Last of my monsters

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Soundchasm

Minister of Fire
Sep 27, 2011
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Dayton, OH
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I like putting these giants out there. It's sad when they die a natural death, but that's life. I get fairly angry when an architect can't be bothered to lift his pencil and scoot something a few feet.

First the silver maple, and then a sycamore 10 minutes from my house.

This guy was killed when they put in a new apartment complex 1/2 mile from my house. I may have posted this before in 2016. It's a silver maple. And it appears to be something I consider to be rare, and that's a healthy silver maple.

Don't recall if I took measurements, but my wife is probably 5'10"
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Here's the sycamore. I think it's recorded as the oldest sycamore in Greene Co, OH. I keep expecting to be able to go there and eat fresh cookies.

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The Silver maple is probably a 75 year old tree more or less. They grow big like that faster than most any other tree. True when they get that size rot starts to set in the trunk or main branches by then.
 
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