In the Forest service they servey trees and help identify dead dying or infected trees. They will cut these trees down to allow for new growth and also allow these older growth to still be able to live without a danger of being fallen on or killed by the infection as well. You sometimes have to cut down tree to save trees.
Just think, that majestic tree was 240 years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed. How many more historical events did this giant of the forest witness? It was a seedling around the year 1500. Standing tall and strong for five centuries, withstanding weather, fire, war and disasters, just to be destroyed in the name of wood, paper and toothpicks. What a shame.
This just breaks my heart how can you cut down something so majestic and that’s been here through so much history. This is a historical crime I just don’t understand how it is possible that we is a species can you allow this my heart is breaking and crying I am so disappointed in my whole race whoever they be that would allow this. There are so many other trees you can cut why would you have to get one that is been through so much history it is just consciously unthinkable that we can find any reason you know reminder in our heart to do this. There will come someday of the reckoning and this moment will not be forgotten this tree is a king you need to own right May the sawyer Go home tonight and sleep in peace. I’m ashamed to be in the human race what crimes we have committed you know what we half to come to judgment for.
eventually, it will die. why does it matter whether this tree lives 500 years or 500 million years? what if cutting this tree means a hospital can be built in its place, saving thousands of lives per year?
It's trees that build your house yes but you don't have to pick the biggest, oldest ones to do it. Use restrainable forests for lumber don't just pick the biggest trees.
The loggers have been doing this in the USA northwest and the Canadian southwest for a century or more. At least 95% of the big trees, millions of them, thousands of square miles / thousands square kilometers of them, have been cut down, and the loggers still want to cut down the last few areas that remain. They call it "economics" and "it keeps them working". They think they own ALL the land, ALL the trees, and ALL the values that the land represents. For them, their money, and NOTHING else.
These are the signs of the times. "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people."- 2 Timothy 3.
Maybe it's diseased, or at risk of falling uncontrolled. Maybe to clear way for under brush or other there's to get more sunlight, etc... maybe reasons. Oh hell, maybe he had the afternoon of and just wanted to piss off tree huggers.
You know its comical the ignorance and actual lack of knowledge people possess in regard to the logging industry. Such weak minded sheep begging to be taken care of by massive over bloated over regulated government.
@@davez4064 so bc people want to save the trees they are sheep being led to slaughter by the government? Sounds like you yourself drank the cool aid and you yourself are the one being led to slaughter . Tree huggers don't normal fall for the government's tricks but it sounds like you have .
This tree stood since the time of Galileo Galilei, and while colonized america was in its infancy.. and then a guy with a funny orange hat shows up and and smiling records a video of tearing it down.
I agree, this is absolutely atrocious. They have all the trees that could possibly want here in michigan, constantly cutting down acres of land and regrowing them and cutting them down again. We have a good cycle over here. Why go after these ancient trees that should stand until they fall on their own? Disgusting
@Andrew And where did you learn that fallacy? Do you eat meat? Or are you a vegetarian? Either way, you are “taking” a life that you did not give. So save your fake philosophy for the weak-minded sheeple. Because I will destroy anything you say with simple logic.
@Andrew I see you refuse to answer the question whether you eat meat or are a vegetarian. You stating that no one has the right to take a life (in your statement, you were clear you were talking about a tree). But you refused to answer the question, because like any liberal, you don’t think before you speak. Liberals don’t think anyway, they “feel”. Feelings don’t trump logic, reason, and facts. So either way, you have to eat, and you probably eat spices, derived from plants, take medicine derived from plants, live in a house built from wood, ad nauseam. So whether I change your mind is irrelevant. The fact is you don’t live up to the “simple” moral code that you espoused in your post while trying to lecture me, which makes you a hypocrite. On a side note, I never made the intent that I was here to change your mind; that is something you just assumed, because your emotional, not logical.
I was running this saw for about 2 hours at about a 30-50% duty cycle ruclips.net/user/postUgkxfQm1wmg0ItKDLavxj1nXtQY9HP7EF504 and it did a great job. I used the lever for the built in sharpener to clear chip buildup out more than to actually sharpen the chain. It managed to cut some hardwood stumps much larger than it's size without bothering the neighbors with hours of 2 stroke noise.
Isn't that a Damn Shame? It took about forever to age and mature.... But only a couple minutes to destroy.... And they use the word "Skill" to describe it? I'd say "Murder" would be a better word...
I'm not watching it all, only a few seconds, I know that it means destruction of beauty and calm and so do the creatures that live in and around it , im angry, but I can live with its memory, but can the fool who has no heart .
