Wanna see how big Hornbeams get?

[glacialhills]

I took some pics on a hike with the wife and son couple weeks back. When I saw this hornbeam I just had to share. Also took some of a Large Black Walnut with a Honeybee Hive up about 40 ft. They must have run out of room inside their hole and had to make comb on the outside. Sure can tell we dont have black bears in the area.

 

[shawng111]

I love trees like that, hardly any brush to deal with, nice pics

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Awesome!! I've never seen a iron wood that big!

Billy

 

[bobbys]

One would need to put the diamond tipped chain on the saw to cut that monster!

 

[Cascade Failure]

Oh man! I would love to get my hands on that hive.


The trees are nice too.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Awesome!! I've never seen a iron wood that big!

Billy

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Awesome!! I've never seen a iron wood that big!

Billy

Billy, I think we have a different ironwood here and ours will never reach that size.

 

[glacialhills]

Awesome!! I've never seen a iron wood that big!

Billy

Billy, I think we have a different ironwood here and ours will never reach that size.

Backwoods I thought that too but This is the same ironwood that grows all over here in Michigan... only this one is probably 2 or 3 hundred years old or more from one of the last virgin hardwood forests left in Michigan or anywhere for that matter. The thing was well over 100 foot tall too. I have a few growing on my property that are 10" in diameter and I thought that was as big as they could get. One 8 incher I cut last year was about 75 years old looking at the rings. So the one in the picture has to be ancient.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

You are right. They sure do grow slow. We have one little one that I've watched over the years and the danged thing looks about as big today as it did 25 years ago.

 

[btuser]

Here in NH our entire national forests were logged at one time or another. Then came the Chestnut blight. You can still find 6' diameter oaks, but it really must have been something to have seen what it was.

 

[northernontario]

Very strange for bees to draw comb like that out in the open, right off the side of a tree. Very unlikely that they outgrew a hole in the tree. More likely a swarm landed on the tree, wasn't able to find a suitable place to make a new home, and needed to draw out comb quick to get the queen laying. Probably won't survive the winter exposed like that.

(I'm a beekeeper btw.)