You have no idea how many he's felling, or why he's felling them. Look around your house, and look at what your house is made of. All the wood there came from trees.
+GiselleB it's called a natural renewable resource, something that we can't do without. You should be thanking the people doing a job such as this. P/S with the view.
dmythica I look around my house every day and wish all the trees that used to be here still existed.. I would be quite happy living in a metal and cement house with no wood.. or one made from recycled glass or rubber tires... there is no need for trees in building housing and again I have to say there are no apartments made from wood lol
With a lifetime of logging on the West Coast of B.C. behind me, this is a 'great' video Brad Attfield and very educational for city dwellers! Especially loved the spring-boards showing old-timer ingenuity. As a retired Faller with all my fingers and toes, it's nice to still see the 'guts and glory' of hand-falling big timber...
So beautiful ! The landscape, the tree, the colors, the skill of lumberjack... Everything is perfect in this video. Looks like a picture of a painting master.
What a pro. Love how at 5:02-3 you knew exactly when to quit the saw and go to the wedge. And then, only a couple whacks and perhaps a bit of breeze. So neat. But yeah, it's sad to see such an old beauty taken out of it's happy natural home.
Very high quality job on that Western Red Cedar (not Cypress). This guy is a first rate professional. Three taps from the ax and down she goes. Right where he wanted it. That is how it is done. I really like the makeshift springboards. Good job. WOW!
Brad Attfield At first I thought the tree was a Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata). I was wrong. It turns out to be a Chamaecyparis nootkatensis. In the Pacific Northwest of the USA that species is found in high elevations with plenty of precipitation. Your falling location is in the western mountains of British Columbia. Given the higher latitude, that timber species can occur at lower elevations than those further south in latitude in the state of Washington. The common name for that species in the USA is Alaska yellow cedar. Break off a small live twig, and it smells like potatoes. It is a magnificent species. Many of the logs used in the Paradise Lodge on Mt. Rainier were Alaska yellow cedar. They came from the trees felled for making the roadway up the mountain.
I am Canadian and you can drive for about 12 hours not even get out of the province and all you see is trees. We have areas the size of small countries we don't even go too, yes we log and trust me it is done in a very sustainable way. Pine beetles and forest fires take way more than people, and now we harvest the pine Beetle kill. I too am environmentalist, but seriously most people way overreact to this.
Totally agree. It's the only sustainable building material that I know of, and by far the most environmentally friendly when done in an intelligent, thoughtful, sustainable way. Clear cuts are fantastic habitat for all kinds of wildlife as well! It is a little sad to see these giants go down because they take hundreds of years to replace, but it is what it is.
I definitely agree, but there is a certain sadness to cutting down a tree of that size. Even the "moan" of the tree as it is falling sounds different than most.
I'm an avid hiker and I hate this kind of thing with a passion. These old growth trees can take hundreds of years to grow and are more fire resistant than smaller, younger trees. Even if there isn't any trails through there, there could be. Build more trails, and stop logging and ruining the scenery for others! I do not want to gaze across an ugly clear cut during my hike. Don't come up to me and tell me we have way more than enough trees to hike through… we don't. If you hike hundreds of miles a year, like most avid hikers, including myself, you would realize that good areas are hard to come by. Most of BC in Canada is chock full of clear cuts... I've scoured the images on Google Earth. The only places without them are the very few and small provincial parks and national parks. They pale in comparison to all the protected wilderness areas, national parks, and monuments we have down in Oregon and Washington. Yes, we do logging here too, but not nearly as much on public lands-most of our logging is pushed aside to private forests and state forests. I've hiked at least 800 miles in the last 6 years, so I have good experience with the forest and the effects of logging on public lands and old growth forests. Because of the Northwest Spotted Owl, we proudly stopped most logging activities on ALL of our public lands. Canada, learn a lesson from us! Don't log away all your beautiful old growth forests. Instead, preserve them for future generations to enjoy. Even if there are no trails there, there is always a possibility of building more trails in the future. You can never have too much hiking trail mileage available to the public.
Excellent work along with the tree falling skill. It is refreshing to see another tree falling expert at work. Perfect example of how it is to be done, pioneer work is never lost to those whom respect the land and country..the beginning of how this beautiful country was explored and made into the age of commerce.
My house was built 40 years ago in Southern California probably out of Douglas Fir and pine . I'm a general contractor / architect by trade . Trees that are purposely grown for lumber use . and Or tree clearing for fire break by the national forestry is fine by me . It's ones who get enjoyment by defacing nature so no one can enjoy it any longer . Could imagine what a gorgeous view from that tree it was. Now there's a stump there maybe somewhere else in 150 yrs someone will appreciate that particular tree for what it is and let it be.
Its sad how a few years ago the Eastern American lumber barons pushed for tariffs on Canadian wood , the-thing is west coast wood such as this has different uses then what is grown in say states like Georgia ,The wood is a lot smaller then back there. And has different uses its not competing with these people
Renderix It's not hypocritical if the system doesn't create the needs that makes the forests to be devastated ; the human greed that create those needs the same way could promote less drastic solutions to cover basic necessities, imperative consumption of some items doesn't mean we agree with the ways of production....
@John Smith Lol you really don't get it do you? Let me give you the info you don't have: This tree is an old growth tree, British Columbia has already logged 99% of their old growth trees. Yes trees are everywhere here, except we have felled 99% of the old trees already, so It seems a little stupid to continue decemating the last 1% just for a few bucks... Logging companies can and do easily make money off of 100-200 year old trees, except their profit margin is bigger on bigger trees, so even though they could choose not to, they continue to cut down the very few 1000 year old trees we have left. All because the CEO can afford an extra trip to the Bahamas. Their logic is: Why cut down 5 normal trees when we can cut down 1 irreplaceable majestic 1000 year old tree? Its not like it takes 10 lifetimes for 1 of those trees to be regrown...
as much as i like big trees, that's a bad ass dude... his office is pretty cool... thanks man for the window into your world... all i ask is that you leave a few... old growth is a rare treat for someone like me...
