The Largest Sequoia Tree - General Sherman

[Peedoffhelveticaman]

yeah...the largest organism (single entity) is either a fungus or a stand of quaking aspen...size changes yearly, so it's a push and pull contest...sequoia are non less beautiful because of that...

[andrewxiox]

it is the biggest but not the tallest

[mertel21]

Actually as i know the largest living organism (by biomass) is the Pando in the USA. It's said to be 60-80000 years old and weights more than 6000 tonns, and covers many acres. I think this beats the sequoias :D. These trees are awsome anyway. It would be nice to see one in real life. Unfortunatelly here in hungary they grow "only" 40 meters tall.

[jamiejamiejamiejamie]

the world's largest organism is a fungus in Oregon.

[jamiejamiejamiejamie]

@jamiejamiejamiejamie despite what bbc's planet earth claimed

[Dennelton992]

If you cut the tree, i'm the first will hate yours!

[freakusa752]

Oh My God, i thought i was more thin

[coolangattasteve]

Where is this tree??

[mnichols2011]

The largest living organism in the world is an ant colony in Europe... but holy crap is that tree BIG!!! Nice video!

[supercj8899]

@mnichols2011 What the fuck are you talking about? An ant colony isnt an organism, an ant is! And an ant can't POSSIBLY be bigger than this.

[mnichols2011]

@supercj8899 taking about ants baby. Big ole colony.

[buffboynick]

when I jumped the fence and tried to get a pic of me standing next to it I was tackled by men dressed up like trees and then they tasered my anus :(

[kahl777]

HOLY SHIT.... that is a big muthafuggin tree!

[uncleandy182]

Treebeard could whoop it's ass!

[aliciaandsean]

now thats wot you call BIG

[darcon81]

That's Paul Bunyan's firewood right there.

[YourFriendlyTroll]

I use this tree as a comparison to my dick when I talk to the ladies.

[rtselby]

what is UNIVERSAL FACT: the Armillaria ostoyae of the Blue Mountains of Oregon is the largest organism on earth. It's like me saying the phrase "The blue is dog" and then everyone saying, "no, no, no" it's "The dog is blue" when in fact the dog wasn't even blue to begin with.

[mjboyofsanluisaurora]

aw some i have video of a tree which have a very large base

[browneyes4]

WTF ... I'm watching this video and an advertisement for tree cutting equipment pops up!

[bellastellalove513]

i went there yesterday with my family :D

[dizzotizzo]

This tree is the largest, most massive living thing on earth. I've been to Sequoia 2 times, once in 1980 and again in 2004. This guy is correct with everything he says on camera. The bark is 3 feet thick. Been struck by lightning hence the gaps.

[sankoboy]

i wish every tree was that big



[nauris706]

pussy.too scared to walk all the way around the tree

[Blue3Devil]

its not the biggest i went to mariposa grove in yosemite and theres bigger

[wrafe]

@Blue3Devil Look up Sequoiadendron on wikipedia. Scroll down to the list of "Largest Trees". You'll see General Sherman at the top spot. The largest tree from Mariposa Grove is the Washington tree at #18.

I'd paste the link directly on here, but I keep getting a posting error.

[Blue3Devil]

@wrafe yeah sorry i uploaded the comment before i saw the guy walk by it

[TheFixedFiend]

@wrafe wikipedia isn't always accurate, their are always people changing it consistently.

[TheFixedFiend]

@wrafe but it still is a huge ass tree

[FrenchToastMafiaz]

@Blue3Devil the washington tree is just the tallest at 95.7m but the largest tree is the general sherman

[554687858]

@FrenchToastMafiaz No, it's not. The tallest tree in thre world is in Humbolt county (376 ft.) and is not a Sequoia but rather a Coast Redwood (a close but slimmer cosin). By the way, it has no name and it's location is kept from the general public - for obvious reasons.

[jeryl68]

@Blue3Devil thats because mariposa grove in yosemite gives their trees hormones and steroids lol

[yodude06]

The reddish stuff is cork

[554687858]

@yodude06 Uh...no dude, That's bark. Christ, where do you people come up with this stuff?

[ec123456789able]

this is an amazing tree. i would love to see it in person one day.

[Darkrunner1975]

Touching it isn't going to harm it. Birds, squirrels and chipmunks have been touching it for over 2000+ years.

