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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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!
Thanks for the video. I worked for Simpson Timber Co. logging old growth Redwoods back in the late 60's and early 70's mostly along the Klamath River. I never got tired of watching the fallers work their magic. It's a lot harder than it looks.
Tarzan Thomas The biggest I remember was almost 14' dia. on the stump. It wasn't a tall tree though. We had to split and 1/4 any log over about 10' to legally haul on the highway. Most of our skidding was done with Cats and rubber tired arches. Our loader was a 988. A few of the old fallers were Johnny Walker, Tom and Bobby Langford, Don Jackman, and a few others I can't remember off hand. I wish I had taken more photos.
Steve T Ahhh, the good ol' days! I wish I would have taken more time for photos and videos too. I got to experience some awesome things for a young guy.
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 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.
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
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.
These are great stewards of the forest. The wood will not be wasted. It is far too precious. I would like to express my thanks and awe at such skilled workers
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?
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!
This is great! Have been there years ago logging (quartering in the brush large 1-4 cuts with dynamite). Once its in your blood it never leaves, I have been a professional timberman for 40+ years and would not trade the hours of sheer boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror for anything in the world, let alone the camaraderie!
@@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
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.
Back in @ 1970 I was in forestry school in Lassen county CA and we went on a tour up through the redwoods and saw a logging operation and got to witness a falling redwood. It was about ten in diameter. They had made a bed to fell it on. Awesome experience.
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.
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
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.
There are few of us with the skills and tooling to get one of these big,dangerous beasties laid to rest without damaging the wood within.This one was an a-typical,could been a shitty day but you sir set that down with hardly an internal crack and I respect you and your crew for your talents.
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.
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.
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.
This is coming from someone who just used to help clean up when my dad fell a tree, but when you guys kept crawling completely into the notch it made me wince.
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.
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.
+Panicked Manic Thanks pard. Keep it up, and you will be a seasoned vet before you know it. Just remember...this is a job where you never stop learning.
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.
+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.
sad that the top broke, i was in the redwood forest when a giant broke and ill never forget the sound. at least theres a ton of beautiful lumber. Also dont be sad so long as the stump wasnt killed baseless sprouts will pop up all over and grow incredibly strong.
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.
My God that is awesome. I work in construction and some of the things I do I think I am nuts for even trying it. But it is all about the experience I have. And the same goes in your work. Good job. May you and your family have a blessed day
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
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.
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.
Aaruni Gupta exactly right, the animal that doesnt have the ability to realize or even think clearly and understand its surroundings doesnt deserve as much as the human that has awareness and can experience complex emotions and existential things. I'm proud of you for using that noggin of yours!
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.
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!
That was an interesting and we'll carried out felling and at the least the trunk was salvaged rather than just left to rot! I'm an English arborist who hates seeing waste and recycling is one of my top priorities! Most of the time I have to work with young trees that have grown in the wrong place but occasionally I can save magnificent trees! If they can live on in some beautiful way, then it's not such a great loss!
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.
Although I carve wood, love wood and all the wonderful things that can be made from it my heart goes out to such trees they have been around for a very long time and, although they have a story hidden in them if they could speak I wonder what they would say in their defense to being cut down; I have a right to live, go on in life..
@@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.
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!!
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.
Reality is best seen at minute 6:10 . Notice the significant rot and internal cracking? It causes the dying tree to be a hazard in several ways. Cutting it down allowed some salvaging while reducing risk.
What are you talking about. When would a rotting tree in a forest affect humans. Stupid we invaded the forest and now cut that beautiful tree which might have lived for another 1000 years. No wonder cutting of these trees is banned now.
Good for you for cutting down trees. Cutting them down lets new growth take hold and the cycle continues. Only if we didn't replant that would be the problem.
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.
+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.
Quality work. Living in the Sierra next to a closed mill I understand logs too well. The art in falling that tree clean is hard for the majority to understand. As a woodworker I would love that heartwood.
