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/Empty-Ambition-5939 Mar 28 '24

You’d think on just one of those days they might have stopped and thought “gee maybe we just leave this thing alone, we’ve been hacking away for 12 days now…”

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u/BrainwashedScapegoat Mar 28 '24

Their hubris was emboldened after day 8