Hey Brad, you created a historical falling video. Those of us who can appreciate how much planning went into falling and saving out that tree are impressed. Great job.
***** had the same thought. Ive worked in the bush for 17 years and would A) cry if I ruined a log like that and B) probably be fired...well chewed out anyway. good eye ben nichols
Mojo you can see this Sawyer felt the same way. He trimmed it off the stump for his last hand held shot. He must have felt a knot in his belly for guttin that log.
Wow sure makes me miss my home in beautiful British Columbia you can not beat the smell of fresh cut timber I think I want my old job back nice job and awesome vid
Fun fact: it took close to a thousand years for that tree to grow that big, so yes it will regrow, but after you, and your kids, and their kids and their kids kids kids kids kids have already died. That's like saying we shouldnt care about global warming because in 2 billion years the sun will blow up and the earth will die... Like yeah technically you're right, but that doesn't justify uprooting a 1000 year old tree when there are quite literally millions of younger, easier to replace trees available to be logged.
It doesn't matter. Any clear cut is an ugly scar on the landscape. If you hiked through there, you would have to contend with a clear cut ruining your view. When clear cuts are done over trails, they usually destroy the trail in the process, to make matters worse. People who hike want to hike in a place that looks completely natural and beautiful. Clear cuts are plain ugly, and ruin the scenery. As an avid hiker, that is why I HATE clear cuts. Logging in general, but especially clear cuts when they're done on public lands that we all are supposed to own. When they are done on private land, who cares. It is not my land to hike on, anyway.
Everybody that thinks the tree is literally crying when it's falling, has absolutely no idea about wood, whatsoever. Trees doen't have a nervous system, therefore they don't feel themselves being cut. Also, when the top of that tree hit's the ground, it scatters seeds everywhere, and those seeds all compete against each other to grow another green giant.
People like trees don't live forever, yes, it's several hundred years old but it won't be wasted. The tree huggers like most environmentalists don't have a clue where their comforts come from and for the logger, cheers! Great job sir
One person commented, "What do spotted owls smell like" I have a t shirt that says " Save the trees, wipe your ass with an owl". So I'm guessing they smell a little funky from tree hugger usage. Great video and demonstration of skills.
Росло себе дерево 500 лет, никого не трогало. Пришел "жук" с бензопилой и подгрыз под корень :( Почему-то мне подумалось: "Хорошо бы если дерево своей веткой шлепнуло чувака хорошенько по спине и увезли бы его в больничку минимум с переломом позвоночника...И так с каждым кто руку поднимет на природу... ". Вывод: Не ты сажал, не тебе и рубить!
You really should read about wood/forest cutting,unless it's illegally done,in which case it most likely won't be on youtube,they plant new trees the moment old ones are cut. This is not 70s where woods were chopped out and nothing was put back in place. And it's a shame,because people like this bloke gets looked down upon by certain green-mean-machines who have consumed enough plastic in their lifetime to kill off a small island wildlife without knowing any facts. Sure you can make an argument that ''Oh well,but why this tree? it's been around for 100s of years,why not cut a smaller,younger one?'' Well,it might come as a surprise to many people,but old trees are.....old,they start to rot from inside,which means that we can either let it be,allow it to rot to a point where it will fall down by it self and rot away on the ground providing no benefit to us,or the wildlife,or we can cut it down few years before it's end,and make use of it. What's even sadder is that most of the tree-huggers are less educated than the blokes they run mouths about,which is actually sort of ironic.
Kronguard i never bashed him i just stated hopefully that they plant trees and im glad theydo. as for plastic thats why i recycle its good for all and it can br reused as something else. we arent perfect humans we learn by our mistakes i guess that the law of nature.
mike scott Look,the thing is,yes,these guys replant the trees,and there are a whole lot of people who plant trees not only to renew the population but just because there happen to be an open space of grassland somewhere,but there are still a whole lot of people in this industry who cut down trees by thousands without replanting a thing. We create green-piece organizations and recycle because that makes us feel like we are not just consuming and destroying,and it's good...for us if anything else. The truth is,we can recycle all that we want,there still will be increasing production of plastics and growing demand for timber,because we are reproducing in larger and larger numbers by the month,so at the end of the day,if we all would stop recycling,the only thing that would change is the longevity of smog clouds over cities at winters. Simple fact is this,the planet has survived billions of years of bombardment by asteroids,countless ice ages,dinosaurs,storms of all kinds,mass fires,pollutions of different sorts,floods and a whole lot of other stuff,if people really believe that few plastic bags will kill the planet,they are horribly wrong,the only thing that can happen is we end up making already a rather inhospitable planet even more inhospitable,and no matter what we do,we won't manage it in our lifetimes,it would take generations upon generations of people chopping wood,producing prius-like cars and a whole lot of other stuff to eventually within few tens of thousands of years make the planet finally so hard to live on,that we would either be forced to relocate,or go extinct. As for those saying ''yea but what about the next generations? we gota make sure we leave clean planet behind'' Well,first of all,it's too bloody late for that,second of all,don't lie to your selves,the only thing you're trying to do here is to justify your own existence,so that at the last minute of your life you could look back and feel selfishly good about how you have led it. Granted i am not pointing the finger to you,or anyone else for that matter,i am just talking here in general about your average person.
It's funny how people bad mouth logging. Yet they live in a home with wood milled from these vary logs. It's like a person who frowns upon hunters but eats steak and chicken. Think before you speak people.
They should be bad mouthing how many whole logs we ship off to China to be milled. This country was built on wood mills that have since been shut down. We should be cutting and milling our own fucking logs!
Bet you'd be one to vote for Trump... No wait, Droppin' Drumpf, the new mascot for blind, ignorant, middle aged white-men who see all of life as nothing, and only care about the supposed "benevolence" of humanity. Hey society, what the fuck is humaneness? Pity? Hitching on the high horse, and feeling like you've already let everything else in this world down, so you feel as though you can decide the lives of others? Probably is. Go and chop down on your own ego. (I love to over-react and make things un-neededly tenacious for others, so I am just as bad)
I cant stop watching video just for the dam VIEW in the back ground. Just awesome BTW this is a man with balls standing out there like that messing with this big ass tree.
