YouTube on logging ancient redwoods in the 1940s
It talks up about the quality of (old growth) redwood, but the lumber from the younger trees isn't so great. It hurt to watch some of this, but a different time. The east coast and upper midwest had their giants, but no cameras to record their demise.
My yard has a couple giant stumps from these giants. You can still see where they put in the wedges for the platforms to cut them at about the 8 foot mark.
It talks up about the quality of (old growth) redwood, but the lumber from the younger trees isn't so great. It hurt to watch some of this, but a different time. The east coast and upper midwest had their giants, but no cameras to record their demise.
My yard has a couple giant stumps from these giants. You can still see where they put in the wedges for the platforms to cut them at about the 8 foot mark.