Land of the Giant Oaks

[Pete Collin]

On this site we can show off big racks, long beards and long spurs.  Here's a video showing off some giant oak trees.

 

[WNYTRPR]

Cool vid 

[moog5050]

Very interesting

[farmer 52]

Great video Pete

[Zag]

Awesome stuff Pete!! Thanks for posting 

[Red]

Cool video.

[farmer 52]

Pete is a honest guy,he handled a logging job on my grandparents farm about 40 yrs. ago

[Pete Collin]

Just now, farmer 52 said:

Pete is a honest guy,he handled a logging job on my grandparents farm about 40 yrs. ago

Really?  Whose?

[farmer 52]

Main+ Cummings road,south side of Main

[Pete Collin]

3 minutes ago, farmer 52 said:

Main+ Cummings road,south side of Main

Oh!  Was that the farm that had the spy apple orchard on it?  That was so long ago!

[farmer 52]

3 minutes ago, Pete Collin said:

Oh!  Was that the farm that had the spy apple orchard on it?  That was so long ago!

Yes sir that was it.That piece of property has some huge oaks and hard maple on it now.

[jperch]

As always your videos are very informative and interesting.  Wow, some beautiful specimens there.  Thanks for posting.

[suburbanfarmer]

Thanks for posting, enjoyed it for sure.

[ncountry]

Nice video. I appreciate the large timber. You don't see as many of those oaks up here in the north country compared to down there. Roughly 25 years ago I worked winters as a feller when construction slowed down. I loved falling those large trees.

[crappyice]

Greta video…some amazing trees.


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[UpStateRedNeck]

Nice video!  

[SpacemanSpiff]

Wow. Some beautiful timber. 

[Lawdwaz]

Great video Pete, thank you.

[Oldebona]

Great video.  Fantastic trees

[phantom]

That was one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen on here of something I had no idea about pretty cool man

[Doc]

However, beware of unscrupulous logging companies that can truly leave a disgusting mess behind. I can think of an example of a woods that is now almost impossible to walk across. They left skidder ruts that are almost 2' deep that went across a significant amount of forested acreage and tore up a huge ag field. The logging was done during a very wet time of the year, and so they decided to take a different path with each load leaving behind a network of skidder ruts that make just walking an exhausting chore. I have seen others that have left serious erosion problems. Still others that were sloppy about how they dropped trees, destroying future potential lumber trees in kind of an indiscriminate fashion. There are others that strayed across property lines to get some good trees. I would suggest getting some good reliable references before even considering signing on the dotted line.

The other side of the coin we see deer browse improving and deer numbers increasing because wood shave been thinned. There are other critters also that benefit from a well managed wood-lot. Just be warned that there are some dangers in randomly signing on with a logging company. They are not all reputable, and what they leave behind is not always in the landowner's interest.

[Pete Collin]

1 hour ago, Doc said:

there are some dangers in randomly signing on with a logging company. They are not all reputable, and what they leave behind is not always in the landowner's interest.

Which is why I have a job.

[Lucky118]

I've stopped by and patted this old girl for 20 yrs on my way up the mountain to hunt.  She's  on her last legs and falling down now. I'll  miss her.

[Modern hillbilly]

A neighbor is having logging and clearing done to what would be considered "old growth" by today's standards. Rings are not like a phone book but are tight and most of it is veneer. There is probably 10 acers of condensed oak that is on average bigger than shown is the video. The growth is also part of my property with a wind storm that brought down several large red oaks a few over 40 inch diameter last fall. With lumber prices I'm surprised the logger hasn't asked about logging yet.

https://youtu.be/zcLQz-oR6sw Tom wesseles is a commie but has a good video series on new England forests and identifying old growth which I also have a small area of true old growth.

[crappyice]

How’s this one?



Hard to imagine the actual size but I placed a golf club and clipboard at its base. Gotta be 12’ across.
Head greens keeper estimates it at 250-300 years old


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