Retired forester here. From the video, it looks like the first tree is a Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and the second, a white ash (Fraxinus americana). Douglas-fir is a western species found in the Rockies and from N California to the Pacific NW into S British Columbia. White ash is an eastern tree found extensively throughout the Midwest and eastern US. From National Wildlife Fund: "The population of these trees is stable. Many people are familiar with Douglas firs because they are one of several species used as Christmas trees. Aside from their use as holiday decorations, Douglas firs are one of the most valuable timber resources in the country. They’re used for furniture, poles, fences, and flooring, among other things. Although they are harvested extensively for timber, Douglas firs are widespread and aren’t in danger of extinction." If you've never seen a big tree felled before, it can be a shocking experience. This Douglas-fir looks about 5 ft in diameter, big, but not that unusual. There are still plenty of Douglas-firs this size. Why did they cut down such a magnificent tree, you may wonder. Is this legal? Why don't they cut some other trees down, or just use dead trees? Some of the negative comments directed to the sawyer are over the top. Perhaps I can shed some light. You may be surprised to learn that old trees eventually reach a point where they are a net CO2 emitter, not absorber. This is because trees respirate, similar to animals, whenever they can't do photosynthesis, as at night or when dormant during the winter. They respirate by burning the sugars they made during photosynthesis, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. As they age, trees increase the time spent in respiration vs. photosynthesis. The point at which an old tree changes from being an oxygen-releasing, CO2 absorber to an oxygen-using, CO2 emitter varies with species, age, size, and other factors. So, if a tree lives long enough, the net effect is that it uses oxygen and gives off CO2, just like people and animals. Trees are said to be "biologically overmature" at this point. Trees produce many benefits, but if you want to reduce atmospheric CO2, then young, vigorously-growing trees will help more than mature ones, and overmature trees will actually add CO2. I can't be sure if this Douglas-fir is overmature, or if it has defects like a damaged top, since the video doesn't show that, but these could be factors. Douglas-fir is a heavy seed producer, so it's likely that new trees will quickly sprout up from the seed already in the ground to fill the new hole in the canopy which allows sunlight to reach the forest floor. Re-planting is probably not needed here - nature will take care of that. Douglas-fir reaches pole-size in 30-40 years and several feet in diameter in 70-80 years. I think it's a bit hypocritical to criticize from ignorance, when most of us live in homes built from wood such as Douglas-fir and many of us buy this same species as Christmas trees every year, then toss them to the curb on Jan. 1 to go into a landfill or burn them. The 1,000's of board feet of lumber than this one tree provided probably made some fine furniture, cabinets, or flooring, plus tons of carbon will be locked up in the wood for as long as the product is used, possibly 100's of years. Everyone uses forest products whether they realize it or not. Just look around your home. They're probably in every room. Yes, they really do grow on trees! Now imagine going to the bathroom without forest products!
Well said Sir! I get it...but, unfortunately...most won't. They will prefer to continue on in ignorance of such facts...all they while lamenting the "killing" of such a Beautiful specimen. While doing such they are ignoring the fact that NOT felling such trees is a far bigger danger to us.....
I already understood that wood is a renewable resource but I learned alot from your comment thank you. I've planted a lot of trees in my life I wonder how many trees these uninformed cry babies ever planted in their life.
Your Not just a Forrester. You are a damn good Forrester to explain it that well and thought out. Everyone blames us tree guys. We just feeding our families. Everyone cusses us when we clear the lines well not everyone some do welcome it. But when it comes time to put that power back on in middle of night they Want that treeman.
@@A-guy34 Pfft. Planting a couple of seedlings is no substitute. Furthermore forestry is incredibly wastefull - a huge amount of 'slash' is left behind to rot. And the process of felling and processing uses a huge amount of fossil fuel (diesel, petrol, oil, and lube)
😪😪That tree survived 500 years of storms on this Earth. And, it provided 500 years of oxygen. Then, a human came along and cut it down in less than 15 minutes! He made a video and posted it for all of history to see and know...Man is the destroyer of Earth!
Not only it's a shame but we're all here watching and enabling someone to make money with advertising because of our curiosity. It all brings me back to Dylan's Desolation Row first verse. Maybe in 20 years we'll have laser cut machines to do that in 20 seconds. And we'll be proud of that! We'll be ready to call it progress. Hopeless...
I'm a greenie mate trees can have green leaves and be dead . Moisture in a trunk plus sections of sucrose in pockets of pulp can prolong the appearance of a living tree but truly tree feling of this size mostly involves an arborists prognosis about best cutting methods. This looks legit about a year removal for forest health not environmental vandalism. Trees struck by lightning shatter upper structure of the tree and snap half down trunks that get eaten or infested by termites , while we still use timber this is the better option. I was hurt by such logging untill I researched best practices.
Yea i know what ya mean. I'm sure the finished wood will be beautiful and something useful will be built from it but it almost hurt watching that beautiful majestic tree being cut and felled!
@@randyweaver9528 print taken but I do believe there are the trees to build sawdust houses😠 500 year old tree did not have to be cut down to build a house🏹🐎
Trees can live anywhere from less than 100 years to more than a few thousand years depending on the species. However, one species in particular outlives them all. The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) has been deemed the oldest tree in existence, reaching an age of over 5,000 years old. From google
It's called forest management. The largest, old-growth trees are cut to make way for smaller trees, and to prevent a forest floor from becoming a hot-bed for forest fires. Trees are a renewable resource.
@@markjones6096 While trees are a renewable resource, the video didn't explain why he was cutting it down. I've been doing tree work and selling firewood for 30 years, but this has nothing to do with preventing the forest floor from being a hotbed for forest fires! The Forest Service and logging companies make lots of money selling old growth timber.... Weyerhauser was allowed to destroy the entire upper Midwest cutting virtually all the white pine across numerous states up to 5' in diameter... Alaska has numerous clear cut areas that have nothing to do with forest mgmt... It's about making money, pure and simple......
Everytime I see RUclips video on tree cutting, it is advertised as an achievement when in fact this should be discouraged and treated as a form of violence
Had some really Powerful Dreams as of late I was blessed to see so much 🙏 lots of bad people making it hard for us all bad folks come in all shapes and sizes some are even disguised as Good guys... it is what it is... adults bringing the Big Man in the Skies wrath upon themselves with no thought for the Future Generations...
Интересует, зачем спиливать такие красивые и могучие деревья??? Кому они мешают???? Это красота и сила природы, их очень мало на всей территории нашей планеты Земля.
i just came here because a very old tree next to my house was cut today,and there were many squirellls living there aswell with their babys.now they need to find a new home.
Jesus Christ if u know nothing about anything keep ur mouth shut no it wasn't perfectly healthy ... It hand windshake and ring rot in it because they didn't cut it in time pls shut ur mouth and let the certified logger do the fact checking
¡Impresionante trabajo con esas máquinas gigantes! Es increíble ver cómo derriban árboles de 500 años de forma tan rápida y eficiente. Aprendí mucho sobre el proceso de tala.