Tree-huggers, live and let live. This guy is brave as heck! I can't even get on a ladder to reach the gutter - this guy is off the cliff cutting a fat-ass tree!!!!!!! WHAAAAAT! Love it!
Look, I am not a wood cutter professional by any means. However just from a viewing the tree in the video. It looks to me like a lot of good wood was left at the stump. It appears you could have cut down at least another 6 feet. At the mill this would have meant a lot more board feet. I can only assume they cut the tree were it was safe to get the job done.
Look at his bak cut. He only had maybe a foot and a half to a fork growing out of it and from how he was positioned it would have been very difficult to get it any closer.
JM Short, Agree, and I was a faller for several years. He could have made a vertical cut between the stump and then cur the stump down lower on both stems. May have even eliminated the springboard need. But I wasn't there. He did a good job from what I can see!
+User Name Lol. NO. That tree was definitely not over 1000 years old. It's a cedar and you can see the point where the top comes down shows it to be sixty to eighty feet. I'm guessing closer to sixty. I've been climbing and felling trees for fifteen years in Tahoe and we have LOTS of cedars this size. At its oldest, based on height and DBH, it's probably more like 150. Also, there are a number of reasons trees are cut - thinning for for forest health, harvesting beetle infected trees, etc. It seems like a simple issue of "these guys are just out cutting trees for timber", but quite often, particularly with our current drought conditions on the West Coast and with global warming, thinning because of beetle damage is the most common reason for large scale cuts in the US and across Canada and it's necessary to prevent spread of Pine Bark Borers and Fir Engraver beetles, which are decimating huge tracts of forest, both old and new. Don't simply assume that trees are ancient or that timber men are evil.
I am currently starting to learn how to fall trees...friendly old couple needs some trees to be chopped and made into firewood...Thanks for the wonderful video, this will really come in handy this week...Thank you again
Great job from a professional faller. A lot of the comments below are from people that don't know shit about logging. I started in the woods 66 years ago when there were only a few power saws around. All this felling done with a crosscut saw and axes and a bunch of tough, tough men. This faller knows what he is doing and is well paid for it. As far as you tree-huggers are concerned, these trees are a crop, just like corn or wheat...the only thing different is the time frame. I year or 100, or 250 years, there will be another crop. Happy logging folks!!!
You may notice the stump I am standing on while finishing the back-cut. That tree was jointed at the base with this tree, making it difficult to cut the tree any lower. It also makes the fiber unusable for lumber ("But Flare" and twisted grain).
Brad Attfield Interesting, thanks. Always like to learn new stuff. I just bought a stihl chainsaw this year, probably won't ever be cutting any 5 footers down. Lol
Double lead trees like that one, especially on a steep hillside, are very difficult to judge and fell closer. Cedar is often unsound or decayed close to the ground. They sometimes slab or make a "deathchair". CUTTING THEM HIGHER IS SAFER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE. Not "hollering", just making a point.
How cute ! the world revolves around him and what " he " gets to see ? next you're going to tell me he believes he and his kind are raising the ambient air temperature in his fraction of a second life span here on Earth !!!
Yes, because you obviously know a lot about logging. Ever heard an old big tree can do more bad than good? it can obstruct light for the younger ones, hindering their growth. Ever thought of that?
damonstr these are some of the most massive trees in the world. We are not talking about wolf trees in a Douglas plantation in Oregon sonny. I have a degree in forestry and run a forestry business employing 11 guys. The top comment is not too far from correct morality. Why not leave the biggest 1% of any given stand due for harvesting? Im sorry but i really dont think you have thought through that comment.
Nice work. I don't know a lot about felling trees but I like watching someone who knows what they are doing do what they love. Wish I worked with a friend who cuts down trees for a living to learn the art. Art and skill is what it is all about. You do a great job. Stay safe.
this is one tree. did you see all of the other trees in the background, its called selective cutting, all you think about when people mention cutting trees is clearcutting.
Brian Blade Yes, whereas you are clearly ignorant on what loggers do. Last week we finished planting trees, we planted over a thousand individual trees, that's more than all the trees all the loggers here cut down in a whole year. In a good bit of Euro countries we cut less than what grows annualy, so lets say annual growth is 5 million hectares, that means we cut down less than that. I am fully aware of what is being done in rainforests, but that isn't the whole logging industry you know.
funny that those guys complain, Bimo Budimantoro sits infront of a wooden cabinet in his profile picture and Brian Blade most likely lives in a house built around a wooden frame... I dont think they understand where it comes from much like the meat sold in stores.
Ya, kind of like digging huge holes in the earth to extract materials or making plastics that NEVER break down. Imagine, trees can be re[planted AND they NATURALLY break down. What a terrible idea to use trees for building materials!
Brad Attfield I was just having this conversation the other day. I wanted to buy a few hundred acres of woods and log them (for using to build my home) under the understanding that sometimes moving older growth trees can make room for 3 or 4 other trees to grow. So use 1 and produce 3, 4 or even more trees sounds pretty enviro-friendly to me.
Look around you. At all the things made of wood! The house you live in. It's like saying I use drugs, but the drug dealer is the real criminal. There are smart ways of logging and preserving our ecosystems! Europe is a great example. They log and take time to make sure the forest grows back healthy! Logging isn't a crime, but careless logging should be!
Foolish dangerous technique. He will suffer an accident sooner than later. Idiot wasted a lot of wood with a bad cut. The moan sound heard when the tree falls is called a Barber Chair mistake. He wasted a lot of good lumber. He should be fired.
If you think anything in the video is called a "Barber Chair", you have "NO IDEA" what you are talking about. As a matter a fact every observation you commented on shows your complete lack of "FALLING" knowledge.
