Beech Tree disease or what?

[Radar67]

And the splash was spectacular, even from the seat of the tractor from over 100 feet away.

The catfish supper weren't too bad neither. 

Okay, before the no pictures/didn't happen is mentioned, we didn't get many pictures due to rain and unskilled photographer (wife), but here is proof it is on the ground.

[WDH]

I am pleased that you will be able to saw it into board that will live on.

[tyb525]

Make sure you get a picture of one (or all) of those boards too.

[SwampDonkey]

Seems to me beech was used sometimes for sled runners if ironwood couldn't be found. I've not seen it in much furniture, but it's readily available in my area, not as common as sugar maple though. Most fellas cut the beech out of the maple woods, but it's like the energizer bunny, it takes over the understory in shaded conditions.  

[Radar67]

I plan to quarter saw and use the resulting lumber for either flooring or cabinet door facing in the new house.

I'll take pictures of the best boards. I haven't measured the base yet, but it will be between 22 and 24 inches diameter. Don estimated 60 years old, I still have to count rings.

[tyb525]

I like beech bowls.

[SwampDonkey]

In the spring of the year those darn beechnuts will send a radical straight down through the leaf pile when the snow vacates and before the duff dries out. One spring I walked up a steep hillside and the beechnuts had all sprouted , looked weird with them sitting out on top of the leaf litter with big long sprouts. Couldn't have been any deer or bear around that fall before.

[Radar67]

Here is a beech bowl from an earlier tree that fell during Katrina.