Falling an old growth redwood tree; Humboldt County, CA, 2002
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- This residual old growth redwood was on private property, and was missing its top. This tree was in my cuttin pards' strip, and had 37,000 bd. ft. in it. It was fell with a Stihl 088 with a 60" canon bar. We were using silvey tree saver jacks, to jack it up the hill. Each ram is capable of 62 tons of lift, and we had four rams and two pumps. The tree was bucked into 20' logs, and the first and second logs had to be quartered, while the third and fourth logs, had to be ripped, so that they could be flown out, with a boeing 234 chinook helicopter.
It took about 6 hours to fall and buck, and we were in no hurry, as we, and our bullbucks, were having fun, doing what we were born to do. When he crawled in the undercut for a photo opportunity, he was absolutely in NO danger! There was a significant amount of holding wood that had to be cut and jack pressure applied after he did this. Average age of an coastal, old growth redwood, is 5-700 years.
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So, this land has been yours for 2000+ years, therefore it's just fine to cut down that tree? And trees without their tops are dead or useless? How can you live with yourself for cutting down such a monument of nature? Not to offend you personally, but this is just disgusting to me. I can't understand how anyone could ever come to the conclusion that it is best to cut down such a giant.
If you so concerned go buy the property.
Funny you say this considering you're writing this bullshit comment from a home built by this very industry.
Tanner Anderson No, I live in Germany. We build our houses from stone so they don't get blown away in case of a storm. And for the wooden parts we don't kill 2000 year old trees, 40 years is enough for a beam and some boards.
Shan Szu Not everything has to be evaluated through money, you know?
Stop complaining. If you want to preserve the eco-system one of the best ways is to buy the land and not complain and cry about it. Yes said that this tree is gone. But the reality is people complain and never take action. What is your next action to help stop this? Protesting gets so far and complaining. Get funds together and make a natural preserve.
don't understand why people get upset over them cutting this down he said the top was missing and the tree was dead. A tree is a living thing and does not live forever. It is safer for them to fall the rather than the tree falling on its own and wasting the wood I am always amazed at this ignorance of the tree huggers.
It is purely a childish emotional response.
@@mkay1957 I agree and it’s the lack of education on forestry
Humans think we own the Earth and can do whatever we want. There is gonna be a rude awakening when the Earth decides she had enough of our cockiness.
@@troybalgie2149 That would be true if the Earth was a living, breathing rational being.
But it isnt.
@@troybalgie2149 That tree was dying. Better to use it for lumber than let it go to waste rotting in the forest. Californias forests are horribly overgrown anyway, which is the reason we keep having horrible wildfires.
Last time I checked we need lumber to build houses. CA governor Gavin Newsome said in 2020 that CA needs almost 2,000,000 more housing units to meet demand.
Sounds like you are denying the less fortunate the opportunity to have a roof over their heads.
With respect for the men who do this work, private land or not, cutting a 1000+ old growth tree is just wrong in my book, unless it is dead. These trees can live for a very long time with one or two branches. There simply aren't enough of them left to justify it.
It is true that replacing old growth with new growth is beneficial from a climate standpoint but on the other hand you are taking a huge amount of biomass out of the ecosystem the tree is in. This is the real damage done by logging old growth. Lets imagine this tree would have fallen from natural causes and it starts decaying. The decaying process for trees this large takes decades and slowly but steadily releases nutriens into the ecosystem: Over the years tons of Fungi and bacteria break down the trees biomass and convert it into their own biomass which in turn feeds invertebrates like worms, slugs, bugs and other insects etc. These feed birds, small mammals, reptiles etc. These feed larger animals and so on. Plus a large tree like that provides structure to the ecosystem which is very important for nesting birds, small animals to hide in. So yeah I understand we need these trees for building but we have to be aware that every old tree we cut down the ecosystem becomes a little poorer. I think a lot can be done just by reducing wasteful use of resources. Just use them more efficiently.
I'm not against logging at all. I was a choker setter when I was young and it was a blast. I just don't understand why a tree like this one needed to come down. leave the old growth alone and take what was around it. this just looks like greed to me.
Well, I didn't make shit that day, but it was still glorious for me. You must not have set chokers very long, because a seasoned logger would know that all the second growth around this tree wasn't big enough to log yet.
For a tree this old, this should be illegal
Grizz Meister They probably fell the tree for reasons other than to get the money out of it. The tree may have been on unstable ground and need to be taken down. It is illegal to cut down redwoods but this was on his private property. And he can do so as he pleases with the trees on his land.
nox no, they exist because they live, and their purpose is to survive.
