Giant sequoias fall - short video

[hal]

Story: what to do with fallen tree?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-...7474.story

Story with brief video
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article...nexplained

Have you ever been in the forest when a large tree falls? I have and it's a rather scary thing. For me, it was a dense forest and we couldn't even see where the tree was, but it certainly sounded very close. Pretty scary.

The guys I was with had a dog that barked into the forest to scare away whatever was making that horrendous noise - you could see that he didn't like the idea of coming face to face with it - whatever it was...

The video is only a few seconds, but it's just enough to get an idea of how scary it would have been to be there...

[testcase]

Video won't play for me.

[steve...]

Talk about being in the right place at the right time...

When we were kids, my father took my brothers and I to watch a friend of his cut down a large Redwood tree. I remember the ground shook when it fell.

Just recently a few of them fell across a road in a park here. The largest was 8' in diameter.

Fallen Redwoods

It is not clear what made the trees fall (there was little wind), but trees falling without storms in the parks is fairly common, Tinkler said.

[Black]

Partial tunnel under, partial tunnel through (needs to be w/c accessible . . .)

[Manlove]

Damn that was close.
I think it was Oswald State Park in Oregon that was closed when some redwoods fell into and across the campsites! Would have made for an interesting night!

[Grateful11]

Black wrote:
Partial tunnel under, partial tunnel through (needs to be w/c accessible . . .)

:agree:

and then let some carve some pieces of what they take out into something nice and befitting of the trees
history and maybe something showing the trees growth rings and pin pointing its timeline.

[hal]

I implore y'all to see a giant sequoia - they are stunningly big - shockingly bog... It's like seeing a skyscraper in a forest

those redwoods in the photo above are well under 1/2 the diameter of the recent giant sequoia falls. The really big ones are 30' diameter.

There is a fallen one near Crane Flat in yosemite - it's 20' tall - a fallen tree - 20' tall

[Black]

hal wrote:
I implore y'all to see a giant sequoia - they are stunningly big - shockingly bog... It's like seeing a skyscraper in a forest

those redwoods in the photo above are well under 1/2 the diameter of the recent giant sequoia falls. The really big ones are 30' diameter.

There is a fallen one near Crane Flat in yosemite - it's 20' tall - a fallen tree - 20' tall

Like the actual fallen tree(s) in the linked article?
I may be fooled by the perspective but I'm thinking about 15'.

[mikebw]

I have been to that park and the size really is amazing. You really can't appreciate the scale until you see it in person. Just saying that they are so many feet in diameter doesn't quite do them justice; The most shocking thing to my eye was that the branches coming out of these massive trunks were as large as the biggest trees I had ever seen on the East coast... just the branches!

I wish we could see more of the video after it hits the ground; Can't imagine he just stopped recording at that instant. Very lucky to have a video camera at the ready. Would have been a statistical jackpot if they actually got smashed by it, probably would have been the only person(s) to ever have been killed by a falling Giant Sequoia.