Makes sense, this tree had a lot more slow growth compared to fast, should be a great burner in a few years
This is great forest for beech trees, it's probably a 1 x 1 square mile area, it was once 3 x 1 square mile, the beech run in a vein throughout, kinda neat, you are either in them or out of them. 35 years ago when I was kid there use to be 75 or so mating pairs of blue herons that built their nests in the big beech trees....at night time the forest sounded prehistoric I suppose, they all made this cackling noise at the same time at dusk until about 10 pm....but the building of housing developments drove them out. It also amazes me that these big beech, along with even bigger red oaks, although not as many, some are so big 3 men could barley hug the trunks and touch hands, missed the saws of the loggers that came though in the late 1890's.
Nice find! I hope you get a lot more wood out of it. I'm jealous, I don't have old growth trees like that around me. Sounds like a common problem--this area was logged in the late 1800s so the only really old trees around seem to be the ones that were shading someone's house or in areas that were inaccessible. Same thing with my retirement lot in NC--lots of trees but all new growth.
Just gotta get my swimsuit on nowI like the beech........LOL