Now if someone came in there with a chainsaw I would SERIOUSLY be pissed.

[hirodagger]

@Darkrunner1975 2700 years old roughly...

[mygapgap]

3000 old tree right there dat is real google it

[JOLENE2008]

this was so awesome:) i bet you feel like an ant next to it? i heard of these huge trees? but to be near one wow?? peace :)

[wrafe]

@rtselby - Please take a lesson in logic before posting and throwing insults at people. Based on YOUR comment, since it's the largest organism in the world, that MAKES it the largest Sequoia tree.

[rtselby]

@wrafe Correction: it is NOT the largest organism in the world. THEREFORE YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID. (rtselby awarded: 1 BILLION THUMBS UP)

[supercj8899]

@rtselby You said its the largest organism on earth you dumbass, he was basing it off YOUR logic.

[rtselby]

@wrafe Please take the ULTIMATE lesson in logic. Based on YOUR comment that was based on MY previous comment your argument is invalid to begin with because you were simply trying to correct a lie. Have I blown your mind yet?The statement I made was inherently flawed to begin with. It is NOT the largest organism, and yet none of you corrected that statement until just now. Plus, get this: you all are quick to judge, and point out a syntax error based on a lie, but not actually present what is

[YourFriendlyTroll]

@wrafe WIN

[MoveMakerTV]

@wrafe FOR REAL... on youtube theres all this conflict over politics, religion, war and everything else- thats bad enough but then a dude can't even just share an experience he taped next to an insanely huge tree without somebody finding a way to be a dick about it - riselby you suck

[TDKxXxEchoxX]

ay bro i dnt kno if u notcie but thers a face in da tree its crazy

[xylsplat]

@rtselby no...it is not. there is a fungus in northern michigan that is over a mile in diameter, yhus the biggest organism....research it

[PJmcfairybouncer]

@rtselby it's not the largest organism. the largest organism on earth is a fungus that grows under ground.

[9521johnnyboy]

@rtselby your a fucking idiot

[TDKxXxEchoxX]

ay fucc u bitch fkn faget

[9521johnnyboy]

@TDKxXxEchoxX your grammar is very poor please retake english so u wont look like a dumbass again

[AirWarForce]

noob fake

[corvetteZ06zr]

i bet mr irving would like to have the money out of that basterd hahahaha the mill wouldent know what to do with it

[leloodallasmultipass]

you almost destroyed the whole wide world by touching that tree. don't you know that if you jump the fence that that automatically equals the whole world jumped the fence? do you understand the logistical nightmare of bringing EVERYONE in to complete this task?

[duderock009]

i saw a face on the tree

[arkangelblue]

What would happen if he touched an old tree??? I seriously don't understand why that would harm the tree, the tree obviously is a lot larger than the guy and he is more likely to be hit by a falling branch than the tree dying of injury by him!!!

I think I would want to touch the tree too. Its ironic when we think what other dangers we are doing to our world forests and woodland. Touching a tree don't kill em.

[integra1790]

you should've torched it hahaha

i mean the way these people are sayn, fuck these enviromental tree hugging wrinkle penises!? lol Fuckin hippies...

[kx85kid12]

i wonder how they would cut this down if they ever do i want to help

[DGandSO]

Almost everyone who goes there goes past the fence to compare. It's not a big deal, the fence is just there to show a path. There is actually some steps at one side to use to get in there anyways

[photoopd1]

that is not the bigest tree in the world the one that is you can drive your car thru

[Toyjake2]

@photoopd1 No, Its not quite as high, and the truck is still wider, they cut holes through lots of redwoods, a car isnt that big when you look at the size of these trees.

[hiimjenki2]

Its nice to actually see the size of the tree when compared to person, when you think about this, this guy was risking alot by going over that fence

[PhillipJie]

i wanna pee on it :D

[dirtbikehonda85]

dont let those tree huggers give u a hard time about touching a god damn 2000 year old tree, thankz for the upload

[skipsch]

ignore the insults. thanks for the upload!

[skipsch]

lol... "Where's the door?"

[nipzilla]

don't let the park ranger actually see you doing this dude.

big citation!

[link10041632]

My brother says, "I wonder what kind of squirrel lives in that tree."

