In November 1928 the Red River Lumber Company reported that they had felled a 650 year-old sugar pine tree at Camp 74, in Plumas County, west of Chester. It required three railroad flat cars to bring the tree to the mill in Westwood. It was 101 inches in diameter at the stump and 84 inches at the second cut.* The tree contained 27,570 board feet. Red River noted that this was the largest tree ever brought into the mill.
*For those not familiar trees are bucked/cut into 32 foot lengths.
Whoa!
How could they control where it fell?
You control the direction of the tree with where you place the undercut.
Does anyone know where Camp 74 was located?
These days log lengths vary.