Oaks are the supreme climbing tree in my opinion, I like how on some of the big ones their long branches will naturally curve downwards to allow me access.
The only oaks that I climb around these days are dead ones that need chopping for free firewood.
Theres one I would have to say at LEAST a hundred years old. Tried counting the rings only to get past 90 at 2/3rds of the tree. Behemoth of an oak so large that we have no idea how to even process the trunk. Nearly every branch was large log material. We got enough wood from it to blaze a bon fire nearly every day of summer, and fall. And still have several cords of wood left. (And even more firewood from the 6 poor trees that oak took down with it when it fell during a storm)
Is it normal to climb up trees?
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I wish I had the upper body strength to do that again. My parents had this half century oak in the front yard. Good climbing material.
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Oaks are the supreme climbing tree in my opinion, I like how on some of the big ones their long branches will naturally curve downwards to allow me access.
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The only oaks that I climb around these days are dead ones that need chopping for free firewood.
Theres one I would have to say at LEAST a hundred years old. Tried counting the rings only to get past 90 at 2/3rds of the tree. Behemoth of an oak so large that we have no idea how to even process the trunk. Nearly every branch was large log material. We got enough wood from it to blaze a bon fire nearly every day of summer, and fall. And still have several cords of wood left. (And even more firewood from the 6 poor trees that oak took down with it when it fell during a storm)