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Okay folks. Back in the winter
I posted "Phenomenal day of measuring", about me and my dad going to
Egg Harbor City and to Batsto to measure big trees. I took photos of
Dad in front of most of them.
Now one of them has been cut because it was a "hazard tree". That's
nonsense. The tree was not hollow and was not leaning. It also was
not dying. There was no twig drop at all, except for normal stuff in
high winds. But that's not for this discussion. The point is, on
Sunday I wanted to count the rings on the stump, but I didn't think
I could do it because it had been too long since the tree was cut
(several weeks I guess), and the exposed wood has started to fade
and so on.
Anyway, in this post I want to just send you the pictures of the
tree from the day Dad and I did our measuring. With the vines it
came up at 12 1/2 feet CBH. I estimate without the vines it was
about a foot less.
So the attachments show the tree with the mansion at a distance, and
then up close with my father in front of the trunk. The tree and
others nearby, can be seen in old photos from the 1870s and 1880s
when Joseph Wharton and his family lived there. It was big even
then.
And FYI, the mansion was built in the 1770s and was modernized or "Victorianized"
100 years later by Joseph Wharton. As I say, all the trees were
already mature and big then.
While I was there on Sunday I thought of an idea, which may not
work. I knew I had a terrible time attempting to count the rings. So
I decided to put my camera on the 7.2 megapixel setting and take a
picture of part of the stump. In the next message I'll attach that
high-rez photo, and MAYBE someone might want to attempt to count the
rings. I don't know. It was pretty tough, and maybe it can't be
done. But it might be worth a try.
Anyway, enjoy these photos, and watch for the next message with the
stump photo.
I might go back and ask if it's possible that someone could cut the
stump down a tiny bit and expose some new wood.
Barry
Continued
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Okay folks. Here's the high-rez
photo of part of the stump. It goes from the edge to the center. If
anyone feels like attempting to count rings, be my guest. It may or
may not be possible. I realize the wood is degraded in the center,
and rings can't be counted there at all. See part the post
immediately before this for what the tree looked like.
Thanks,
Barry
Randy Brown wrote (July 29, 2009):
I loaded it into an image
editor so I could zoom into it and made a
dodgy effort. I got ~117 clear rings I marked with red dots. But
like lee said the rotted area is a real head scratcher. The wood is
clearly separating along annual rings. The question is wether it's
separated along -every- annual ring or just some of them.
We had a similar sized sycamore tree in the town where I grew up
that
they said was planted in the 1880s. I measured it last year ~ 15'
cbh
x 108' tall. So it's not impossible
the tree grew up since the historic picture was taken. Anyway I
attached the picture so you all can see how far out to lunch I am:
Continued at:
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