.
A sideways tree.
Youve stumbled across one of those rare sideways trees.
A sideways tree.
My man!
.
I dunno, but it’s amazing how it grew perfectly horizontal like that. 
To help answer your question, where was this tree?
It’s obviously a mys tree.
A sideways tree.
My man!
Damn, you both beat me to it!
A rare Horizontree.
I don’t know if anyone mentioned previously. But it’s one of those sideways trees.
Not sure where you are, but maybe this can help? https://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/
You didn’t have to cut it down to identify it.
While the rest of the LR adolescents are cracking jokes…
Shellbark Hickory according to “Search Google for Image”
It’s not sideways, it’s just growing at the equator. Don’t you know anything?
You all are not being helpful.
I can’t be positive based on just one picture, but I think that is a deciduous tree.
You guys are smarter than that, use the REAL words
It’s an Arborium Horizontalus
.
Looks a little like an ash tree but I don’t think the leaves are right for that.
Don’t start with that spherical earth BS.
The glossy, unlobed leaves, the bark, and the massive size and structure of the trunk indicate to me that this is a shingle oak. There’s a massive shingle oak in my mom’s yard, and this photo is very reminiscent of it. It’s a nice shade tree, and long-lived. They are, however, susceptible to a disease that’s been killing some of them in the St. Louis area.
Any twigs or small branches that fall to the ground are very hard to break by hand–more so than white or black oaks, which I’m very familiar with.
If not a shingle oak, it could be a laurel oak. Both are native to the Carolinas.
You didn’t have to cut it down to identify it.
She learned from Audubon shooting the birds in order to paint them. It is easier when they can’t run away.
What part of the world are you in? Context helps.
Acorns? Evergreen?
Live Oak is in the list of possibilities.