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Keith Tompkins

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Keith Tompkins

>I have received permission to cut downed trees on a 75 acre estate on the banks of the Hudson River. Absolutely stunning! It is ajacent to a state park, and has been in the same family since the 1600's!

My first wood.....a magnificent cherry fell in a windstorm across their driveway. Over 30" diameter, a monster of a cherry. I stopped counting at 150 growth rings.....is appears to be over 200 years old!

Anybody ever see a cherry that big? I didn't think they lived that long.

PS. It was uprooted in the storm....I'm cutting up the root system. there should be some spectacular wood grain there!

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Mike Schwing from Maryland

>We have a lot of 30"+ inch black cherry trees here in my neck of the woods. There's one not 75 feet from me right now thats more than 45" thick 6 feet up. They only grow that big here when they grow alone or at the edge of the woods. Never find them much larger than 20"s in the woods, but where they've been given full reign with no competition they get darned huge.

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