Old Growth Fir Take-Down

Piecing down an old Douglas-fir. Unfortunately a road for a housing development is being built too close to this tree to let it stay. Hundreds of years of growth ending in a few hours.
About 65" DBH and I would estimate just over 180' tall.

Music: Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• arborist
• chainsaw
• tree-cutting
• tree-falling
• tree-climbing
• felling

[bojahhwow]

so yea thats the big ? why did you chunk her up seems like 36'10 or even some 26'10's woulda worked or did the camera really make those chunks look small ?? just curious.

[grufrock]

There's a highway just to the right of the camera, about 80 yards downhill from the tree. So I took what I thought would stay on the hill. Most of the wood was just anyways, I think the butt log went for firewood in fact.

[TreeGuy1227]

OK...not bad.But why not make it easier on yourself & limb the thing out on the way up ?

[grufrock]

It was easier to leave the limbs on. They were all on one side for the most part so they pulled the sections over. Also I used them for getting up and rappelling down. I also thought it might keep the sections from bouncing too much when they hit the ground.

[canuck527]

Well you got 1 log out of it anyway.

[grufrock]

Yup...but at least we didn't wreck the highway or cause any traffic accidents....:)

[rephaim23]

Here's another one:

"In Skagit County is a forest of Douglas pine and white cedar in which there are many trees reaching 325 feet high, and some of them are fully 350 feet high."

-- Forest Leaves - Page 162 by Pennsylvania Forestry Association, 1922.

[rephaim23]

"Many trees, each over 280 feet tall, have been measured about Blaine, Washington. Others in that vicinity and elsewhere reach to a height of 350 feet. There are without doubt large numbers of trees in Washington over 300 feet high."

-- American Forestry Association, 1890.

Hmm... You would have liked to see those Puget sound trees a hundred years ago.

[kyndallbirchhaskins]

way to go! ruin the forest! whoo! who needs stupid trees anyways!

[o56kid]

looks like great fun!

[frizzybob]

is it hard climbing with balls that large ? lol

[ROBERTTHETHUNERPUP]

why do you cut the tops off why dont you just fall the tree??

[davetileguy]

some of those sections seem pretty short were you able to sell any millable lumber out of something like that? I think money when I see that tree not firewood,good job though I tried it once cause I thought it looked easy but when the tree started swaying after I toped it I almost messed myself!!

[cody8822]

Good job man takes balls and skill to do that