I'm sure they have their reasons but they always have reasons. I grew up near the Great sequoias and I honestly don't think there should be any roads going through those forests. Even though I got to enjoy him I would have happily walked.
Well, I live in a brick-layed concrete house, get my bills online, have artificial wood -made furniture made from recycle plastic, and buy my groceries in my own shopping bags made from recycle clothes. In your face, and I not even live in a rich country like you. Furthermore, i planted 7 tress in my block near my house.
Do you buy stuff at Walmart? Are you cheap? Do you dispose right away? How about not supporting gubments that destroy our money's purchasing power? How about buying more expensive quality products that last? Those are constructive things you can do. Greed?! Let's talk about "greed." ruclips.net/video/RWsx1X8PV_A/видео.html
Quit telling people what to do. If you think hou can develop sustainable forestry with tree farms then just do it. No need to tell someone else what to do. Just do what you say is better and forget about the other people.
@@gpotts212 Wrong. When you destroy something 1000 years old, you are destroying something that is not yours. It is our collective environment. These Old-growth forests are irreplaceable. They host a diversity of wildlife that you're not going to get on a tree farm.
Before chainsaws loggers used springboards and long hand saws pulled by a lumber jack on each end. The springboards were typically placed well above ground so that they didn't have to saw an additional foot or two of diameter of trunk buttress. Old farms in the Pacific Northwest and I am sure other places as well had stumps 8 foot or more in height. As a youth I built a tree fort on top of one such stump. Enough log left to build a small house.
Bulshit. If you learn why this is necesary to do you will thinking again what you said. An old tree need to cut down since it blocked the sunshine for new plant that growt close to the tree. If huma n didnt cut it down it will fall naturally by strong wind or get set a fire by lightning strike. So dont put a blame to human "its like human its not a part of nature"
Ralph Hooker so many ways to make money it only takes about 3/5 hundred years to grow that tree 🌳I don’t any disrespect and not a tree hugger but when a tree gets that big it’s a shame to cut it
Not necessarily true. Some may have Beatles or harvested for old growth trees, premium lumber. Just depends on where it's at, type, health or why the tree needs removed. Remember you can't have homes or utilities poles with out trees. Buy some older trees are protected and some verity are too.
They do it in Shelton WA, out on the Coast where the Fascists white supremists will destroy every bit of Nature they get there hands on especially the Cedar trees they are not supposed to cut
Working in an old growth cut block makes us appreciate every day we get to spend on the mountain. Ive dropped some big coastal Cedars in my younger days (my mid 30's when heli logging was just getting started) and aside from the danger of the chopper going down in the un predictable coastal weather it was my favorite job of all time before I was married and started a family.
@@romans116spiritualwarrior7 - Almost 50 percent of pregnancy's end with a miscarriage. Around 12 percent are aborted. "God" is far more efficient at terminating pregnancy's than Planed Parenthood. Its no wonder "Ppl" do the same. If he's not doing a great job of valuing the sanctity of human life why should they? He sure works in mysterious ways.
Jim T yeah so save the trees not the unborn? Abortion is murder. Cutting down a tree is just cutting down a damn tree. Pretty simple. But ppl are more concerned about trees than human life. Shows our priorities are twisted in these end times. Christ is coming, repent before it’s too late
@@romans116spiritualwarrior7 - "Jim T yeah so save the trees not the unborn? " Nope. That is absolutely NOT what I said AT ALL. You're erroneously inferring that. I firmly believe that the majority of abortions are an absolutely abhorrent form of birth control. I simply stated that god, the almighty creator of the universe and everything in it, above anyone, should set the example when it comes to the value of human life. But he doesn't. A superior being that allows unborn children to perish in the womb, or an innocent young child to suffer and perish from a terrible disease, or at the hands of an adult, is worse than anyone cutting down a tree like that. So you see, I'm actually the one that values human life more than god does. I've given time and resources to children's charity's, to the homeless, to people affected by disasters. Never, once, did I see god, the almighty creator of the universe and everything in it, there repairing the damage he could have prevented in the first place. That's why I refuse to believe and will go to my grave refusing to believe rather than worship a monster. Hope that clears it up for you. Merry Christmas.
The Timber Industry likes to say "We plant two trees for every one we cut down". Yes they do, they cut down a tree as big around as a hot tub and plant two tiny little saplings no bigger than a pencil. The big tree took hundreds of years to grow that large and the tiny saplings may not make it through their first Summer.
hey now california just legalized sex with minors and no criminal charges for knowingly passing on aids to people, lets not talk about their terrible fire hazard get me relected politics having to do with forest management, its bad optics.
Such an aged tree should have been preserved as national heritage.
crazy
Trees are awesome, we need more, not less. I like weeping willows, what about you?
In the Forest service they servey trees and help identify dead dying or infected trees. They will cut these trees down to allow for new growth and also allow these older growth to still be able to live without a danger of being fallen on or killed by the infection as well. You sometimes have to cut down tree to save trees.
@@ShrzkDoMinecraft it doesn't look like a dead tree 🌲🌴
@@ShrzkDoMinecraft these libtards can't understand any of that.
Just think, that majestic tree was 240 years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed. How many more historical events did this giant of the forest witness? It was a seedling around the year 1500. Standing tall and strong for five centuries, withstanding weather, fire, war and disasters, just to be destroyed in the name of wood, paper and toothpicks. What a shame.
They're probably cutting it down for another reason but I doubt it's a good reason. I've touched trees that were 700 years old and these same woods.
This just breaks my heart how can you cut down something so majestic and that’s been here through so much history. This is a historical crime I just don’t understand how it is possible that we is a species can you allow this my heart is breaking and crying I am so disappointed in my whole race whoever they be that would allow this. There are so many other trees you can cut why would you have to get one that is been through so much history it is just consciously unthinkable that we can find any reason you know reminder in our heart to do this. There will come someday of the reckoning and this moment will not be forgotten this tree is a king you need to own right May the sawyer Go home tonight and sleep in peace. I’m ashamed to be in the human race what crimes we have committed you know what we half to come to judgment for.
