Imagine what these trees would have looked like up close!
Just a lot of bark, really
So… Harmless: No bite.
Seems sustainable.
/s
ya load 16 logs and whata ya get?
Lower back pain
another day older and deeper in debt
"Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.” — Edwin Way Teale
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The fuck
They did say it would be unpopular.
I’m honestly more concerned about how many upvotes it did get
Is there any wood in your house?
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Yeah, but I don’t know that wanting working class folk living payday to payday to die because the higher-ups don’t know or care about conservation is reasonable.
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I’m sporting wood rn!
Lorax, is that you?
Those are some small people
that’s a whole lot of toothpicks
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.
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.
Guess the 30% spec didn’t exist back then, or they decided it to be acceptable.
Whoa, check out those dudes’ logs!
“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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