That was very well done. I appreciate your perspective and knowledge of the affects of clear cutting. There's something special about those big old trees.
Thank you Reg for articulating your thoughts on the bridge. I think the same way , therefore I have the same fear of bridges and cliffs. Not a fear of heights and no thoughts of suicide just a fear of nothing to stop my mind from saying Let’s jump !! Anyway I hope neither one of us ever goes through with it. Take care Reg Coates, thank you for thoughts, time and videos.
Great big tree adventure Reg, so your walking in the middle of no where and boom, someone walks right out of the bush in front of you ha ha, lucky he was friendly or the machete was coming out 😝
It's amazing reg ,I went to the red creek fir in 81 and you could drive a 4x4 up to the tree .20 year later and the area is full trees you could hardly recognize , they grow fast . Great video reg .
Thank you so much for posting this video and taking the time to go out and see some of the things other people would not get the chance to under individual circumstances. Being a sole provider in living in a house of 6 that puts me on a check to check basis so I don't see me having the opportunity to head out to the West Coast as I live on the East Coast but you Buckin Billy Ray and August taking your personal time to show us these beautiful grand trees that I would not be able to see otherwise I am truly grateful and thank you.
Just awesome.........I'm cutting two lot's of Douglas Fir on Dartmoor in Devon. One lot around 60 yrs old, the other around 80, 120 + feet ish. They seem big compared to other trees we work on but this...........mind blowing. I would love to be there and see it.....already looking at the flights to Vancouver for next year.
Stunning video and scenery! If you don’t feel comfortable on the edge of a bridge never go up in a hot air balloon! Always wanted to and went up for my 50th in North Yorkshire, alright a couple of hundred metres but at about 1500m got those same feeling you described and was glad to get back down.
I agree, more should certainly be done to enforce replanting once areas have been harvested. I thing logging companies shouldn't be aloud to harvest wood unless as part of their contract they replant afterwards Thanks again for the video Reg.
Thank u for sharing this glorious fir i live on the Oregon coast and I love going out in the old growth stands and look for the largest tree standing and in doing so I come across the ancient old growth stumps that have spring board notches
You're a fascinating human being Reg, and I'm thankful for people like you in the world. I really like the music editing you do in this one. I think your compulsion, which many of us share, is the need to conquer fear. Thanks for sharing!
Reg this was incredible! Thank you for taking us along! Logging practices are troubling. In Maine we are only allowed a max 25 acre clear cut. Most foresters are recommending patch cuts of under 5 acres. I did notice patch cuts that looked larger than 5 acres on national forests in the white mountains of New Hampshire. I cannot stress how much i enjoyed this, thank you and be well
Oh yeah and wood prices haven't gone up significantly in Maine since the 60's, it would help if people that want trees and good logging would pay more for the commodities we take from the forest. ;-)
Love the drone work Reg. Thanks for you're time and effort to take all of us along. Ha and I thought I was the only one who had these fears while doing work we know is hazardous. I have been taught that when you lose the fear thats when something bad usually happens. I was referring to the thoughts you had on the bridge. Ahhhh freedom.
A sensational journey you've shared with us Reg, truly some beautiful, and also heartbreaking sites. The clear cut is a clear cut example of the Cree Indian Proverb: “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money”
I was having a good laugh about what you were saying while standing on the bridge. I always think I'm going to launch off tall things as well, I always think "well I'm on my own 2 feet here, no one to push me" but yet I feel as if I'm just going to take a leap. Great video Reg. Thanks👍🍻
Wow The moment I was typing out springboard notches is win the part of your video popped up with the springboard notches I got a big kick out of that have a wonderful day climbing and I will be doing the same
Nice one Reg! Thanks for posting. I had a day to kill there about a month ago before the west coast trail, drove around and did the same thing. Great to see a drone view of the fir too, spent a long time craning my neck trying to see the top. It's a shameful drive through those cutblocks, as you noted, even if they are replanted you will never - ever - see trees grow to that age and size again on our coast. Cheers.
Great video, Reg...your adopted homeland is truly a beautiful place, all the more so when people are so scarce! Too funny that a guy who hangs onto the tallest trees by a scare-strap for a living, won't go to the edge of a bridge! :) Years ago I was at Black Canyon, Colorado, lying on a rock where you could spit for 2000 ft, when a friend said the same thing...'I just want to jump'...I don't relate to that feeling!