XDXD

[HDMGDH]

hyperion

[mvallin]

the fence is there for a reason jack

[baaambam4ever]

To the guy below me: F U

[Ramaniac007]

Lets cut that bitch down and make a big ass fire

[TBRoy1]

@Ramaniac007 Hahaha or let's make a treehouse in the top

[MrQueberga]

it is a beutyfull monster

[MrQueberga]

it is a beautyfuul mounster,

[ibizajoey]

would be funny if a giant cone fell on his head.

[seanmbarnes]

Holy shit, thatg woould take at least two days to cut down.

[ProductionsHead]

You are encountering

the ELVEN FORESTA!!

[nadoeloiskat]

When i travel over there, i'll make a video how sharp my swiss knife is.

[rebelphoto]

what an idiot!! i mean the guy who thinks that the tree will be harmed in any way by walking up to it, over the last couple of hundred years people have stomped all over its base, kids tried climbing it thousands posed for photo's before it had a makeshift fence built around it. relax tree hugger the guy wasn't cutting it dow.....retard.

[RedwoodExplorer]

From reading the comments, the idea came to mind that you could use the Youtube function to insert a few of your replies onto the video. Might spare some dialogue in the comment section. It is hard to show scale though without standing next to one of these. My solution is to photograph redwoods which don't have fence railings.

[HAMMER803]

well guys its like this there are billions of trees in the world.There are hundreds of thousands of trees that are over 2000 years old. I dont think jumping a fence and walking around a tree is going to hurt anything. U say there are 6.5 billion ppl in the world stampeding around that tree. I dont think so only 1,000,000 people on the planet have seen that tree.If there is even that many ppl that have seen it. Wrafe u should learn to relax. ( i loved the video will be going there end of summer)

[StarGazerArts]

@HAMMER803 There are not hundreds of thousands of trees over 2000 years old. I suggest you look into your information before making a fool of yourself next time.

[Tyrone915915]

You should of pissed againts the "TREE" THE TREE a fucking TREE!! see how they react then jeee-sus!!

[graciemaemarie11]

this tree is better than ALL the human beings that have ever lived

[dieselchevyluv]

If this tree survived 2200years then I'm sure that by him just touching it isn't going to stop it from surviving another 2000years. Trust me I come from a long line of gypo loggers and we know how to take care of the land and respect it. touching or even walking around that tree will not harm it. Fuckin enviromentallists I swear you people really are fuckin things up for all of us.

[ping6uod]

i would have hugged that tree my self!

[stammz]

problem is that alot of people visit this particular tree so if 50% of all the people visiting this tree climbing over the fence and approach it its fragile roots will bleed for people who wanna touch the biggest tree on earth then go off the path and hike to the ishi giant, franklin tree, boole tree or to the washington tree then nobody would complain about your activities! I think it's good that we all care about nature and complain if someone does something what could harm those trees!

[Oz21ification]

no need to get offensive here...im sure you didn't realize your mistake at the moment. as you mentioned in your video, this is unreal, and in order to keep this unreal part of God's creation alive, one must respect its habitat. keep away next time buddy. the tree will sure thank you for it with more years of its life

[datamata]

Can you imagine if it fell down....That thing has to weight at least 200-300lbs....

haha

[clubpenguingal1011]

@datamata 200-300 pounds? Are you like 7? It probably weighs at least 200-300 TONS! My dog weighs 200-300 pounds..... -_-

[05candyman]

that tree aint so big you should see me take a sit after eating 62 tacos from taco bell

[RapperMaximum]

@05candyman That would have probably been funny if you hadn't mis-spelled " shit "...

[CantWeedThis]

lmao 5 people gave thumbs down to the largest living organism on the planet. Are they jeleous? Theyre like, " cut that sum bitch down!"

[takumi12]

id jump it.

[elknoff]

let me get my saws!!!!!!

[TheXRealXBrapp]

you just kept walking and i thought you would get to the tree a lot faster. It's like an illusion

[TheAsianOrient]

i heard the world's biggest living organism is a mushroom in oregon small maybe, but if u looked underground it's HUGE lol

[mdvaden]

Someone mentioned a coral reef, but I don't think those are single organisms like General Sherman. The foot traffic and compaction could be debated either way. I've seen redwood forests where the roots are so thick on the surface that compaction is not possilble. Google this:

mdvaden + redwoods

The only thing I see different with the largest giant sequoiadendrons, is that less understory germinates.

