Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version

[AHPP]

Very big old yew we did some light lifting on today.
Was in the grounds of a long disappeared château.

How old do we think that is? 700?

[surveyor]

[IronMike]

Went to Blenheim Palace today......

 

Sod the building, the trees were unreal!

[IronMike]

Bumped into this beauty at the Cotswold Animal Park, photo doesn't do it justice! There were some mega trees there, and some mega animals too.

[Mick Dempsey]

Heres one for you, à near perfect oak, just a few branches off over the track to allow tractors under, and some lifting over the field to allow the beasts underneath

No deadwooding, thinning, reduction or other nonsense.

Superb.

 

[Stubby]

4 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Heres one for you, à near perfect oak, just a few branches off over the track to allow tractors under, and some lifting over the field to allow the beasts underneath

No deadwooding, thinning, reduction or other nonsense.

Superb.

 

And still a relative youngster I would think .

[Mick Dempsey]

4 minutes ago, Stubby said:

And still a relative youngster I would think .

Agreed, big but not massive, every branch in decent nick, minimal deadwood.

Approaching it’s peak.

[sime42]

We found this interesting specimen today, at Lake Bala, on the foreshore. Never seen such a big tree with such exposed roots, an oak. You could actually see right through in places. Guessing it must be due to years of erosion when the water level is high. There were lots of others around nearby but non as big.

[AJStrees]

22 hours ago, sime42 said:

We found this interesting specimen today, at Lake Bala, on the foreshore. Never seen such a big tree with such exposed roots, an oak. You could actually see right through in places. Guessing it must be due to years of erosion when the water level is high. There were lots of others around nearby but non as big.

It's blinking Enormous in it. 

[gary112]

22 hours ago, sime42 said:

We found this interesting specimen today, at Lake Bala, on the foreshore. Never seen such a big tree with such exposed roots, an oak. You could actually see right through in places. Guessing it must be due to years of erosion when the water level is high. There were lots of others around nearby but non as big.

That is amazing