Great video ,I seen a place in Australia like that clear cut area erosion problems,the tree size gives u a freeing like the bridge ,height ,distance,there is a pulling power like in an airplane 👀 down ,hard to describe feeling,red woods in California big too, if u get a chance to see them love your tree cutting videos also,climb safe peace
LOL! You know how we think Reg. I read the description and my first thought was, “is it coming down?” You addressed that with your first sentence. Amazing tree and great video! Hope I can see those whoppers in person someday.
Awesome, Reg. I'm sharing it on my FB page and on at least two FB groups dedicated to big trees of the world. I've just visited the largest fir in the Wa. Cascades. It is 34'7" in girth, and may be 280 feet tall. You recall my truck problems on my trip... well, my transmission just decided it was done, after being run out of fluid right as I got home.... I've already found one, and am picking it up tomorrow, 90 miles away, and getting help doing the R&R....
Gimme a call, maybe use Juliette's FB phone link. The big fir on the Lewis River is awesome... It may rival the Queets and Red Creek in wood volume. Will know for sure when Robert Van Pelt links up with the two brothers who told me about the tree and performs his precision laser calc's. It's far smaller at the ground, but a real stovepipe.... and is surrounded by Western redcedar that approach 8-10 feet dbh and 240-260 feet tall.... there's many many old growth trees in the Lewis River Valley.... and the waterfalls were superb. I need time, but will put the images up on my flickr site, and try to share them on the TreeHouse....Now nI gotta go get greasy and start on the transmission pull....
Reg, I dunno if this will work, it's the Lewis River Fir....scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/35648763_10214545942775066_1928425219093954560_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=f988706e55a5a27f05c716fdd9c6d767&oe=5BAFA183
Very few things upset me like clearcuts. I'm glad you pointed them out. I spent years in the remote areas of Humboldt county where I saw stumps so big I had to wonder just what it was like before the cutting. It's hard to believe how big until you run into a 25 foot diameter stump. If you ever want to get a glimpse of what it was like, there's a place called Montgomery Woods in Mendocino county. It's a patch of uncut redwoods that is so amazing. It's a cathedral of monsters.
Great work here Reg. Time flew by sadly but entertained and informed front to back. I also have the issue of the"edge"...crazy how your brain will have all those thoughts in 2 seconds then kinda snap out of it
Thank you for posting this video Reg. You've got some beautiful land out there. The drone footage approaching the Fir was great! I hope to get out to the west coast in the next couple years to be able to see some of those giant trees. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get up to the B.C. area or not. It really is a shame to see the land clear cut and left bare like you showed it. Too many people really don't care, they just want the money. Thanks again Reg, keep yourself safe. Randy
NHlocal Thanks Randy. You just said what Ive been saying for too long already "Im going to do this and that in the next couple years". Meanwhile the years are flying by and I got nothing done but more jobs. I finally drew a line a few months back .Now "Im going to do this in the next couple weeks"....and I'm sticking to it. Priorities have to changes, because we're a long time dead. Watch the vid i made on Carmanah Walbran, if you like huge trees and rainforest.
Great vid, I could really get behind more of the exploration videos. That feeling you're taking about when you think about jumping is called 'L’appel du Vide' or 'call of the void'. It's more common than you may think.
I do forestry harvesting,hand cutting in scotland,mostly felling sitka spurce and it's total destruction everyday but all sites are always restocked with in two years here thankfully
Absolutely stunning. At the end with the river are those rocks from a landslide or just low water table. I kinda felt like at the end it was supposed to be a vacation commercial
Good to see you. That's quite a battered old tree for sure, not a whole lot of foliage to sustain it is there?. Lot of tracks cut on that mountain range, kind of sad looking. I would imagine there'll be some planting going on throughout that region before too long.... hopefully. From what you're saying there's no plan to replant, that sucks! Thanks for the tour and the video. Say, how deep was the water under that bridge? Deep enough for a jump off? Ton O fun in that case..... Great video!!
It would be fun then, winter, not so much, but then there's the problem of making your way back on the bridge that takes all the fun out of it and from the aerial view it looks like it might be problematic. Thanks for the reply and thanks again for the great video, that was a really cool tour.
That was a very beautiful video I didn't realize that you were so close to the coast thank you for this video I was wondering where did you get your drone?
Such an amazing adventure! Thank you for the experience....it was fascinating😉
+STIHL BORN
Reg Coates has an intensity...a seriousness about him
an iry feel of desolation and the aptitude to fascinate and reach ones core
That was very well done. I appreciate your perspective and knowledge of the affects of clear cutting.
