Characteristic of General Sherman tree, the world largest tree

The world largest tree The Sherman tree is as tall as a 27 story buliding, a thirteen story building would barely touch its first huge branch If the trunk of the General Sherman tree were laid horizontally on a football field and the roots were on one goal line, the top of the tree would be 91 yards away on the opposite  9 yard line The maximum basel diameter of the Sherman tree equals 36 feet; if the tree were placed in the middle of a California three-lane freeway, it would completely block block all three 12 feet-wide lanes The 12,000 square foot surface area of the General Sherman’s trunk equals one quarter of the surface area of a regulation American football field The annual growth rate of the trunk of the General Sherman tree is 40 cubic feet is equal to the trunk of an average tree one foot in basel diameter and 50 feet tall The total volume of the trunk of the General Sherman tree - 52,500 cubic feet - is equal to the lumberman’s measure of 630,000 board feet. Since a board foot is 12 inches of 1x12 lumber, the trunk of the General Sherman tree theoretically could be cut into 119.3 miles of 1x12 planking. Laid end - to - end this would strech from the foot of the General Sherman tree to south of Bakersfield, or in a straight line west to the Pacific Ocean. A branch that fell in February, in 1978, had a diameter over six feet and a length of at least 140 feet. This one branch, by itself, would have been one of the largest trees anywhere in the United States east of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges.

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