@@StrokerAce3983 it is not illegal to cut redwoods, don't be silly!
Do people have to cut really old growth like this? Isn't anything sacred?
Shade WolfKins Yes, I do get teary-eyed. I wish I was a pre-historic man.
***** Read. My comment regarded old growth, not renewable fir.
***** There are trillions of old growth? You're delusional if you think all trees are the same.
+Bourne Accident All trees become old growth eventually.
***** Yeah, er, um... kind of but not really.
I'm not a tree hugger on any level, but my favorite place on the earth is the Redwood Forest areas of Humbolt County. Crescent City, Avenue of the Giants, Prairie Creek, Arcata, Eureka, Willits....everything up there. I hate to see any of the old growth trees that are left cut down, even the damaged ones. There's just no place like this anywhere else on earth.
Same here, brother. Hailing from Branscomb.
Hard to believe it is still legal.
That guy crawling in that tree just made me cringe... what the?
very cool! you will have nut jobs and hypocrites that complain, WHO CARES! I am sick to death with idiots telling a man what he can and can't do on his own property! I say TIMBER!!!
Gods creation is more impressive than mans ability to fell a tree.
Did god create men?
Yes...and we both know man doesn't always use the best judgement.
I know someone who died from that
Mark Jamieson let people believe as they want and stop giving atheist a bad name. respect their beliefs and they will respect yours.
So your "god" created imperfect men? God created men who need to kill plants and animals to eat and need to kill trees to make firewood to keep warm? What a lousy god... If your god was almighty then why didn't he create men who never need to eat and can make love and sex all day?...Use your brain and stop dreaming ;)
Amazing to think it took 6 hours to take this down. What did it take the boys of yesteryear to take down such a tree. It's the men in jeans that built the nation not the men in suits. I was in California last year and was amazed by these giant trees. Will go back soon. Thanks for posting.
+StillTheBest1980 You bet! By the way, we were wearing jeans :)
Damn right. Great comment.
+StillTheBest1980 Man, you got that right. The men in jeans build and proudly so. The men suits destroy what has so proudly been built. I know. I used to wear suits and was never happier than the day I worn a suit for the last time and had a Pierre Cardin bonfire in the back yard later that evening. My parents thought me insane and in need of mental help; my old lady decided not to move out because she sensed I was no longer insane.
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I really dislike seeing these old redwoods taken down.
+Michael Mixon It was missing its top half.. was dying anyways
then don't watch the effin video
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But yet you come here to watch it. Makes a lot of sense.
+Silent Slayer when it's dying it sprouts even more trees
I LIKE lookin at the old pics of them poor bastards who used to cut twice that size down with axes and two man hand saws for weeks on end only to collect their pay checks,ride into town and blow it all in one nite on whiskey and women.LOL.then go back and do it all again..quite the hard workin easy life back then..cool vid!!
+BLACKtoothGRIN
I wonder how much mega-coin they got for doing one of those trees?
+BLACKtoothGRIN My father was one of them men he made $22.50 for a 11 hour day.
jerry ray
Back in the day...
Should never be used Unbelievable that they can convience themselves that this is something that should be allowed. Can you imagine what the world will look like in a few short years because we know some countries honestly don't care about anything except money!!!
Great job and a very neat drop on such a massive tree 👍🏻
Thanks
Much as anyone hates to see an old growth tree get cut - missing it's top was the end of a long and glorious life = better the board feet benefit mankind
and yes when a tree falls in the woods it definitely makes a sound
Trees including Redwoods do just fine after losing their tops. Some of the most famous and healthy Redwoods lost their tops yet continue to inspire and thrive. There's the Libby Tree aka Tall Tree in Redwood National Park, the Imortal Tree along the Avenue of the Giants, and Mother of the Forest in Big Basin Redwoods State Park. There are countless other unnamed examples. These living trees are of much greater benefit to mankind than a private deck on rich man's house.
@@harmonyrpt mm yes tree very inspiring and big
Why all the dislikes? It's not a dolphin or a baby seal is killed. A tree is a plant with no heartbeat or soul. What do you think home construction has been built from the past 200 years? You tree huggers need to realize you all are hypocrites. Trees are wood and paper, try living your life without either of them, then get back to me on that "green" issue you have.
