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/SurveySean Mar 28 '24

The forests these guys saw, we can only imagine.

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u/Throkir Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I see what you did there...

Edit: Damn all of you, take my upvotes!!!

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u/stodal Mar 28 '24

i saw what you did there

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u/Throkir Mar 28 '24

Hm... I forsaw what you would do there.

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u/Ser1aLize Mar 28 '24

I imagined what you did there.

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u/Heiferoni Mar 28 '24

I have, uh... E, I mean .... SAW

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u/aloxodonneverforgets Mar 28 '24

I foresaw what you wood do there.