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.
in the 1970's ,the construction company i worked for ( new tract homes) we used all redwood studs ...treated wood for the bottom plate and Douglas fir for the top plates -joist- trusses
I miss hearing the yarder whistles echoing through the hills. Nice video. I wish there were cameras and UA-cam when my dad and grandfather were cutting these down. There's a treasure trove on Monument. My grandfather and the guys he was working with took cats and buried the burls, including root burls. They never retrieved them and nobody knows where they are anymore. Hundreds of them.
amazing job! wow, thats a tree my friend. i wish you would have recorded the flight out of the woods as well. that in its self would be another feat to witness.
Thanks. Yes, I realize now that it would have been cool to video the helicopter flying these massive logs out...just didn't take the time to film it, as in those days I thought I was wasting time by filming and taking pictures :( Anyhow, if you did some research online you might be able to find something. I was working in that area from 99-2002, and at one point the television show "monster machines" showed up and were filming the chinook flying out big redwood logs that we cut on a job there, although I don't know if the show was ever aired? In the meantime, here is a link of the company that I worked for, flying logs with a Chinook .ua-cam.com/video/HdgMcbNwZ3o/v-deo.html&google_comment_id=z12zcpsxqvbqgvv0p23ywjcq0y2jdfs0f&google_view_type#gpluscomments
cutting red's isn't forest management. cutting them is the only thing that kills them. harvesting some of them is one thing. thinking this is part of management is retarded.
Watch what you’re saying asshole, you are the toothless lunatic that just cut down a 1000 year old treasure that God planted on this earth. It took 1000 years to grow, and you”loggers” destroyed it in 30 minutes !!!
My dad was always the great craftsmanship dropping these trees way he did it is with blasting caps and a special cable to pull in one direction. They use special blasting caps that didn't do a lot of damage just enough to separate the trunk from the root so nothing didn't go to waste.
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
I love the woods and spent much of my life in them, both US and Canada. Yet making sure people have houses and furniture is an "honorable" profession. Timber is both a natural and renewable resource. The fires that have destroyed much of the forests in CA are NOT the result of climate change, but BAD forestry practices: "Don't cut trees." Fires used to burn huge swaths in primitive times allowing new growth to occur which creates better habitat for nearly all species (which mostly do poorly in old growth). Safe and healthy forests require logging from time to time, at least selectively so. I wish people were as concerned about the unborn murdered in this country as they are a single damaged redwood on private property.
So if the guy had 5,000 acres of old growth redwoods (because he inherited it from relatives who stole it from the Indians) then he should be able to clearcut the whole 5,000 for profit huh? Destroying the watershed in the meantime. I see, as long as someone is making a profit all is well. You are a typical selfish, non caring asshole. Now go enjoy your tax refund slumlord.
"Cidiots" have learned well the maxim that "95% of all statistics are made up at the moment." If you put on a backpack and hike up the coast range from the Santa Cruz mountains to the Oregon border you will walk though vast groves of redwoods covering hundreds of square miles. Like all good Communists, they don't believe in private property ownership, UNLESS it's THEIR property! Some brain-dead snowflake wants to compare statements about "selective logging" with "clearcutting," to whine about the effect of one tree on private property "destroying the watershed." People who believe everything they see on CNN, who couldn't tell the difference between a lodgepole and a telephone pole, are screaming: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Don't worry "Greta," it's not. 🤣
@@Apollyon-er4ut Thanks for the response. Tell that to the almost extinct salmon and steelhead populations in those areas. It is a common fact that man will destroy his own backyard.....for the love of money! Greed. How much is enough?
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.
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?
You know you're in big timber when a Stihl 066 is the smaller of the two saws. You said the 088 had a 60" bar what were you running on the 066 a 32"? .404 on both saws?
Yessir, that was some big wood we were in....I would love to go back and do it again. That 066 was my cuttin pards saw. I think he was running a 36" bar, and not sure about the pitch. The 088 was mine and the 60" bar belonged to the company, and was .404.