I absolutely agree with you it’s a disgrace. Only when the last tree has been cut and the last river poisoned will we realise we can’t eat money.
eventually, it will die. why does it matter whether this tree lives 500 years or 500 million years? what if cutting this tree means a hospital can be built in its place, saving thousands of lives per year?
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The trees is what builds your house
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It's trees that build your house yes but you don't have to pick the biggest, oldest ones to do it.
Use restrainable forests for lumber don't just pick the biggest trees.
Watching this is truely heartbreaking. There is nothing good about felling trees that are hundreds of years old.
The loggers have been doing this in the USA northwest and the Canadian southwest for a century or more. At least 95% of the big trees, millions of them, thousands of square miles / thousands square kilometers of them, have been cut down, and the loggers still want to cut down the last few areas that remain. They call it "economics" and "it keeps them working". They think they own ALL the land, ALL the trees, and ALL the values that the land represents. For them, their money, and NOTHING else.
Nothing good? That's a Lot of wood.
Périod!
@@DangerDajo No it's not.
@@DangerDajo Folks who decimate the whale populations think the same, Wow that's a lot of meat. So what Bozo. Put down that ganja weed dude.
Man himself reaches the end of man.
These are the signs of the times.
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people."- 2 Timothy 3.
@@andya2665man shut yo..
You have a unique ability to make complex ideas easy to understand.
Why is someone cutting down a 500-year-old tree?
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Those humans must be died in 5 minutes and den ask them how do they can be on life again?
For firewood
Capitalism kills.
@@twonumber22 😂😂😂😂, ❄
Why would you cut that tree down it survived 500 years so sad
Maybe it's diseased, or at risk of falling uncontrolled. Maybe to clear way for under brush or other there's to get more sunlight, etc... maybe reasons.
Oh hell, maybe he had the afternoon of and just wanted to piss off tree huggers.
So sad
Its disgraceful.
No... But that's not the case here and it never is
@@nuwlight7642 How do you know?
People are forgetting that trees and plants are what provide us with the air we BREATHE
Trees don't produce alot of oxygen also like 2 trees can fit in that one huge tree
I breathe nitrogen dioxide
People also forget that their house's structure is made of wood..
i know liberals think power is magic that comes from "outlets" while driving battery powered cars that destroy the ocean, really pisses me off too.
@@3dstuffYTB But not from an old tree like this.
cutting such a previous tree. Greed of mankind will render this planet lifeless one day.
You know its comical the ignorance and actual lack of knowledge people possess in regard to the logging industry. Such weak minded sheep begging to be taken care of by massive over bloated over regulated government.
@@davez4064 so bc people want to save the trees they are sheep being led to slaughter by the government? Sounds like you yourself drank the cool aid and you yourself are the one being led to slaughter . Tree huggers don't normal fall for the government's tricks but it sounds like you have .
I couldn't imagine wanting to cut down a 500 year old tree.
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I could.
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I would love to from that one tree I could build my house and half a dozen barns
need a house? you need wood
This tree stood since the time of Galileo Galilei, and while colonized america was in its infancy.. and then a guy with a funny orange hat shows up and and smiling records a video of tearing it down.
But it will make an awesome deck.
I agree, this is absolutely atrocious. They have all the trees that could possibly want here in michigan, constantly cutting down acres of land and regrowing them and cutting them down again. We have a good cycle over here. Why go after these ancient trees that should stand until they fall on their own? Disgusting
Go hug a tree libs.
@Andrew And where did you learn that fallacy?
Do you eat meat? Or are you a vegetarian?
Either way, you are “taking” a life that you did not give.
So save your fake philosophy for the weak-minded sheeple.
Because I will destroy anything you say with simple logic.
@Andrew
I see you refuse to answer the question whether you eat meat or are a vegetarian.
You stating that no one has the right to take a life (in your statement, you were clear you were talking about a tree).
But you refused to answer the question, because like any liberal, you don’t think before you speak. Liberals don’t think anyway, they “feel”. Feelings don’t trump logic, reason, and facts.
So either way, you have to eat, and you probably eat spices, derived from plants, take medicine derived from plants, live in a house built from wood, ad nauseam.
So whether I change your mind is irrelevant.
The fact is you don’t live up to the “simple” moral code that you espoused in your post while trying to lecture me, which makes you a hypocrite.
On a side note, I never made the intent that I was here to change your mind; that is something you just assumed, because your emotional, not logical.
I was running this saw for about 2 hours at about a 30-50% duty cycle ruclips.net/user/postUgkxfQm1wmg0ItKDLavxj1nXtQY9HP7EF504 and it did a great job. I used the lever for the built in sharpener to clear chip buildup out more than to actually sharpen the chain. It managed to cut some hardwood stumps much larger than it's size without bothering the neighbors with hours of 2 stroke noise.
So sad to see a beautiful 500-year-old tree be taken down.
Sure is nice to watch.
@alillightjustaftermidnight it's like 50 years old. Trees don't live 500 years
@alillightjustaftermidnight boohoo. You also want us to give up oil?
@@stevehorn1297 not at all.... its just sad to be honest.
@@stevehorn1297 trees do live 500 years. Read a book.
Well! I did not see any wood rot in the core of that 'dangerous' tree.
It’s going to die anyway! Cut em down!
@@donkischel6153 Cut one - plant at least 10.
They may have means felling the tree was dangerous.
@@HQHQHQHQHQHQHQHQHQHQHQHQHQHQHQ planting ten will take up too much space, not allowing for plants of the forest floor.
Even if you make the most beautiful furniture or whatever, it will never be worth as it's life. Life is beautiful.
Isn't that a Damn Shame?
It took about forever to age and mature....