Brad Attfield from Critical Reasoning from Arboriculture textbook definition: One type of falling mishap, know as a barber chair, is particularly dangerous. A barber chair occurs when a tree being felled delaminates vertically before the hinge is cut thin enough to bend. . .. The moaning sound was the central wood fibers delaminating which destroyed a lot of good wood. You do not need to have the complete barber chair effect of a completely split lower trunk with the rest of the tree held up by half of the split trunk. The hinge was cut in the wrong place. The foolishness was his dangerous climbing around on ridiculously dangerous springboard scaffolding. He will be dead sooner than later.
Critical Reasoning I accept people disagreeing with logging or old growth logging but people PRETENDING to have falling knowledge piss me off. What you see is "stump pull" not any form of Barber Chair. Hinge wood is used to control the direction of fall. In some situations more hinge wood is needed to safely control the direction of fall (ie..Heavy leaner, Gusting winds etc...). Fallers try to keep stump pull to a minimum but for safety reason sometimes there is excessive pull . Another thing you don't seem to grasp. I am Falling trees in a forest far from access to any equipment other then what I carry. The spring boards I made and installed were strong, safe, and a accepted method to overcome a Falling difficulty. Just because YOU do not know why I used a "Spring Board " does not mean "I" did not need It.
When I fell a tree for a client they always want to be right there (I always ask them to stay away, but it happens) when the tree starts to go they run halfway to Mexico. It was pretty boss how you just walked away, true professional.
That view could make a man want to go to work everyday.
indian
what view? u mean the one he is destroying? oh yes...go there to cut them all down so it becomes a desert....then u can watch ..the sand blow by
You have no idea how many he's felling, or why he's felling them. Look around your house, and look at what your house is made of. All the wood there came from trees.
+GiselleB it's called a natural renewable resource, something that we can't do without. You should be thanking the people doing a job such as this. P/S with the view.
dmythica I look around my house every day and wish all the trees that used to be here still existed.. I would be quite happy living in a metal and cement house with no wood.. or one made from recycled glass or rubber tires... there is no need for trees in building housing and again I have to say there are no apartments made from wood lol
With a lifetime of logging on the West Coast of B.C. behind me, this is a 'great' video Brad Attfield and very educational for city dwellers! Especially loved the spring-boards showing old-timer ingenuity. As a retired Faller with all my fingers and toes, it's nice to still see the 'guts and glory' of hand-falling big timber...
These guys are amazing. They make a dangerous job look easy.
fuck the man....
Richard Hoepfner You loco
So beautiful ! The landscape, the tree, the colors, the skill of lumberjack... Everything is perfect in this video. Looks like a picture of a painting master.
That's BC for ya partner! Beauty of Canada
Fantastic scene - a highly skilled tradesman at a particularly dangerous felling surrounded by beautiful scenery. Well worth freeze framing.
Mart Devil Oh yeh. It was great.
+Mart Devil You got it right, Mart Devil, it's "felling," not "falling [sic]"!
Skilled in destruction ....
What a pro. Love how at 5:02-3 you knew exactly when to quit the saw and go to the wedge. And then, only a couple whacks and perhaps a bit of breeze. So neat. But yeah, it's sad to see such an old beauty taken out of it's happy natural home.
matycee Amazes you the precision on deforestation?
What a beautiful office to work "in."
What's your profile pic mean? It's been four years, how's it going? Lol.
I never run, but sometime I walk with a "SENSE OF URGENCY".
Very high quality job on that Western Red Cedar (not Cypress). This guy is a first rate professional. Three taps from the ax and down she goes. Right where he wanted it. That is how it is done. I really like the makeshift springboards. Good job. WOW!
+sonseere10 Thank you for the compliment but it is a Cypress (Yellow Cedar), not a Red Cedar.
Brad Attfield In the USA it is called one thing, in Canada another.
Brad Attfield At first I thought the tree was a Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata). I was wrong. It turns out to be a
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis. In the Pacific Northwest of the USA that species is found in high elevations with plenty of precipitation. Your falling location is in the western mountains of British Columbia. Given the higher latitude, that timber species can occur at lower elevations than those further south in latitude in the state of Washington. The common name for that species in the USA is Alaska yellow cedar. Break off a small live twig, and it smells like potatoes. It is a magnificent species. Many of the logs used in the Paradise Lodge on Mt. Rainier were Alaska yellow cedar. They came from the trees felled for making the roadway up the mountain.
Well done. I don't know much about felling a large tree but I can tell this guy does.
+Rah Hamer Have you been an idiot all your life?
I am Canadian and you can drive for about 12 hours not even get out of the province and all you see is trees. We have areas the size of small countries we don't even go too, yes we log and trust me it is done in a very sustainable way. Pine beetles and forest fires take way more than people, and now we harvest the pine Beetle kill. I too am environmentalist, but seriously most people way overreact to this.
Totally agree. It's the only sustainable building material that I know of, and by far the most environmentally friendly when done in an intelligent, thoughtful, sustainable way. Clear cuts are fantastic habitat for all kinds of wildlife as well! It is a little sad to see these giants go down because they take hundreds of years to replace, but it is what it is.
I would give anything to be where you are now three years ago. America is not what it was when you wrote your message.
I definitely agree, but there is a certain sadness to cutting down a tree of that size. Even the "moan" of the tree as it is falling sounds different than most.
Trevor Miles Are you employed now?
I'm an avid hiker and I hate this kind of thing with a passion. These old growth trees can take hundreds of years to grow and are more fire resistant than smaller, younger trees. Even if there isn't any trails through there, there could be. Build more trails, and stop logging and ruining the scenery for others! I do not want to gaze across an ugly clear cut during my hike. Don't come up to me and tell me we have way more than enough trees to hike through… we don't. If you hike hundreds of miles a year, like most avid hikers, including myself, you would realize that good areas are hard to come by.
Most of BC in Canada is chock full of clear cuts... I've scoured the images on Google Earth. The only places without them are the very few and small provincial parks and national parks. They pale in comparison to all the protected wilderness areas, national parks, and monuments we have down in Oregon and Washington. Yes, we do logging here too, but not nearly as much on public lands-most of our logging is pushed aside to private forests and state forests. I've hiked at least 800 miles in the last 6 years, so I have good experience with the forest and the effects of logging on public lands and old growth forests.