Thanks, what the typical viewer doesn't see is all those suckers,(redwood regrowth) that were growing around the big one which tells you it was dying anyway. Also most people can't comprehend or appreciate how much work it is to log timber like that. I imagine that an 084 or 088 is a pig with a bar that long. The biggest saw I've ever run is a Husky 2100cd. With a 36"-42" bar that's heavy enough for me. I have heard of fallers that ran 50" bars on them too. I think most fallers preferred the 2100/2101 in old growth inland fir and the 084/088 in old growth redwood. Thanks for posting.
Don't know about now but choppers used to run 404 skip tooth chisel it chain...it's what I used on my 050 I bought used fallers saw. Now I use 3/8 and 24 in bar max for firewood. I never allow sawdust and hate chain brakes. Btw ..first saw I ever ran was a 430a Mac weighed 40 lbs...just newer than a drag saw.
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.
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!!
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 .
It doesn't state the tree was dead. It just says it was missing it's top. It is on private property. If they saw fit to cut it down, it is their right. It would be awesome to have had someone count the rings.
+Amy Shawcroft The tree was not dead, until we killed it. You are right...it would have been awesome to get a ring count :) Google says, average age of old growth coastal redwood is 4-600 years. Thanks for your intelligent comment :)
sometimes an old tree's just gotta go, still seems sad, the thing has been around for who knows how long, maybe before Europeans set foot here, but I'll bet they got some nice wood out of it! I guess I'm somewhat ambivalent about these things.
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.
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.
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
Thanks for the video. I worked for Simpson Timber Co. logging old growth Redwoods back in the late 60's and early 70's mostly along the Klamath River. I never got tired of watching the fallers work their magic. It's a lot harder than it looks.
You bet. You probably got to see a lot bigger trees than this tozed over if you were there in the 60's and 70's then I'm sure.
Tarzan Thomas The biggest I remember was almost 14' dia. on the stump. It wasn't a tall tree though. We had to split and 1/4 any log over about 10' to legally haul on the highway. Most of our skidding was done with Cats and rubber tired arches. Our loader was a 988. A few of the old fallers were Johnny Walker, Tom and Bobby Langford, Don Jackman, and a few others I can't remember off hand. I wish I had taken more photos.
Steve T Ahhh, the good ol' days! I wish I would have taken more time for photos and videos too. I got to experience some awesome things for a young guy.
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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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.
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.
These are great stewards of the forest. The wood will not be wasted. It is far too precious. I would like to express my thanks and awe at such skilled workers
+zroverz Thanks!
Very grateful we can use the wood and replant instead of loosing it to fire or rot. Excellent management of our resources
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?
Great job and a very neat drop on such a massive tree 👍🏻
Thanks
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!
This is great! Have been there years ago logging (quartering in the brush large 1-4 cuts with dynamite). Once its in your blood it never leaves, I have been a professional timberman for 40+ years and would not trade the hours of sheer boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror for anything in the world, let alone the camaraderie!
Thanks pard.
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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✊👊🤘🤦♂️😀🤣🤣
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!
Back in @ 1970 I was in forestry school in Lassen county CA and we went on a tour up through the redwoods and saw a logging operation and got to witness a falling redwood. It was about ten in diameter. They had made a bed to fell it on. Awesome experience.
+Steven Massey I agree. I will never forget it, and would love to go back in time and do it again.
Thanks for posting this. such a grand tree needs to be celebrated for its long life.
+Jeff S You bet!
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'd said wanna see it again !!!! ?
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
There are few of us with the skills and tooling to get one of these big,dangerous beasties laid to rest without damaging the wood within.This one was an a-typical,could been a shitty day but you sir set that down with hardly an internal crack and I respect you and your crew for your talents.
+Dean Lorman
Thanks
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.
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.
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.
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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.
This is coming from someone who just used to help clean up when my dad fell a tree, but when you guys kept crawling completely into the notch it made me wince.
