Chicago (IL) Daily Inter Ocean, October 28, 1895, p. 10. THE LARGEST OAK BOARD The largest oak board ever sawed was ripped from the body of a mammoth tree that formerly stood near Scottsburg, Indiana. The tree was 27 feet in circumference and was said to be the largest perfectly round oak in the state. It was purchased by H. Hermann, the New York lumber dealer, for the sum of $75, and was cut down and sawed into boards. The largest of these boards was 10 inches thick, 5’ x 2.5” wide at the butt and 5 feet exactly at the top. It was 35 feet long and required the combined strength of two yoke of oxen and eight horses a whole day to move it ½ miles on a “broad tread” wagon from the saw mill to the depot. Lumber men say that this was the largest oak board ever sawed in American—St. Louis Republic.