ENTS, Over the weekend I went to visit my dad for the first time since early July. I was way overdue. While there he told me some people he knew that had a nice oak on their property and Sunday we rode out to see it. Upon arriving we met the property owners, Ben and Susan Bennett who kindly showed us some their nice trees. Ben is a woodworker who enjoys crafting items from Eastern Red Cedar and had some interesting items to show us inside his home.
After visiting inside we went out where he showed us a sizeable cedar standing in his back yard. I measured it to be 7ft 10In in circumference and 79.63 feet tall. Nearby was a large cedar stump where a large tree recently stood. It was largely rotten in the middle but had an impressive diameter of 42 inches! That's a pretty decent- sized cedar! I just wondered how tall it had been. After measuring and examining the cedar we walked under some nice pecan trees to the oak in the back yard. It was a beautiful specimen of White Oak. Nearly perfect in form and very healthy. It's spread may have been wider than it's height. I have not as of yet learned how to measure tree spread. The oak is 13ft 2 1/2in in circumference and 82.89 feet tall. While measuring the cedar I noticed an impressive Pecan tree nearby. In fact it is the largest pecan I have seen to date. Dad said he had seen some bigger. The pecan is 11ft in circumference and 103.04 feet tall. I would be curious to know what the record pecan tree is. After measuring the pecan tree Susan led us to her turkey pens. Dad raises poultry and got a couple of turkeys from Susan a while back. A large oak stump was inside the large pen and Susan said the tree had been cut down before they lived there. Pieces of what had been a large tree lay nearby. Just outside the pen is a decent-sized Tuliptree ( Yellow Poplar ). The oak stump inside the pen was a whopping 4 1/2 feet in diameter! Just outside the pen was a stump of what had been a really big Tuliptree. Though not rare here, it seems that Tuliptree is not as common here as in the mountains of North Carolina while Sweetgum is more common here in Lowndesville. The poplar stump was 4ft 7 inches in diameter. Damn, I would have loved to seen it alive. Judging by the stump it had been cut down a fair number of years before. The last tree measured before leaving was a decent-sized Post Oak near the driveway. It reminded me of Howard Hannah's big Post oak which is located only a couple of miles away. Dad told me that the Hannah Oak had lost some limbs and may be dying, I will have to go back and check it out later. The Bennett Post Oak is 9ft 4 1/2in in circumference and 78 feet tall. Like Howard's oak it has accompaning ressurrection ferns. http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/south_carolina/hannah/hannah_oak.htm http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/south_carolina/abbeville_sc.htm http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/south_carolina/sumter/sumter_national_forest_sc.htm I forgot my camera back at dads so I have no photographs to show but these were some nice trees! I gracefully thank Ben and Susan for introducing these great trees and for their hospitality. James Parton Eastern Red Cedar 7' 10" cbh 79' 63" tall White Oak 13' 2 1/2" cbh 82' 89" tall Pecan 11' 0 " cbh 103' 04" tall Post Oak 9' 4 1/2" cbh 78' 00ft tall. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
