Champion Oak

[surveyor]

This Willow Oak is found within a Subdivision for which I was doing a lot survey today. As you drive deep within the Subdivision, you round a curve, and there before you is this monster tree on a small rise.

Willow Oak in Marvin a national champ! - TreesCharlotte

A monster of a Willow Oak in the Union County town of Marvin has been named a National Champion by American Forests, a non-profit conservation group […]

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[Tom Dunlap]

Very cool!

 

[Neill]

That’s cool, I looked that exact tree up the other day. I’m sure the photo doesn’t do it justice. I’d love to see it in person

 

[Vicente]

That's awesome, I got a bid for doing a little pruning and deadwooding on some big white oaks today which I'm really excited about but they're nothing like that beauty.

 

[surveyor]

I did notice that at least one of the long spreading limbs had been lopped off towards the end, and that on the other side the lower limb(s) were reaching down to the ground. Some one had installed a steel rod through the lowest limbs through the limb above it. I suspect that that was not done by an arborist however, as I could not see the benefit, but who knows. It was a sight to behold, and made my day.

 

[Mike Islander]

She's a beauty!