Anyone knowledgeable on trees.

[ACORN]

Road construction has me detouring on my way to work.
I came across these two logs.
The firs is about 24"-30" in dia. The second is 36"-40". They're on narrow stretches is winding road so I can't stop and measure.
And idea on the type and a guesstimate on the age of the big boy?
I don't see many 36"+ tree trunks around here.

 

[steelslaver]

That is a dead tree.

 

[rock doc]

It might have been an oak tree.

 

[twodog max]

Look like oaks from what I see. Hard to make a guess about age because so much depends on what species they are and where they grew. My SWAG is 80+

 

[H Richard]

The bark looks like Oak t me. In the Midwest we see 36"+ trees frequently. Some right in town. Our County is 200 years old this summer.

 

[WCCPHD]

First looks like a Red Oak. Second, a White Oak.

 

[Kanewpadle]

And to our service members around the world and first responders here for standing guard while we celebrate.

 

[arjay]

My wag is elm or cottonwood

 

[robvious]

looks a lot like the big oak in my backyard... probably 3 plus foot diameter... it's a monster.. but thankfully mine is vertical.. lol

 

[Narragansett]

looks a lot like the big oak in my backyard... probably 3 plus foot diameter... it's a monster.. but thankfully mine is vertical.. lol

As he posts a horizontal picture

 

[lkabug]

I'll go with oak Tree also.
Looks as if some bark has fallen away. May have been dead for awhile.

 

[ACORN]

I'll go with oak Tree also.
Looks as if some bark has fallen away. May have been dead for awhile.

Yeah the big boy has been dead for a while.
The smaller one toppled over, bridged a creek, crushed a guardrail and blocked a road.

 

[s&wchad]

I would have expected a member named ACORN to know an oak tree when he saw one!

I was thinking oak or ash, but I really don't know.

 

[WR Moore]

Some years back a storm took down an oak about that size on my property. Fortunately, back in the woods. Near as I can recall, it was a youngin' back during the war between the states.

 

[Chuck24]

I know one when I see one

 

[Rule3]

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.



Except those trees!

 

[tops]

The County name may be 200yrs. old but I bet the land has been there forever. Larry

 

[Skeet 028]

The first seems to be Red Oak...and the other White oak as WCCPHD said Red Oaks tend to grow straight in a woods for 15 to 20 ft the first limb...white oaks on the edge seldom more than 8 to 10 ft to the first limb

The bark looks like Oak t me. In the Midwest we see 36"+ trees frequently. Some right in town. Our County is 200 years old this summer.

200 years...Heck my house in Md was older than that 25 years ago and was made from Red Oak White oak and Black walnut. The floors upstairs were made from American Chestnut 17 to 40 inches wide hand sawn and ship lapped

 

[llowry61]

I don't think America even has chestnut trees after the blight. That is some rare wood you had in those floors! I can't believe no one came along and dragged those oaks away to mill them down. Kind of a shame.

 

[Skeet 028]

As far as Chestnut... The blight killed 'em off in the 20s-30s. Chestnuts are like oaks... in the woods they get tall and straight looking for the sun. There are a few very rare specimens left. There was one about two miles from home that still bore nuts and another on the Md-Del line on a friends place about 50 ft from a Mason- Dixon line monument. Some people keep planting the nuts hoping to bring the A-Cs back. We planted about a hundred nuts in the woods at home...about 60 sprouted and maybe 35 or so lived. The last time I was in those woods was about 6 years ago...at least 25 were 35 ft tall and 5 inches across at the base. My father in law was a Timber cutter from 1911 to the late 30s The timbermen called Chestnuts the redwoods of the east. He did most of the planting and caring for them for 6 years till his passing in 2001