Your average woodchuck (or groundhog) weighs about 3 kg*.
The strongest mammals in the world can lift between 0.8 and 2 times their own body weight. I don’t know how strong a woodchuck is, but I’ll be generous and say it can lift 0.5 times it’s own body weight. So it can carry 1.5 kg at a time.
It only needs to chuck the wood and it is an efficient burrower so we’ll say it can chuck 1 chunk of 1.5 kg wood per second.
So our little woodchuck can chuck wood at a rate of 1.5 x 60 = 90 kg/minute.
Now we didn’t give our woodchuck a time limit. Technically it could just keep chucking until it runs out of wood. So let’s see how much wood there is!
Determining the weight of a tree is incredibly complicated (without cutting it down and putting it on a scales, that is) so I’m going to make a very rough estimate. Your average tree weighs 4500 kg. So our woodchuck could chuck this entire tree in 50 minutes.
That’s one tree. 7.8% of the globe is covered by trees. That’s a surface area of 510,072,000 km². 510,072,000 x 0.078 = 39,785,616
Which I will round up, because this is already ridiculous, to 40,000,000 km² of trees.
We’ll reason that you can plant 250,000 trees per square kilometre. Each tree is planted 2 metres apart. So there are approximately 250,000 x 40,000,000 x 4500 = 45,000,000,000,000,000 kg of wood on the planet. And Woody the Woodchuck could chuck ’em all!
If we continue at the current rate of deforestation (130,000 km² per year) little Woody will run out of wood to chuck in 300 years.
However, the average lifespan of a woodchuck is 12 years. So if Woody chucked morning and night for his entire life he could chuck 568,000,000 kg of wood.
Technically, this means a wood chuck would be able to also chuck Drickens as AQ fact files mentions the average weight of a Dricken is between 1kg and 2kg....so yeah...
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