Because of the Northwest Spotted Owl, we proudly stopped most logging activities on ALL of our public lands. Canada, learn a lesson from us! Don't log away all your beautiful old growth forests. Instead, preserve them for future generations to enjoy. Even if there are no trails there, there is always a possibility of building more trails in the future. You can never have too much hiking trail mileage available to the public.
What a beautiful place, thanks for all you do. Stay safe.
You mean was a beautiful place
+Lockdown454 shut up
+Lockdown454 Yeah, shut up.
+Deric Kettel Makes me miss my days in the woods Deric
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Gorgeous scenery, what a great place to work.
I'll never take another piece of lumber for granted again. This was amazing.
I have watched your video at least twenty times. It never gets old. Love it!
after years of enjoyment this is still one of my favorite videos on youtube
Awesome work...and that scenery...breathtaking.
Excellent work along with the tree falling skill. It is refreshing to see another tree falling expert at work. Perfect example of how it is to be done, pioneer work is never lost to those whom respect the land and country..the beginning of how this beautiful country was explored and made into the age of commerce.
Holy shit. What a beautiful place to work.
Living in the cage ? . .ever plant a tree ?
I'm a brazilian guy, fluent in english, and i would like to work as a lumberjack in Canada.. nice video..
My boy is two years old. I watch this video everyday with him. It's his absolutely favorite.
Thank you Chris.
My house was built 40 years ago in Southern California probably out of Douglas Fir and pine . I'm a general contractor / architect by trade . Trees that are purposely grown for lumber use . and Or tree clearing for fire break by the national forestry is fine by me . It's ones who get enjoyment by defacing nature so no one can enjoy it any longer . Could imagine what a gorgeous view from that tree it was. Now there's a stump there maybe somewhere else in 150 yrs someone will appreciate that particular tree for what it is and let it be.
start a new religion THE STUMP GOD RELIGION
so...i guess u dont breathe oxygen sir? cause that is what that tree creates for ur sorry ass.... maybe u need to learn to hug some trees !
far more important to breathe...
The loss of one big tree can make way for rejuvenation. Thats the key to survival of a species
Its sad how a few years ago the Eastern American lumber barons pushed for tariffs on Canadian wood , the-thing is west coast wood such as this has different uses then what is grown in say states like Georgia ,The wood is a lot smaller then back there. And has different uses its not competing with these people
If there's the one thing I like about these videos, it's the hypocritical comments in the section
+Renderix Ain't that that the truth. Usually from a bunch of Hypocrites who know nothing about the Topic they're Pissing on!
Renderix It's not hypocritical if the system doesn't create the needs that makes the forests to be devastated ; the human greed that create those needs the same way could promote less drastic solutions to cover basic necessities, imperative consumption of some items doesn't mean we agree with the ways of production....
@John Smith Lol you really don't get it do you? Let me give you the info you don't have: This tree is an old growth tree, British Columbia has already logged 99% of their old growth trees. Yes trees are everywhere here, except we have felled 99% of the old trees already, so It seems a little stupid to continue decemating the last 1% just for a few bucks...
Logging companies can and do easily make money off of 100-200 year old trees, except their profit margin is bigger on bigger trees, so even though they could choose not to, they continue to cut down the very few 1000 year old trees we have left. All because the CEO can afford an extra trip to the Bahamas.
Their logic is: Why cut down 5 normal trees when we can cut down 1 irreplaceable majestic 1000 year old tree? Its not like it takes 10 lifetimes for 1 of those trees to be regrown...
I've cut wood since the early '80s. Well done! I hope you never take that view for granted. Thanks for taking me along for the ride! Respect.
as much as i like big trees, that's a bad ass dude... his office is pretty cool... thanks man for the window into your world... all i ask is that you leave a few... old growth is a rare treat for someone like me...
Is it just me or i enjoyed the landscape scenery rather than logging the tree?
wenaldy Both are great.
+wenaldy
عميد أندرسون I'm not from China, habibi.
My, what manners.
So true! The video quality was outstanding with the snow caps and valley.
would of been so bad ass if he walk away and didnt watch it fall
+rrrohan2288 cool guys don't look at explosions
+Braeden Rockliffe *at Treefalls 😄
That’s how you die. Always watch where the tree goes and have an escape route
They ALWAYS watch where it falls, this ain't the movies.
@@jamesianp yeah its dangerous as thats what makes it bad ass
Amazing Skills, Thank You for the Lumber in Our Beautiful Home!
That was so fantastic, with the makeshift spring boards and the view! Love it
Hey Brad, you created a historical falling video. Those of us who can appreciate how much planning went into falling and saving out that tree are impressed. Great job.
it sounds like the tree moans when it falls
its death cry XD
Yeah, moaned with its mouth..
*****
had the same thought. Ive worked in the bush for 17 years and would A) cry if I ruined a log like that and B) probably be fired...well chewed out anyway.
good eye ben nichols
Sounds like someone farting
Mojo you can see this Sawyer felt the same way. He trimmed it off the stump for his last hand held shot. He must have felt a knot in his belly for guttin that log.
Beautiful makes me miss my logging days
wow. you sir have some serious skills!!!! awesome video. thank you 😆
5:19 massive sounds. *watching repeat
Sound like a roar
thats a real man right there fucking awesome job!! all you haters are jeaolus
Wow sure makes me miss my home in beautiful British Columbia you can not beat the smell of fresh cut timber I think I want my old job back nice job and awesome vid
An old video but the country in the background gets me everytime I watch this. Beautiful country there.
Badass canadian lumberjack...
Fun fact: Cedar can be coppiced. This tree is not dead and will regrow.
Really... wow
Fun fact: it took close to a thousand years for that tree to grow that big, so yes it will regrow, but after you, and your kids, and their kids and their kids kids kids kids kids have already died.
That's like saying we shouldnt care about global warming because in 2 billion years the sun will blow up and the earth will die...
