Back in 1966-67, When I was working for Farrens Tree company i had to climb 2 or 3 of them Big Trees to cut a limb back. PG&E was replaceing all the poles in the park that were put in the 20"s and 30"s. They put in 40-foot poles to replace the 30 footers so in a few places it put the wires up into the tip of a limb hanging down. This was before the days of insulated tree wire. I had to free climb them cause they were to big to use a flip rope. I can remember one tree i climbed it was about 80 feet to the 1st limb. I was using my 3-1/2 inch Buckingham Redwood Gaffs and each time I pulled my gaff out It took about 12 foot of slab bark with it so I had to shake my leg to make it fall off. I had to do this with almost every step i took so by the time I got to that 1st limb I was exhausted. When I got to the limb which was about 20 inches in diameter I took my flip rope and threw it over it and then just hung there off my side D rings to catch my breath for about 10 minutes then go up higher to install my 300 foot 1/2" manila climbing line that I ordered to do the job with. 2 things I remember was I felt like a flea climbing up a dogs leg and I sure was hoping that the bark wouldn't come loose with me on it cause all I was climbing on was the bark. That was a fun/challenging job to do. We spent a month up there on it. Good times 👍
Ha You telling me. I was 18-19 back then. All balls and no brains i guess. lol BUT that was the only to get up there. I looked at it as a challenge but it was hella scary.
Thanks for these videos, Blair. I used to live just a few minutes from Big Basin, and I love when you show us images from the area. It’s always a blessing to visit those mountains again.
Clif Brigden I never get tired of going there. I need to take a long solo hike up there past the public and feel the essence of that woods without people.
I lived on Lodge Road, just about a mile down from the park entrance towards Boulder Creek. If you hike up there a mile or two, the road peters out and you start to see more and more Redwoods and, of course, beautiful old Oaks and Madrone everywhere. I spent hours and hours exploring those woods in all seasons, and I never ran into anyone. It's really a lovely spot. Thanks again for the glimpse, and for all your videos, they're always enjoyable and informative.
Blair, thanks for the interesting video, I enjoyed it. A couple of the trees at the roots, some of the roots almost look like an animal. Please take more videos like this, as time permits. Because of you, I get to see places that I can't visit. Thanks Blair.
Thank you Sir! I've heard so much about these trees, but only seen photo's. I live in QLD Australia, we have a variety of Fig here called the strangler fig, it actually starts growing in the upper parts of existing trees eventually covering the outside and killing the host. some of them are so old that the original host has rotted away ant left a hollow chimney up the middle. The mountain Ash further south are spectacular as well.
Montgummer National Park has some real big and beautiful redwoods as well It’s a bit off the beaten path, but it is home to some of the biggest trees I’ve ever seen It’s between the town of Marin and ukiah in Northern California
Ya gotta love the big ones! Thanks for sharing. You've probably shared this before, but ... what forces and factors are at play in the development of burls in trees? What about other types of figuring? Thanks!
Blair, I know when I comment I sometimes stray from your intended video, most of the time it's because I've already watched it, like this one. I wanted to say here, remember when we were in our prime? After seeing how the men before us worked? It's incredible, the work they did, without power tools!!! To think, how we thought we were so strong, when these men were incredible! It completely blows my mind.
Agreed, to go look at an old redwood felling site from the 1800's, and knowing those giants were cut down with hand tools, blows my mind. Just the sound of chopping and sawing until the big drop.
I grew up in San Jose, been through and into the Santa Cruz Mountains countless times, but never been to Big Basin. I have been to the Muir Woods and saw the giant sequoias in Yosemite a few times. I'll have to go there next time I'm back home.
