Loggers next to logs loaded onto a train, Washington state, USA, ~1920
Loggers next to logs loaded onto a train, Washington state, USA, ~1920
Imagine what these trees would have looked like up close!
60Just a lot of bark, really
17So... Harmless: No bite.
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Seems sustainable.
/s
43As a Washingtonian these pics always make me sad. Thankfully there's more preservation these days, but I would have loved to see these majestic trees still standing.
42Oregonian here but same. There's nothing quite like hiking PNW old growth, and to imagine the forests used to be mostly these giants.
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ya load 16 logs and whata ya get?
29Lower back pain
30another day older and deeper in debt
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"Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.” — Edwin Way Teale
28More like historygore.
18Those are some small people
14that's a whole lot of toothpicks
10I dunno if it's an optical illusion, but I feel like you can see the tracks buckling under the wheels on account of the incredible weight.
7They do visibly pump with each car when the ties aren't tamped well on clean rock. I doubt their hand-laid tracks were as easy to get right as we can with extra rock and a modern surfacing gang.
Also rail weight has gone up an astonishing amount over time. Rail used to be puny compared to what is used now.
6Guess the 30% spec didn't exist back then, or they decided it to be acceptable.
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Whoa, check out those dudes' logs!
7"Values".
Ugh.
Proud to have butchered those magnificent living beings..
I used to be like them..
Cultural-brainwashing's really effective in "forming" children..
"The Rogue Hypnotist" wrote a little book on cultural-trance, to try to get more people to consider & understand its workings..
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-1Unpopular opinion, all these fucks who got hurt or worse cutting these trees down deserved it.
-2Lorax, is that you?
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The members of timber dynasties (e.g. wheeler, as well many others) would have deserved it. These laborers rarely had other options but to starve. Ethics under capitalism or whatever.
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