Helping my partner on a big one

This is my partner's first big cedar. I came over to give him a hand. The tree is a true 15 foot diameter tree. We lucked out on it, as it was hollow in the middle and was pretty easy to cut down, other than wanting to pinch in the undercut and having to make a double window to reach all the holding that was keeping it up. Enjoy, I am sure this is one of the biggest trees you'll see on youtube being felled.

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[canadiancarguy]

You want me to make a video of how we used to do it with axe and crosscut saw? Chances are the fabric you are using to wipe your ass comes from cellulose fibres from pulp logs. Do you want me to make a video of me eating vegetables and laugh as I swallow them and flaunt the death of that essential organism? You remind me of the people who protested removing snags (dead trees) from the park on Port Alberni highway, they changed their minds after a couple people got killed while walking it in wind

[canadiancarguy]

300 years is nothing to Earth!! If it bothers you so much what are you doing about it? Don't you take dead plants out of your garden and replant new ones to give more life to the garden, the forest is the same principal. We just stopped all operations in a second growth block today because we found 2 Eagle nests that weren't spotted in the 2 original fly overs. Drake, why would you say something like that??? I let people like you post your thoughts and opinions and you want me dead???

[canadiancarguy]

yourself in this same situation with higher than normal blood pressure. Aaron isn't falling with us anymore, but this footage speaks for itself, this tree was similar to diffusing a bomb one wrong cut and the tree was heavy enought to collapse on itself, this is an achievment no one can take away from him. He removed this danger tree without injury and made the area safe for the harvesting of the timber; who else can say that they cut a 15 foot diameter tree down?

[canadiancarguy]

Don't kid yourself this was a high stress danger tree. You cannot see it clearly in the footage but there were broken off school marms hanging over our heads, that is why we got jumpy and ran away premature to the snag falling. I give Aaron a lot of praise for hanging in there and finishing this tree. How many of you out there are performing high stress and strenuous work with stints in your main arteries to your hearts? Aaron suffered a heart attack sometime before this video now imagine

[canadiancarguy]

Also the laughter in video was a reaction from the amount of adrenaline we experienced while cutting this snag down. Let me assure you our energy quickly wore off and we were extremely tired for the rest of the day after.

[canadiancarguy]

change. We realize we have a long ways to go to fully understand the effects we have on our earth, at least we recognize that our actions have affected the climate and we are moving forward to attempt to correct our mistakes. I appreciate all of opinions expressed in the comments of this video and as you can see I haven't erased anyone's reply. So my next question is who weeds their gardens? Is this not similar to what us loggers do on a smaller scale???

[ozziairlegger]

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[Hendrix92TheUniverse]

The thunderous sound was great. I believe in responsible forestry, as do all loggers. There is nothing wrong with taking mature trees and planting new ones.

You guys have guts, to take on a tree like that.

I have been searching YouTube, and thus far, this is the best video of felling a large tree.

[petzltreeclimber]

@Archadeus000 Hold on guys! I never meant for my 1st comment to be insulting... I was just stating my opinion.

[Archadeus000]

@petzltreeclimber Ahh you're come back is so clever! How could I ever bounce back from such a phenominal display of wit.... //sarcasm. Just for the record there Sally that means I actually think you're an... iiii--hiihii-iidiot.. If you even thought for one second in that bee-hive's nest you call a brain that maybe if you paid attention to my reply you'd realize I wasn't being insulting. You said the tree was useless in it's current state but you're dead wrong newbie...

[MrTony079]

@canadiancarguy There must be a lot of tree huggers in north america. The people in Switzerland really appreciate it when we harvest timber. A quarter of them are even thinking that we could harvest more if we want to. Do you have any hardwood over there?

[army2k08]

How long did it take to cut down? I'm guessing 2 or more hours?

[petzltreeclimber]

@Archadeus000 You're a bitch!...

[Archadeus000]

@petzltreeclimber Actually I imagine if you paid any attention in school with the way an eco system works is dead matter animal or plant otherwise contributes to the growth process of the enviroment where that matter then resides. Big rotten tree provides alot of nutrients as fertilizer and food for the surrounding plants and organisms promoting a healthy forest.

[Darkskate12]

Hey owner of the video! Nice Job! Have you ever seen or heard about bees/wasps in old trees?

[Hendrix92TheUniverse]

I have a great respect for these men. It is a dangerous job to take down these trees.

Thanks for posting. I guessed 12 foot diameter, but 15 foot is what I read, that is truly incredible.

And the thunderous sound was great.