+wingmanalive I think the difference is we've bio-engineered many tree cultivers that grow very fast, straight, and capable of supporting all lumber needs. Point being, when old growth trees are gone they're gone for good...just because we 'can' drop a six hundred year old tree does that mean we have to when they're plenty of alternatives available?
Let me respond. Yes we use Southern yellow pine as our main source of building materials for framing. Doug fir as well. Yet they are not furniture grade quality wood. When you harvest the lumber from a large redwood and produce 100's of pieces of furniture and timeless pieces of beauty from it you double it's life. If you wait until it decays and falls it's worthless. Take a 200 year redwood and let it fall by mother nature's will or cut it down and make the wood last an addition 100 years on useful ventures.
+wingmanalive You're certainly welcome to that point of view but allow me to posit the argument differently. Tigers in the wild are nearly extinct from loss of habitat and poaching. Within this past year, a species of rhinoceros was made extinct, why, poached for his horn to be used in chinese medicine and ornamental Sikh knives. Point being...that animal is gone for good. Old growth forests, by definition, are 'old growth' only because they've been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. The time for which it takes a tree to become truly old growth is far longer than any piece of furniture will possibly survive. Additionally, the world has many species of environmentally sustainable trees that could be readily used that wouldn't require the harvesting of the world's last old growth forests. With those resources both viable and available do we need to lumber the last of the old growth trees simply because we can or that they cost a few pennies less?
200 year old tree would be bad enough. The tree in the video was closer to 2000 than 200. By the time another tree grows from sapling to that age
there's a good chance humans will have killed themselves off.
+Looking for truth Look, I respect everyone's views and opinions but if history has shown us anything is that everything on this planet has been cycled and recycled MANY times. That goes with the air you and I breathe, the oil used to refine into gas in your car, countless species of plants and animals (99.99999% of which nature, not man, has chosen for extinction) and everything in between. In our tiny blip of existence on this planet we are but a microscopic spec on the Earth's timeline from beginning to end. There were billions of lifeforms before us we never saw and there will be billions of lifeforms after us we will never see. 100's of species of animals and 100's of forms of plant life become extinct every year. Humans didn't kill them all. Nature did. It's our burden to bear theorizing on when our time is up and how as an intelligent being we can prepare for it. I'm bringing beer.
And I bet that every piece of that tree was not put to waste...that is just awesome....and now with that tree gone, younger more viable trees can take its place.
Thomas Hynes You bet!
Imagine how long this took with an axe a couple hundred years ago
I think I’ve seen a video on it and it was over 2 hours for a normal size redwood.
they largely used saws. Huge handsaws.
Actually two men tag teaming that tree with a misery whip wouldn’t have taken long. Powersaws are a lot easier to operate that’s for sure. That job took a real hard man to do. A good deal of the biggest trees were already cut before the chainsaw was invented. They logged a massive amount of land pretty quickly. And I agree those trees are beautiful but the land was bought and paid for and private owned. No man has the right to tell another man what to do with his property. This is one of the things that makes this country different. Freedom. And telling another man what to do with his belongings is trying to impede their rights of freedom. I am a logger but I’m also an advocate for nature. Trees grow back. They are the most renewable crop that exists. That’s why it’s called tree farming. Calm down people. All the biggest trees are ancient history
Okay,listen up class,the fucking tree was old the fucking tree was put to sleep...
Most these comments clearly have no idea what goes into being an arborist not many people can handle felling a tree half that size with no knowledge of what is actually being done here and why. Been doing arbor work for over 6 years now we fell dead trees for a good reason and prune live ones for a reason, do y’all’s research before assuming it’s bad for the environment. Just like people who hunt deer and other animals, not my field probably never will be. What would we do without arborist keeping live trees healthy and dead trees out of harms way so they don’t hurt/kill or destroy peoples homes from too much topside weight especially when the trees are wilting and rotting. Just the other day removed 5 hackberry trees right in between two residential homes because they were dead and hazardous and potentially deadly to the home owners .
You don't get it,
the act of cutting down ancient trees that were here long before us and will remain so long after our passing just to "save" some random humans that temporarily inhabit the area is a very bad idea.
Forests and earth in general don't need human intervention whatsoever to survive or flourish, there was a point in time where we didn't have technology or the tools to cut down trees and everything was fine. Dead trees fell and were absorbed by earth like they're meant to.
@@Serenity-tn4ynDamm right, wonder if the guy above you can point out a planet where trees grow.
@@Kazy_RUI love those big ole butts they sure do make a lot of lumber out of them. Nothing like hearing and feeling a giant slam the earth.
I mainly watch these videos for the comment drama.
