Sequoia or welly?

[muttley9050]

hey james, why dont you ask clive what sort of furniture he makes from welly. i remember him posting about adelivery of trees a few months back. he sould be able to tell ou what thickneses he uses and what lenths are safe before they snap...

 

I thought what Clive had recently was coast redwood, but ill check.

[Marc Lewis]

seqouiadendron giganteum = Wellingtonia , giant seqouia

seqouia sempervirens= coast redwood

 

Yeeeeeessssssss

[mdvaden]

Are Wellingtonions not Sequoias that were planted to commemorate the battle of Waterloo??

 

Not the same.

 

Wellingtonia are "Giant Sequoias" which is the complete common name.

 

The short form is most appropriate to apply to the Sequoia genus belonging to Coast Redwoods.

 

Easiest difference with lower foliage is that Coast Redwoods have distinct needles.

 

The upper foliage of older coast redwoods is not identical but could look similar. Attached is Coast Redwood foliage from 3 heights.

[likeitorlumpit]

There's so much of it in this tree, it would be hard to narrow it down. But cladding and outdoor furniture as a start.

 

I've found this thread very interesting. Good tip for taxodium/metsequoia distinction.

 

The Giant Sequoia is the heavy one (the one you see cars driving through). The Coast redwood is the tall one.

If you've got Giant Sequoia you may find little use for it. When we visited the area in Yosemite, it was explained to us that the trees survived logging largely because they were useless for construction timber. Too brittle.

As a consequence and a supreme irony, they were sold to tourists looking for souvenires.......................as matches.

One of the best views was up through a tree to the circle of blue sky way above. The centre had burnt out leaving the tree alive and growing but hollow.

Maybe the confusion exists because 'Wellingtonias' are relatively young in this country and don't look anything like the gnarled old boys in Yosemite.

I'm always amazed at how many were planted and the distinctive outline can often be seen usually wherever you drive in Kent out of the built up areas.

[mdvaden]

I've found this thread very interesting. Good tip for taxodium/metsequoia distinction.

 

The Giant Sequoia is the heavy one (the one you see cars driving through). The Coast redwood is the tall one.

If you've got Giant Sequoia you may find little use for it. When we visited the area in Yosemite, it was explained to us that the trees survived logging largely because they were useless for construction timber. Too brittle.

As a consequence and a supreme irony, they were sold to tourists looking for souvenires.......................as matches.

One of the best views was up through a tree to the circle of blue sky way above. The centre had burnt out leaving the tree alive and growing but hollow.

Maybe the confusion exists because 'Wellingtonias' are relatively young in this country and don't look anything like the gnarled old boys in Yosemite.

I'm always amazed at how many were planted and the distinctive outline can often be seen usually wherever you drive in Kent out of the built up areas.

 

 

There's 2 coast redwoods documented (1905 to 1935) including paperwork and photos in the Blue Lake Museum,California, up to almost twice the wood volume of General Sherman, largest known Giant Sequoia standing today. Pre-1900, Coast Redwoods were the largest trees. Logging and wind-blow altered that and allowed 6 Giant Sequoias to move up the ladder to 6 largest known trees. But the 7th largest known tree on Earth presently is a Coast Redwood that is the same diameter DBH as the largest tree, General Sherman, the Giant Sequoia.

 

Attached is that 7th largest tree, a coast redwood near Crescent City, CA

Edited December 2, 2013 by mdvaden

[mdvaden]

Here we go ...

 

Coast Redwood is big enough to bore at least two drive through tunnels for 2 Kenworth trucks to pass through simultaneously, and the trunk is wider than 3 Kenworth side by side.

 

With bodies close to 8 feet wide, this is pretty close to the comparison.