Michael Block Yeah, this seems to be very misunderstood on this video. I assure you, we were in no danger.
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.
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
Great video
Greetings from Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
Howdy pardner
REALLY awsome video. I'm a young sawyer n find it fascinating n educational to watch u seasoned vets knock down the big wood.
+Panicked Manic Thanks pard. Keep it up, and you will be a seasoned vet before you know it. Just remember...this is a job where you never stop learning.
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.
sad that the top broke, i was in the redwood forest when a giant broke and ill never forget the sound. at least theres a ton of beautiful lumber. Also dont be sad so long as the stump wasnt killed baseless sprouts will pop up all over and grow incredibly strong.
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.
My God that is awesome. I work in construction and some of the things I do I think I am nuts for even trying it. But it is all about the experience I have. And the same goes in your work. Good job. May you and your family have a blessed day
+TheSKINNMAN Thanks!
I have trouble limbing a 60 pine on the ground! Remarkable feat, guys.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Nicely done, fellas. You are clearly pros. I'm sure the wood was put to good use.
Thanks pardner.
Aaruni Gupta exactly right, the animal that doesnt have the ability to realize or even think clearly and understand its surroundings doesnt deserve as much as the human that has awareness and can experience complex emotions and existential things. I'm proud of you for using that noggin of yours!
Bryce Danke what's the matter? Gotta use insults because you arent right? LMAO
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.
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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.
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!
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
Great video. My father was one of the men in the video. Wish I would have been there to help
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That was an interesting and we'll carried out felling and at the least the trunk was salvaged rather than just left to rot! I'm an English arborist who hates seeing waste and recycling is one of my top priorities! Most of the time I have to work with young trees that have grown in the wrong place but occasionally I can save magnificent trees! If they can live on in some beautiful way, then it's not such a great loss!
I don't like waste either. Now that I am a tree climber, I can save em or kill em, depending on the tree and what the client wants :)
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.
I'm not a tree huger, but dam guys, so many years of growing and so little time to take it down !!
Although I carve wood, love wood and all the wonderful things that can be made from it my heart goes out to such trees they have been around for a very long time and, although they have a story hidden in them if they could speak I wonder what they would say in their defense to being cut down; I have a right to live, go on in life..
This was on private property and I'm pretty sure those trees are protected for the most part. Awesome video.
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.
What a rare right of passage to climb into the cut of the fall...
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!!
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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.
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Back in the day...
👍 Awesome work fellas! Didn't think that one fella was ever gonna get dirty! 😂
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.
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
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.
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Reality is best seen at minute 6:10 . Notice the significant rot and internal cracking? It causes the dying tree to be a hazard in several ways. Cutting it down allowed some salvaging while reducing risk.
What are you talking about. When would a rotting tree in a forest affect humans. Stupid we invaded the forest and now cut that beautiful tree which might have lived for another 1000 years. No wonder cutting of these trees is banned now.
Good for you for cutting down trees. Cutting them down lets new growth take hold and the cycle continues. Only if we didn't replant that would be the problem.
We didn't exactly get to see the 'missing' top half of the tree
Good job! A once-in-a-lifetime falling. 37,000BF and the top was off already. Amazing.
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?
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.
That guy crawling in that tree just made me cringe... what the?
That sounds fascinating! Old-growth redwoods are impressive to see being worked on.
If it was on private property did the owner get any compensation from the lumber? I'm sure that size of a tree would bring a nice price!
+Thomas Marks It was owned by the pacific lumber company :)
+Tarzan Thomas ok gotcha! wish I could have been there to smell the fresh cut!
+Thomas Marks Never really smelled too pungent for me, but it was a glorious day for sure!
+Tarzan Thomas I'm sure it was a nice place too! Would love to camp out in a place like that
5:40 - tree falls. 6:02 - "Hey, anybody see Dave anywhere?"
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3:50 Good Lord, why would they crawl in there like that?