Yes, there is plenty of that!
Hey I’m just letting you know your comment is 7 years old
Must be a queen of drama now if 7 years old 🤔.
Cutting down trees is okay as long as you eat all the wood.
using toilet paper is okay as well, but only as long as you eat it after.
have you ever heard of hemp? you can crop it three times a year. The average crop of trees takes 20 years. I'm not anti logging but i sure am anti reckless when it comes to the environment .
My opinion as a staunch environmentalist: you're doing nothing wrong. If people don't want this to happen anymore they ought to stop putting up a demand for it.
And my opinion as a proud logger, and killer of trees...you are right.
Mark Cliffe uughgvbvgdffdddd
yuck.
Takes some balls of steel to climb under that thing man.
The balls might be steel, but the brains are rusty...
Thinking stupidity myself. Just an opinion anyway.
@@ann-catherinemorner7499 h
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While it takes balls to do this work altogether… That tree could stand with that face cut in it for years! But what do I know, I’m just a certified arborist with 20 years of experience.
3:50 Good Lord, why would they crawl in there like that?
Not their first day on the job .That is a huge tree.
At this day and age we still have to cut down such beautiful trees? There's no alternative? Heartbreaking...
Man, are you for real? People like you love to make hypocritical virtue signaling statements on the internet . You type these nonsense, "eco-friendly" bullshit sayings. Yet do you know how many "beautiful" natural resources you consume and or help destroy by merely existing and operating in the modern world?
Sad to see such an old tree has to be chopped down. But ti is necessary in view of the condition of the tree.
+Fan Chuen Dennis Tsang It would only be necessary if the tree was adjacent to a road or trail where it would be in danger of falling and crushing humans. You can see the foliage on the tree when it falls, meaning the tree is still capable of regrowing it's crown. They cut it down to make money, nothing more.
+Tom Mont Maybe it was cut down for money, but then to what uses was it put after it was cut down. The description stated that 36,000 board feet was harvested from that one tree. In other words, you can make a wood floor, one inch thick, forty yards wide and 100 yards long. That's about a half a city block. The sawdust created by sawing all that wood is used to make particle board. The chips and scraps from that same operation is used for OSB wood. The bottom line is that, while they did fell it for money, it is far too valuable to allow it to go to waste.
+1961casey
very correct!
+1961casey By god. I wonder how many people who argue that it shouldn't have been cut down, would back track of they owned some old growth redwood.
@@TarzanThomas quit being an asshole to everyone that doesn't 100% agree with your world view
Why would a perfectly healthy tree like this be cut down? I am just asking.
To make the roof you sleep under. Sadly its s necessary evil
Old growth redwood is incredibly valuable. A tree like this is worth well over 100k :( still is painful to watch. Redwood is no longer used to build houses though, much to expensive. It’s generally used for outdoor projects because of its extremely robust pest and rot resistance.
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That's trifling Humanity for you. Destructive and ecosystem a busive
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Great video
Greetings from Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
Howdy pardner
Hard to believe how this awesome video went sideways with comments. If we could see more about men gittin it done I think we'd all come away with a better outlook of who we are as Americans. We took an untamed land and made a great nation. Not one man in this video expect food stamps or un employment
+TGCIII By god!
When men were men and women were glad of it, yessiree bob, wooden ships and iron men ,that was the day.
wooden ships, iron men, and potato cameras
Oh no, you're one of those My-generation-is-better-you-don't-know-the-value-of-hard-work people. Ugghh I hate people like you.
+ethan elvis He's right.
lol men are still men so are u tryna say cause these guys cut this big tree down they are better then men today hahahahahaha
I just realized why there aren't many videos of the Irish potato famine.
A 2,000 year old tree and man had to come to the rescue? Sorry. Not meant as hateful, but if we try hard enough, we can find an excuse to tear anything down. That tree would have stood for another century or few without our intervention. From everything I have read, it could have been left alone and survived a good while.
I understand the reasoning behind this felling......but it hurts me, nevertheless, to see such an old life come to an end.
it's a tree.a tree you know a tree.
sam smith you're a fuckin idiot the more trees that are cut the less oxygen we will have. Our air quality has dropped ever since tree cutting.
KushLoveEntertainmentBitches air you thick or is it just that your stupid.man has cut trees down for thousands of years.air quality is crap due to the pollution we pump into the atmosphere.
There are more than twice as many trees in this country now than 100 years ago . Oh , and dead ones don't produce oxygen .