Like yeah technically you're right, but that doesn't justify uprooting a 1000 year old tree when there are quite literally millions of younger, easier to replace trees available to be logged.
that is by far one of the coolest sounds . when it falls, it groans good job !
now that's a lumber jack look how beautiful the mountains are in the back ground
You mind me asking what kind of camera equipment was used to film this? The depth is incredible... it looks almost 3d.
Spooky how the tree almost like screamed last breath at 5:18
Whoaa
I think that was the chainsaw getting murdered on the other side.
reminded me of a whale call. _so majestic_
I believe that's the sound of the hinge wood giving and pulling out of the base of the tree as it falls. I could be wrong though.
What magnificent, incredible scenery. The views are amazing.
I was simply astonished by the amazing landscape.
One of the better the falling videos I've seen in a long time. Keep up the good work.
Thank you
Cuts down one tree, gets bitched at by hippies.
Hippies don't see thousands of trees in the background.
Amazing logic.
MikeTheDike Thousands? More Like...Millions!
It doesn't matter. Any clear cut is an ugly scar on the landscape. If you hiked through there, you would have to contend with a clear cut ruining your view. When clear cuts are done over trails, they usually destroy the trail in the process, to make matters worse. People who hike want to hike in a place that looks completely natural and beautiful. Clear cuts are plain ugly, and ruin the scenery.
As an avid hiker, that is why I HATE clear cuts. Logging in general, but especially clear cuts when they're done on public lands that we all are supposed to own. When they are done on private land, who cares. It is not my land to hike on, anyway.
sure looks like a nice day on the hill
beauty with that snow and mature stands
Absolutely beautiful, the job and the scenery as well
Everybody that thinks the tree is literally crying when it's falling, has absolutely no idea about wood, whatsoever. Trees doen't have a nervous system, therefore they don't feel themselves being cut. Also, when the top of that tree hit's the ground, it scatters seeds everywhere, and those seeds all compete against each other to grow another green giant.
That takes 1000 years to get that big again. So once they are gone they are gone forever as far as a human is conserned.
and the folks on Wall Street think they have a nice office!
There office is way too rich
People like trees don't live forever, yes, it's several hundred years old but it won't be wasted. The tree huggers like most environmentalists don't have a clue where their comforts come from and for the logger, cheers! Great job sir
One person commented, "What do spotted owls smell like" I have a t shirt that says " Save the trees, wipe your ass with an owl". So I'm guessing they smell a little funky from tree hugger usage. Great video and demonstration of skills.
Росло себе дерево 500 лет, никого не трогало. Пришел "жук" с бензопилой и подгрыз под корень :( Почему-то мне подумалось: "Хорошо бы если дерево своей веткой шлепнуло чувака хорошенько по спине и увезли бы его в больничку минимум с переломом позвоночника...И так с каждым кто руку поднимет на природу... ". Вывод: Не ты сажал, не тебе и рубить!
I find it ironic that the guys that love this video talk about how beautiful it is there.
Yes, people with no vision
Just a flat liner.
i just replied to someones post to the same effect. i hope they at least planted one someplace else but i doubt it.
You really should read about wood/forest cutting,unless it's illegally done,in which case it most likely won't be on youtube,they plant new trees the moment old ones are cut.
This is not 70s where woods were chopped out and nothing was put back in place.
And it's a shame,because people like this bloke gets looked down upon by certain green-mean-machines who have consumed enough plastic in their lifetime to kill off a small island wildlife without knowing any facts.
Sure you can make an argument that ''Oh well,but why this tree? it's been around for 100s of years,why not cut a smaller,younger one?''
Well,it might come as a surprise to many people,but old trees are.....old,they start to rot from inside,which means that we can either let it be,allow it to rot to a point where it will fall down by it self and rot away on the ground providing no benefit to us,or the wildlife,or we can cut it down few years before it's end,and make use of it.
What's even sadder is that most of the tree-huggers are less educated than the blokes they run mouths about,which is actually sort of ironic.
Kronguard
i never bashed him i just stated hopefully that they plant trees and im glad theydo. as for plastic thats why i recycle its good for all and it can br reused as something else. we arent perfect humans we learn by our mistakes i guess that the law of nature.
mike scott
Look,the thing is,yes,these guys replant the trees,and there are a whole lot of people who plant trees not only to renew the population but just because there happen to be an open space of grassland somewhere,but there are still a whole lot of people in this industry who cut down trees by thousands without replanting a thing.
We create green-piece organizations and recycle because that makes us feel like we are not just consuming and destroying,and it's good...for us if anything else.
The truth is,we can recycle all that we want,there still will be increasing production of plastics and growing demand for timber,because we are reproducing in larger and larger numbers by the month,so at the end of the day,if we all would stop recycling,the only thing that would change is the longevity of smog clouds over cities at winters.
Simple fact is this,the planet has survived billions of years of bombardment by asteroids,countless ice ages,dinosaurs,storms of all kinds,mass fires,pollutions of different sorts,floods and a whole lot of other stuff,if people really believe that few plastic bags will kill the planet,they are horribly wrong,the only thing that can happen is we end up making already a rather inhospitable planet even more inhospitable,and no matter what we do,we won't manage it in our lifetimes,it would take generations upon generations of people chopping wood,producing prius-like cars and a whole lot of other stuff to eventually within few tens of thousands of years make the planet finally so hard to live on,that we would either be forced to relocate,or go extinct.
As for those saying ''yea but what about the next generations? we gota make sure we leave clean planet behind'' Well,first of all,it's too bloody late for that,second of all,don't lie to your selves,the only thing you're trying to do here is to justify your own existence,so that at the last minute of your life you could look back and feel selfishly good about how you have led it.
Granted i am not pointing the finger to you,or anyone else for that matter,i am just talking here in general about your average person.
Watching him cut this tree I can remember the smell of yellow cedar. It’s amazing I have been around the bush for 20 years
Geezer has absolutely bossed it ... Pirouetting on two little branches .... Quite high up with a fucking chainsaw !
It's funny how people bad mouth logging. Yet they live in a home with wood milled from these vary logs. It's like a person who frowns upon hunters but eats steak and chicken. Think before you speak people.
