Video: A hollow in a tree that you can drive through
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A good way to save money on road construction has been discovered, ideal for Russia. Turns out, hollow in a tree could become a tunnel for road transport! But for this, the tree must be really big. Like a colossal sequoia that fell right on the road in Sequoia National Park. A rare squirrel will reach the middle of the tree trunk
It turns out that a way to build tunnels in large man-made hollows of trees is no longer new. It was first used in 1881 at Yosemite Nature Reserve using the famous 2100-year-old Vavona tree (9 meters in diameter). After that, the sequoia stood for another century, until it collapsed during the snowy and windy winter of 1969. In contrast, the tree you see in the photo collapsed even before the hollow was built in it. But the size of the unnamed tree inhabitant of the Sequoia National Park is in no way inferior to Vavona: 84 meters high, 7 meters in diameter.
In addition, there are about three more such tunnel trees in California, in artificial hollow which any car, or even a small truck, can easily pass. Fortunately or unfortunately, this architectural form (or wooden sculpture?) Is becoming a relic: in our time, they stopped carving tunnels in fallen sequoias. Reserve keepers strive to make everything look natural - and if a giant tree falls on the road, they are more likely to pave a new one.
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