I'm going to learn not to comment till After....want to see those monsters!!!... nothing even close down here......swamp Cypress n live oaks,old growth popler.....naaa not even close.....but as a tree man.. oh man to do it right n drop one of those big boys!!! By saw or axe!! Oooooooooo whatttta rush!!!
arboristBlairGlenn maybe I've seen East coast old growth but nothing like these....still if I had one dieing , dangerous... would love the challenge and to learn from an old Master.BTW shared this with every single one I Know....freaking amazing! Thank you
Great video Mr.Glen 👍 I have a question regarding S.giganteum , you recently made a video on the fires 🔥 in California. I do know that the giganteum is fire resistant as shown in this video, but how are they handling these fires? And approximately how old does a giganteum need to be too be able to re-sprout from the roots? Thank you very much for your time and knowledge! I believe the majority of people appreciate it 👍
What forces caused those trees to twist, do you know? I'm thinking probably not genetics, because no other redwood I've seen has been twisted like that, and I see a lot of them. (I'm living just outside Yosemite & I go there often, and my house is in Humboldt county with Sequoias and parks all around it.) Now I'm going to have to go back down to Big Basin & ask the rangers, because I really want to know. ~Trinity
Arborist Blair Glenn does not *have* to do anything. I'm sure, being the expert that he is, that he will take your directive under consideration. Thanks in advance for your patience.
Gee...🤔..... an arborist working in California for the last 35 years.....Hmmmmmm......🤔.....Wonder if he knows that Giant Sequoia and Coastal Redwood are both different from a fern or a cactus🤔.....???
I remember seeing these trees in books in elementary school, I was amazed then and amazed now. I read somewhere if the oxygen level dropped to where Humans and animals could not exist, the plant life would go on. True/ Not True? What about fish ?
Charles Miller interesting question. Considering that the trees produce oxygen I believe that the loss of oxygen would first be associated with a loss of our forests. That is and has been happening so we may test that question yet.
Is that the only way oxygen is produced. If it is then if we lose to many out we go, and the trees come back over time, but we would be gone. Kinda a tree insurance policy. You get to many of us, and we get all of you.
Thanks I’m working in Houston area I will be back in California in nov or diciembre y would like to go work with ur guys to learn about pruning techniques
Sad to say, I grew up in San Jose and have been to see the giant sequoias in Yosemite multiple times, Been to Muir Woods, been to Mt Madonna park camping when I was a kid, been to many places in the Santa Cruz mountains, but NEVER been to Big Basin! I'll have to go there some day after I get out of Hawaii.
@@arboristBlairGlenn It's not bad here, but I miss home. Hawaii has never felt like "home" to me. Sadly though, housing has gotten so crazy there I feel like I can't come back.
How many of you hit the thumbs up 👍🏻 button BEFORE you even watch the video? You just know it's going to have great content! Cheers from KC
Every video!
It is true! The man has knowledge 🤯
i do! i know it's always going to be fascinating and informative.
Back in 1966-67, When I was working for Farrens Tree company i had to climb 2 or 3 of them Big Trees to cut a limb back. PG&E was replaceing all the poles in the park that were put in the 20"s and 30"s. They put in 40-foot poles to replace the 30 footers so in a few places it put the wires up into the tip of a limb hanging down. This was before the days of insulated tree wire. I had to free climb them cause they were to big to use a flip rope. I can remember one tree i climbed it was about 80 feet to the 1st limb. I was using my 3-1/2 inch Buckingham Redwood Gaffs and each time I pulled my gaff out It took about 12 foot of slab bark with it so I had to shake my leg to make it fall off. I had to do this with almost every step i took so by the time I got to that 1st limb I was exhausted. When I got to the limb which was about 20 inches in diameter I took my flip rope and threw it over it and then just hung there off my side D rings to catch my breath for about 10 minutes then go up higher to install my 300 foot 1/2" manila climbing line that I ordered to do the job with. 2 things I remember was I felt like a flea climbing up a dogs leg and I sure was hoping that the bark wouldn't come loose with me on it cause all I was climbing on was the bark. That was a fun/challenging job to do. We spent a month up there on it. Good times 👍
Utterly insane, to free climb 80 feet.
