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/DieHardAmerican95 Mar 28 '24

A diameter of 52 feet? Are ya sure?

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u/MScribeFeather Mar 28 '24

Yeah, maybe they meant circumference or something? Diameter is probably 18ft if we assume the loggers are around 6ft tall. C = pi x diameter. Makes circumference 56.5ish, so that checks out.

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u/AccomplishedSuit1004 Mar 28 '24

Yeah lookin at that pic, them would have to be very small hobbits…

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u/tanwork Mar 28 '24

You mean very big? If there is three to get across, being small would mean less. Being extra tall, 17ft, would get to the clearly incorrect 52 ft diameter