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Old March 28, 2017   #20
SteveP
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Originally Posted by Worth1 View Post
We have one in Texas that is estimated to be 1000 to 2000 years old.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...HsNG5zoerCoUbQ
That is an awesome tree. The one I saw locally looked very much like that except the
top half was missing.
When my folks retired back in the 70's they bought a beautiful little 10 acre farm about an hour south of here and it had an old massive oak. My 2 brothers and I decided to see if we could reach around it. We put our chests on the trunk and stretched our arms out and touched finger tips and we came up about 20" short. My brothers were 6'6" and 6'5" and I am 6'. The shade canopy from that tree covered close to an acre.
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