very large tree

[blaze83]

Hi every one,

came across this video in youtube..It is pretty amazing the size of this tree. notice the humbolt face cut and the acuracy of the back cut even on the size of the tree.

looks like western red ceder or redwood.....they may have said on the video, the sound card is out on my computer so I couldn't hear anything :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_UqhcByRdY

[Greenedive]

Awesome!!! Wish they'd told the dimensions of the tree.

Thanks Blaze!!!

[scsmith42]

Looks to be about 11' in diameter at the point where he is making the cut.  Pretty impressive.

[beenthere]

Good video.
Also another, which is not as big, but dead. And they used a jack in the back cut to lift.

utube falling dead tree using jack

[Jeff]

Sure gest you to admire the job that they did back in the ax and saw days.

I was "free" thinking, which I do from time to time and wondering if way,way back when, one of them old Californey timber fellers ever had the falling of one of them big old girls coincide with the beginning of an earthquake and think they caused it.

[Tom]

Being an amateur, I've had trees fall 180°.  Not many, but I'd be liein' if I said I hadn't.

I wonder if any of those loggers ever lost one of those big ones backwards?

Talk about being chagrinned!

[Ianab]

Knowing what a 4 or 5 ft tree sounds and feels like when it goes over... that one would have been IMPRESSIVE. The little screen and headphones just doesn't do it justice. 

Ian

[Steve]

The last tree I fell of any consequence went like this.
The top just reached out and caught the power lines along the road rightaway.
As the tree turned on the stump it caught my saw and the butt drove it into the ground.

Cost me about 1,000 for the power company bill and another 400 for the saw. The whole thing too about 3 minutes.

Cured me for good.

S

[wesdor]

Thanks Blaze that is awesome.  
I had the opportunity of working with a professional sawyer from Oregon last summer.  Craig had been at the job for more than 30 years and was quite a pro.  He climbed a fir tree, cut a notch for the board, stood there and cut off the top.  Then he dropped the huge tree into a space with an absolute accuracy.  It had to be since it was between two buildings.

I can only admire guys like in your video.

[Ianab]

I wonder if any of those loggers ever lost one of those big ones backwards?

Loosing one of those things is probably something that you would only do once 

Ian

[turningfool]

thats one gorgeous redwood..could turn some monster bowls outta that beast

[Kevin]

It looks like he may have dropped it over something, a rise in the ground or a stump.
It appears to have broke which is common for those trees, they would normally build layouts for trees like that to prevent the tree from splitting.
They sure are rough with their saws.



Nice to see the mechanics of the humboldt at work.

[beenthere]

kevin
I thought that too, seeing the tree drape over a pile of debris and appear to break. If it didn't break, surely there were some bad fractures in the wood, probably on the compression side. Years ago when I watched loggers fall big redwoods, there was a lot of preparation to making a bed for the tree to fall onto, that was flat as possible to avoid breaking the wood.
I thought once that I saw the chain saw push back outta the cut, but the faller was ready for it, and it didn't push him off his perch.

Now, how'd you extract that pic from the video?   ???

[Kevin]

Go to the large screen view then you can pause it and print screen.
That second tree really jumps off the stump, he may have dutched across the face to have it jump like that but I couldn't really tell if he was cleaning out the notch or dutching the face.

[Greenedive]

They sure are rough with their saws.

They are using Huskys...those saws sure can take a lot of abuse...I ran Huskys for years (2100s and then 394/395s) Running a Stihl 660 now and it's a cutting fool (once it was amped up ;D ), but I've gotta say....you have to baby it a lot more than the Huskys.

[rebocardo]

On that redwood, is that a hydraulic jack they used to tip it, towards the middle of the stump?

[Kevin]

I would hope it was hydraulic with a pressure gauge.

[crtreedude]

I know down here on really large trees that it is hard to drop them without breaking them into pieces. I am told that you have to leave the canopy on it to slow it down and the impact. Still doesn't work all the time.