Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version

[mehmkl]

The Chandelier Tree in Drive-Thru Tree Park is a 276-foot (84 m) tall coast redwood tree in Leggett, California with a 6-foot (1.8 m) wide by 6-foot-9-inch (2.06 m) high hole cut through its base to allow a car to drive through.

[Doug Tait]

5 minutes ago, mehmkl said:

The Chandelier Tree in Drive-Thru Tree Park is a 276-foot (84 m) tall coast redwood tree in Leggett, California with a 6-foot (1.8 m) wide by 6-foot-9-inch (2.06 m) high hole cut through its base to allow a car to drive through.

Welcome, lovely looking dog in your profile photo.

[Will C]

That must make the tree he best part of 18ft wide! I’ve seen a picture of it before but never registered it’s magnitude. It’s bloody huge! 

[Tommy_B]

Hasn't it fallen over?

[Bob_z_l]

5 minutes ago, Tommy_B said:

Hasn't it fallen over?

apparently no.

From Wiki....

 

The two giant sequoia drive-through trees have both fallen:

• Wawona Tree fell in 1969 in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park
• Pioneer Cabin Tree fell in 2017 in Calaveras Big Trees State Park^[

[Tommy_B]

it was the 2017 one I was thinking of. Thanks 

[Mick Dempsey]

Very big old yew we did some light lifting on today.

Was in the grounds of a long disappeared château.

[nepia]

Stunning; great tree

[Mark J]

That's an amazing tree. 

[AJStrees]

On 13/10/2021 at 14:26, Mick Dempsey said:

Very big old yew we did some light lifting on today.

Was in the grounds of a long disappeared château.

Crickey that's a bigun. That size must be quite a few hundred years I would imagine surely.....