Starving kids in Africa could have eaten that tree
lol
Evil Human.
Eva Parker
Who are you talking to?
They deleted the comment. Someone called a person retarted
That is some nice high dollar wood they got there
Yessir it was. It as a glorious day, and I wish I could go back and do it again.
it would be useful for lots of wood and anyway if people moan its bad just plant a new one its that easy. possibly from one of the seeds of the old one
Thing is that although it would take a long time for the tree to get to that age its still able to get to that age.
plenty of trees that are much older though!
No one is boycotting the furniture in their homes to save the trees
I would rather have plastic furniture than have a murdered tree made into anything in my home
You don’t need an 800 year old tree to make furniture!
It was dead already rotting better to cut it down for the spare wood, it’s better for the community
@@diannaclark4252 Murdered? Oh puh-leeze!
You do realize that the tree was dead, right?
You also don't seem to realize that the plastic in your chairs are a derivative of oil.
Do you know old that tree was? and you just cut it down?
No and yes :)
Tarzan Thomas uhm , they don't . I aint a tree hugger ..but we shouldn't cut these
@@TarzanThomas lol love it
I sure wished I had some of that beautiful wood for the deck I’m currently building. The people that bitch about harvesting some of them are the ones sitting on their deck built of wood. Although, they would also be the ones to have a redwood lid and then paint it. 🤦🏻♂️
Yessir. Not to mention all the folks who complain about these trees being cut that come from a city, that was once a stand of old growth, and their home sits where there was once old growth...People really need to read history books.
Not to say logging is the worst but this logic is BS, “ph they did the same do let’s cut all the trees down”@@TarzanThomas
For all the people crying out there this tree was probably dead or dying. Now we do have a major problem with cutting down the amazon and jungles like that along with the red woods which needs to stop. But this tree looked gray like it was about to die and was missing it’s top.
perfect tree to leave behind for habitat and carbon sequestration.. Which is the only way to battle climate change! by keeping carbon in the forest... All forests matter!
For once it wasn't lieing to us about the tree size and video.
We didn't exactly get to see the 'missing' top half of the tree
WOW! That's one hell of a chainsaw!
You know it's a big tree when you have to use hydraulic jacks instead of wedges. My house is over 100 years old and framed out of redwood. Not one bit of bug damage present when I gutted it to remodel and insulate. Sad is not cutting down the tree, it's not replanting one or two more redwoods to replace it. Unmanaged land is what burns people's houses down in wild fires. Even the wedge removed from that tree could be used for something. Just remember that you can replant a tree but you can't replace oil.
Thanks for showing some love to the timber industry
The amazing thing is they didn't kill this tree. The root system is still alive and will Sprout many more trees. They actually made more trees.
Not more "old growth" redwood though. That is the difference.
@@ralphdavis9670 as opposed to what? Last Tuesday?. They didn't grow during black and white video WTF. Backup and reconsider for the rest of the universe to have a chance for one more birthday,🙂😀🤣
Yes that's right someone gave birth to this wonderful person that helps everyday the sun shines shein better because they are there to Usher it through the day. The slow computing years of Nintendo are behind and we will never be able to make that kind of boiled water again. Respect the time we have left before the coin slot changes the flavor
@@jeronimomod156 calm down Jamal he just said one sentence n ur going off
@@Handlinyomommascheeks I was just calmly stating a fact. You calme down freeza don't make me take some senzu beans✊👊🤘🤦♂️😀🤣🤣
3:50 looks like an awfully bad idea......... squish you like a bug
5:40 - tree falls. 6:02 - "Hey, anybody see Dave anywhere?"
Douglassawmil
The saddest aspect of my work related to this wonderful type of wood is having to demo redwood exterior decks because the homeowners failed to maintain the wood from weather and bees (central Missouri). Some exterior decks that are properly maintained can last many decades, decks receiving no maintence might last 5 - 10 years.
HARD TO BELIEVE THEY USED TO TAKE THESE MONSTERS DOWN WITH AXES AND HAND SAWS!
They should let them be
That’s not how trees work my friend, hazard trees such as this one can pose a major risk to us as in me and you, and it can pose a major wild fire risk because of near by power lines, I work with the forest service out of California land I can freely say they would just drop a tree in a national forest for no reason my friend, though it is sad to see such a majestic tree go
It is sad that this gentleman had to post a warning with his awesome video about people calling him names and wishing him ill. These old, old, old-growth trees SHOULD be removed before they fall. When mother nature drops one, she doesn't care where and would just as soon drop it on ten of this trees young ones. These trees were here for eons before us. With proper forestation and management practices, we can use and enjoy these trees while we are here, for they will be here loooooong after man has killed himself off and the planet has healed its man-made wounds.