There's something special about those big old trees.
What a different world to where you began in Knutsford 😎 great vid Mr Coates.
Great video such an amazing place . Thanks for sharing
Thank you Reg for articulating your thoughts on the bridge. I think the same way , therefore I have the same fear of bridges and cliffs. Not a fear of heights and no thoughts of suicide just a fear of nothing to stop my mind from saying Let’s jump !! Anyway I hope neither one of us ever goes through with it. Take care Reg Coates, thank you for thoughts, time and videos.
Great big tree adventure Reg, so your walking in the middle of no where and boom, someone walks right out of the bush in front of you ha ha, lucky he was friendly or the machete was coming out 😝
It's amazing reg ,I went to the red creek fir in 81 and you could drive a 4x4 up to the tree .20 year later and the area is full trees you could hardly recognize , they grow fast . Great video reg .
Thank you so much for posting this video and taking the time to go out and see some of the things other people would not get the chance to under individual circumstances. Being a sole provider in living in a house of 6 that puts me on a check to check basis so I don't see me having the opportunity to head out to the West Coast as I live on the East Coast but you Buckin Billy Ray and August taking your personal time to show us these beautiful grand trees that I would not be able to see otherwise I am truly grateful and thank you.
It's a pleasure watching your videos Reg ! Your a cool dude ! Cheers!
Just awesome.........I'm cutting two lot's of Douglas Fir on Dartmoor in Devon. One lot around 60 yrs old, the other around 80, 120 + feet ish. They seem big compared to other trees we work on but this...........mind blowing. I would love to be there and see it.....already looking at the flights to Vancouver for next year.
Stunning video and scenery! If you don’t feel comfortable on the edge of a bridge never go up in a hot air balloon! Always wanted to and went up for my 50th in North Yorkshire, alright a couple of hundred metres but at about 1500m got those same feeling you described and was glad to get back down.
Beautiful country up there, drone footage was amazing.
I agree, more should certainly be done to enforce replanting once areas have been harvested. I thing logging companies shouldn't be aloud to harvest wood unless as part of their contract they replant afterwards
Thanks again for the video Reg.
Reg, thank you for taking the time to share your adventure with those of us who may not make it to see this tree in person. Nature sure is wonderful.
Thanks for taking us along, that is some beautiful country!
Thank u for sharing this glorious fir i live on the Oregon coast and I love going out in the old growth stands and look for the largest tree standing and in doing so I come across the ancient old growth stumps that have spring board notches
The bridge had me laughing out loud. Good one reg. Beautiful country.
Beautiful video I always come away with something to think about.
You're a fascinating human being Reg, and I'm thankful for people like you in the world. I really like the music editing you do in this one. I think your compulsion, which many of us share, is the need to conquer fear. Thanks for sharing!
Reg this was incredible! Thank you for taking us along! Logging practices are troubling. In Maine we are only allowed a max 25 acre clear cut. Most foresters are recommending patch cuts of under 5 acres. I did notice patch cuts that looked larger than 5 acres on national forests in the white mountains of New Hampshire. I cannot stress how much i enjoyed this, thank you and be well
Oh yeah and wood prices haven't gone up significantly in Maine since the 60's, it would help if people that want trees and good logging would pay more for the commodities we take from the forest. ;-)
Wow!! What a amazing tree !! Thanks for sharing it.
Hahaha, “get off the bridge.”
ahahaha I was going to comment the same.
Love the drone work Reg. Thanks for you're time and effort to take all of us along. Ha and I thought I was the only one who had these fears while doing work we know is hazardous. I have been taught that when you lose the fear thats when something bad usually happens. I was referring to the thoughts you had on the bridge. Ahhhh freedom.
Great tour, Reg Coates.
Thanks for bringing us along.
A sensational journey you've shared with us Reg, truly some beautiful, and also heartbreaking sites. The clear cut is a clear cut example of the Cree Indian Proverb: “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money”
Great area awesome trees...nice work with the drone...thanks for sharing this Reg!
I was having a good laugh about what you were saying while standing on the bridge. I always think I'm going to launch off tall things as well, I always think "well I'm on my own 2 feet here, no one to push me" but yet I feel as if I'm just going to take a leap. Great video Reg. Thanks👍🍻
Wow The moment I was typing out springboard notches is win the part of your video popped up with the springboard notches I got a big kick out of that have a wonderful day climbing and I will be doing the same
Beautiful out there. Truly and awesome place that I must see some day.
maybe we make an east coaster trip and a bunch of us head ovah?
