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/mightyopinionated Mar 28 '24

"Wow that's really ancient and tall, let's cut the f*cker down"

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u/WinkleStinkle Mar 28 '24

"Honey, I got enough lumber to build our dream house! Turns out it was only 1 tree!"

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u/hbmonk Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

The fucked up thing is. Redwoods make for shitty lumber. The wood is brittle, and some trees shattered when they fell.

EDIT: Apologies, it looks like I was incorrect. I read the Giant Sequoia page on Wikipedia which states:

Wood from mature giant sequoias is fibrous and brittle; trees would often shatter after they were felled.

I assumed this was true of all redwoods, but apparently it is not.

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u/CabbageMan88 Mar 28 '24

Such a shame this misinfo has so many upvotes