Very interesting to watch. As described this tree was not complete anymore so I agree that it might as well be harvested. Nice cut
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
1000 years to grow, 6 hours to destroy. That’s progress!
*I know right!!* now there Redwoods decreasing in population every year!! 😭😭
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
Quality work. Living in the Sierra next to a closed mill I understand logs too well. The art in falling that tree clean is hard for the majority to understand. As a woodworker I would love that heartwood.
Thanks.
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
Yeah wonderfull tree that will never be the same size again. The roots are never even taken out of the ground. Now All of them Are Babies.
If you take like 3 seconds to read the description it clearly says it was missing the top of it so the tree was already not its full size.
I'm LMAO at the 4:7 ratio of haters. Some people have no concept of reality.
Amazing feat of engineering to take that down. Nice work!
Many thanks pardner.
in the 1970's ,the construction company i worked for ( new tract homes) we used all redwood studs ...treated wood for the bottom plate and Douglas fir for the top plates -joist- trusses
It is awesome wood.
I've never seen such a beautiful product of mother nature, the length, the strength, and the damn teeth on those chainswords
That is some of the best wood I've ever worked with.
I'll bet. It is awesome wood for sure.
And when it's all gone there will never be anything like it.
Let that sink in a minute.
Good job men, but the guy at 3:48 is absolutely crazy.
I miss hearing the yarder whistles echoing through the hills. Nice video. I wish there were cameras and UA-cam when my dad and grandfather were cutting these down. There's a treasure trove on Monument. My grandfather and the guys he was working with took cats and buried the burls, including root burls. They never retrieved them and nobody knows where they are anymore. Hundreds of them.
+Darrell Foust Thanks:)
Those men knew the Redwoods were a limited treasure, and they also knew they were destroying our unreplaceable legacy!
excellent work guys
Thanks
I want a redwood table
Me too
amazing job! wow, thats a tree my friend. i wish you would have recorded the flight out of the woods as well. that in its self would be another feat to witness.
Thanks. Yes, I realize now that it would have been cool to video the helicopter flying these massive logs out...just didn't take the time to film it, as in those days I thought I was wasting time by filming and taking pictures :( Anyhow, if you did some research online you might be able to find something. I was working in that area from 99-2002, and at one point the television show "monster machines" showed up and were filming the chinook flying out big redwood logs that we cut on a job there, although I don't know if the show was ever aired? In the meantime, here is a link of the company that I worked for, flying logs with a Chinook .ua-cam.com/video/HdgMcbNwZ3o/v-deo.html&google_comment_id=z12zcpsxqvbqgvv0p23ywjcq0y2jdfs0f&google_view_type#gpluscomments
good stuff, the only thing sweeter than protecting our forests with proper management is the tears of the seething weirdos that hate this
cutting red's isn't forest management. cutting them is the only thing that kills them. harvesting some of them is one thing. thinking this is part of management is retarded.
Watch what you’re saying asshole, you are the toothless lunatic that just cut down a 1000 year old treasure that God planted on this earth. It took 1000 years to grow, and you”loggers” destroyed it in 30 minutes !!!
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My dad was always the great craftsmanship dropping these trees way he did it is with blasting caps and a special cable to pull in one direction. They use special blasting caps that didn't do a lot of damage just enough to separate the trunk from the root so nothing didn't go to waste.
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
I love the woods and spent much of my life in them, both US and Canada. Yet making sure people have houses and furniture is an "honorable" profession. Timber is both a natural and renewable resource. The fires that have destroyed much of the forests in CA are NOT the result of climate change, but BAD forestry practices: "Don't cut trees." Fires used to burn huge swaths in primitive times allowing new growth to occur which creates better habitat for nearly all species (which mostly do poorly in old growth). Safe and healthy forests require logging from time to time, at least selectively so. I wish people were as concerned about the unborn murdered in this country as they are a single damaged redwood on private property.
