mobile phone snap of mrsconsequence standing in the fire scare in the trunk of a sequoia in california 😯

mrsconsequence

Awwwwww! Sweeeeeeeeet! :-).

Is she tiny?

Or very far away?

(nearly) the biggest flowering plant in the world….

Brown-top Stringy Bark a.k.a. Big Tree by Mark-Farrell, on Flickr

Welcome home!

Me and Martyns of this parish went to see the sequoias years ago. They are incredibly big, to the point where they completely screw with your sense of (visual) perspective.

Is that the American shot?

has philconsequence married a Borrower?

lol she’s about 5′ 9″, the sequoia trees are HUGE, its impossible to describe how big they are but on average they’re 2-3000 years old and there wasn’t a single one that we could take a photo of properly.

Lols they have a sequoia at Mabie, it’s only a few hundred years old so as you can imagine its not in that legue. It’s still one of the biggest trees in the UK.

Awesome..

I’ve just been reading about America’s forests in Bill Bryson’s A Walk In The Woods..

Wow. Think of the number of chest of drawers you could make out of that!

Mcmoonter would make quick work of that lot.

Wow. Think of the number of chest of drawers you could make out of that!

IIRC Sequioa wood’s not much good for anything, so they use it for matchsticks.. a LOT of matchsticks.

biggest tree i have seen is a NZ Kauri, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81ne_Mahuta

so they use it for matchsticks

So it burns good, huh?

Ditto the Kauri tree. Not overly tall, but plenty of girth 🙂

When I walked the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island we cooked our dinner every evening on cedarwood fires; the wood fractures interestingly into blocks when a tree falls. Smells nice too.

Some from my trip down the Pacific Coast

A lot of the US was old growth forest, the vast majority of which was clearcut in the 1800s and early 1900s. There aren’t redwood trees in the eastern part of the US, but there were big oak trees and others. Here are a couple of old logging pics from West Virginia.

“White oak, the largest timber tree in the original forest, often attained a height of 100 feet and a diameter of over 6 feet. It could be found on the slopes and ridges of dry, thin soils derived from sandstone and shale. The largest known tree ever cut in West Virginia was a White Oak, and it is pictured here. The other oaks, along with this world record tree, were all clearcut.”

“The most important cove hardwood tree was the Yellow Poplar, a species that grew to enormous size. The typical poplar attained a height of 120 to 140 feet, and a diameter of 7 to 9 feet, with a distance to the first limb of 80 feet. Several poplars 10 and 11 feet in diameter were located by loggers and cut down. Large poplars were not isolated freaks in the original forest. They often occurred in nearly pure stands. They were all clearcut.

This large yellow poplar cut in 1913 on Green Mountain, Tucker County, by the Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Co. at Hambleton, filled an entire logging train and furnished 12,469 board feet of lumber.”

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We;ve got an assortment of sequoias at my work. Around a century old, there’s a giganteum that’s about 28 metres and a coast redwood a little under that, and various smaller ones. Pretty poor efforts for sequoias, but then they’re just seedlings 😆