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[-] buycurious@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Imagine what these trees would have looked like up close!

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Just a lot of bark, really

[-] riskable@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

So... Harmless: No bite.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

Seems sustainable.

/s

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 42 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Anatares@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 year ago

Oregonian here but same. There's nothing quite like hiking PNW old growth, and to imagine the forests used to be mostly these giants.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 29 points 1 year ago

ya load 16 logs and whata ya get?

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

Lower back pain

[-] giddy@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

another day older and deeper in debt

[-] riskable@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago

"Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.” — Edwin Way Teale

[-] xpinchx@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Those are some small people

[-] KreekyBonez@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

that's a whole lot of toothpicks

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Whoa, check out those dudes' logs!

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 year ago

Guess the 30% spec didn't exist back then, or they decided it to be acceptable.

[-] Paragone@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

"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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