Trevor Dinsmore It is sad. I have deleted hundreds, if not thousands of comments where people are calling us filthy names, or wishing death on us.
Hey, you're the dude doing the cutting!! Thanks for answering my comment!! Yeah those dim-wits should only enter stone or masonary buildings and wipe their butts on rocks!! Also I was pleasantly surprised to see you bad-asses (meant in a GOOD way LOL) using Stihl saws instead of Husqvarna. I grew up here in Maine cutting pulp with my Dad. He had a little International track skidder, a ten-wheeler with a loader on it and Huskies, Partners and later Stihl saws. (anything except Johnsred...he nearly lost a leg with a faulty top-handle Johnsred) They would save big pines and when they had enough to cut on them for a week, they would cut 'em. So I have basically cut wood on and off my whole life...land-clearing, pulp, hardwood bolts (for furniture=good money), logs, firewood, trap wood (back when lobster traps were made of oak...16 inch min. NO limbs=HEAVY but great money) and the list goes on. Thanks for commenting and keep up the good work!!
Trevor Dinsmore My first brand new chainsaw was a jonsered...I bought it when I was 12,
Is there footage of it getting bucked to length? I’d like to see that process. Being from giant redwood country, I always see pics and video of the falling, or the loaded trucks, but having cut a couple much smaller trees, I know the bucking process can be even more challenging when you can’t get 360degrees around the tree.
Sorry pardner, we didn't get video of that. You are correct though, it can be complicated to make nice cuts on big wood.
It is a sad world when people put the lives of trees, animals a head of unborn babies.
What are you talking about
The guy who entered the cave cut is brave. What if the tree feel accidentally because the GAP is wide enough as reason to consider and also the thousands of tons of weight. Improvise mechanical puller should be used instead of human arm. Anyway it's not a Sandwich, LUCKY!!
this is sad. no matter if it was owned or private property. how can anybody cut a tree this old? crazy
+Luis Serrano they said the top was broken off
such a shame killing a grand old tree like that.
it was dead.. the top had broken off.
99butcher99 The tops are broken off on just about all old growth giants; they deal with it and do fine without them.
***** Just about all? No way. Take a drive through an old growth redwood grove and count.
Reegareth Where's the "shame" in it? The tree was missing it's top, the tree was owned by a private individual who wanted the money it brought, and no doubt more trees are growing all about the area to get big someday. I see no shame, it was a personal business decision, and someone enjoyed a heck of a bunch of beautiful Redwood.
Bruce Werner this is true and I have no issue with people don't what they want with their own property but I just feel like some things in nature should be left alone is all.
that fucker made a damn airstrip in the forest on its way down
Nothing lives for ever. (Gasp!) And even trees too big to be hugged sometimes need help in attaining the horizontal. (Shock, horror!) That is, before they do some genuine damage to someone or something, and while they still have some value as timber. I would give the green-arsed bastards more credence if they could show that they lived in homes with no wood whatsoever used in either construction or furnishings. "Yeah, but ... we only use plantation-sourced timber." (How righteous!) And that, my friends, has its own set of contradictions.
(12/17/2023) how much did you make from cutting such a large tree???
I can't remember how much we made to fall that tree, but it was probably in the range of 3-400 a piece for me and my cutting pardner. The tree itself was probably worth well over a hundred grand in board form.
You know, as I've gotten older, in my 50's, I've learned to appreciate things more! Im from Ga and my wife & I took a trip to San Francisco on vacation and we took several tours out there to see the area surrounding SF including going to 3 SF Giants baseball games! The most enjoyable tour we took was going on the Muir Woods and we got to see a 600 acre track of those majestic Redwood trees and I was amazed at the size of those trees!!! They are magical and you owe it to yourself to see them before you leave this world. And YES, I would fly clear across the US to see them again. Ive never been a logger but Ive cut down tons of trees through the years for the fireplace. Im an ole country boy and I guess I like that sort-of-thang! If my memory serves me right, I think a fellow by the name of John Muir was the man that knew sooner or later all of those Redwood trees might be gone and he bought that 600 acre track, donated it to the state and had it declared a national park or something like that so those Redwood wood be safe. Thank You, Mr John Muir
They are amazing trees and I am glad that there are tracts set aside, never to be touched.
