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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #20 on: October 27, 2007, 11:39:50 am »
Tom:  The big tree is called "Muela de mono" or monkey tooth "Goupia glabra" and the vine is "Reynaquia" , a local name and I do not have the scientific name.  The little tree I have no idea.
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #21 on: October 27, 2007, 01:11:44 pm »
Thanks.  I was trying to compare the same vegetation to my swamp.  Vines that big here would usually be grape.
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #22 on: October 27, 2007, 02:53:56 pm »
Tom:

Here are some vines we use for turning wood.  They have beautiful grain patterns.

 
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #23 on: October 27, 2007, 03:51:30 pm »
Wow, imagine a vine with a diameter as wide as a pin cherry, but a lot taller.  :o
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #24 on: October 29, 2007, 04:38:10 pm »
wow! its hard to imagine vines that big :o
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #25 on: October 29, 2007, 05:44:41 pm »
Quote from: turningfool on October 29, 2007, 04:38:10 pm
wow! its hard to imagine vines that big :o

We have a 'tree' here that starts out life as a vine. Grows high up in the tops of big Rimu trees and eventually sends a vine down to the ground.





Lil standing beside a large rata 'tree' The original host is completely gone, just the vines left.



A whole rata tree.  Now Thats A VINE  ;D



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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #26 on: October 29, 2007, 11:21:52 pm »
That is pretty wild. Is the host killed by the vine, or does it die of old age?


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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #27 on: October 30, 2007, 12:24:04 am »
I think the host tree mainly dies of old age. It's a pretty long term thing, the rimu are 400-800 years old, then the rata takes over and lives for hundreds more.

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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #28 on: October 30, 2007, 12:23:08 pm »
 
Here's a couple old relics on the Olympic peninsula of Washington state.
 
Rainforest giants.
These are western red cedar, thuja plicata.
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #29 on: October 30, 2007, 01:48:49 pm »
She doesn't look like a relic, to me at least... ;D

Spectacular trees.


Your pics don't need to be that small... :)
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #30 on: October 30, 2007, 05:28:42 pm »
Cool! That little sucker your leaning on in the top pic is an average sized tree out here. ::) ;D


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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #31 on: October 30, 2007, 05:34:04 pm »
 smiley_embarrased smiley_whip The trees.... I mean't the trees are old relics!
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #32 on: October 30, 2007, 05:35:33 pm »
The bottom one is one of those 2- 7.5 meter diameter tape measurements. It was scary in under them, sometimes they were not all alive above. And I can tell ya, the hard hat won't help. It will be all over before your brain could register the pain. ;D

Speaking from my experience on the Charlottes here. And yup there was vines, salal. Not big enough for turning, but a mess all over the tree trunks and shrubs you have to trek through in some areas.
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #33 on: October 30, 2007, 06:39:09 pm »
Wow, CalSaw :o.
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #34 on: October 30, 2007, 11:39:01 pm »
 
 
This one was a couple of miles away from the two in my post above.
Stood by itself in a sea of young second growth.
These pictures are from my honeymoon in 2005, my wife likes trees! 8) 8)
 
My wife Christine, with a monster behind her.  :o
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #35 on: November 16, 2007, 08:31:10 pm »

Howzabowthisun?
The post to the right  of the tree is 4' tall, to give perspective....
This is the one I was talkin about!
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2007, 10:55:35 pm »
What is it? And were? :o
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #37 on: November 17, 2007, 11:05:38 am »

That beast is located in Skull Valley, AZ, about 20 miles west of Prescott, on a dirt road on the way to my buddy's house.
There's a second one that's almost as big, about 50 meters behind it.
I'm not sure that my largest saw could take it down, with that much girth.
The longest bar I have for my saws is 5'6", and I think that one is a might bigger than two passes with that bar.
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #38 on: December 03, 2007, 12:34:18 am »
We have a big Sycamore on our place...86" dbh, ~90 feet tall and crown width is 130' at its widest point (average of 107.5')...I meant to get a pic of it for ya'll today, but I couldn't locate my camera.  :-\
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Re: Giant Tree hunting
« Reply #39 on: December 03, 2007, 11:45:43 am »
I thought this might be a good place to recycle this photo I took of Stacy standing near the "Treaty oak". A live Oak in Jacksonville Florida that Tom took us to see several years ago.

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