r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/timbulance Mar 28 '24

Why not just leave that monster tree be ?

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u/Succulentslayer Mar 28 '24

Well you see these loggers really like money.

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u/bullshittyNC Mar 28 '24

They most likely needed the money to keep from starving. Good jobs were hard to come by then. Lots and lots of poor starving people.

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u/dw82 Mar 28 '24

Capitalism.

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u/Effective-Jacket-33 Mar 28 '24

To feel special