I'll take about 50 board feet if you got it... I need a new coffee table and my table saw is getting the shakes.

They could send it to some luthiers, or make walking sticks and sell them to folks.
Well, that is what they should do, imo.
I'd buy one.

^^ that would be some seriously serious furniture.

But what of the Giving Tree?

Was anyone around when it fell? Did it make a sound?

lets make it into paper and write a book about it

You'd have to be barking mad not to install lightning conductors in the remaining three.

I hope historians got a chance to interview it first.

steevmit: You'd have to be barking mad not to install lightning conductors in the remaining three.

In reading this and the other stories, it was the wind & hail that took it down, not lightning.

what, those trees couldn't see that storm coming?

shenanigans.


PS - I can has a new bat?

8,000+ Americans died at Gettysburg, and it's a national battlefield park.

3,000+ Americans died in the World Trade Center, and it's a real estate project.

/Go Team Port Authority!

Will people come back every year to reenact the storm?

Next to go:



/hotlinked 'cause I ain't got nuttin'

was there a piece of rope hanging off it?

Stupid tree shouldn't have ratted in the first place. Got what was coming to him. Damn squealer.

-Reads article-

Nevermind.

Trivia Jockey: Was anyone around when it fell? Did it make a sound?

Witnesses?

DarthBrooks: 8,000+ Americans died at Gettysburg, and it's a national battlefield park.

3,000+ Americans died in the World Trade Center, and it's a real estate project.

/Go Team Port Authority!

Well, with the 10X population growth, that 3000 is only like 300 in 1860 Americans.

steevmit: You'd have to be barking mad not to install lightning conductors in the remaining three.

Some sort of Witness Tree Protection Program?

Park maintenance officials will assess what to do with what remains of the tree.

Shelby Foote unavailable for comment

/wonderboy

The Old Man of the Mountain just wept. He loves old trees.
Oh. hang on, I need to check something.
(Nevermind)

Bob Taylor made some gorgeous guitars several years ago with wood from the "Liberty Tree" in Annapolis, MD. It's a beautiful instrument made from the wood when it also was damaged in a storm.

http://www.imagineguitars.com/archive/acoustic/014_taylor_ltg/

Honey locust is a bastard of a tree.


...and it's real hard on a chainsaw.

It was throwing apples at innocent travelers.

TheOther: DarthBrooks: 8,000+ Americans died at Gettysburg, and it's a national battlefield park.

3,000+ Americans died in the World Trade Center, and it's a real estate project.

/Go Team Port Authority!

Well, with the 10X population growth, that 3000 is only like 300 in 1860 Americans.

But $300 back then is like $3,000,000 now.

And then there is the whole onions on belts thing...

Leaving only John McCain

If only it could talk.

No "I see what you did there" meme?

TheOther: DarthBrooks: 8,000+ Americans died at Gettysburg, and it's a national battlefield park.

3,000+ Americans died in the World Trade Center, and it's a real estate project.

/Go Team Port Authority!

Well, with the 10X population growth, that 3000 is only like 300 in 1860 Americans.

I am intrigued by your statistics and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Bolo Jungle: It was throwing apples at innocent travelers.

-Golf clap-

Alathea: Bob Taylor made some gorgeous guitars several years ago with wood from the "Liberty Tree" in Annapolis, MD. It's a beautiful instrument made from the wood when it also was damaged in a storm.

I believe Gibson has first dibs on presidentially significant wood.
That's not a Bill Clinton joke.

http://www.harmony-central.com/Events/SNAMM98/Gibson/Old-Hickory-Guitars.html

"Well, with the 10X population growth, that 3000 is only like 300 in 1860 Americans"

and the 8000 at Gettysburg would be like over 70000 today.. we just don't fight battles like we used to

reverend_frag: ...and it's real hard on a chainsaw.



...Uh.. huh huh huh....

Lionel Mandrake: I hope historians got a chance to interview it first.

I bet it owned slaves.

BURN IN HELL, RACIST TREE!!

gunblade: Leaving only John McCain

vegetable not= tree

kilgorn: Shelby Foote unavailable for comment

Yes, he most certainly is unavailable.

awfulperson: I bet it owned slaves.

BURN IN HELL, RACIST TREE!!

Yes, lots of slave owners in 1863 Pennsylvania.

I like living in the Redwoods... Where all the trees are older than the Civil War.

DarthBrooks: 8,000+ Americans died at Gettysburg, and it's a national battlefield park.

3,000+ Americans died in the World Trade Center, and it's a real estate project.

/Go Team Port Authority!

Don't leave out the 27,000 wounded (many of which would lose limbs or die later due to infections/disease) and the 11,000 missing and captured. Using only the KIA makes the total impact misleadingly less, which I assume was your purpose.

DarthBrooks: 3,000+ Americans died in the World Trade Center, and it's a real estate project.

it's important that the media tell you to not remember - because if you do, you'll never vote for a demorat again.

sponger: we just don't fight battles like we used to

wait, wait... you're saying TWICE as many people died in one battle as have died in 6 years in iraq? NO WAI, imagine that! perspective!

Hopefully Gibson or Taylor will step up.....
Liberty Tree Guitar (new window)




I still like the Cujo, myself.


(the walnut tree used for the guitars was in the film, and in "Peggy Sue Got Married.")

tshetter: And then there is the whole onions on belts thing

it was the style at the time

I came here for a "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!" reference;
But now I sadly untie the withered onion from my belt.

Gonna go make some pancakes... mebbe some bacon...

DarthBrooks: 8,000+ Americans died at Gettysburg, and it's a national battlefield park.

3,000+ Americans died in the World Trade Center, and it's a real estate project.

/Go Team Port Authority!

To be fair, real estate isn't nearly as expensive in Gettysburg. I'm all for a meaningful memorial, but carving a hole in the middle of a city doesn't do much to heal the city. We didn't wall off all of Pearl Harbor either.

As for the Witness Tree, if trees could talk, this would be a tragedy. A tree that old really isn't that old in tree terms though. Plant a new tree. Put the wood from the old tree to whatever best use you can find for it. I wonder if it would make a good baseball bat! Abner Doubleday fought in the war didn't he?

House of Tards Will people come back every year to reenact the storm?

We have a wiener! Thread over.

/and some faux Lincoln will give the Gettystree Address.

captain_napalm:
wait, wait... you're saying TWICE as many people died in one battle as have died in 6 years in iraq? NO WAI, imagine that! perspective!

This just in...... medical advances and such can make quite a difference.

OK, this is too weird...

Today I was digging around in my closet, and came across a Tree Growing Kit I got as a gift a few years ago...seeds which are a direct descendant of this very tree.

You can still purchase the kits...check this out:
Link (new window)

Marshmellows?

/witness campfire

Call me when I can get a tree of woe in my front yard. No more alarm system after that.