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I didn't take any pics, and it's too hot to climb for amusement. With the caveat that it's been shown my recollection of tree attributes can be faulty, I want to say the limb that had the extended collar had 6" of collar material, and I left a couple inches of normal wood beyond that.

A question... Is splitting the difference good, bad, or neutral(assuming appearance is irrelevant)? When I did my oak last week, I left significant stubs. In one case, it was because there was still some life left near the stem, though I imagine the dying will progress. In other cases, it was...

I'd like to see those trees sometime. There's nothing even close out this way. Even for girth, our biggest oaks are dwarfed by the PNW trees.

I like how 250' isn't tall. I don't think the local iron sequoia is 250' :^D

I figure trees can take care of themselves. They spent millions of years without humans and did just fine. If having attached dead wood was bad for them, they'd have evolved to drop it quickly. Probably not a popular opinion on an arborist's site :^D