They should be bad mouthing how many whole logs we ship off to China to be milled. This country was built on wood mills that have since been shut down. We should be cutting and milling our own fucking logs!
But we like to buy them back from Ikea and such...
Thanks for the lecture. You are wiser than the rest of us I guess.
Bet you'd be one to vote for Trump... No wait, Droppin' Drumpf, the new mascot for blind, ignorant, middle aged white-men who see all of life as nothing, and only care about the supposed "benevolence" of humanity.
Hey society, what the fuck is humaneness? Pity? Hitching on the high horse, and feeling like you've already let everything else in this world down, so you feel as though you can decide the lives of others? Probably is.
Go and chop down on your own ego.
(I love to over-react and make things un-neededly tenacious for others, so I am just as bad)
***** I agree 100%.
That guy is fucking crazy
What a great job, get to go out into the mountains, enjoy the scenery, and fell giant trees!
I cant stop watching video just for the dam VIEW in the back ground. Just awesome
BTW this is a man with balls standing out there like that messing with this big ass tree.
it makes really sad sound when in falls... :-(
does anyone know what saw that is, it looks like a husky 395xp or something, maybe just maybe a 372xp
+dominic cristante 372
LOL. Sounded like a cross between Samsquatch and King Kong when it groaned 'n crunched! Nice job Logger! Now make me a toothpick, ha ha!!
Tree-huggers, live and let live. This guy is brave as heck! I can't even get on a ladder to reach the gutter - this guy is off the cliff cutting a fat-ass tree!!!!!!! WHAAAAAT! Love it!
Look, I am not a wood cutter professional by any means. However just from a viewing the tree in the video. It looks to me like a lot of good wood was left at the stump. It appears you could have cut down at least another 6 feet. At the mill this would have meant a lot more board feet. I can only assume they cut the tree were it was safe to get the job done.
Look at his bak cut. He only had maybe a foot and a half to a fork growing out of it and from how he was positioned it would have been very difficult to get it any closer.
well give the guy a minute, he just felled a huge tree. thats what the video shows. it doesnt show the cleanup.
JM Short,
Agree, and I was a faller for several years.
He could have made a vertical cut between the stump and then cur the stump down lower on both stems. May have even eliminated the springboard need. But I wasn't there. He did a good job from what I can see!
im against ecoterorism and for industrial development, but this.. trees like this in landscapes like this should be saved... just because
Certainly. So lightning can torch it to the ground.
+badlandskid the tree was over 1000 years old and wasn't struck by lightning that entire time, dumbass
+User Name Lol. NO. That tree was definitely not over 1000 years old. It's a cedar and you can see the point where the top comes down shows it to be sixty to eighty feet. I'm guessing closer to sixty. I've been climbing and felling trees for fifteen years in Tahoe and we have LOTS of cedars this size. At its oldest, based on height and DBH, it's probably more like 150.
Also, there are a number of reasons trees are cut - thinning for for forest health, harvesting beetle infected trees, etc. It seems like a simple issue of "these guys are just out cutting trees for timber", but quite often, particularly with our current drought conditions on the West Coast and with global warming, thinning because of beetle damage is the most common reason for large scale cuts in the US and across Canada and it's necessary to prevent spread of Pine Bark Borers and Fir Engraver beetles, which are decimating huge tracts of forest, both old and new.
Don't simply assume that trees are ancient or that timber men are evil.
I am currently starting to learn how to fall trees...friendly old couple needs some trees to be chopped and made into firewood...Thanks for the wonderful video, this will really come in handy this week...Thank you again
Great job from a professional faller. A lot of the comments below are from people that don't know shit about logging. I started in the woods 66 years ago when there were only a few power saws around. All this felling done with a crosscut saw and axes and a bunch of tough, tough men. This faller knows what he is doing and is well paid for it. As far as you tree-huggers are concerned, these trees are a crop, just like corn or wheat...the only thing different is the time frame. I year or 100, or 250 years, there will be another crop. Happy logging folks!!!
why not cut it down closer to the soil?
You may notice the stump I am standing on while finishing the back-cut. That tree was jointed at the base with this tree, making it difficult to cut the tree any lower. It also makes the fiber unusable for lumber ("But Flare" and twisted grain).
Brad Attfield
Interesting, thanks. Always like to learn new stuff. I just bought a stihl chainsaw this year, probably won't ever be cutting any 5 footers down. Lol
Double lead trees like that one, especially on a steep hillside, are very difficult to judge and fell closer. Cedar is often unsound or decayed close to the ground. They sometimes slab or make a "deathchair". CUTTING THEM HIGHER IS SAFER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE. Not "hollering", just making a point.
Felling a Tree, "Canadian Style". Hmm. No wonder Canada is sparsely populated.
Because they keep dropping trees on each other?
"Sorry, dropped a tree on you, eh"
"Nope, my fault I was in the way, sorry"
Finn K Fuckin' hell there, bud. Reading this had me laughing like no tomorrow! Us Canadians are too nice, eh?
max woz Yep. That's what makes you Canadians so dang lovable. Hell, I'd like to move up there if it weren't so cold.
max woz Lol glad you took it well mate. I've loved all the canucks I've had the fortune of meeting, very nice people.
Gotta love that "boom", when fallen tree lands on the ground.
You sir are a man's man....and I salute you. stay safe out there brother.
It's great seeing a true master at work.
Too bad all the tree huggers on youtube didnt stand where the tree landed.
PURE GREED felling old growth, this NEEDS to be outlawed, eventually trees like this will be viewed only in the history books.
Ya noob the trees will never grow back ..moron
How cute ! the world revolves around him and what " he " gets to see ? next you're going to tell me he believes he and his kind are raising the ambient air temperature in his fraction of a second life span here on Earth !!!
Yes, because you obviously know a lot about logging.
Ever heard an old big tree can do more bad than good? it can obstruct light for the younger ones, hindering their growth. Ever thought of that?
damonstr these are some of the most massive trees in the world. We are not talking about wolf trees in a Douglas plantation in Oregon sonny. I have a degree in forestry and run a forestry business employing 11 guys. The top comment is not too far from correct morality. Why not leave the biggest 1% of any given stand due for harvesting? Im sorry but i really dont think you have thought through that comment.
