MASSIVE 400 Year Old Fir Falls Over! (Almost Hits The House!)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 17. 04. 2021
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I tried to count rings at 41:21. The best estimate I could come up with is well over 500 years old.
Tight rings, slow grower. Possibly 600-700 yo.
Btw, put a 6" c-clamp on your bar as a carry handle. 1'-2' from the end.
Thanks for doing that! :)
Is it time to change the title to "500+ tree"?
What size stihl saw and bar ?
@@bustersmith5569 stihl ms880. looks like a 7 foot bar
Good idea but might be worth welding a hand guard to that clamp too. I shudder to think......
Paraphrasing Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a tree, THIS is a TREE!" Sincere thanks for sharing this.
That part about the saw being out of gas just killed me
Nothing drinks gas like a 395
I've rebuilt a saw and run it. Put it down and couldn't get it going again. I took the whole thing apart, and was like, what is wrong with this. And then I had an epiphany, and when I opened the gas tank it was dead empty.
Rewatched the cutscene a few times
a treefeller and he cant tell the difference between the rasp and smoke of a flooded engine and the putter putter of a piston with no fuel to burn at all ... should have learned that sound the first day using a chainsaw ... the sounds are very much different
@@0623kaboom I picked up on that as he was pulling in frustration
How that tree fell is just an absolute miracle. Terrible shame the wood can't be milled.
Trees fall all the time!
Yeah, that is beautiful wood. Especially the heart wood.
Itâs mad to think about what the world was like when that tree first started growing .
it witnessed the invasion of whites.
Columbus likely hadn't even discovered America...
dude what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
There were likely one or two extinction events during the life of this tree
@@ocsplc no
Imagine the irony of buying lumber to replace that hand rail.
Imagine the price at current rates
There's still enough of that tree in the yard that could be used to replace the handrails, and all the other parts that are needed to replace the ramp too. Could be enough to build a whole new fence and gate too lol
@@danachappell3861 exactly lol
No doubt!
Especially when itâs almost 146$ a board đ
The saw running out of gas had me HOLLERING đ
Makes us amateurs happy to hear we all make mistakes.
reminded me of bill wurtz editing style
@@grthogan it seems like his type of editing
Iâve been there, pulling until my shoulder is sore, without thinking to check for fuelâŠ
Funny thing is we all do it :D
When your "smaller saw" is a 42 inch bar lol đ
I worked on the Quinault Indian Reservation in Washington state as a young man for a few months as a logger and I measured some cedar stumps that were over 24 feet in diameter. The trees had been cut probably 30 or 40 years before I happened upon them but since cedar resists rot, they were still in amazing shape.
Huh I live in Georgia and we cut down a maple tree just 3 years ago, and it had already began to degrade by the first year. Now there are big bracket mushrooms on it and huge holes where the fungus attacked it.
Come to Murphys, California and ride your bike on the Sequoia stump 30 feet in diameter. The book says the largest cedar was 20'.
Too bad you don't have evidence of it, would probably be a world record for a Cedar.
Drove around the Hon River up in that area 40 years ago. The stumps are 12+ ft above the ground level. Had to think about that, before I realized why that was. Sign at the trail head. Cougar sightseeing, be aware!
Do you know why cedar resist rot
10:05 started laughing out loud when he joined in with the mini me. You know you are in big wood when a 395xp is the smaller saw.
âThey must be doing real well with the Lord..â đđ€Ł
That saw and bar is insane! Great job guys!
How long does it take to sharpen 14' of chain ...
@@kristmadsentoo damn longđ”âđ«
All Iâm thinking is how many nice table tops you could make.....
How many table tops have you made with fir?
Definitely don't need a bar that big ! Lumberjacks use smaller bars with trees that big or bigger I I would have tried to Salvage what would I could even if I had to rent equipmen still a shit ton of salvagable wood!! But I get it. You are just doing a job to get rid of tree for client
Thought that too, I would die for a piece of wood for a table. So so beautiful
Jake I imagine that there are people that would pay a fortune for a clean 6 inch ring of that for a natural table!
that would be one weak table ... the strength isin the length not across the diameter ... you cut slabs then glue together ... you dont cut rings and hope ... slabs carry more weight while slices are weak as ... proof ... push your fists together ask a friend to try and pull them apart ... they wont be able to ... BUT if they slap one hand up on one arm and one hand down on the other your hands part like the red sea ... THATS what a slice of the trunk would do .. break apart with any moderate force or weight
@@0623kaboom bru epoxy resin exists. It is used for countless wood projects to protect the wood from moisture and to strengthen it.