Awesome! Reg thank you for taking time to film all that. Much appreciated bud.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video Reg, it was a pleasure to watch and have the opportunity to tag along on your adventure
Nice one Reg! Thanks for posting. I had a day to kill there about a month ago before the west coast trail, drove around and did the same thing. Great to see a drone view of the fir too, spent a long time craning my neck trying to see the top. It's a shameful drive through those cutblocks, as you noted, even if they are replanted you will never - ever - see trees grow to that age and size again on our coast. Cheers.
Fair play man, great range of subject matter and musings. Thoroughly enjoyable!
Such an enjoyable video, I've watched all your posts, this was by far the best, easily my favourite videos to watch
Amazing! BC seems like such a beautiful place to live and work.
Thanks for showin me. That is place is really cool
Thanks for sharing and don't go near any cliffs either!!
Beautiful area, love the drone footage!
Great video, Reg...your adopted homeland is truly a beautiful place, all the more so when people are so scarce! Too funny that a guy who hangs onto the tallest trees by a scare-strap for a living, won't go to the edge of a bridge! :) Years ago I was at Black Canyon, Colorado, lying on a rock where you could spit for 2000 ft, when a friend said the same thing...'I just want to jump'...I don't relate to that feeling!
The best video i've seen on youtube in a long time. Thank you Reg.
Fabulous
Thanks
Cheers from old europe Luxembourg 🇱🇺
What a wonderful video to watch, thank you
Great video ,I seen a place in Australia like that clear cut area erosion problems,the tree size gives u a freeing like the bridge ,height ,distance,there is a pulling power like in an airplane 👀 down ,hard to describe feeling,red woods in California big too, if u get a chance to see them love your tree cutting videos also,climb safe peace
Excellent video Reg!! Thank you for sharing with use. The drone footage was beautiful!!
I love that road.
Amazing footage the drone can get. Thanks for sharing
LOL! You know how we think Reg. I read the description and my first thought was, “is it coming down?” You addressed that with your first sentence. Amazing tree and great video! Hope I can see those whoppers in person someday.
Awesome, Reg. I'm sharing it on my FB page and on at least two FB groups dedicated to big trees of the world. I've just visited the largest fir in the Wa. Cascades. It is 34'7" in girth, and may be 280 feet tall. You recall my truck problems on my trip... well, my transmission just decided it was done, after being run out of fluid right as I got home.... I've already found one, and am picking it up tomorrow, 90 miles away, and getting help doing the R&R....
Roger Barnett Thanks Rog. Carmanah next
Gimme a call, maybe use Juliette's FB phone link. The big fir on the Lewis River is awesome... It may rival the Queets and Red Creek in wood volume. Will know for sure when Robert Van Pelt links up with the two brothers who told me about the tree and performs his precision laser calc's. It's far smaller at the ground, but a real stovepipe.... and is surrounded by Western redcedar that approach 8-10 feet dbh and 240-260 feet tall.... there's many many old growth trees in the Lewis River Valley.... and the waterfalls were superb. I need time, but will put the images up on my flickr site, and try to share them on the TreeHouse....Now nI gotta go get greasy and start on the transmission pull....
Reg, I dunno if this will work, it's the Lewis River Fir....scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/35648763_10214545942775066_1928425219093954560_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=f988706e55a5a27f05c716fdd9c6d767&oe=5BAFA183
Very few things upset me like clearcuts. I'm glad you pointed them out. I spent years in the remote areas of Humboldt county where I saw stumps so big I had to wonder just what it was like before the cutting. It's hard to believe how big until you run into a 25 foot diameter stump. If you ever want to get a glimpse of what it was like, there's a place called Montgomery Woods in Mendocino county. It's a patch of uncut redwoods that is so amazing. It's a cathedral of monsters.
Good stuff Reg.
Nice video Reg. Thanks for sharing your experience on here.
Great work here Reg. Time flew by sadly but entertained and informed front to back. I also have the issue of the"edge"...crazy how your brain will have all those thoughts in 2 seconds then kinda snap out of it
"You must really love money to so this to your own land" Well said, beautiful video
That clear cut is a really brutal one :(
Really nice video Reg, An amazing place for trees.
The world needs you ,Reg. Therefore , do not jump off the bridge…..sound advice , plainly spoken.
Thank you for posting this video Reg.
You've got some beautiful land out there. The drone
footage approaching the Fir was great!
