And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Spotted this online ... (Here's the link with another photo with a slightly different angle: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1426310835729218&set=photo-this-1901-photograph-shows-the-joe-clark-logging-team-alongside-a-californ ...) Sorry, I'm not a facebook user so couldn't sign in to get the entire hyperlink.
The History Today November 9, 2025
Photo: This 1901 photograph shows the Joe Clark logging team alongside a California Sequoia log with a remarkable diameter of 26 feet. A team of horses is seen standing on top of the enormous log, illustrating the sheer size of the tree. In 1901, California's Sierra Nevada mountains were still home to some of the planet's most ancient and massive living things—giant sequoias that had been growing for over 2,000 years. This photograph of the Joe Clark logging team standing beside (and on top of) a felled sequoia with a 26-foot diameter captures both the awe-inspiring scale of these natural giants and the casual destruction that characterized early logging in the American West. The horses standing atop the log—looking tiny despite being full-sized draft animals—provide a scale reference that seems almost impossible to believe.
That's not enough horsepower to move a log so big. And I am trying to imagine the size of the Paul Bunyan clones needed to work a two man saw through such a giant.
Send this to Greta.
ReplyDeleteYou want to explain to me how they got the horses up there? Without AI, I mean...
ReplyDeleteHow did the horses climb the ladder
ReplyDeleteHorse shoes
DeleteI want to see how you get them down.
ReplyDeleteYou beat me to it.
DeleteMore women than I would expect to see in a log camp picture.
ReplyDeleteSomebody's got to wash the dirty clothes, change the bed linens and make sandwiches. No?
DeleteSpotted this online ... (Here's the link with another photo with a slightly different angle: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1426310835729218&set=photo-this-1901-photograph-shows-the-joe-clark-logging-team-alongside-a-californ ...) Sorry, I'm not a facebook user so couldn't sign in to get the entire hyperlink.
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November 9, 2025
Photo: This 1901 photograph shows the Joe Clark logging team alongside a California Sequoia log with a remarkable diameter of 26 feet. A team of horses is seen standing on top of the enormous log, illustrating the sheer size of the tree.
In 1901, California's Sierra Nevada mountains were still home to some of the planet's most ancient and massive living things—giant sequoias that had been growing for over 2,000 years. This photograph of the Joe Clark logging team standing beside (and on top of) a felled sequoia with a 26-foot diameter captures both the awe-inspiring scale of these natural giants and the casual destruction that characterized early logging in the American West. The horses standing atop the log—looking tiny despite being full-sized draft animals—provide a scale reference that seems almost impossible to believe.
That's not enough horsepower to move a log so big. And I am trying to imagine the size of the Paul Bunyan clones needed to work a two man saw through such a giant.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long it would take to cut that sucker down with just a large hand saw.
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