@@Kohler_Wood resin is really expensive tho
@@Aprilrainsss not really, you can get 1 quart of resin and 1 quart of hardener for like 50$ and compared to the resale value of a custom wood table like that, assuming you build it well (could be a few thousand dollars), isnât much.
@@Kohler_Wood try 5 to 10k on a nice epoxy ring slab.
Begging for a pt2. Aslo "the saw was out of gas" killed međ€Ł
Holy Moly!! The Good Lord was watching out for them! Your 7â bar saw is a beast!
I am not an arborist but I am a 75 year old carpenter and woodworker. I have a suggestion that you may find useful if you ever run across a situation like this in the future. Make two cuts at a slight angle facing each other, in other words cut a wedge shaped piece. That way the slightest movement will cause the piece to get smaller as it is lifted and it will come right out.
You guys really work well together and do a fantastic job.
Yep, Iâm too am a 74 year old carpenter and woodworker. Cut the pieces tapered slightly like a âvâ at the bottom, you are correct David.
I love watching these guys. Great videos and dang fine teamwork!
@@gulliver3644 Im 27 service tech in high end kitchens but this is exactly what I was thinking and its why it was so tough for them to get it out because it actually opened up more at the bottom of the cut creating that wedge as it was being lifted, when it needed to be smaller in that situation! great team work though!
52 yr old Jack here, couldn't believe the incompetence in performing this task
Yup. But need to consider, just like those house hunter, tow truck, Alaska "Reality" shows on tv; Bad copy, (video), is even BETTER copy. I don't think ANYONE would intentionally record themselves being a moron at their profession, not to mention make it public. A few kids grew some beards, bought some saws, and made some videos. Nobody could be as dull as they pretend to be. CZcams-ing must pay a crap-ton for sure. Anyone holding a chainsaw would know to count rings closest to the base. (the old lady at the end.) Was the crane rental free? ....and Thank you there Justin ! Yea, the thing was laying there in splinters,, choke out some 10' long splinters..
3 of those 1800 lb pieces would give me heat for a year.
FoSho itâs a-shame it wasnât used for at least 1 beautiful piece of furniture to show off itâs age. That kind of tree & itâs age comes once in an eternity!!!!
A 4" round would make for a nice dining room table.
That would only be a cord or a little more. You must not need much heat.
It's sad, because that tree was older than our nation.
one of the last giants in america
It is but even trees get old and die.......If we don't cut them down first :P
When the settlers got to it, it was already 100+ years old. Pretty cool that it lasted that long.
Signing a document doesnât actually signify the existence of a country. It was all here undisturbed until curious men claimed and began its long, slow destruction.
@@briankennedy1313 DOn't worry, still better than a bunch of savages running around cannibalizing the babies of opposing tribes in a eternal warfare.
You should have angled your saw and shaped those small sections like a wedge so that when the crane pulls it up it will not lock up with the other pieces
WOW! What a TREASSURE, I would do anything to save this wood, especially for woodworkers. It is so RARE to find a 400-600-year-old tree like this. I know allot of woodworkers that would die to get their hands on this old tree and make something special out of it. The homeowners should keep some it on the property in some form or another, it's that kind of a treasure. This tree provided LIFE to so many living creatures for so long, it server her purpose well and it just brings me to tears to see her go out like this. There has to be a way to save the roots and seeds and replant her family!!!! She started growing in the 1200-1300, WOW, the tales she could tell! She was almost half her life when America was first discovered. Prior to that she grew FREE. Maybe the Indians of the time knew her well and slept under her shade.
Great words
They could have milled the tree right there crazy ? That tree was worth more then their house and property probably unbelievable don't know what is going on in peoples head's sad.
It was cracked allready?
@@barthuisman6076 wood has crack's it's real wood.
Its always sad to see a big tree being cut down
Havenât watched yet but I canât believe there was a remnant old growth that huge in someoneâs yard!!
