How old am I?

On our walk this morning we saw this tree trunk which is left from the tree cut down yesterday. I have never seen wood this colour so am not sure what the tree was. The top image is a close up showing the rings. I wonder how old the tree was and why they had to cut it down?

[Dawn]

Nice colour and textures

[Milanie]

You could pretty well count those rings in the top shot

[bkb in the city]

Very nice

[Kathy A]

I like the shape of the trunk in the bottom picture, great colour too

[Lois]

Love the textures!

[John Falconer]

I can never work it out! Well spotted.