Oh no ! your the smartest one in the room !!! I've neeeever thought of that,there just fuckin trees keep your emotion in your pants "sonny "
that sound is the holding wood. beautiful job!!
Nice work. I don't know a lot about felling trees but I like watching someone who knows what they are doing do what they love. Wish I worked with a friend who cuts down trees for a living to learn the art. Art and skill is what it is all about. You do a great job. Stay safe.
Whyyyy? Save the fucking treessssss!
Theres more trees in the USA than ever
Think fast hippie.
Ok, we can tear down your house then and put the lumber back.
Cry more
this is one tree. did you see all of the other trees in the background, its called selective cutting, all you think about when people mention cutting trees is clearcutting.
human is destroyer. i feel sorry for nature..
Well don't, trees die naturally anyway. Another tree is gonna grow in this one's place.
Brian Blade Completely uneducated logic from someone who's job is trees, yup.
Brian Blade Yes, whereas you are clearly ignorant on what loggers do. Last week we finished planting trees, we planted over a thousand individual trees, that's more than all the trees all the loggers here cut down in a whole year. In a good bit of Euro countries we cut less than what grows annualy, so lets say annual growth is 5 million hectares, that means we cut down less than that. I am fully aware of what is being done in rainforests, but that isn't the whole logging industry you know.
Bimo Budimantoro oh boo hoo it ain't like we got thousands more trees. OH WAIT A MINUTE!
funny that those guys complain, Bimo Budimantoro sits infront of a wooden cabinet in his profile picture and Brian Blade most likely lives in a house built around a wooden frame... I dont think they understand where it comes from much like the meat sold in stores.
love that sound when the tree trunk hits the ground its like a huge thump
nicest background scenery of all time - epic
chopping down a big tree like this is like destroying a piece of earth's history. =|
Ya, kind of like digging huge holes in the earth to extract materials or making plastics that NEVER break down. Imagine, trees can be re[planted AND they NATURALLY break down. What a terrible idea to use trees for building materials!
Brad Attfield plastics breakdown and they are hydrocarbon which is fuel.
plastics, properly handled, are great
Brad Attfield Silly youtuber, thinking trees grows on trees.
Brad Attfield I was just having this conversation the other day. I wanted to buy a few hundred acres of woods and log them (for using to build my home) under the understanding that sometimes moving older growth trees can make room for 3 or 4 other trees to grow. So use 1 and produce 3, 4 or even more trees sounds pretty enviro-friendly to me.
titanwr
why? in my opinion this is a crime
John Videll
I live in a region where the law imposes recycled paper and wood grown in controlled areas, where for every tree is planted another tree
because you are stupid and should just let the adults comment
Look around you. At all the things made of wood! The house you live in. It's like saying I use drugs, but the drug dealer is the real criminal. There are smart ways of logging and preserving our ecosystems! Europe is a great example. They log and take time to make sure the forest grows back healthy! Logging isn't a crime, but careless logging should be!
Felipe Mossa YES!!!
The view from this guy's 'office' is magnificent!
Everybody arguing about the face cut depth and "proper" bar length and I'm over here like, "good job dude!"
+travis shipley It was a good job. We have a saying in BC. There's more logging done in the bar than on the hill.
Foolish dangerous technique. He will suffer an accident sooner than later. Idiot wasted a lot of wood with a bad cut. The moan sound heard when the tree falls is called a Barber Chair mistake. He wasted a lot of good lumber. He should be fired.
If you think anything in the video is called a "Barber Chair", you have "NO IDEA" what you are talking about. As a matter a fact every observation you commented on shows your complete lack of "FALLING" knowledge.
Brad Attfield from Critical Reasoning from Arboriculture textbook definition: One type of falling mishap, know as a barber chair, is particularly dangerous. A barber chair occurs when a tree being felled delaminates vertically before the hinge is cut thin enough to bend. . .. The moaning sound was the central wood fibers delaminating which destroyed a lot of good wood. You do not need to have the complete barber chair effect of a completely split lower trunk with the rest of the tree held up by half of the split trunk. The hinge was cut in the wrong place. The foolishness was his dangerous climbing around on ridiculously dangerous springboard scaffolding. He will be dead sooner than later.
Critical Reasoning I accept people disagreeing with logging or old growth logging but people PRETENDING to have falling knowledge piss me off. What you see is "stump pull" not any form of Barber Chair. Hinge wood is used to control the direction of fall. In some situations more hinge wood is needed to safely control the direction of fall (ie..Heavy leaner, Gusting winds etc...). Fallers try to keep stump pull to a minimum but for safety reason sometimes there is excessive pull . Another thing you don't seem to grasp. I am Falling trees in a forest far from access to any equipment other then what I carry. The spring boards I made and installed were strong, safe, and a accepted method to overcome a Falling difficulty. Just because YOU do not know why I used a "Spring Board " does not mean "I" did not need It.
Brad Attfield Excellent diplomatic response.
Brad Attfield I'll second that! And can I say the photography in video is of high quality.
When I fell a tree for a client they always want to be right there (I always ask them to stay away, but it happens) when the tree starts to go they run halfway to Mexico. It was pretty boss how you just walked away, true professional.
Great work.. Beautiful film too..
The angle of photography makes it look even moore epic.
i think i have watched this video about 20 times, perfectly framed shot, saw sounds sick, nice thump. love it.
Wow! Such a great workplace 👍 beautiful job
BC certainly has some beautiful scenery.
Well done brad, great video of some west coast Vancouver island falling.
Fantastic scenery. I don't know much about felling trees, except the smaller backyard variety but to me it looks like the guy knows his stuff.
This is not falling, this is art... Greetings from Germany
That scenery is outstanding.
Amazing, simply amazing!
What a beautiful view, it looks almost surreal, or like a mural on someones wall.
This vid never gets old...
That scenery is amazing
I logged for 35 yrs but never stood on 2 planks 10 ft of the ground with a saw👍👍👍👏👏👏