Looks like they had less than two feet of throw on that 18 foot blade, at mid-cut. Chip clearing performance must have been poor, making this job even more work.This would take a while to noodle. Looks like they had to weld together a special saw to cut it. It's a shame that almost all of these were taken down in the name of progress.
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The only rationale for this type of logging would be to create fire breaks to deter wildland fires ... hopefully there are still untouchable areas of redwoods of that size. We've seen a lot of forest fires take out some pristine woodlands this year ... One fire - Nopoming Park in Manitoba & Woodland Caribou Park in Ontario. That's just the ones that are near where I live. Fort Mac and others out west...We're still losing them. These will probably end up as picnic tables and adirondack chairs.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...es-okd-for-lumber-harvest-despite-objections/
http://gualalariver.org/forestry/fl...lan-approved-extraordinary-public-opposition/
Had a mulberry tree which almost that size and spread, just adjacent to the corner of my property, when I moved in. Neighbor cut it down to install a new driveway. What a shame. There has been a house on this property since at least 1738, so there's no telling how old that tree was.A different kind of large, but always spectacular to see in person.
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Our greenhouse is shingled with old growth cedar taken from stumps they helicoptered out from the Olympic Rain Forest. It is from trees cut a century ago. Beautiful stuff.Was out cutting today and saw a bunch of old cedar stumps like this. Several of them had recently been worked on. Says something for old growth cedar when a stump is over a hundred years old and the wood in it is still worth money for shingles.
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We're still losing them. These will probably end up as picnic tables and adirondack chairs.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...es-okd-for-lumber-harvest-despite-objections/
http://gualalariver.org/forestry/fl...lan-approved-extraordinary-public-opposition/
Was out cutting today and saw a bunch of old cedar stumps like this. Several of them had recently been worked on. Says something for old growth cedar when a stump is over a hundred years old and the wood in it is still worth money for shingles.
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Our greenhouse is shingled with old growth cedar taken from stumps they helicoptered out from the Olympic Rain Forest. It is from trees cut a century ago. Beautiful stuff.
This is the back (north) side.
I knew red cedar heartwood makes significantly higher quality shingles than the sapwood. I wasn't aware companies were cutting old stumps to retrieve long-forgotten heartwood. Very cool.
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