Bucking A Spruce

finishing the first cut on a big spruce

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• logging
• bucking
• chainsaw

[buzzz55]

It confuses me how u can have so much older forest left there in canada and USA in comparision to how much u have logged. Here in Sweden and Finland we've cut down every patch of forest and only got young plantations left. And for a question what saw and bar are you using?

[transdrole]

@buzzz55 We are headed that way. People here think the forests are endless, just like we thought the supply of passenger pigeons was inexhaustable. Bear in mind we have only been here a few hundred years. Canada's population is still low. But give it time and the only big trees will be in the parks. No one learns from history, as I'm sure you are aware.

[gypsy8844]

@transdrole The "good news" is that the trees on the west coast don't stop growing. I've been back in areas we logged in the early seventies and it's unrecognizable. True, it'll be 200 plus years before we see seriously large trees again, but remember the rain forest that we know has only existed since the last ice age some 10 to 12,000 years.

[gypsy8844]

@buzzz55 If you were to fly over Vancouver island at ten thousand feet, you would see from the colour of the ground that the old growth forest was only a "remnant", Very small patches mostly in areas where the ground is difficult to access. There are some strips of old growth and small patches in the river bottoms. Protected areas and whatnot. We're using Stihl 066's with 32" and 36" bars depending..

[misacka]

nice job, how long do you have to cut the spruce? half an hour?

[gypsy8844]

whatever it takes.

[Mielushaun]

stihl and husqy is for real men, the rest of the chainsaw's ar for childrens.

[mudparkjunky]

wow!!!  big ass tree

[mallsaws]

good for you man!!!!save this video this is history in the making. looks like what our fathers harvested .they wood be proud and for those of you that don't like it try wiping you b-tt with plastic

[rockinpiano1]

@Mielushaun I'd put a McCulloch 125 with a cart motor up against any saw, but that was many days ago. Now all I have is a new little 16" Stihl and an old 1975 Jonsered 80 with a 32" bar.

[frizzybob]

nice cut buddy

[frizzybob]

@Mielushaun finally, someone who has respect for both, personally, i like husky though.

[davetileguy]

@buzzz55 Maybey you don't understand how big Canada and the States are?

[660jake]

nice

[buzzz55]

Gypsy can you tell me what happens with the top of the tree ie the branches, do you cut the off with chainsaw or som other machine. And what do you do with the leaf trees that you encounter? not only for pulp i hope as all leaf trees here is for pulp.

Nice videos good ot know that some works for the money

[buzzz55]

I'ven looked around and the clearcutting areas you make there is still comparatively small i bet the area in the movie is no more than around 20 hectares. If you'd go to norhtern Finland in the end of 60ies and 70ies u would see clearcutted areas of 50000ha and more they cut down some of the most ancient and most intollerant areas in the world. and for a comparison the forest there takes about 200-300years to grow reasonably big. but who am i to complain?