Loggers next to logs loaded onto a train, Washington state, USA, ~1920
Loggers next to logs loaded onto a train, Washington state, USA, ~1920
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Imagine what these trees would have looked like up close!
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Just a lot of bark, really
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So... Harmless: No bite.
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Seems sustainable.
/s
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As 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.
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Oregonian 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?
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Lower back pain
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another 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
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Those are some small people
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that's a whole lot of toothpicks
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Whoa, check out those dudes' logs!
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I 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.
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They 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.
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Guess the 30% spec didn't exist back then, or they decided it to be acceptable.
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"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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