But only a couple minutes to destroy....
And they use the word "Skill" to describe it?
I'd say "Murder" would be a better word...
@@joeleyendecker5346 wa wa wa
It's a tree lol
I'm not watching it all, only a few seconds, I know that it means destruction of beauty and calm and so do the creatures that live in and around it , im angry, but I can live with its memory, but can the fool who has no heart .
Retired forester here. From the video, it looks like the first tree is a Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and the second, a white ash (Fraxinus americana). Douglas-fir is a western species found in the Rockies and from N California to the Pacific NW into S British Columbia. White ash is an eastern tree found extensively throughout the Midwest and eastern US. From National Wildlife Fund:
"The population of these trees is stable. Many people are familiar with Douglas firs because they are one of several species used as Christmas trees. Aside from their use as holiday decorations, Douglas firs are one of the most valuable timber resources in the country. They’re used for furniture, poles, fences, and flooring, among other things. Although they are harvested extensively for timber, Douglas firs are widespread and aren’t in danger of extinction."
If you've never seen a big tree felled before, it can be a shocking experience. This Douglas-fir looks about 5 ft in diameter, big, but not that unusual. There are still plenty of Douglas-firs this size. Why did they cut down such a magnificent tree, you may wonder. Is this legal? Why don't they cut some other trees down, or just use dead trees? Some of the negative comments directed to the sawyer are over the top. Perhaps I can shed some light.
You may be surprised to learn that old trees eventually reach a point where they are a net CO2 emitter, not absorber. This is because trees respirate, similar to animals, whenever they can't do photosynthesis, as at night or when dormant during the winter. They respirate by burning the sugars they made during photosynthesis, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. As they age, trees increase the time spent in respiration vs. photosynthesis.
The point at which an old tree changes from being an oxygen-releasing, CO2 absorber to an oxygen-using, CO2 emitter varies with species, age, size, and other factors. So, if a tree lives long enough, the net effect is that it uses oxygen and gives off CO2, just like people and animals. Trees are said to be "biologically overmature" at this point.
Trees produce many benefits, but if you want to reduce atmospheric CO2, then young, vigorously-growing trees will help more than mature ones, and overmature trees will actually add CO2. I can't be sure if this Douglas-fir is overmature, or if it has defects like a damaged top, since the video doesn't show that, but these could be factors.
Douglas-fir is a heavy seed producer, so it's likely that new trees will quickly sprout up from the seed already in the ground to fill the new hole in the canopy which allows sunlight to reach the forest floor. Re-planting is probably not needed here - nature will take care of that. Douglas-fir reaches pole-size in 30-40 years and several feet in diameter in 70-80 years.
I think it's a bit hypocritical to criticize from ignorance, when most of us live in homes built from wood such as Douglas-fir and many of us buy this same species as Christmas trees every year, then toss them to the curb on Jan. 1 to go into a landfill or burn them. The 1,000's of board feet of lumber than this one tree provided probably made some fine furniture, cabinets, or flooring, plus tons of carbon will be locked up in the wood for as long as the product is used, possibly 100's of years.
Everyone uses forest products whether they realize it or not. Just look around your home. They're probably in every room. Yes, they really do grow on trees! Now imagine going to the bathroom without forest products!
Well said Sir! I get it...but, unfortunately...most won't. They will prefer to continue on in ignorance of such facts...all they while lamenting the "killing" of such a Beautiful specimen. While doing such they are ignoring the fact that NOT felling such trees is a far bigger danger to us.....
I already understood that wood is a renewable resource but I learned alot from your comment thank you. I've planted a lot of trees in my life I wonder how many trees these uninformed cry babies ever planted in their life.
Вот кто истинный варвар.
Thanks for data. And clearly you are part of those who damages earth,nature for profit.
Your Not just a Forrester. You are a damn good Forrester to explain it that well and thought out. Everyone blames us tree guys. We just feeding our families. Everyone cusses us when we clear the lines well not everyone some do welcome it. But when it comes time to put that power back on in middle of night they Want that treeman.
I doubt a lot of people like what you’re doing I’m glad this is on RUclips for everybody to see you do this
It's great
There going to plant like 2 more trees in its place which is better for the economy and environment these workers deserve more respect at what they do
i doubt people that wear plaid ironically and have sex with 10 dudes a week have any idea where their food and fuel comes from.
@@A-guy34 Pfft. Planting a couple of seedlings is no substitute. Furthermore forestry is incredibly wastefull - a huge amount of 'slash' is left behind to rot. And the process of felling and processing uses a huge amount of fossil fuel (diesel, petrol, oil, and lube)
@@michaelstevenson470 the slash rots and becomes fertilizer for the forest :)
500 hundred years of glory to be wasted, so sad!!
I can't believe people would cut down parts of history like this
I can. We all have wood houses.
@@hi86065 🤣
@@hi86065 They don't cut down those old trees for houses
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😪😪That tree survived 500 years of storms on this Earth. And, it provided 500 years of oxygen. Then, a human came along and cut it down in less than 15 minutes! He made a video and posted it for all of history to see and know...Man is the destroyer of Earth!
I instantly disliked his cruel and stupid video. I hate RUclips for hiding the dislike numbers
@@omardawkins3178 Yes. Some humans aren't conscious beings.
Should’ve let that big one live out it’s life…
also all animals and plants should live out their lives, that way you have no food.
You can hear the wood gnomes talking about it in the background.
And here i thought they were chipmunks.
Seriously,the tree weathered all for 500 years then it cut down by human being.
Not only it's a shame but we're all here watching and enabling someone to make money with advertising because of our curiosity.
It all brings me back to Dylan's Desolation Row first verse.
Maybe in 20 years we'll have laser cut machines to do that in 20 seconds. And we'll be proud of that! We'll be ready to call it progress. Hopeless...
