Is this a case of an uphill tree base that had the lower measurement inadvertently added instead of subtracted the first time around?
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <[email protected]> To: "ENTS" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 6:49 PM Subject: [ENTS] Bad day at Black Rock > ENTS > > Well, today proved disappointing. I could not verify the height > I had previouly gotten for the tuliptree on Montpelier. I couldn't > even come close. I measured and remeasured. Nancy Weiss accompanied > me. She had a Prostaff 550. We got similar distances on all the trees > we measured. > > Basically, the best I could do was 161.2 feet for the tree I > thought I measured yesterday. However, I got 14.8 feet in girth for > the tree. I had listed the girth as 13.7 feet on Sunday. I measured > the tree adjacent to the one just mentioned to 159.1 feet. I presume > it was the one I measured yesterday to 158.8 feet. It's girth is 14.0 > feet. Nothing matches and there aren't any other candidates in the > spot I thought was the right one. Man, what was I on yesterday? > > On a positive note, We measured a new tree to 161.1 feet. Time > was running out so I didn't go down and get it's girth. The new tree > makes the 3rd over 160 I've measured on the site. > > Unfortunately, time was limited. So I didn't get accomplished > what needed to be done. I had to be in Charlottesville to measure a > tree for a heritage tree committee. It is a green ash as best I can > tell. It's dimensions are: CBH = 15.4 ft, Height = 95.0 feet, Spread = > 75 feet. The tree stahnds next to a museum. I measured the tree using > the tangent method and got 111.8 feet. > > I'm thinking about returning tomorrow for a 3rd time to > Montpelier. The third time is a charm. > > Bob > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
