Just read about a giant redwood stump that's been a dance floor for over a century

I was looking up old logging photos and found a story about the 'Chandelier Tree' drive-thru in Leggett, California. The stump of a single coast redwood they cut down in the 1930s is so big, they built a gift shop on top of it. It made me think about the sheer scale of what we're sometimes asked to remove. Has anyone here ever had to deal with a removal on a historical tree that big?

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wade2503mo ago

My buddy had to remove a Civil War era oak once.

brianm663mo ago

Yeah, that gift shop on a stump is a weird mix of sad and impressive. It's like we turned the grave of a natural wonder into a roadside attraction. I saw a photo of one of those stumps with a bowling alley on it once. Just feels wrong.

logan6583mo ago

Man, that's wild. It's not just about the size. Think of the sound. The echo under a canopy that big must be crazy. Like a natural concert hall. Makes you wonder what songs people danced to there for a hundred years. That stump held more than a gift shop, it held a whole lot of parties.

kim_ramirez31mo ago

Oh man, that really makes you think. I once heard about a tree in California that was so wide they carved a tunnel through it for cars, and people drove through that thing for decades like it was nothing. It's kind of haunting when you realize these giants were basically living monuments and we turned them into photo ops.