Ha You telling me. I was 18-19 back then. All balls and no brains i guess. lol BUT that was the only to get up there. I looked at it as a challenge but it was hella scary.
Damn, you have me beat! I started in 1973 but I have also climbed on manila. Did not like it.
1973 huh. Then you must know Lee Lesh from Lee's Tree Service 👍
pjbikerful knew, (he passed away years ago), never liked Lee . Tom Braya was his foreman and him I respected.
That's a place that one would never tire of visiting. Than you very much for the tour!
Thanks for these videos, Blair. I used to live just a few minutes from Big Basin, and I love when you show us images from the area. It’s always a blessing to visit those mountains again.
Clif Brigden I never get tired of going there. I need to take a long solo hike up there past the public and feel the essence of that woods without people.
I lived on Lodge Road, just about a mile down from the park entrance towards Boulder Creek. If you hike up there a mile or two, the road peters out and you start to see more and more Redwoods and, of course, beautiful old Oaks and Madrone everywhere. I spent hours and hours exploring those woods in all seasons, and I never ran into anyone. It's really a lovely spot. Thanks again for the glimpse, and for all your videos, they're always enjoyable and informative.
Blair, thanks for the interesting video, I enjoyed it. A couple of the trees at the roots, some of the roots almost look like an animal. Please take more videos like this, as time permits. Because of you, I get to see places that I can't visit. Thanks Blair.
Funny you said Animal as that image tree is called the "Animal Tree".
Thanks for making me homesick, Blair!
Big Basin is the ONLY place in Ca, I'd
like to visit. Great park.
steve
Thank you Sir! I've heard so much about these trees, but only seen photo's. I live in QLD Australia, we have a variety of Fig here called the strangler fig, it actually starts growing in the upper parts of existing trees eventually covering the outside and killing the host. some of them are so old that the original host has rotted away ant left a hollow chimney up the middle. The mountain Ash further south are spectacular as well.
dadovitchnic never been down under
Enjoyed the tour. Never been there.
Montgummer National Park has some real big and beautiful redwoods as well
It’s a bit off the beaten path, but it is home to some of the biggest trees I’ve ever seen
It’s between the town of Marin and ukiah in Northern California
Thanks for the tour.
Thanks, Blair...Always enjoyable and soothing to the eyes to see these great trees.
Majestic. More please!
Ya gotta love the big ones! Thanks for sharing. You've probably shared this before, but ... what forces and factors are at play in the development of burls in trees? What about other types of figuring? Thanks!
Thanks for the beauty
Thanks for sharing these living sculptures.
Cool stuff Blair. I gotta get out there someday. I can see it but can't imagine it, if that makes sense
Great video, thanks!
Blair, I know when I comment I sometimes stray from your intended video, most of the time it's because I've already watched it, like this one. I wanted to say here, remember when we were in our prime? After seeing how the men before us worked? It's incredible, the work they did, without power tools!!! To think, how we thought we were so strong, when these men were incredible! It completely blows my mind.
Agreed, to go look at an old redwood felling site from the 1800's, and knowing those giants were cut down with hand tools, blows my mind. Just the sound of chopping and sawing until the big drop.
You know they are not to many channels where the dislike button is not even a consideration.
Beautiful
I grew up in San Jose, been through and into the Santa Cruz Mountains countless times, but never been to Big Basin. I have been to the Muir Woods and saw the giant sequoias in Yosemite a few times. I'll have to go there next time I'm back home.
Thanks for showing these amazing ,powerful trees.Regretfully ,I won't be able to see them live.
So awesome! Wish you could replicate that curl! Waiting on my knees to grow on my weeping bald cypress bonsai. No better time than with family.
Thank you for sharing. We have beautiful forests here in Pennsylvania, but nothing like that!
That’s awesome
Just clarifying those are redwoods not sequoias sequoias have much more red bark and the crowns of the trees look different. Loved the video though!
