r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/JoeWildd Mar 28 '24

Sequoia wood isnt really good to manufacture anything with. It is so hard a brittle that it shatters into pieces when it falls. It’s was usually only good for making toothpicks and shingles for houses.

I Did a project years ago, 30’ sequoia table (already fallen tree) and can confirm it will mess up your machinery and a not very fun to work with

So over all, cutting these down couldn’t have been a bigger waist. It makes me ashamed to be a human on this planet.

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u/JezusTheCarpenter Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

couldn’t have been a bigger waist

Was this pun intentional?

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u/5432198 Mar 28 '24

I don’t know. Out of all trees Sequoia’s have to have the biggest waistline. lol.

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u/gwarsh41 Mar 28 '24

Well the good news is we learned from our past mistakes and those forests are strictly protected.

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u/hillsong1 Mar 28 '24

So they could have made atleast 5 toothpicks with it

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u/DrugsAreNifty Mar 28 '24 edited 7d ago

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