You were looking fresh like a school boy Tarzan. How long did the felling process take? Processing of the tree?
Yessir, I was only 23 years old at the time. It took a few hours to fall and a few to process.
@@TarzanThomas why cut them down they are so old and majestic 😡😡
@@agamzxhv11 the tree was already dead, dumbass. Learn to read
@@TarzanThomas how old was that giant?
Good job men, but the guy at 3:48 is absolutely crazy.
This is truly sad.
great video.. I am glad the tree was used rather than let rot..
AVanilla Gorilla Thanks. The only trees I ever fell that were left to rot were trees that were either already rotten and had to be cut down for the safety of myself, or the hookers under the helicopter, or sometimes bigger tops that had too many knots and were worthless for lumber and only good for pulp. Every bit of every redwood that I ever cut that could have an 8' long board cut out of it, was utilized.
KoivuTheHab And if you read my post, you will see that I said that we left rotten trees on the ground, to rot.
Thoughs trees where around the dinosaur era...that sucks.. I wonder how long it took that tree too grow that big...down in a few min.
didn't you Read? tree is on private property. the top was broken off. and by the way, the tree is way to big for you to hug. so you can relax. lolololo.
Don Filkins It is common for old growth trees to loose there tops and still healthy grow with no danger to the forest they are a part of. Forest fires have burned on a regular basis maybe not as intensly as they currently are ,
Your comment is way of base leaving forest alone did not create this conditions ,. Overpopulation of the planet has caused us to be in natural orders path. Not a disastor as we have come to know it.
Steven Roth liar
Don Filkins I Don I apologise did not mean to offend anyone out there will never comment on anything ever again.
The tree was there FIRST. They are on the trees property. Ugh. Disgusting all these comments praising destroying nature. Sick sick sick!!! -_- .
@@stevenroth5424 il
I live on the northern Oregon coast. I have several very large Sikta spruce on my property. I love them; it's an honor to be their steward. One had the mother of all widow-makers hung up about 3/4 of the way up, that endangered the public right-of-way. My arborist buddy kindly got it down for me. My tree-hugging neighbor LOST HER FREAKIN' MIND. She accused my killing the tree, and implied that I'm basically clear-cutting Oregon. When I explained that the massive branch had completely broken off, she argued that I could have attempted to reattach it. Then she held a vigil.
Some people are just plain crazy...
I would build me a beautiful sailboat out of it. With a tree like that the keel could all come from just one tree.
An old ancient tree, probably surviving for more than three centuries, destroyed for a sailboat.
Not their first day on the job for sure.
03:50 this is why women live longer
Least men live life to the fullest
Unless your a introvert like me
Some serious skill demonstrated in this cut! Cant even imagine, gotta have alot of confidence with stuff like that. I'm still working on gettin comfortable with 30 INCH tree's lol. thanks for sharing. enjoyed!
+SicC678 You bet!
what's the value of a tree like that? whole n per foot.
+Duke Lethbridge
$5,000 or so.
+Watch Ryder I'm guessing that the lumber could be worth a lot more than $5000. He said it was 37,000 board feet. I've seen milled red wood go for as much as $10 a board foot. Guessing it was big money due to the helicopter airlift.
Maybe, I was saying the log value.
not as much as you'd think. there aren't many mills in the us that could cut that tree
at least not anymore.
Awsum!!!! That guy lying in the cut!! Wow. Nicely done boys, respect to that old redwood hope you planted more!!
Thanks! No need to replant, they regenerate naturally.
Kaptaan Pakistan You ever read up any facts about redwoods, or do you just like talking ignorance? Average age of a old growth coastal redwood is 5-700 years, with only a few having been found to be around 2,000 years old. Who is the moron?
1,000 years from now a wild haired man will say " aliens had to be involved to accomplish such a feat"
STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Harold Acevedo TRUMP!!
A lost art, and a lost breed of men. The amount of work and knowledge it takes to not only fell that right and safe, but to actually get it out of the woods is amazing. Thanks for sharing this amazing video.
The men are there but the trees arent . Just got back from Oregon working with some lumber jacks and the biggest trees they dropped were 40-50 inches wide . Still a good sized tree but only 50-100 years old.
You bet.
@@pubrally I'm in Humboldt county, there's still a few giants like this one on my property but besides that your looking at 50-200 year olds now instead of the 5000 year olds. It is a bit depressing. Take a drive down the avenue of the giants you'll see these every 15 ft.
One day ill be logging on this level. Hats off to you gents.
