America's oldest oak tree to be cut down

[@jaads7910]

Let it die naturally like it been doing for last 600 years, people should know not to walk under it in case branch falls offf its common sense ,

[@Orianasama]

Ja Ads It's already dead. Since dead trees have no sap they are extremely brittle and prone to break and snap during storms. Leaving it standing could be a major liability

[@Maurazio]

it's already dead, you want to destroy 300 year old tombstones as well?

[@JamesRaider82]

I agree with you it's a shame to have anything that old die because WE said so I'm tired of bad decisions, that town could easily have helped with fertilizer and bolts to help stop the spread. I randomly searched for the oldest tree and it got me here.

[@abundantharmony]

Dead my left toe! See those leaves on it? That was from the past season. It's clearly alive. They just got lazy and didn't want to support the tree.

[@lukazzmatizz4378]

U so dumb

[@blueskinblake9935]

I remember that tree! I spent time under that tree as a child. I got to under that tree a few times and knew the stories surrounding it. I had forgotten all about it until now. I didn't think clicking on the video it was going to be that tree. What a shame, but it had quite a long life. And left many people young and old with fond memories of sitting and playing under it, thinking about our young nation.

[@Unknown_Ooh]

You spent your time as a child in a graveyard?

[@Mani_Matter]

This is sad

[@davinacampbell-williams]

Filling hollowed out branches with concrete to prolong its life?! Or shorten it. 🤔

[@dboogeman2002]

The chemicals in the concrete definitely shortened the trees life. The tree probably needed extensive fungicide treatment and bug removal.

[@Gamer_2047_]

Americans are not empathetic towards humans how one can expect them to be empathetic towards plants

[@wildsouth2471]

They should have collected acorns from it to grow its offspring in its place after they cut it down. Maybe there’s some small ones sprouted somewhere close by.

[@jamiepirie9758]

@@eatyourcereal6696 is it still there?

[@supersonicfan3522]

That's exactly what they did

[@luciusclay969]

Most of the roots are dead, the part we don't see. Oaks thrive in dry climates, and then we build around their beauty, and water them to death. Killed with kindness, but that green lawn is sure pretty.

[@Christian_Prepper]

*OLDEST **_OAK_** TREE in AMERICA!* It's _"oldest _*_white oak_*_ tree"_ but not oldest of ALL trees in America because that is the Bristle cone pine -over 5000 years old!

[@TheOldLookOutLodge]

leave all the viable trunk in place to be sculpted by a commissioned artist.

[@mltoh9331]

What the this tree has more beauty than a sculture 😲

[@_Hobbes]

ITT: People who apparently are tree experts

[@sameersiroha9352]

please don't cut it down😢

[@Craig969]

Cut it down

[@askjeevescosby2928]

Cutting it down was a disgrace. Everything should have been done to try and save this tree.

[@MegaMaaaax]

Cut it into slices and make an Historie Timeline Along the rings for Museums and schools

[@reacespeaces2]

Cut it down but make sure and at least plant a new one, then in 600 years you will have another one just like it.

[@spencerconway5468]

As of December 2018, does anyone know if they left the tree stump or did they grind it?

[@Craig969]

I hope they grinned it

[@Tyler_Owen23]

@@Craig969 they replaced the tree with a new tree that was planted 20 years ago from an acorn a professor at the near by college took and planted.

[@youknoweverything7643]

I have a 210 year old oak tree in my back yard. And it's massive we have a tree Dr company come once every 4 months to give it fungicide and big removal and trimming off any sick parts of it and trim off dead limbs

[@Lotr2987]

Imagine if they would preserve it's main stump, and the stuff that was cut down would be created into timber to build fancy furniture and stuff like that, e.g. a chair that only the rich could afford, because the timber came America's oldest oak tree that died

[@allyalison1043]

Firewood or playground molch

[@keegansmetanko3755]

It’s sad but people it’s dead that’s why they are removing it, you wouldn’t leave a dead human in the middle of town would you? Don’t do it to the tree

[@alejandrojimenez4169]

Why did they cut it.

[@foxylady9110]

Sad but just goes to show everything is temporary

[@dboogeman2002]

I'm sure the chemicals in the concrete were great for it. Truthfully all the formaldehyde from the body's is probably eventually seeped into the roots of the tree.

[@YooTooobJeff]

Smart folks would make commemorative furniture from it... Any smart folk out there?

[@fassenm6041]

I was there when this tree was planted 700 years ago!

[@urspacorp3445]

wait

[@DigitalYojimbo]

the furniture that comes from this tree is gonna cost a mint.

[@terryhollands2794]

I wonder if there is any way to clone it and plant it in its spot?

[@GoneCarnivore]

It could be grated but a graft may not live as long

[@shygirllucycoosie7067]

everything ages and dies. its only naturally. i only hope they replant an oak tree in its place so....(only hope America still exists) next 600 years the town can still love and cherish the new tree. it be wonderful if they can salvage some parts of the old tree and make something beautiful out of it. just add to cut my old tree down. its very sad when things die. all the people say leave it alone. well if they did that, it would be dead long ago. look how much props and cables its taking to hold it up. poor old thing. its like old grandma, she wants the machine unplugged. jk.

[@ccarta192]

The green grass and cemetery killed it

[@Deedraa]

Please tell me that you plan to take a part of the tree that is alive even if it's just one 🍃 and to replant it in the same exact place . Because then it will still be the same tree . Right ? I mean come on

[@youknoweverything7643]

They should turn the tree into a memorial for it so use it's wood to make its own gravesite aka memorial with all the history about carved well laser etched into the wood

[@TheOldLookOutLodge]

use the wood to create ornate items of interst.

[@Smarterthanyou-mthrfkr]

Leave it the fk alone!.

[@chewyguru]

Use the wood to build the wall. jk.

[@Rogue_Console]

when Trump got ellected the tree said to itself "F*** this"

[@chuckycheese432]

Take the concrete out,, fill it up with aloe vera pulp it's a natural routing accelerator it will bring back life even to the limbs. Check out how to clone with aloe vera it will make sense

[@lukazzmatizz4378]

Its dead

[@lookbeyondthechatter706]

a sign of ?

[@tryparticpating8774]

So let I be!

[@finn188]

The tree would have died long ago but hasn't due to plentiful fertilizer in the soil near by.

[@jamespryorjr.4017]

like everything on this earth it's disied!!!! from our "great lifestyle" this earth has about had it with ppl. God's will be done!