If that tree wasn't dead, and I saw green leafs on it as it fell, then we had ABSOLUTELY no business cutting it down.
You were there?
The business is logging.
I'm a greenie mate trees can have green leaves and be dead . Moisture in a trunk plus sections of sucrose in pockets of pulp can prolong the appearance of a living tree but truly tree feling of this size mostly involves an arborists prognosis about best cutting methods. This looks legit about a year removal for forest health not environmental vandalism. Trees struck by lightning shatter upper structure of the tree and snap half down trunks that get eaten or infested by termites , while we still use timber this is the better option. I was hurt by such logging untill I researched best practices.
@@itzOLE3 You are smart!
Pretty sure it's THE BUSINESS of the owner buddy.
So the big big man with the big big power tool cuts down a beautiful 500 year old tree 😒where the hell is the glory in that💔
Yea i know what ya mean. I'm sure the finished wood will be beautiful and something useful will be built from it but it almost hurt watching that beautiful majestic tree being cut and felled!
To make you children play carrom..
Sell your house made out of Wood. Go live in the forest with no roof over your head, made out of Wood.
@@randyweaver9528 print taken but I do believe there are the trees to build sawdust houses😠 500 year old tree did not have to be cut down to build a house🏹🐎
Lol. Who said anything about glory? What a dumb comment
Trees can live anywhere from less than 100 years to more than a few thousand years depending on the species. However, one species in particular outlives them all. The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) has been deemed the oldest tree in existence, reaching an age of over 5,000 years old. From google
So what? We technically highly gifted humans simply saw down such trees with our machines.
@@eliteled1037 if it's a hazard then yes
Now I won't run out of paper 👍
You have a natural talent for building and maintaining strong relationships.
That tree's life is worth much more than the person's who is cutting it down !
100%. All these “people” are nothing compared to that ancient tree. Human termites.
Sin lugar a duda UN MEGA ECOCIDIO , CUANTA DEFORESTACION Y LUEGO NOS QUEJAMOS DEL CAMBIO CLIMATICO, HABER QUE RESPIRAMOS EL DIA DE MAÑANA
Is there a reason for this destruction. Is it for safety or profit?
Took 500 long years....to get to such a big tree,but only 30 minutes to put it down .
It's for a politician who needs to park his private jet.
Anyways, you horrible person stop hurting the environment and use cardboard straws!
The tree should have been preseved.500 years old tree is a living monument of the past.
This tree live for 500 years waiting to be cut and uploaded to youtube.
@Mikey moo a tree like this was probably slabbed and make into high end live edge furniture or large beams
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Ojalá el ser humano venidero no sea tan estúpido como el actual
I'd use it for firewood
I'm no geeenie,
But what the hell are they doing chopping down a 500 year old tree?
Bezos wants a deck?.🙄
It's called forest management. The largest, old-growth trees are cut to make way for smaller trees, and to prevent a forest floor from becoming a hot-bed for forest fires. Trees are a renewable resource.
@@markjones6096 I say leave it alone, the earth thrived just find without humans before, it’s no different now. Stupid is what it is.
@@markjones6096 Oh bull!
@@markjones6096 While trees are a renewable resource, the video didn't explain why he was cutting it down. I've been doing tree work and selling firewood for 30 years, but this has nothing to do with preventing the forest floor from being a hotbed for forest fires! The Forest Service and logging companies make lots of money selling old growth timber.... Weyerhauser was allowed to destroy the entire upper Midwest cutting virtually all the white pine across numerous states up to 5' in diameter... Alaska has numerous clear cut areas that have nothing to do with forest mgmt... It's about making money, pure and simple......
Everytime I see RUclips video on tree cutting, it is advertised as an achievement when in fact this should be discouraged and treated as a form of violence
What a hero....
Your passion for your work is truly infectious.
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Awww you can hear the little woodland creatures speaking on the back ground.😊
Your intelligence and quick wit are truly impressive.
Had some really Powerful Dreams as of late I was blessed to see so much 🙏 lots of bad people making it hard for us all bad folks come in all shapes and sizes some are even disguised as Good guys... it is what it is... adults bringing the Big Man in the Skies wrath upon themselves with no thought for the Future Generations...
You okay by the way like in general
Your ability to maintain a positive attitude in difficult situations is truly inspiring.
Cuidem das florestas de voces e deixem nossa amozinia que nos cuidamos
Are you proud of cutting 500 years old trees that you made a video of it? find another trade or job that does not distroy nature but helps it.
Not a “tree hugger”… but this cut is bastardized and totally cowardly and unnecessary…
Let me come to your house (probably made of wood) and see your cabinets, furniture, oh you have books and papers too?
@@andya2665 nobody uses books or paper anymore that's so last century
Интересует, зачем спиливать такие красивые и могучие деревья??? Кому они мешают???? Это красота и сила природы, их очень мало на всей территории нашей планеты Земля.
Все упирается в деньги.
Habuan dunia pak...
I'm rooting for the tree
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Another hero with a big saw. Some things are better left alone.
You have a remarkable ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
All u tree huggers that live in a wood house can zip it
Isn't there an old tree law,to keep these giant trees.
isnt there a no work no eat law for useless parasites?
Your ability to work collaboratively and build strong teams is truly impressive.
I cannot afford to see a 500 year old tree will be cut n fell just like an ordinary tree.. century old trees should be protected
500 years of growing and with a blink of an eye gone what a shame when do we learn
For some reason it seems never
Learn what? WTF difference does it make if it's 500 years old?
@@GeorgeAmsterdam old growth trees are Important. Just like some old buildings.
Human beings are the most invasive species yet discovered.
Invading what?
@@johnbishop5316 every thing
That's how we clawed our way to the top of the food chain, so...
i just came here because a very old tree next to my house was cut today,and there were many squirellls living there aswell with their babys.now they need to find a new home.
Who would destroy such an ancient tree! Sad indeed.