Not a bad aspiration pardner. I wish I could go back in time and do it all again.
You cut down a tree and made a road at the same time
Big tree big paycheck, specialty cutters with balls of steel. Currently I work in a hem/fir sawmill we produce around 50,000 board ft per hour, its overwhelming and astounding to think that there is a true demand and need for such volumes of lumber. I should really get back into the carpentry side of the lumber industry much more rewarding. Surprised none of these huggers mentioned the amount of carbon released back into the atmosphere once a tree has been processed.
Was just another day monetary wise for the fallers, although the glory experience was huge. I am sure the sawmill that owned the tree, got payed well. Thanks for your comment.
These trees are really something!
What a rare right of passage to climb into the cut of the fall...
I watched this film with my 2 year old nephew. It was fantastic and we both loved it. Thanks for putting it online.
You bet.
Ugh. -_-
Too bad Tarzan you are afraid to use you're given name. Yes, I realize trees were where I once lived on 10th street and then out where my parents bought 35acres and dad's company was build on one of those acres. Where Jack Visser who was one of my best friends father logged. Each generation gets or should get smarter. Dying trees and thinning as I said are fine but to wipe them out is not! I'm almost 80 years old and I see, how destructive man gets for the dollar!
@@caroloneill8079 that's true, I unfortunately don't see it stopping or slowing down anytime soon
and another one bites the dust - great job, now dig that stump out.
I can’t believe average joes gym beat these guys.
I have trouble limbing a 60 pine on the ground! Remarkable feat, guys.
Very grateful we can use the wood and replant instead of loosing it to fire or rot. Excellent management of our resources
This was all about money. Money for the owners of the tree. The fellows who did the work got a pittance for their trouble. Logger poverty is real. This is no way to make a living.
+Peter Kapp Wasn't just about money for us. It was about pride and glory as well. I agree that being a logger is a tough way to make a living, but I would not trade it for some fancy pants, office job, making millions.
A lot of people don't realize that out of this stump, a new tree will appear. Redwoods are like weeds, it will grow back. These trees, as with all living thing, have a life cycle, they my have a longer life span than us, but they die eventually, and regrow. Fire is also a way for old growth to reseed. The underbrush of these forests are so thick, once a fire starts, it's too intense to put out. Select cutting should be part of the plan to keep these forests healthy.
So true
+Matthew Hughett looks to me that they cut at least 5 new growth trees just to work.
+Matthew Hughett The truth ist that most of them are cut down. And they will never return, because we destroyed their invirement, too, They don´t need us to stay healthy. I think , the one who is able to destroy a natural wonder like this, can kill anything and anyone. If you don´t feel fear by cutting a tree like this, somethig is wrong with you. And the shame is, that some people will never recognize this horrible fact. Everything you say, was said about the tiger. Was said about the Lion. Was said about the rhino. Was said about the whales. Was said about.........................!!!
12 34 REALLY? Have you been to the redwoods in far northern Cali? The environment is fine for them, they're growing like weeds. I think maybe you should go look for yourself before you take someone else's word for it.
+12 34 Coming from some one who lives in a wood built house, and wipes his Ass with tolit paper.
Wow
I learned to hug trees...in forestry school...to see which way they wanted to fall.
I also learned to thank God and the tree.
"I also learned to thank God and the tree." Thank nature, no "god" required, needed nor wanted!
Leslie Morrison Why do you rage against God? Perhaps your conscience is pricking you?
Leslie Morrison That's the dumbest comment I have read in a while.
Randolph Leslie Smith
You should get out more often, out of the basement at the very least.
Leslie Morrison Your infantile response only results in you looking foolish. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs, even you. Allow others the respect you would hope to have.
Amazing skill of those men.
Simply awesome.
Stihl 461 saving the planet one tree at a time
I STIHL prefer an 044....
I prefer an 090
i perfer trucks over cers
im a lumberjack in scandinavia and we dont have trees that size at all :D that chainsaw is massive! would love to try it
Yessir, it was a glorious day.
@@TarzanThomas e÷CE
Alot of ignorant comments on here. Nice video man, im an arborist out here in maine and i would love to get a chance to climb a red wood haha. Sucks seeing old growth trees have to be taken down, but its better to get a second life out of it than to let it rot. We lost our biggest elm out here to dutch elm disease and it had to come down, but they used it for timber, furniture and so on so it still lives on. If only people who hate arborists actually realized how much we all care about trees and the beauty and materials they provide for us.
Thanks