Got 2 trees that size in mine. Love them everyday and get sad everytime they lose a branch.
@@w8stral can u post a vid of them pls
@@uuproverlord8324 Don't have experience doing so nor a phone to make it easy to do so. The Cedar is ~6ft in diameter and the Maple is ~9ft though last 2 years it has lost 4 giant branches and is probably going the way of the other giant maples, dying off to let new shoots grow up out of the stump and get giant again.
@@w8stral oh thats sad
@@uuproverlord8324 Not really, the maples here are all in different stages of growth as they grow out of their forefathers rootball, or would this be cousin? Or younger duplicate? Not sure why our version of Maple does this and the Eastern Version or even the other local versions of maple do not do so. There used to be a 5ft diameter maple which only had one stem in my youth that fell over. Out of its root ball there is now a nearly 100ft tall ~12" diameter maple and its split sibling of ~10". Circle of Life goes on. When young growing out of old rootball they can grow 10 ft a year. Often their stump will put up ~10 shoots all growing 10 ft a year until only left with a few stems and then it eventually turns into one stem. Though we have another maple stump that is ~10 ft in diameter, which when I was ypung had 15 stems growing out of it and now it is down to 11 and they are all ~2ft in diameter. Maple here grows excessively fast and dies... excesssively fast.
Holy crap that was a lot of work for that little gain...that thing is massive!!!
Thinking about it, I had to make a second comment.
Seeing how hard of a job this is, with the modern equipment.
Really makes you want to respect those old time loggers a lot more, I'm talking 100 plus years ago when all they had was big hand saws and axes, mules and horses.
That tree was INSANE!!! All parties involved did a spectacular job. Wish we got to see the the whole process, but what I saw was awesome. Thanks for sharing fellas.đŻâ€ïžđđŸđđđŸđđœââïžâïžđđŸđșđž
Said this before itâs the only CZcams site I will give more than 10 minutes to.
Great stuff as always. Trees older than the US by 150 years or so...amazing. Home owner was lucky it didnât crush their house and them.
You could make one heck of a canoe if you have a spare 15 years to carve out a chunk of that tree đ
Canoe? More like a Viking ship.
Dugout galleon
Way to many checks and split.
It hit hard on uneven terrain and looks like it pretty much shattered.
Could do a burnout canoe. Would be way faster plus it would harden the wood also.
Amazing video, I was working at a home/retreat center in Oregon city and they had a massive old growth fur that was around 900-1100 years old. The top broke out in the ice storm in January. Didnât get to climb it but I was climbing near by ones. Largest tree Iâve ever seen on someoneâs property.
You folks are the best of the best you are stewards of the land and what you do for our country goes above anything else we do so much appreciate you and what you do stay safe and big timber .
50â000 lbs. đ± and it falls right in the middle of the house and the chicken pen. This is unbelievable. I love your giant đȘ. First time see you using it.
Almost like someone knew where not to build. Tree probably had a very prominent lean.
If that first cutting was 1800, then it's at least 3 times his initial estimate. There would have been nothing left of the house, and the speed it would have come through the roof, just the shrapnel alone would have killed everyone inside.
Lucky beyond description!
Buddy that is some cool stuff right there. That tree is magical. Could feel the energy coming from it. That 88 is pretty sweet also
"We've been here a long time working but it doesn't look like we've accomplished much".... At least I'm not the only one who says that! Awesome video! đ
Just leave it.. Looks Awesome. One of a Million
Iâve been seeing teasers for this video and itâs finally here!!! Woot woot. Awesome video Jake!
400 SWAG ! Scientific Wild Ass Guess . Just in the coastal red woods and was next to the Grandfather 1800 years old . Love the old growth . Nice work đ€đœ
Thanks for posting and sharing. Even though it is down and I watched on a lap top, really nice to see the tree.
Well...... 500 years of giving. Now it can give for another 500 years of something beautiful
I bet that one ruffled some feathers landing so close to that chicken coop! đ
Hehehe!
I was wondering how many of the chickens shyt out eggs by the dozen when that happened? lol!!