Would you rather they rot and fall over?
Don't worry. In 500 years, there will be plenty more.
@@John-pc3cx
How about we take you out before you rot and fall over?
I couldn’t bring myself to ever cut a old tree. It should be protected not cut up for lumber. No way to go
It happens all the time tho, plz join the resistance
Only reason I watched was to see if it landed on top of him.
This sound 🔊kills someone's life and dignity, service of 500yrs....and we say human's got intelligence... 🦍🐂
It was just a tree buddy.
@@GeorgeAmsterdam say this when someone kills your love one ☝and say it's just a human... See 👀population is going up.. .!
@@deepakedition5259 That actually is precisely how they think.
Acho que esse planeta estaria bem melhor sem o ser humano, incrível como destruímos tudo o que tocamos!
😢😢😢😢
Ive seen pics of old growth trees from 75 years ago looking the same today. Maybe one leaning a bit. These trees are thousand years plus.
I could see cutting down that tree,,,,,,, IF IT WAS ROTTEN. AND A DANGER TO PEOPLE.. but this was a very healthy tree.
Jesus Christ if u know nothing about anything keep ur mouth shut no it wasn't perfectly healthy ... It hand windshake and ring rot in it because they didn't cut it in time pls shut ur mouth and let the certified logger do the fact checking
more hohow about YOU KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT
@@paulgibson973 outdoors is correct please get educated
@@alpearson9158 you are the one that needs EDUCATED.......
500 years to grow, 15 minutes to cut ...
They don't live forever, you know.
Some species of trees can live for 3 to 4 thousand years.
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¡Impresionante trabajo con esas máquinas gigantes! Es increíble ver cómo derriban árboles de 500 años de forma tan rápida y eficiente. Aprendí mucho sobre el proceso de tala.
I'm all behind the responsible lumber industry but this should be a crime!
I'm sure they have their reasons but they always have reasons. I grew up near the Great sequoias and I honestly don't think there should be any roads going through those forests. Even though I got to enjoy him I would have happily walked.
unlike rape and murder which is ok if your a certain ethnicity, right? id ad more but i gotta go burn some tires, which you cant afford, lol
Even though I live in a wood house and use paper and receive paper bill and receipts. Also paper food bags. I will criticize this. (Sarcasm)
Yeah !!! and you wipe your a__ with what ? I created hundreds of beautiful stumps 40 years ago. Planted more than a few too. Que sera sera
Well, I live in a brick-layed concrete house, get my bills online, have artificial wood -made furniture made from recycle plastic, and buy my groceries in my own shopping bags made from recycle clothes. In your face, and I not even live in a rich country like you. Furthermore, i planted 7 tress in my block near my house.
This is a awesome cutting tree 🌲
seeing the death of a tree that was alive before my grandfather was born is like dying a little
your grandfather was born 500yrs ago??
@@crabtrap I say that the tree WAS ALIVE BEFORE MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN, what is your doubt?
@@panchoviejo6292 the tree was alive before your great great great great grandfather was born. Why would u say just "grandfather"???
@@crabtrap lesson and repit:::: before my grandfather was born / before my grandfather was born / ...
500 times, muchas gracias
@@crabtrap I do not know why, such time be the mind-lessness of the language, but my indignation is not scarce no.Cordiales saludos
I'M GLAD THEY'RE CUTTING DOWN THESE OLD BEAUTIFUL TREES....WE NEED MORE JUNK @ WALMART SO WE CAN THROW IT AWAY IN A COUPLE MONTHS
Do you buy stuff at Walmart?
Are you cheap?
Do you dispose right away?
How about not supporting gubments that destroy our money's purchasing power?
How about buying more expensive quality products that last?
Those are constructive things you can do.
Greed?! Let's talk about "greed."
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Quit Old-Growth logging. You can develop sustainable forestry with tree farms.
Quit telling people what to do. If you think hou can develop sustainable forestry with tree farms then just do it. No need to tell someone else what to do. Just do what you say is better and forget about the other people.
@@gpotts212 Wrong. When you destroy something 1000 years old, you are destroying something that is not yours. It is our collective environment. These Old-growth forests are irreplaceable. They host a diversity of wildlife that you're not going to get on a tree farm.
If I founded a tree farm, that's not going to stop losers such as yourself from taking the easy way out.. pilfering what doesn't belong to you.
@@gpotts212 If there's no need to tell someone else what to do, why are you telling someone else what not to do?
@@johnbishop5316 that’s fair. In the time between these messages I cut down several 100 yr old trees on my property. @anonymous anonymous
Tree cutting can surely be a dangerous business. Your RUclips shows that !
One day human beings will have no place to hide.
We are there .
I'm willing to bet you live in a house furnished with stuff made from wood.
It's just a tree, UNDERSTAND???
It should be against the law to cut any tree over 250 years old.
and it generally is but age doesn't guarantee life. sometimes the tree must come down for reasons of illness etc. sad but true
Why?
You dont need a notch over 6 inches high once the tree gets started it's gone. People that don't know about cutting will believe this.
There's some edge on that chain
The inventor of the chainsaw has much to answer for.
You've got a good point there.
Chainsaws were created for childbirth surgeries not cutting down trees so not really
Before chainsaws loggers used springboards and long hand saws pulled by a lumber jack on each end. The springboards were typically placed well above ground so that they didn't have to saw an additional foot or two of diameter of trunk buttress. Old farms in the Pacific Northwest and I am sure other places as well had stumps 8 foot or more in height. As a youth I built a tree fort on top of one such stump. Enough log left to build a small house.
Redwood tree in the thumbnail was 500 years old 500 years ago, and (oddly) *NOT* featured in this video........
Your empathy and compassion for others are truly admirable.
Do we need to cut down a 500 year old tree?, seems ridiculous to me..its a pilliar of history
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Cutting down a 500-year-old tree with those huge chainsaw machines is wild! The power and precision are incredible!
