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Steve, you thought those were big trees at GAL? Here is the photo from my office wall I was telling you about. It was probably taken on the Olympic Peninsula. There are 9 horses on top of there by my count. I don't know how they got them to climb that ladder.

Lots of tops from this one.

Scott Thompson38897.8122569444

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Scott Thompson
Port Townsend,WA

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room"
-Billy Bragg

Whoa!

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I wonder how they got the horses down?

[QUOTE=Tomas] I wonder how they got the horses down?[/QUOTE]
Tomas, can't you see the ladders in the pic? Geeesh!
How many B/S sets do you think that would make?

geesh! thats some serious lumber!

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
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[QUOTE=Pwoolson]How many B/S sets do you think that would make? [/QUOTE]

This would be top wood.

Scott Thompson38897.8463078704

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Scott Thompson
Port Townsend,WA

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room"
-Billy Bragg

Boggles the mind. A two-thousand-year-old tree at least.

Years ago, I stopped off at a coffee shop on a highway somewhere on the West Coast, between towns -- in those days, between camera shows -- and I recall the place had a wall full of photos similar to this, some from roughly the same time period, some obviously later because they showed log sections close to this diameter on special trucks. Even though it would be years before I began building, I recall thinking of all the guitars a single one of those specimens would have made.

Best,

Michael

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Hundreds of thousands.

Giant Sequoias. The two largest trees in the world are 40 minutes from
me. I'm sure the top ten are, but I can't say for sure.

Big Tree!

Tomas, they would back the horse & mule teams off the log. Working teams respond to voice commands and even two side by side are trained to back together and straight.

Mike

Scott, you are right, that IS a big tree.
Or, do you suppose, those are really small horses and really small men?

When we stopped at Hoh rain forest, there was a living Sitka that looked to be about that big.
And then the blow-downs would just break your heart. There was enough wood rotting on the ground to keep all of us in spruce for several lifetimes.   

Thanks for the photo... really impressive.

Steve

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Hesh, I'm in the Sequoia national park area.

I used to live 20 miles from the avenue of the giants. Amazing redwoods...

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John Mayes
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How would you move that? Whould they mill it down to smaller sections on site?

Incredible, WOW!

Don't you feel just a little sad to see such a magnificent organism of that age just cut down and killed on the whim of man?

Colin

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[QUOTE=Hesh1956]
In fact the exact location of the current world's tallest tree is kept secret from the public. It has been determined that just having people gawk at it is dangerous to the tree....[/QUOTE]

...from the official Humbolt County web page

Where can I see the tallest redwood tree?
The claim of the world's tallest tree tends to bounce back and forth between several Redwood Coast parks, but currently the acknowledged record holder is in Rockefeller Forest, Humboldt Redwoods State Park (exit Highway 101 at Founders Grove and follow the Mattole Road west). This world champion tree is 370 feet tall. The world's second, fourth, sixth and eighth tallest known trees are also in Rockefeller Forest!

I saw a picture in a wood magazine a few years back, it was an article on natives in central america making dugout canoes. There was a picture of a 20somehting man, standing in/on the portion of the mahogany tree he was felling with an axe. He had chopped almost half the trunk away by hand, flat on the bottom so he could stand and keep chopping, the wedge was about 7-8 feet high - the tree was likely 7-8 feet in diameter - he had chopped away, and was about to chop away enough wood to make a couple hundred back and side sets - if he only used a chain saw instead.

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I remember seeing a photo when I was a kid of a gigantic tree that had been carved out so a car could drive through it! Anybody out there seen this? It was Amazing!

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

I think this is the one I saw many moons ago, Thanks Hesh

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[QUOTE=Hesh1956] Thanks Larry. They tell people at Muir Woods National Park that they will not tell people where the tallest trees are. I was unaware that this info had been let out of the bag so-to-speak.

My understanding is that they grow em big in Humbolt county and not just trees either....... [/QUOTE]

Frankly and realistically it comes down to tourist dollars.

Speaking of "big" trees here's a giant big leaf maple we took out the past couple weeks. About 6'DBH. It was about 150 years old and fully quilted or flamed or fiddlebacked 100% from the pith out to the tippy top so I suspect genetics at work and not compression from weight. I had a good chat with the certified arborist who did the felling about figures and figure origination in a tree.

I'll block this wood with a chain saw and bring in a sawmill to cut full instrument blanks, then vacuum dry the wood. It'll be ready for market mid August and is best used for solid body construction. This trunk portion weighed over 12,000 pounds.