[DataRteDkiDs]

THat macie bitch is one fucking wierd hippie

[kckcmctcrc]

How can you kill soil?

[HOLO31]

Did anyone hear a cracking noise or was it something else starting at 1:30

[Beatleschick1]

You got to touch the tree. That was pretty cool. I dont mind if you jumped the fence for a minute.

Thanx for posting.

:)

[MaciejMezynski]

I guess you didn't realize you were helping to destroy the tree, you stupid fucking dolt.

[wrafe]

Are you a fucking moron? That tree has been there for over 2000 years. How many animals go up to that tree and touch it, or live on it or do whatever on/to it. Please, enlighten me as to how a tree that is over 2000 years old can be harmed by me touching it? And if it is that fucking fragile, maybe nature needs that tree to go away so a new and stronger one can take it's place.

[kckcmctcrc]

Technically a coral reef is the largest living organism.

[django772]

@wrafe Hey ahole (that would be you, wrafe), do the world a favor and don't procreate. The world has enough slobs who don't give a damn about the environment. It's not our job to enlighten a tool like you if you're too lazy and selfish to educate yourself before damaging a natural wonder (and videotaping himself for authorities to see). Try to jump my fence and see what happens. I hope a tree falls on you.

[wrafe]

@django772 You got it buddy. Anything else I can do for you?

[django772]

@wrafe I would say learn how to punctuate properly but you obviously have bigger problems.

[billyjoeboomboom]

@wrafe Sequoias have ridiculously shallow root systems (in proportion to their height) and the fences are there to prevent the cumulative damage by thousands of people that would affect the roots if they were not in place. You can rest assured you did no harm to this giant.

[MrXtronnick]

@wrafe Please don't listen to the idiots trying to make a point about if you jumped the fence or not,what's done is done,and you did'nt do anithing else than admire this wonderful tree and actually touch it ,im so glad you did it with respect and thats all that matters

[Toyjake2]

@wrafe lol

[filfil52]

@django772 - shut up you piece of shit

[spike93333]

@django772 dude get over urself its a tree

[spike93333]

@django772 dude get over your self its a tree

[fackinjacksack]

@wrafe yeah, i'm sure animals have walked all over that area in the past 2000 years. The difference is that there are 6.5 billion humans, and a big "LARGEST TREE IN THE WORLD" sign next to this tree just to draw all of them to it. And obviously the park decided it was necessary for the tree's health to build a giant goddamn boardwalk around the entire root system. So why are you better than everyone else? how come you get to jump the fence just for your worthless 20,000 views?

[wrafe]

@fackinjacksack - I'll admit that it wasn't the wisest thing to do. I'm also not a dendrologist and would admit that there could be a bigger impact to what I was doing at the time. I was excited to see these trees (from Ilinois) and my mind set was to give my friends and family this awesome perspective video (don't care about the number of views). What I do it again? Probably not.

BTW, take it easy on the exaggeration. 20K views does not equal 6.5 billion people stampeding near it.

[0987poiu654ytr]

@wrafe and its now 40k views ;)

[NassimosReturn]

@fackinjacksack

IT'S THE DAMN LARGEST TREE IN THE WORLD.

God knows how deep and long his roots are. In 2000 years this bad boys fought bad weathers, hundreds of generations of animals and bugs and stuff you couldn't even imagine.

Yet you are here, complaining they built a little road with a little sign so that people can see it and that someone decided to touch it LIKE IT'S A FUCKING KITTEN OR SOMETHING. It's not like a 50-tons bulldozer drives around it all day, crushing the earth.

Dumbass

[StarGazerArts]

@NassimosReturn The root system of red woods are actually quite shallow. They can be uplifted surprisingly easily. A few of them survived this long, yes. Maybe because people respected them in the past, or maybe because random dolts from all around the world, even illinois, didn't go around trying to impress their people by making perspective videos, I don't know. Either way, they are a lot more fragile than they seem. Before you respond with another diatribe, look into it.

[0987poiu654ytr]

@fackinjacksack and its now 40k views ;)

[bulletman100]

@wrafe thanks for going up to it because you are right it was impossible to tell how big it is until you did. thats fucking incredible! and yes you are right, theres no way someone getting close to it can hurt that gig bastard. the parks are just afraid of some idiot setting it on fire or something. good video.