Why would anyone wants to cut down a 500 years old tree.
Tragic you can hear the anguish from the tree. No wonder nature is fighting back
Bulshit. If you learn why this is necesary to do you will thinking again what you said. An old tree need to cut down since it blocked the sunshine for new plant that growt close to the tree. If huma n didnt cut it down it will fall naturally by strong wind or get set a fire by lightning strike. So dont put a blame to human "its like human its not a part of nature"
Get a grip on reality
Why cut such a beautiful tree 🌳?
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For money!
Ralph Hooker so many ways to make money it only takes about 3/5 hundred years to grow that tree 🌳I don’t any disrespect and not a tree hugger but when a tree gets that big it’s a shame to cut it
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@@hobbithembree1476 What does it matter?
Humans destroying the Earth & Their creatures😞
500 years old, uh, that's illegal.
Not necessarily true. Some may have Beatles or harvested for old growth trees, premium lumber. Just depends on where it's at, type, health or why the tree needs removed. Remember you can't have homes or utilities poles with out trees. Buy some older trees are protected and some verity are too.
They do it in Shelton WA, out on the Coast where the Fascists white supremists will destroy every bit of Nature they get there hands on especially the Cedar trees they are not supposed to cut
Intresting to watch but i love these old trees. Any reason why this tree went down?
gravity
Timbers
Forrest Management
Some people love only destruction. The grander the life the greater the satisfaction in destroying it.
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Working in an old growth cut block makes us appreciate every day we get to spend on the mountain. Ive dropped some big coastal Cedars in my younger days (my mid 30's when heli logging was just getting started) and aside from the danger of the chopper going down in the un predictable coastal weather it was my favorite job of all time before I was married and started a family.
Why would anyone cut down something that has lived through so much history
Next up - killing an old man because he's in the way.
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Ppl do it to babies in the womb cus it’s inconvenient. Sick. But society says it’s ok
@@romans116spiritualwarrior7 - Almost 50 percent of pregnancy's end with a miscarriage. Around 12 percent are aborted. "God" is far more efficient at terminating pregnancy's than Planed Parenthood. Its no wonder "Ppl" do the same. If he's not doing a great job of valuing the sanctity of human life why should they?
He sure works in mysterious ways.
Jim T yeah so save the trees not the unborn? Abortion is murder. Cutting down a tree is just cutting down a damn tree. Pretty simple. But ppl are more concerned about trees than human life. Shows our priorities are twisted in these end times. Christ is coming, repent before it’s too late
@@romans116spiritualwarrior7 - "Jim T yeah so save the trees not the unborn? "
Nope. That is absolutely NOT what I said AT ALL. You're erroneously inferring that.
I firmly believe that the majority of abortions are an absolutely abhorrent form of birth control.
I simply stated that god, the almighty creator of the universe and everything in it, above anyone, should set the example when it comes to the value of human life. But he doesn't. A superior being that allows unborn children to perish in the womb, or an innocent young child to suffer and perish from a terrible disease, or at the hands of an adult, is worse than anyone cutting down a tree like that. So you see, I'm actually the one that values human life more than god does.
I've given time and resources to children's charity's, to the homeless, to people affected by disasters. Never, once, did I see god, the almighty creator of the universe and everything in it, there repairing the damage he could have prevented in the first place.
That's why I refuse to believe and will go to my grave refusing to believe rather than worship a monster.
Hope that clears it up for you.
Merry Christmas.
🌺 WOW, that was heart-breaking to see that go down! 😢 All I could think aboit was...500 years destroyed!!! 😢🌺
It's clickbait they aren't 500 years old like aint no tree 500 years old and it's that small
I like to see people using technical skills to perform complex operations, but here an achievement this is not.
Sorry mate, but you did wrong.
Estas pobres personas que derriba estos árboles de tantos años, NO TIENEN CONCIENCIA DE LO QUE HACEN.
Bro it's there job plus thoses trees are probs only 200- years old also did you know that THEY CAN JUST PLANT 2 TREES IN THE SPACE
Жалко лесного исполина! Лесоруб похож на жука- короеда, уничтожающего все живое!
See
You're one of the most reliable and trustworthy people I know.
The Timber Industry likes to say "We plant two trees for every one we cut down".
Yes they do, they cut down a tree as big around as a hot tub and plant two tiny little saplings no bigger than a pencil.
The big tree took hundreds of years to grow that large and the tiny saplings may not make it through their first Summer.
You try planting a tree a big as a hot tub then
Nice
That tree fought you with all it had.
Tough guy cutting that old tree
You would be deeply saddened if you go to Sequoia NP where they have had to fell many trees larger than this close to roads due to fire damage.
sequoias exist bc of fire
hey now california just legalized sex with minors and no criminal charges for knowingly passing on aids to people, lets not talk about their terrible fire hazard get me relected politics having to do with forest management, its bad optics.
500yrs to grow......8min to cut it down
What a sad & heart breaking scene ..
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Несколько поколений пройдёт прежде чем вырастит вновь такое дерево. Сколько у Всемогущего любви и терпения к людям.
You have a natural talent for public speaking and presenting.
Your kindness and generosity are unmatched.
Это так верно. Я бы хотел, чтобы такие деревья не вырубали.
Stop cutting down 500 year (or older）trees. They don’t belong to any human being, dammit. Leave them alone.
There should be laws to protect the Rights of Trees to live 🌲🌳🌴🌲🌳🌴 !!!!!
There should be a death for abortion.
@@stackmanstack ...and for the rapist
Kraj ove divne planete,ljudi su unistili najlepše sto nam je dragi ""BOG DAO !!!
Человеческие твари убивают прекрасные деревья,которые дают человеку возможность дышать.
And plant 2 more trees in its place
You have a natural talent for leadership and bringing out the best in others.