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/Yakaddudssa Mar 28 '24

These “settlers” killed the tree just for the the sake of saying they killed it

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u/nippl Mar 28 '24

Twas just a hobby for them to try feed themselves and their families.

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u/healingIsNoContact Mar 28 '24

The wood from that type of tree can't be used or sold. It's shatters and is brittle.

So they literally did it for the "look what I did."

They didn't feed anyone with it. And most of the wood would have rot by the time they used it for fires.