[Kingzoid]

The biggest tree in Taiwan died because too many people trampled near its base, since most of that tree's roots were shallow. The sequoia is very similar; most of its roots are less than 5 feet below ground, and agitation of the soil results in lost moisture.

[KiKuMan92]

@Kingzoid I feel I have to share my knowledge. Your comment on how shallow the roots are, I don't think so. For one, a sequoia and redwood (and yes they are from the same family) draw most of the water in take from for that rolls in from the west, that being 70 to 75% of it moister, the rest is drawn from the ground. And second a tree that tall and that enormous would need to have deeper roots to keep its self from falling over. I know this, because I have a PHD in horticultural science 

[Kingzoid]

@KiKuMan92 I understand your rebuttal. However, I see no alternative explanation why the Taiwanese tree was not as robust in the presence of visitors. Also, the climate in the Southern Sierra Nevada is not the same as the Pacific Northwest. It's certainly true that redwoods derive their water consumption from air moisture intake, but the same cannot be said for their mountainous cousins.

[Kingzoid]

Also the 5-foot thing - I did not make it up. I learned this from the Nat'l Park people. The plaques at the park also say that sequoias derive most of their water consumption from seasonal snowmelt, and that makes soil disruption very sensitive. The other way to reason is that the density of smaller plants around the vicinity of sequoias is relatively small. This means that something just below the ground is sucking up all the water. I encourage you to visit the Nat'l Park yourself.

[05candyman]

@MaciejMezynski what the fuck are you spazzing about a fucking bold dozer could not take that tree down you really think this guy could???? man your fucking stupid.

[StarGazerArts]

@05candyman What the hell is a bold dozer, smart guy?

[TomekKogutah]

@MaciejMezynski Głupi jesteś, jak but z lewej nogi...

[uscoxes]

@MaciejMezynski that guy is stupid

[Toyjake2]

@MaciejMezynski Ha Ha U just got served

[Conan568]

You should have held your arms out.

That would be 6 feet or a bit less and we'd get a better sense of scale.

Good on you for hopping the fence though.

[nawaf757]

how old this tree ?

[MURApk]

2200 years, but in nevada a tree arrives at 4600 years, and in Svezia (italian name, I don't now how is in english) a "living rest" of tree have 8000 years

[bryanrick]

actually the tree is 2,800 years old.

[kckcmctcrc]

Actually, we're not really sure.

[Kryptokryolog]

Kolos!

[Harshcore811]

I don't mind hoping over the fence, but people should not be allowed to touch it!! This really get me upsets to see people touching it. Sorry folks but I get very emotional when it comes to General Sherman.

[pauloz386]

Let people embrace nature within reason, otherwise if everything is outer bounds, people will soon loose interest in protecting the environment.

[OJIBWAE2008]

I LOVED IT!! AWESOME!! WOW!!

[dj155]

amazing :)

[DammitDrag]

I pissed just about where he's standing.

[juteraoo]

who the hell is general sherman? if i was a tree i wouldn't want that name

[Billy0099]

The fence is there to protect the largest living thing in this world. The roots of sequoias are extremely shallow. People were hopping the fence when I was there too. It's a shame that people can't follow simple rules. There are thousands of other trees just as big in the forrest that you can go right up to and touch and have your picture taken with.

[xxSanadaxx]

I'm not like the other morons who are gonna freak out about you hopping a fence to show us that. That's absolutely amazing...I really want to take my girlfriend to this park now, but the problem is we live in North Carolina =__= You standing beside the tree just really put it into perspective. And you can't take away the privilege to look at a tree, Macdaddy, just because someone hopped a fence. I know I for one would sneak in to look at it anyways.

[Lufkin139]

So he hopped a fence. Big fucking deal. It's not like he took a shit next to it or anything!

[CantWeedThis]

@Lufkin139 he should of took a shit next to it, feed it some nutrients, it could only help. seriously lol

[ping6uod]

@Lufkin139

even if he took a shit next to it, that shit will do more good for the the tree. natural tree nutrient! :P

[Toyjake2]

@Lufkin139 EXACTLY

[macdaddy72189]

wow i can't beleive you did that! people like you make us lose previledges!

[chamallowbleu]

people like you mean we can't do what we like

[Wormeatingdragon]

People , we can see its big . You don't have to climb over the barrier to show us in perspective.

[airsoftsniper1005]

I'd laugh if alarms went off when he jumped the fence