Iâm thinking 600 years, the grain can be incredibly tight on these trees. I found a piece of fir in my aunts fire wood pile, 292 years across about 6 inches
WOW
Loved the out of gas sequence. Keep up the great work, love to watch and learning lots. Thank you
As an aspiring carpenter it really is a shame to have an incredible tree go to waste, but it was unavoidable. Also that tree is massive (obviously) but itâs tiny compared to a redwood tree.
Do you know what kind it is?
@@corymauch779 Fir
I can't wait to hear how old the tree actually is. What a bohemoth !
By far the best Arborist on the tube! Keep up the great work and awesome content!
Gonna put a lot of bar oil on those garden plants.
That boom is a long way out, and every foot means less that can be picked up. The correct sign for up is an upward pointing fist with the index finger up, then rotate thehand as it points up. To lower use the same rotation with the hand pointing down
I counted the rings in an oak tree I had taken down in my Mothers yard, using a jewelers magnifying glass. It was 376 years old and
took a while to count. I really enjoy your work. Great job filming and sharing.
Yeah, oaks r slow-growing. I've cut dead desert junipers in NV with a 20" bar that were 270 y.o. Rings like my fingernail, dense wood-
Great video...well done.
When I worked for the US Forest Service in the Santa Fe Mountain for the Cuba Ranger District, I came across a Standing Douglas Fir with an estimated diameter of 80". The largest I've ever seen.
Perhaps you meant 80' in circumference? I'm pretty sure no fir tree that size has ever existed in known history, maybe pre history.
Jerome 80 inches? That's a nice stick
Sounded like bubbles from trailer park boys using "the force" to stop traffic, fkin hilarious đ€Ł
Some beautiful chunks of wood for hobbyist or carvers or even fire wood, hundreds of ideas for it!! Done a great job as usual to guys đŹđ§
i slide a piece of 18 mm ply under the cut line to protect the chain when i go through, its about 4ft x 18in you can pound it under the trunk with the maul, works a treat.
Omg thatâs a beautiful big brute. What a shame but wow, 400 years old holy hell â€ïž
Saw this video pop up and I've watched a few now, great to watch educational yet seems like a fun group of people that work well together.
What an amazing tree. Stay safe and thanks for sharing
Suggestion: get a lifting tarp that you can pile all the wood pieces on then grab the corners avoiding all the packing out by hand. You've got a crane sitting there take full advsntage of it. Just use the tarp every once and a while between logs to pack out. Easier than your backs
They are amateurs, no concept of safe or practical log cutting.
Yup, a canvas bucket. Load it up and get the crane to move it. Work smart, not hard.
@@gordbaker896 Coming from an amateur. If you were a true professional you wouldn't be intimidated by their work, but would enlighten us all of your arrogant knowledge. If anything you would have something to say that backs up your questionable knowledge that would be positive.
I will try to enlighten you. Cutting trees with others before teenage years. Sorry knowledge seems arrogant to you.@@robertowen1648
Or put straps on one of those plastic totes.
So cool! Thanks for making the video!
Lost it when you said just grab the tip and follow me.....đ€Ł. Great job and thanks for sharing!
Old growth fir is getting impossible to find! Valuable log.
Holy shit, that is massive. Love the 880, although I wouldn't want to use it (well, I kinda do).
Props to Kevin for his awesome pants, don't see many people wearing FjÀllrÀven Vidda Pro Ventilated pants. My favorite outdoor pants, don't use them much for climbing though.
Appreciate knowing the name of pro pants
When the Boss Man got the long bar stuck I was screaming laughing. He was like donât let it bend or twist. Uh spoke too soon.
" you're sqinging that thing at me so fast-- yeah thats what she said" đ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
BREAKING NEWS! âThe Saw Was out of Gas!â đđ I died laughing
Been there
the 880 is a BEAST
German dude agrees with shame. Hugs
No wasted video here. There is plenty to be learned by watching you guys struggling to free this tree. Nice job. Glad that some of this tree will at least keep someone warm.
So many carpenters watching that want a piece of this beauty... thinking great slabs. Eight foot lengths? A shame the wood can not be salvaged. And certainly a blessing 'she' fell as she did. đ
Make a lot of circular coffee tables, which are gorgeous.
You would get a few table tops out of that tree đđđŽó §ó ąó łó Łó Žó ż
Hahaha I had a good laugh at the saw being out of gas! Thank you for making my day!