I'm going to learn not to comment till After....want to see those monsters!!!... nothing even close down here......swamp Cypress n live oaks,old growth popler.....naaa not even close.....but as a tree man.. oh man to do it right n drop one of those big boys!!! By saw or axe!! Oooooooooo whatttta rush!!!
rusty bird when you feel the age and history that these trees have witnessed, you are humbled. To cut one down would haunt you forever.
arboristBlairGlenn maybe I've seen East coast old growth but nothing like these....still if I had one dieing , dangerous... would love the challenge and to learn from an old Master.BTW shared this with every single one I Know....freaking amazing! Thank you
You sir are the Bob Ross of Arboriculture.
Squire Muldoon as in “Happy little trees”?
@@arboristBlairGlenn Yes but also they are soothing to listen to , i also learn a lot about trees that i would normally ignore. thank you!
Thanks Blair 👍
Great video Mr.Glen 👍
I have a question regarding S.giganteum , you recently made a video on the fires 🔥 in California. I do know that the giganteum is fire resistant as shown in this video, but how are they handling these fires? And approximately how old does a giganteum need to be too be able to re-sprout from the roots?
Thank you very much for your time and knowledge! I believe the majority of people appreciate it 👍
Just wow!
What forces caused those trees to twist, do you know? I'm thinking probably not genetics, because no other redwood I've seen has been twisted like that, and I see a lot of them. (I'm living just outside Yosemite & I go there often, and my house is in Humboldt county with Sequoias and parks all around it.)
Now I'm going to have to go back down to Big Basin & ask the rangers, because I really want to know. ~Trinity
Nice, thanks.
great place..:)
Love all your videos. Why do you suppose the trees in the last sequence got twisted???
you have to seperate between coastal redwoods and giant sequoias, two different species
Arborist Blair Glenn does not *have* to do anything. I'm sure, being the expert that he is, that he will take your directive under consideration. Thanks in advance for your patience.
Gee...🤔..... an arborist working in California for the last 35 years.....Hmmmmmm......🤔.....Wonder if he knows that Giant Sequoia and Coastal Redwood are both different from a fern or a cactus🤔.....???
Ruthless Goat Baahahahahaha!!!!😋😂😂 If da man sez it is...it izzz
This is true
I remember seeing these trees in books in elementary school, I was amazed then and amazed now.
I read somewhere if the oxygen level dropped to where Humans and animals could not exist, the plant life would go on.
True/ Not True? What about fish ?
Charles Miller interesting question. Considering that the trees produce oxygen I believe that the loss of oxygen would first be associated with a loss of our forests. That is and has been happening so we may test that question yet.
Is that the only way oxygen is produced. If it is then if we lose to many out we go, and the trees come back over time, but we would be gone. Kinda a tree insurance policy. You get to many of us, and we get all of you.
@@reckmanD Never knew that, anything else putting out oxygen ?
Where do you live mr gleen I just to live over there in hollister like 1 hr from the big basin
fredy jimenez Skyline Blvd
Thanks I’m working in Houston area I will be back in California in nov or diciembre y would like to go work with ur guys to learn about pruning techniques
10* never bern there - yet!
Those Big Trees are on my wish list!!!!....,.am I bad to wanna cut one?
Sad to say, I grew up in San Jose and have been to see the giant sequoias in Yosemite multiple times, Been to Muir Woods, been to Mt Madonna park camping when I was a kid, been to many places in the Santa Cruz mountains, but NEVER been to Big Basin! I'll have to go there some day after I get out of Hawaii.
Just Me Hawaii? That sounds pretty nice!
@@arboristBlairGlenn It's not bad here, but I miss home. Hawaii has never felt like "home" to me. Sadly though, housing has gotten so crazy there I feel like I can't come back.
Just Me I could not afford to buy here again either. Rent is stupidly high. The greedy bastards are destroying the future of our young people.