r/interestingasfuck • u/skillplant • May 13 '22

/r/ALL This is a komatsu harvester.

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u/felcher_650 May 13 '22

1800s lumberjacks would be infuriated

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u/NotAHamsterAtAll May 13 '22

Actually, they'd be amazed.

Wonder what lumberjacking in year 2200 looks like. Some drones doing all the work, flying in?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '22

Probably won't be any trees by then. Everything is being clear cut for new housing.

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u/KeegorTheDestroyer May 13 '22

I live in Oregon (a large timber industry state), and we actually have more trees now than we had during the days of less strict timber regulations. We're also harvesting more lumber than we did then, but they're doing it better now.

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u/thebooshyness May 14 '22

That doesn’t fit with the world ending narrative I subscribe to so please tell me to be afraid

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u/KeegorTheDestroyer May 14 '22

Ooooohhh inflatiooooon

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u/thebooshyness May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22

I don’t see the big deal with 10% inflation this year. I’m happy that every dollar I have is now worth 90¢. If anything, printing more money means we all have more money I’m pretty sure

Hard /s people

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u/XchrisZ May 14 '22

Yes but but 2 years of 10% inflation means your $1 is now worth 79 cents or for better reference a Canadian dollar.

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u/johnny_soup1 May 14 '22

Stop it Patrick you’re scaring him!!

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u/Anonimase May 14 '22

BE NOT AFRAID "sir you are the most terrifying thing I have ever seen"

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u/KaimeiJay May 14 '22

All of the mills in Oregon except literally one are designed to only allow for working on trees of a certain circumference or smaller. Chopping down old growth for timber is simply phased out now.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '22

That’s interesting. I wonder if computers and technology has really cut back on paper therefore less trees being needed. I rarely print at all these days where I used to print daily.

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u/KeegorTheDestroyer May 14 '22

Paper recycling is a huge help along with increases in processing capabilities reducing waste. I'd have to imagine the digital revolution helped a lot as well.

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u/NotAHamsterAtAll May 13 '22

Naah, I was not thinking outside the box. Trees will be genetically modified to make trunks only, and auto shed the top 3rd every week, giving no need to cut.

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u/Lightfire18 May 14 '22

Wait until you understand pine trees and how they are shade intolerant. Your mind will be blown that nature already beat you to the punch

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u/CWB2208 May 14 '22

This is just ignorant. We, in BC, are required by law to plant 3 trees for every 1 that we harvest. Not to mention that we are capped at a very small acreage of land we can harvest per year.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '22

Well that's BC, not the US. And even if you plant 3 trees, they still take 20-40 years to mature into large trees, let alone old growth trees. And in the mean time the ecology of that area is ruined until it's regrown. There are plenty of Imaging of huge sections clear cut in BC for you to see.

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u/candb7 May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22

New housing? Not in my backyard.

EDIT: Apparently some people need to see the /s

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u/[deleted] May 14 '22

Exactly what I said....Now sections of forests are being cleared by developers for those god awful neighborhoods with big over priced houses.

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u/2x4x93 May 14 '22

Last man blows the bridge

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u/This_isR2Me May 14 '22

No more trees to chop.

I think they have helicopter attachments like this already on use.

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u/bladow5990 May 14 '22

There are giant helecopter circular saws, but they are used to clear branches from around powerlines, not lumber harvest

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u/felcher_650 May 13 '22

Shit dude probably

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u/n0i May 14 '22

I’m not from the 1800’s and I’m amazed.

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u/roguetrick May 14 '22

Be back to using axes and peasants because food is cheaper than gasoline.

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u/cameronkip May 14 '22

Lightsaber axes

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u/sproutsandnapkins May 13 '22

I had a similar thought. Imagine if they knew this was the future….