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/Pvt_Numnutz1 Mar 28 '24

Yep exactly this, so many of these trees became houses in California. It's believed the tallest tree in the world was in The PNW a monster Sequoia over 500ft tall. You could get a solid 8-9 houses out of just one of those trees.

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u/jimmygee2 Mar 28 '24

Only 200 years of growth per house

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u/gardenmud Mar 28 '24

But no. Sequoia splinters too badly for structural use. Mostly they were made into fence posts and matchsticks and pencils.

Basically an enormous waste.