Last week I posted a video on the white oak and said I was doing a series on the oaks. This is the second installment - the bur oak. This is one of my favorite oaks, such an awesome looking tree with equally awesome huge acorns.

Hope you like it and thanks for watching,
Anthony

Burning some in the woodstove right now. Love that variety of oak, thanks for posting.

That was another great video, Anthony; thanks for sharing the information. I just picked up some huge bur oak acorns while in Missouri. There is a very noticeable difference in size compared to our bur oaks here.

good post, I have about 200 started on my land some have started with acorn's already,

Love your channel Anthony.

I read an article that stated Burr Oaks are among the longest lived trees around, one was reckoned to be over 300 yrs old at the time of the American Revolution. Known as the "Constitution Tree" it's in Philadelphia as I recall. I have several that I planted as nut's that are doing great.

I thought that the constitution tree is an Elm that was at the junction of Pine Creek and the Susquehanna River just west of me. The Us congress was held there during the battle of 1812. ??/ Am I wrong?......jk

Thank you, Anthony. Another great informative video.

one of the geologist in Manitoba was studing the Bur oak tree ring growth ( dendrochronology) Some samples were taken from trees harvested in 1860 in a building in St Boniface from a site known and from a few logs taken away during re-construction he went back to 1600 Ad. Then some samples were found in a river bank was out, samples went back then to 1200Ad ( radio carbon dating) the tree ring aging.
When I was in the tree removal business we came across a 6 foot diameter Bur oak tree and thought we found the mother load. There was historical records of them in the 1820-1870 of netting Passenger pigeons under it. During WW1 there was a rifle range there and aerial photography was just being developed.....low-and-behold there was the tree. And a house because it was just outside of the Hudson Bay territory of Lower Fort Gary......and in the corner of the picture was a wee-house with a Crescent moon. The tree rings proved it was watered every night and sewar lines were put in 1960. The tree was taken down in 2000 and was only 240 years old. Ring width was one inch in some places.
His study used 5 and 10 year increments to show climate changes ( Eric Nelsen or Nelson)
There is a silk worm moth that defoliates the tree late in the season mid July-Aug which effects the ring growths. Heat= big rings Cold = small rings
frost in June = pollen is sterile= no production of mast crop

Liked the bee shirt, loved the video

Do one on Swamp White Oak soon!

In my area, it's hard to find any bur oak acorns because the critters eat them so fast