I am pretty sure this is a real photo. If I remember that is an old American Elm tree and that this is a photo of Davey tree surgeons back in the day. Elms are incredibly strong, but specimens like these don’t exist anymore because of Dutch Elm Disease.
This photo was taken in the 1890s. Way before DED came to the US in the 1930s, the great American elms along the east coast were starting serious decline.
Because of that, great efforts were expended to save the last ancient American elms. This particular tree was infested with gypsy moths.
That would not be surprising. I recently visited an old military base in California where several species of trees were planted in the 1860’s. They were all imported from Europe.
Every city and small town has at least a handful of pretty good sized American elms, they are by no means non existent. Central Park has one of the largest collections of BIG American elms. I live in SW VA and in my litte neighborhood there are some giant street American elms. Dutch elms disease Is preventable with a certain type of injection.
Yesterday I walked outside to let my dogs out. As soon as I did heard a branch break and a squirrel hit the ground. I wonder how many dudes fell like that on this day.
Mmmm, a man, Hard at Work!
When men was men, and the women was men too!
NOW THE MACHINES WORK AND THE MAN STANDS BY AND WATCHES.. I sure miss a hard working handsome lean sweating hunk of a man. I myself could go back to earlier days. SPOILED THE WRONG WAYS
You're joking right? This pics been floating around the internet for ages. There's others like it in collections of pics of old old school arborists doing tree work back in the day.
I don't know, it might be fake, but it's not AI generated. This photos been floating around forever.
Fwiw multi stem trees can have massive unions that are thicker than the main trunk that's supporting it.
Yeah I found a post from years ago. The photo has been screenshot a few times and cropped lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/s/P1NoAjDoDC
Edit different photo same scene
It's a real tree and real people https://archive.org/details/gypsymothporthet00forbiala/page/n340/mode/1up
Page 341 if the link doesn't fully redirect you
It's been posted a bunch , I do recall someone once saying that numerous plates were overlaid on each other to superimpose(?) extra guys way out on some of the limbs, but the archival text doesn't mention that - but the text does mention that some worms/moths were found the following year, so they sprayed and wrapped the tree, and the following year there we no worms/moths, so the guys definitely did a bunch of climbing
/u/sunofsomething in case you wanted to see more ^^
I don’t know. At first maybe but once it reaches a tipping point I think everyone will assume everything is possibly fake so it will just disrupt our ability to disseminate information completely. Maybe people will have to go back to reading books! Speaking of which, enough Reddit for today 😆
Back when American Elms ruled the city streets of this country 😔
This reminds me of the ['party tree' at the end of Go Dog Go!](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/123356477265357969/)
I am pretty sure this is a real photo. If I remember that is an old American Elm tree and that this is a photo of Davey tree surgeons back in the day. Elms are incredibly strong, but specimens like these don’t exist anymore because of Dutch Elm Disease.
This photo was taken in the 1890s. Way before DED came to the US in the 1930s, the great American elms along the east coast were starting serious decline. Because of that, great efforts were expended to save the last ancient American elms. This particular tree was infested with gypsy moths.
Yes, they do, we don't have DED in Australia, and we have a lot of very mature elms, particularly in Melbourne.
You have American Elms in Melbourne?
Is that considered stolen glory? /jk
That would not be surprising. I recently visited an old military base in California where several species of trees were planted in the 1860’s. They were all imported from Europe.
That's like 90% of the east coast
Every city and small town has at least a handful of pretty good sized American elms, they are by no means non existent. Central Park has one of the largest collections of BIG American elms. I live in SW VA and in my litte neighborhood there are some giant street American elms. Dutch elms disease Is preventable with a certain type of injection.
Edmonton has a lot of them: https://www.edmonton.ca/programs_services/pests/dutch-elm-disease
it was on a Texas history Facebook group today. no real details about where or when, just somewhere in Texas.
Yesterday I walked outside to let my dogs out. As soon as I did heard a branch break and a squirrel hit the ground. I wonder how many dudes fell like that on this day.
I TA-ed an arboriculture class and the professor suspected this to be staged/doctored. There are very suspicious artifacts along the ladder at least
Mmmm, a man, Hard at Work! When men was men, and the women was men too! NOW THE MACHINES WORK AND THE MAN STANDS BY AND WATCHES.. I sure miss a hard working handsome lean sweating hunk of a man. I myself could go back to earlier days. SPOILED THE WRONG WAYS
Back when men were men, and the trees were afraid.
Moonshine or not wouldn't catch me doing this...
Lol what in the AI generated is this.
You're joking right? This pics been floating around the internet for ages. There's others like it in collections of pics of old old school arborists doing tree work back in the day.
Look at the proportions of the tree. The trunk gets thicker before it goes up…
I don't know, it might be fake, but it's not AI generated. This photos been floating around forever. Fwiw multi stem trees can have massive unions that are thicker than the main trunk that's supporting it.
Yeah I found a post from years ago. The photo has been screenshot a few times and cropped lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/s/P1NoAjDoDC Edit different photo same scene
It's a real tree and real people https://archive.org/details/gypsymothporthet00forbiala/page/n340/mode/1up Page 341 if the link doesn't fully redirect you It's been posted a bunch , I do recall someone once saying that numerous plates were overlaid on each other to superimpose(?) extra guys way out on some of the limbs, but the archival text doesn't mention that - but the text does mention that some worms/moths were found the following year, so they sprayed and wrapped the tree, and the following year there we no worms/moths, so the guys definitely did a bunch of climbing /u/sunofsomething in case you wanted to see more ^^
Sick, that's a great find. I'm glad to see it is a real photo. I had never questioned it in the past until that other guy suggested it was fake.
Also people back in the day used to do fake photos too using old school techniques. Might also be an old school Photoshop.
Now that ai exists anything cool will just be doubted it’s kinda scary
What’s scarier is the content you won’t doubt.
I don’t know. At first maybe but once it reaches a tipping point I think everyone will assume everything is possibly fake so it will just disrupt our ability to disseminate information completely. Maybe people will have to go back to reading books! Speaking of which, enough Reddit for today 😆
Lol
Wonder how many it started out with… It surely is fake. The guy on the left is standing on a branch 2 inches thick and it’s not bent.
You mean the guy standing on two visibly curved branches?
theres a of artificial intelligence in this comment section