So if the guy had 5,000 acres of old growth redwoods (because he inherited it from relatives who stole it from the Indians) then he should be able to clearcut the whole 5,000 for profit huh? Destroying the watershed in the meantime. I see, as long as someone is making a profit all is well. You are a typical selfish, non caring asshole. Now go enjoy your tax refund slumlord.
@Jesus Christ What strawman STONER? Learn how to punctuate, and write, a simple sentence. Geez already!
"Cidiots" have learned well the maxim that "95% of all statistics are made up at the moment." If you put on a backpack and hike up the coast range from the Santa Cruz mountains to the Oregon border you will walk though vast groves of redwoods covering hundreds of square miles. Like all good Communists, they don't believe in private property ownership, UNLESS it's THEIR property! Some brain-dead snowflake wants to compare statements about "selective logging" with "clearcutting," to whine about the effect of one tree on private property "destroying the watershed." People who believe everything they see on CNN, who couldn't tell the difference between a lodgepole and a telephone pole, are screaming: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Don't worry "Greta," it's not. 🤣
@@Apollyon-er4ut Thanks for the response. Tell that to the almost extinct salmon and steelhead populations in those areas. It is a common fact that man will destroy his own backyard.....for the love of money! Greed. How much is enough?
Much of our fucking forests in norcal are coastal redwoods which are endangered
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
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?
It is shameful to destroy such beauty. I logged in Middle Tn. I am still shamed of myself. I am do sorry I did it. The big beautiful trees are gone.
I feel you
....... you know..... theres a thing called the video description maybe you should read it sometime......
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.
These trees are really something!
Awesome man. Felled a few Biggie's using a 48" bar, but nothing like as big as that. Would love to have been part of this job. Nice work :-)
+Ian Stevenson Thanks.
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.
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.
Such a beautiful sequoia, I am glad he will sprout 🌱 again 😍 🙏
Coastal redwood, not sequoia
Holy smokes, that is just too cool! I'd like to have just one of the small blocks cut out to turn a bowl with. Great vid.
+John Conklin Thanks
You know you're in big timber when a Stihl 066 is the smaller of the two saws. You said the 088 had a 60" bar what were you running on the 066 a 32"? .404 on both saws?
Yessir, that was some big wood we were in....I would love to go back and do it again. That 066 was my cuttin pards saw. I think he was running a 36" bar, and not sure about the pitch. The 088 was mine and the 60" bar belonged to the company, and was .404.
Thanks, what the typical viewer doesn't see is all those suckers,(redwood regrowth) that were growing around the big one which tells you it was dying anyway. Also most people can't comprehend or appreciate how much work it is to log timber like that. I imagine that an 084 or 088 is a pig with a bar that long. The biggest saw I've ever run is a Husky 2100cd. With a 36"-42" bar that's heavy enough for me. I have heard of fallers that ran 50" bars on them too. I think most fallers preferred the 2100/2101 in old growth inland fir and the 084/088 in old growth redwood. Thanks for posting.
Don't know about now but choppers used to run 404 skip tooth chisel it chain...it's what I used on my 050 I bought used fallers saw.
Now I use 3/8 and 24 in bar max for firewood.
I never allow sawdust and hate chain brakes.
Btw ..first saw I ever ran was a 430a Mac weighed 40 lbs...just newer than a drag saw.
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,
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 .
It doesn't state the tree was dead. It just says it was missing it's top. It is on private property. If they saw fit to cut it down, it is their right. It would be awesome to have had someone count the rings.
+Amy Shawcroft The tree was not dead, until we killed it. You are right...it would have been awesome to get a ring count :) Google says, average age of old growth coastal redwood is 4-600 years. Thanks for your intelligent comment :)
Thanks for posting this. Sorry so many haters didn't read the description. IDK why people are so nasty on logging videos.
Thanks pard. Haters are gonna hate.
sometimes an old tree's just gotta go, still seems sad, the thing has been around for who knows how long, maybe before Europeans set foot here, but I'll bet they got some nice wood out of it!
I guess I'm somewhat ambivalent about these things.
Because they have neved had to live in a cave.