"Pioneer Cabin Tree" Topic
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 20thmaine  | 09 Jan 2017 5:31 p.m. PST |
And so long mighty Giant Sequoia with an enormous hole cut in the trunk. Turns out that doesn't help much when the strong winds doth blow. link |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 09 Jan 2017 6:50 p.m. PST |
I almost cried. I remember that tree when I was a boy! |
| zoneofcontrol | 09 Jan 2017 8:06 p.m. PST |
That's a shame to see. But yes, cutting about a third of the trunk out probably had some side effects. |
| Winston Smith | 10 Jan 2017 4:47 a.m. PST |
It was a dumb idea to do that in the first place. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 10 Jan 2017 8:09 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 10 Jan 2017 5:49 p.m. PST |
@Hafen von Schlockenberg – I can imagine the conversation of the bold pioneers : "Hey everybody I found the biggest tree that I ever darn saw!" "Wow, that is certainly a very big tree" "It's amazingly big. Simply amazing." "Yeah, it is big! Wow! Really big. Let's cut it down and dance on the stump!" And so they did….. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 11 Jan 2017 8:39 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 11 Jan 2017 4:02 p.m. PST |
Oh! That was spot on ! 
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| goragrad | 12 Jan 2017 11:26 a.m. PST |
Particularly as that cartoon was distributed on dead trees… |
 Parzival | 12 Jan 2017 2:20 p.m. PST |
And the comments quoted in the article reveal some serious lack of historical understanding among the readers. The hole was carved out 137 years ago. For the mathematically challenged, that was in 1879. There were no cars in 1879.
Furthermore, the tree was already naturally hollow, and had been used as a shelter (the hollow interior acted as a chimney, too), hence the tree's name. So the carving expanded a massive opening that was already there. As it is, the tree survived nearly a century and a half after that. So it wasn't the hole so much as the storm that did the old tree in. And given the already significant cavity in the tree trunk, created by nature itself, it's quite possible the storm would have brought the tree down, carven tunnel or not.
Yeah, we lost an interesting tourist attraction, and an amazing old tree, but this isn't the only tunnel tree (or the most famous one), nor the only Giant Sequoia, nor the oldest one. And news flash everyone: trees die, and storms blow them over. And this happens All. The. Time. Whether we're there or not.
So the only real question of note on this story really is…
"So, did it make a sound, or not?" |
| zoneofcontrol | 13 Jan 2017 9:05 a.m. PST |
I still say that carving out the guts of the Giant Sequoia was an act of treeson. |
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