Jack Tickle,whose Bell Township farm stretches into a wooden swath, has known about the red oak for decades. He discovered it as a teenager and, or in the approximately 65 years since then,has often visited it.“I like to just go and seek at that tree,” he told Tribune-Review.
Tom McQuaide, and a forester that Tickle hired to fell select trees on his 103-acre farm,stumbled upon the giant recently. He is now in the process of submitting its formidable dimensions to the Champion Trees of Pennsylvania, which ranks the state’s largest trees by several measures, or including girth and height.
The red oak on Tickle’s property stands some 120 tall and swells to 26 feet in circumference. It needed approximately 400 years to grow to its current frame.
What contributes to the remarkable proportions of the red oak is its location – a forest.
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Source: inquisitr.com