Giant Redwood Trees Being Cut Down!

This video combines the 1952 Kirk Douglas movie "Big Trees" with a 1940's documentary "Redwood Saga".
It shows 2000 year old Redwood trees being cut down and processed into lumber to be used to build houses and other wood products, here in the United States and abroad in the early 1900's.

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[mrflyfishingak]

Tree hugger! I ain't like your kind

[LVPLACLAIR]

@mrflyfishingak No . . . I'm not a tree hugger or hater . . .just an interesting piece of history.

[garfark]

Sierra Redwoods aren't being logged, they are pretty much worthless as lumber, Federal protect is only on Federal lands, private lands are not effected. the Coast Redwood is still being logged. Yes they are very heavy and brittle, great pains are taken to save as much of the tree as possible. I worked in this industry for several years, waste was minimal. As for Siberia, too cold for Redwoods, they are pretty much a Northern California thing, the rest are transplants. Ya Bunch of Fruitloops

[websense]

Humankind are worse than insects and fire. Humankind is the cancer of the earth. We will eat the whole earth and die with it.

[MarkFlyboxerCollins]

"Insects and fungi do not hurt it, and it actually resists fire. So the saws keep working and the axe men bring the tree down." It's ironic that what was an evolutionary strength for millions of years, actually became the redwoods greatest downfall in the last hundred. Maybe the consequence will be that the new redwoods will eventually start producing crap wood. Then we would have a reason to save old growth forests.

[frizzybob]

@nosey32 now look at the men these days....

[nosey32]

Man! Men use to work very hard back then....

[Hotwatty]

Another example of mankinds disrespect for nature.

[rephaim23]

These dudes were tough as nails. This was an all American job. These guys conquered the largest giants nature could throw at them.

[geert574]

This video makes me wanna drop some logs.

[north005]

Dang. Can you imagine how many dudes lost fingers to the automatic saw at 5:25?

[VPSantiago]

I would have liked to see just the 1940s Redwood Saga documentary, that was really cool to see. The Big Trees part was fairly high on the cheese factor.

Also the documentary is slightly incorrect about the names of the tree. The scientific name of Coastal Redwood is "sequoia semperviren", while what they refered to as "Sierra Redwood" is probably the "sequoiadendron giganteum"

[johannes19969]

poor trees