I hope to get out to the west coast in the next couple years
to be able to see some of those giant trees. I'm not sure if I'll
be able to get up to the B.C. area or not.
It really is a shame to see the land clear cut and left bare like
you showed it. Too many people really don't care, they just want
the money.
Thanks again Reg, keep yourself safe.
Randy
NHlocal Thanks Randy. You just said what Ive been saying for too long already "Im going to do this and that in the next couple years". Meanwhile the years are flying by and I got nothing done but more jobs. I finally drew a line a few months back .Now "Im going to do this in the next couple weeks"....and I'm sticking to it. Priorities have to changes, because we're a long time dead. Watch the vid i made on Carmanah Walbran, if you like huge trees and rainforest.
Just watched the other video, fantastic!
And you are right, time/years fly by and are gone.
I will get out there.
Great vid, I could really get behind more of the exploration videos. That feeling you're taking about when you think about jumping is called 'L’appel du Vide' or 'call of the void'. It's more common than you may think.
Thanks for the video
Reg that was a awesome video Beautifull scenery you scared me for a second I thought no don't you jump 👍👍👍
Tree is at 8:44 to 12:26. VERY COOL, thanks for sharing that.
Nice video Reg!
Great video Reg! Thanks
Great vid Reg and I agree with August!!
So much life in one tree...
You’ll never catch me walking across a bridge 😬
Thanks for sharing.
In fact up in Merwin lake there is a nice stand of big giants still standing.
Oh damn, I miss America so much. Spent a few weeks out on the Appalachian Trail and can't wait to go back and do the whole thing.
Outstanding!!!
Trying to look up giant tree tours and realising it doesn't exist anymore was the saddest thing.
You can find them on facebook, Oliver....but the most recent message in June says they have put things on hold due to covid
Reg, with the millions of fir trees on the coast I bet there's one bigger, just hasn't been spotted yet!
Stephen Moore i can believe it. Especially around the creek. Steep, sheer drop canyons in parts. Lots of parts nobodies ever explored.
Worth the trip Reg .Pleased you have got the Drone !
BBR is gonna love this...which I'm sure he's been right there
Thanks for showing us that. Looks like whoever built that bridge had the plans upside down!
I do forestry harvesting,hand cutting in scotland,mostly felling sitka spurce and it's total destruction everyday but all sites are always restocked with in two years here thankfully
Absolutely stunning. At the end with the river are those rocks from a landslide or just low water table. I kinda felt like at the end it was supposed to be a vacation commercial
Beautiful video of an adventure. The clear cuts are a sad thing.
Good to see you. That's quite a battered old tree for sure, not a whole lot of foliage to sustain it is there?. Lot of tracks cut on that mountain range, kind of sad looking. I would imagine there'll be some planting going on throughout that region before too long.... hopefully. From what you're saying there's no plan to replant, that sucks! Thanks for the tour and the video. Say, how deep was the water under that bridge? Deep enough for a jump off? Ton O fun in that case..... Great video!!
It would be fun then, winter, not so much, but then there's the problem of making your way back on the bridge that takes all the fun out of it and from the aerial view it looks like it might be problematic. Thanks for the reply and thanks again for the great video, that was a really cool tour.
Great video Reg.
I bet you have a lot on your mind great video
I wish we had big nice forest like that here in Lousiana.
Great video
Reg, your as fascinating and mysterious as the nature your documenting. Thanks for the amazing footage but please, get off the bridge man. hehe
good show! thanks
That was a very beautiful video I didn't realize that you were so close to the coast thank you for this video I was wondering where did you get your drone?
Morët Molina I got it here in town. Its the DJI Mavic pro
(sincerely) thank you for sharing that.
A look back into history seeing the springboard gaps wow
enjoyed that reg . Nice one
I also feel the same thing at the edge of something high. Its weird EH.... i found out it was a compulsion not fear 2 yrs ago
Nice tree!
How tall would it have been without the missing top . Because its so thick at the top . Maybe extra 50 foot
Think there's a market for selling "Reg" spray to the bears ...
Loggers of the apocalypse, shame it was never replanted 🌲
They all are replanted. You wait till the young trees won't die. Late fall, winter, or early spring
W8stral. Yea, but for these hippies, facts do not matter. Just emotional potsmokers.
Love it.
I agree with August!
Reg your a legend
Reg Coates Vlogs FTW!!!(don't jump Reg)
Thanks for that
a little bit different to the ribble valley Reggie me old mucker ;o)
What is that blade you are carrying?