Antone seen a bigger conifer?

[s.varty]

circumfrance at the bottom is 161 inches,left limb at 10ft is 96 inches. A friend of mine has this in his garden which is coming down in a couple of months, anyone in the Bedfordshire area want some your welcome to collect free of charge.

[Stubby]

Yep

[s.varty]

Yep

 

Don't believe you mate:001_tt2: Just realised antone should of been anyone

[Mick Stockbridge]

She's a beefer. I used to trim one that big from a rope n harness with a hedge trimmer. A long time ago mind.

 

I think they use mewps these days.

[mdvaden]

Your photo shows a double-stem tree.

 

Here, for example, is a single stem tree. An Atlas Cedar planted in Sherwood, Oregon. The trunk almost 7 feet diameter ... 256 inches circumference

 

The house is 1894 but the tree is younger than that. He's a quote I posted in a forum once, which will give an idea of how fast its growing and how young it really is:

 

Got a note in reply from Robert Van Pelt, mentioning that he and someone else has measured this tree back around 1996. Said it is a champion at present. But also said he knows of some taller and wider ones. Bob said it's an Atlas Cedar, which makes sense in light of all the upright stems. He said the last measure for it was 100 feet tall and 16 feet and 8 inches circumference (with exclamation about the quality of soil). That's a big girth increase in a short span of time to reach 21 feet & 4 inches by 2011. And 7 feet height gain is decent for an old tree too. Anyhow, it seemed like someone had to have measured this tree before considering it is in plain view.

 

Should wrap it again this year just to see.

[mdvaden]

The conifer in the OP is actually what would be a very young or medium size tree here in Oregon, which has a similar climate to the UK, at least autumn to spring.

 

Whether that's a Leyland Cypress or not, I'll use those for example.

 

Leylands here, grow canopy 45 feet wide in 20 years if planted single and not in a row. And height 50 feet or more, with substantial trunks.

[predator]

SET FIRE TO IT STANDING LOL

 

it'll go up like a roman candle my mate did it to his and it made flames higher than his house he **** himself as it melted the plastic guttering i was crying laughin at him when he told me what he had done to get rid he was doing a search of his loft space for fire n smoke when i turned up to visit him one sunday morning and the tree was black burned bald lol his eyes were out on stalks when he came out of his loft i could'nt stop laughing at him

[Stephen Blair]

Tis nowt but a baby:biggrin:

[Acg128]

Picture doesn't do it justice literally couldn't get phone out quick enough while driving past it!

[Marc Lewis]

Me and Silky viewed a huge Leyland cypress at Stour Head. Have you still got any of the pictures on your phone Paul? This is an absolute mammoth, even without the newkie brown ale!!