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Originally Posted by SoCalSurf
Mark, not sure if there is a way to answer this, but if the tunnel was built in 1835, the redwood tree from which it was built is much, much older than that. You later say 180 year old redwood but that was after it was cut or had fallen to be used for the tunnel.
Is there any way to find out the actual age of the the tree itself? I'd imagine, depending on its size, that it could be several hundred years old, but probably much more than that.
Anyways, as always, love your work.
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The trees and the tunnel were both in Oregon. It's my understanding that these trees were cut for the tunnel so my assumption is that they were not cut that many years before but, what is the age of the wood really? At 72 grain lines per inch some of this wood grew in this tree during the Roman Empire.