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Correction for the weight of a Tree (Sierra Redwood)

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How heavy is 857.30 hundredweight?
It's about one-thirty-fifth as heavy as a Tree (Sierra Redwood)
The weight of a Tree (Sierra Redwood) is about 29,000 hundredweight.
(a.k.a. Giant Sequoia, a.k.a. Sierran redwood, a.k.a. Wellingtonia, a.k.a. "Big Tree", Sequoiadendron giganteum)
The weight of wood in a Giant Sequoia is 29,000 hundredweight. General Sherman, a specimen in Sequoia National Park in Visalia, California, is the largest tree in the world by volume, with an estimated weight of about 42,000 hundredweight.
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