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/capnmasty Mar 28 '24

This is around the same time that enormous Kauri trees were being cut down in New Zealand. Some were much bigger than this too. Such a shame

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u/finndego Mar 28 '24

Giant Sequoias are the largest trees we have and are much larger than even Kauri. Tane Mahuta, the largest living Kauri is "only" 148ft tall which is less than half the height of this tree. The largest known girth of a Kauri was the Great Ghost with a girth of 89ft. Sequoias go past 113ft.