Ever see something this size taken down?

That's a lotta wood. I like the truck/camper. Pretty cool.

I can't even imagine the effort it took to bring them down and load them out of there with the equipment they had!

woodchip said:

Has anyone ever seen a tree this size taken down:

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I love the big cross cut saw, I wouldn't even like to try lifting the chainsaw needed for that one ;-)

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Those are some HUGE trees.


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Hope they got paid by the board feet & no by the tree.

Actually those are some of the 1st photo-shop pictures ever. :lol:

I recognize those photos from a series of 5 books historian Ralph Andrews released about the early days of logging the PNW & Northern California from 1954 to 1958.Hundreds of pics from the 1870's to the early 1930's. All are still in print today.I think only paperback is available now though.

Forget the challenge getting them down. How'd you like to buck one of them? Then you weren't gonna skid them with a couple of mules.

When one really stops to contemplate what effort that had to take, it is awe inspiring. For anyone who has done any logging, it truly is mind boggling.

Incredible pictures.I bet the branches were larger than anything I have ever cut down.Reminds me of a show I saw on a pbs channel where an old preacher in the logging areas of the adirondacks had home made movies of logging operations.

and no whimpy vertical splitters then, I am sure they put them logs up on the horizontal splitters :cheese: Now they may have cheated and rolled them off the train cars right on to the splitter.... (' bert ducks as Dennis reaches for his keyboard)

ive seen these pictures in a few places. These guys were real men. absolutely amazing. i cant even imagine how strong these guys were as well.

If you've never been to California to see the sequoias, it is a must do. They brought tears to my eyes, they were so majestic. Thank goodness we didn't chop them all down! I love cutting wood, but I could never even peel some bark off of a sequoia.

WoW :bug:

Theres enough heat there for a lifetime + awesome, just awesome

Jeff

aansorge said:

If you've never been to California to see the sequoias, it is a must do. They brought tears to my eyes, they were so majestic. Thank goodness we didn't chop them all down! I love cutting wood, but I could never even peel some bark off of a sequoia.

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I guess we got lucky with sequoias. I was reading a while back that they're basically useless as far as lumber goes. When they fall to the ground they just break apart and shatter. If they were more useful, I'm sure they'd all be gone.

I'm wondering how long it would take just to sharpen all the teeth on one of those huge cross-cut saws. You'd wanna keep them razor sharp too, going through something that big.

Ever see something this size taken down?

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When I was 19 years old I worked for a while on Northern Vancouver island cutting cedar shake blocks from dead old growth cedar trees. Most of them were laying down and covered in moss, but they dropped a few old dead trees. Some of them were about 14 ft across and the base and hollow, you could walk inside. Mind you they were very tapered towards the top and flared wide at the bottom like in the picture below. Still they were huge, some of them actually bigger than the one in this picture.
Because of the odd shaped trunks on the standing snags, not to mention the chance of dead branches falling (widow makers), nobody wanted to tackle falling them with a chain saw. The solution,,,, DYNAMITE!
The trees were always way up the mountain some place where there were no roads, only accesable by walking or helicopter. We would walk in and proccess the trees right there and stack the shake blocks into stacks just big enough for pre-measured rope slings to fit around. Every couple of weeks or so a helicopter with a hook would come in and we would hook our slings onto his hook and he would pick them up and drop them in a pile by the side of the nearest road where we would load them into a semitrailer and they would head off to the shake mill.
I loved that job.

Hass said:

aansorge said:

If you've never been to California to see the sequoias, it is a must do. They brought tears to my eyes, they were so majestic. Thank goodness we didn't chop them all down! I love cutting wood, but I could never even peel some bark off of a sequoia.

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I guess we got lucky with sequoias. I was reading a while back that they're basically useless as far as lumber goes. When they fall to the ground they just break apart and shatter. If they were more useful, I'm sure they'd all be gone.

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Yup. Closely related,but much more brittle compared to California Redwood.

Thanks for sharing some really inspiring photos!

Would have loved to be there when that monster started to make cracking sounds as the saw cut opened.

Don't think they were worried about that one hanging up.