Redwood Lumber Industry, Northern California - 1947

"What Majestic Trees! - Hey, Let's cut 'em down!"

Cutting, loading, transportation, mill sawing and finishing operations of the Northern California's redwood lumber industry, 1947.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Redwood
• logging
• timber
• Steam
• railroad
• lumber
• mill
• sawmill
• California
• environment
• green
• trees
• sequoia

[LinnTractorNut]

Man is not the measure of all things, new trees replace the old, just because we won't live 2,000 years to see it doesn't mean it won't happen. How are lives better for using concrete, steel or plastic? Use wood, even recycled wood, create jobs and preserve open spaces for forestry and agriculture.

[doktorandom]

Dang, after that advertisement, I want to build all kinds of things out of this insect resistant, fireproof, beautiful wood! What? it's all gone now? Dang. What's Jesus gonna say? Maybe that was his garden you tore up. Someone's not getting into heaven now. Maybe you can do a work release from hell while sorting lumber while the angel sits above you pulling his levers. Levers that control the saws that surround you. And maybe that angel is the devil, as described in Ecclesiastes 2:16

[starterfight]

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[Nightwishfan888]

Those men were real men.

[mrbluenun]

@ohlhous

Remarks on inappropriate comments…

If people do not want to watch because they are not interested, fair enough.

However, to watch and often within the first sentence to throw insults and nasty words around, is not good "Netiquette" to say the least, and some things cannot be read as anything other than insults.

You the people saying these nasty things want to grow up and realise you are in fact insulting yourself I think is termed as "Reflected insults". check it on google.

[mrbluenun]

@ohlhous Really enjoyed this video, so many thanks for the upload OK? On this particular tree it was amazing the accuracy and judgement wrapped into the loggers of the day who had to do things for the most part 'the hard way'!

The extremely exact axe cutting was great to see, and the surfaces left so smooth it was almost as if they had been polished.

Take care,

mrbluenun

[mrbluenun]

It might seem a shame to have to cut these biggun's down, but to get the other wood out by rail and to actually make room to move logs about, I am sure this was emphasised because it was probably the largest in that local cutting area. The other may be only 500-1000 years old.

This film was made specifically for the Cinema, and watching a tree the thickness of a telegraph pole being cut down is hardly gripping stuff is it. Watching this may also serve to save many others. Just a thought.

[frankthetank112244]

i have great respect for the lumberjacks, but i wish that these giant trees would still stand...

[kohtasnd]

チェンソー無しでようやりますわ。

[rephaim23]

"But don't think these giants are being completely destroyed" .... just 95% of the biggest ones.

[vlasatej]

Respekt!!!

[rephaim23]

The world's largest and tallest trees had to be cut down in order for a civilized society to live comfortably. That's why 96% of the original old growth Redwood have been cut down, and approx. 70% of old growth Douglas fir between 1935 and 1992.

There were some real monsters felled in the old days, one log loads were common. occasional 400 foot trees have been reported. They're all gone now.

But the upside is you have a house, and chairs to sit comfortably.