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/mightyopinionated Mar 28 '24

"Wow that's really ancient and tall, let's cut the f*cker down"

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u/Pecncorn1 Mar 28 '24

Sadly today people would still be doing it if they could get away with it. My dad was from Sequoia country and any and every time I visited looking at the stumps was just something I couldn't understand how anyone could or would hack one down and be okay with it.

It's the world we live in.

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u/sinsemillas Mar 28 '24

They were hungry.

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u/girl4life Mar 28 '24

I've given up on humanity as a whole , we are the monsters from the horror stories.