Your guys crew is awesome. Great attitudes
Notice the tone of his voice when he expressed the disappointment that the tree fell. True tree cutters are more in favor of conservation than they get credit for.
Cheers from Washington State! There is a reason we are the evergreen state.
All trees fall eventually. True conservation recognizes this and plans for the next generation. It breaks my heart that this magnificent and rare tree was turned into firewood because nobody could recognize what was about to happen and harvest it while it was still standing. Worse still, the family could have been wiped out.
THE SAW WAS OUT OF GAS. LMAO, I about lost it on that one!
That has to be the biggest saw bar in the world wow. Love it. Nice guys.đ
Awesome video thanks for sharing.đ From Cadillac Michigan
I would have convinced the land owner to carve a tunnel through it and called it a day. Nice work
Actually would of been really cool conversation piece lol. Cut a clean path to the front door and call it a day.
Old school loggers would split log long-wise by making a parallel middle cut 3/4 through then wedge split into 1/4's , 1/3's , or 1/2's . Make an 8 foot across log into 2, 3 , or 4 logs then mule team would skid them to load and deck area .
All they had was elbow grease and determination.
What a lovely tree. I love the big ones
I flinched every time you reached in when he was swinging that axe.
Thatâs a heck of a tree.
This is so sad. And what makes it even sadder is that this wasnât cut up into beautiful lumber.
Why is it sad that this tree fell down?
Seemed to be cracked up top to bottom. Not much salvageable
Imagine the slabs that could have come off it if someone had a big enough alaskan mil setup.
@@rockkhound943 the section he butchered was fine until he started slicing it down trying to pull a 600 pound chunk of wood out of the middle ... he had a 30 foot section comming down the hill that would weight about 100k pounds ... and an 8 foot section to the gap that he hadnt cut clean through yet so all that 100k trunk above was pushing his 600 pound section into a 100 foot section of tree wedged into a hill ... all he had to do was lift the section to the walkway gap cut that through and through and lift the 8 foot section out with the crane ... then the one he was trying to lift and then the one he got is bent 7 foot saw stuck in as the tree compressed against his blade ... he could have had the tree gone from the hill slope to the root in 6 hours total with some cleanup after ... every decision he made was wrong .. so very very wrong ...
for the 25 feet he would have gotten the cost of the crane rental and his time covered even if he had another crew come in and do the work ... I am NOT surprised the boss had another company come in and finish it .. he showed he wasnt up to the task at all
@@0623kaboom yep
I am at 31:49, if you would have moved the strap around to the side, so it tightened on the side and rolled the piece towards the crane you may have been able to get the smaller one out really easy, big one may have rolled out easy as well. Now I'll continue and see how you did it.
Great drama. A great watch. Thanks guys!đđ»
I love your videos. Stay safe out there.
I think that saw has more power than my Prius.
Ummm ... with all due respect, the 462 might as well.
one is definitely not for boys. the danger of just carrying it is adrenalin...dont trip. don't trip
Amazing tree and story about how it missed the house. Really enjoying your channel. Keep producing videos!
Such an amazing tree she was!
I feel so much better for watching from 17.40. That makes you heroes and me not so dumb! All Good!
I havent yelled at a video in a long time.. I can't stand it when people dont listen to my suggestions.
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Lmao thos comment is great
Oh man I wish I had the wood from that tree!! It looks amazing
Lovely superb work you all have done it.
Video was amazing !
You guys are awesome!
You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about lol
Lol
Bruhhđ
Imagine just laying down to sleep and that gargantuan thing falls literally right next to ya?! Holy hell.
Look at that bar, friends! That would give Buckin' Billy Ray a whole lotta wood, pun intended.
wow - Great video. Thanks!
so crazy how it fell where it fell... i wonder how loud that was when it hit the ground
house probably jumped!
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Bet it made seismographs flicker!
Seems like Mr Treeson and the 400 yr old tree had a close relationship ;)
love it; seemed like there where some good sections for milling
Good work fellas...đ€
Man my boredness goes away soon as you post! I just got lucky tonight. Lol
I hope you were able to salvage the burls.
That thing is the BFG! How lucky those folks are, not to mention it didn't even roll once on you boys. Great job-
'The saw out of gas' part was hilarious. Its happened to us all xD
Haha I was so confident đ