville, FL. |
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| If anybody thought you were serious they deserved to get bonked on the head with a couple thousand acorns. It has to be illegal to cut down a state champion tree, right? |
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 22:15
| THAT tree would make a wonderful.centerpiece in my yard. Imagine the Christmas lights! I'm sending one of them Osprey helicopters to bring it up for transplant tomorrow. |
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- Posted by tsugajunkie z5 SE WI (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 22:25
| When you cut it down, save a slice of that trunk for me. I need a new patio...oh, and a new roof on my porch, so make that two slices. Majestic just doesn't seem to cover it. tj |
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- Posted by alabamatreehugger 8a/8b south Alabama (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 23:05
| Reminds me of this one in Spanish Fort, Alabama.
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- Posted by salicaceae z8b FL (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 23:41
| Nice one!! Toronado - A shopping plaza near here has huge live oaks full of Christmas lights. |
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| SURELY you JEST. That is a majestic, beautiful live oak. If it is in your yard and you remove it, someone needs to send over Dr. Phil or some Phsychologist to see what's wronge with you. Half kidding, the tree is worthy of preservation if there is any structural problem. |
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| Absolutely Sal. It is a catastrophe waiting to happen. When you are finished with that disaster there is another you can tackle down in Mexico. |
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| Think of all the bird eggs that could fall out of a tree that huge! Can you live with that if you leave it as is? Besides I think that would be an AWESOME PLACE for a new multi level parking garage. Honestly, I can't help but imagine what it looked like before it lost those other limbs. What a gigantic spread it must have had. I wonder if branching to the ground is an evolutionary advantage to deter damage from hurricanes. I have an old post with only a 50' spread that branches to the ground and, of course, has never seen a hurricane so I might be way off. Below is a vid of Mr. Willow warming up for the big tree takedown! |
Here is a link that might be useful: YEEEEHAAAAAAWW
This post was edited by j0nd03 on Fri, Nov 30, 12 at 10:58
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| Sad thing is, there's so many b*stards out there who'd be only too keen to take out that tree just to put in yet another seedy MacTackyTucky's or some other sordid 'development' :-(( Resin |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Fri, Nov 30, 12 at 11:58
| Oooooh you really got people going, good one, Salic.! If I'm ever going to be in Gainesville, it will be on my list of things to see. "Imagine the Christmas lights!" Yes yes yes!! Tree below is in someone's yard on the main drag (Rt. 52) in Samson, AL.
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| Some of these Live oaks are awesome. It looks like there's a much greater cross-section of wood up at the branch-collar than in the thinnest single-trunk section. From an engineer's viewpoint, it's very difficult to achieve a sound, durable structure like that unless the wood is exceedingly strong & tough, especially at the trunk's thinnest point and in the branch crotches where the stresses are enormous during very strong & gusting winds. |
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| I imagine maybe the fact that it's in a park could bring about some kind of worries about liability--but maybe logically only if liability insurance on behalf of the park or municipality, has become too high and could be lowered by the tree's removal. Because, if you think about it, this tree and the same, if smaller, branches in the same place on tree, have been there for a LONG long time? Couple hundred years or so? and also, is any of the nearby woods in the background, also in the park? awful lot of trees kids might climb, there. Just offering a hopefully logical perspective. |
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| It has to be illegal to cut down a state champion tree, right? WRONG The champion trees are nothing more than a recognition for a database, that's it. There is no legal protection whatsoever. I am aware of a church in my state that cut down a breathtaking oak laden with mistletoe, in order to expand the parking lot, a champion Liriodendron was cut down to build the connector outside the capital beltway, our state champion black oak was cut down when the property changed hands and on and on and on. Many of the champion trees are on private property and therefore subject to the whims of the property owner. |
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- Posted by salicaceae z8b FL (My Page) on Thu, Dec 6, 12 at 9:05
| Again, as I stated earlier - this was a joke! I have no intention of cutting this tree down..Sadly, Sam is right though - champion trees are frequently cut down. |
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