Falling and Bucking a HUGE cedar tree | Helicopter Logging 

That’s very interesting. Thanks for the story

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Awesome story Jim, thanks for telling it.

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It is #1 most dangerous job ranked.

Yeah lucky do not have to finish cut on bottom side.

Personally, I was always more scared of bucking up a big tree than falling one. There's just so much more that can go wrong in a millionth of a second.

Id rather face a bigger tree with a longer bar less wrk!

Willard, strikes me that you and I were almost the last of our kind in our respective locations, me in s. Oregon. The old growth is now gone except where he is, so Bjarne is truly the last generation of all of us in the old growth. What a life he has, and how easy it would be to loose.

I did some to,not the bucking but the splitting with the mallet and the froe,and then we would bundle them and strap them,but what I remember most about it was the sweet smell of the cedar fire that we would get going in the morning. I did this job just a few mounths is the Sechelt ,British -Columbia area in the early seventies.

Ya as long as it’s not slabbed up then it’s relatively safe. Because my bar isn’t long enough I have to get the far side first and because the tree is so big I can’t reach from the top of the log so I had to climb to the bottom side.

Seems like there is a smaller but safer size of logs to handle, profitable business should be a safe one too

How do you end up working in the woods? Be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

That's a cool story, we'll told

Ya I like the smell of cedar too

Just so tragic their endeavors are insignificant to the majesty of such a tree. A tree wasted. It's body used in the construction of fences blocking houses and communities. Truly a waste and a cause celebre to the insanity of humankind.

@@johnbrattan9341 Agree, these large trees have been around for hundreds of years and are the greatest of all living things on the planet. To fell them is a crime against life, a tragedy beyond words. Just terrible.

@@Pit315689 I'm a forester. With degree. Watching this video was heartbreaking for me. Stephen Lee equates the death of a "magnificent tree" with that of a man with a large power-driven chainsaw.... The disconnect is mind-blowing.

John Brattan trees are conscious of self? Maybe you’ve watched too much Disney plus’s and listened to too much David Suzuki

@@isaaccollura66 You're an idiot.

Agreed. Safety first

Be safe

Please don't support logging of old growth trees. These beauties take hundreds of years to grow. There's not much old growth left in the Pacific Northwest, as most of it was logged away. Instead we need to get our wood from younger trees on private land. These old growth rainforests are spectacular; we need to save more of them and build trails to them for others to enjoy. They are better used for hiking than for wood products.

@@NatureShy they're gonna die bro

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Ya I like the smell of red cedar, yellow cedar also has a unique smell

@Luis FromCanada you have a touch of the downs

@Luis FromCanada your so stupid you don't know a pierogi from poutine

@@BjarneButler i remember bucking big Cypress on northern Van.Isle. and the smell was intense, made me gag...

Haha. Well I’ve been there, I have a habit of learning the hard way

I am not a logger, just a carpenter. I have survived bucking up some big hemlock and Doug fir on the steep side like this only on the Olympic Penninsula. There is no way I would have the courage to make the last of that cut. You would find me staring at it as the sun went down.

Heh. Yeah. It can happen.

@@riverrat1149 Wise choice. I will stare (in a matter of thinking) at the extremely large Red Oak trees around my cabin for a week, and even months sometimes, before I finally decide how to take them down. I bought a cabin in the forest and no one ever, in 200 years, thought about how big these trees would get and just how hard they would be to remove. Some people don't realize just how heavy and dangerous they are. I took three 100'+ Red Pines and one 28" White Oak this past spring and it all went well because of all of that staring. Never touched a shingle.

Dan Hillman well good on ya. It pays to think and plan then to rush it. You only got one shot at it

In the ten yr's of falling I did I should've been hurt or killed ah few times but I'm still here. Now weather or not that was God's doing or something else there looking out for me and keeping me safe but no matter what it is not a job to take lightly.

It me so much that I wouldn't even want to be close enough to see it in person. Glad it was on video, so I could see it.

These guys really know what they are doing.

So true!

Have to agree. If they make a mistake with a tree that size it’s game over. West Coast fallers earn their money. The tree huggers like to pound spikes into the trees and then the fallers saw gabs the spikes and spit them out or break the chain.

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33” tsumara bar

I cut blocks in Ucluelet, Tofino thru 80's and 90's loved it.

I worked for mac and blo in juskatla in the mid 70's

Ya most hair-raising scenarios occur during the bucking because if something goes wrong it’s quick and right in front of you. Trees generally start going over slow so you got a little more time to run

Bucking IS scarier. Especially on steep grades.

Same here!! I almost had a heart attack and then I was like...oh...

It was impressive how large trees grew with a bit more CO2 in the air.

I have a Red cedar shingle as a wood sample, and it's about one foot wide and has 438 growth rings, and that doesn't include the sapwood they cut away or the faster growing pith or center. I often wonder if that tree was 600 years old or over 1000.

it was a sick and distressed tree, removing it makes the others around it healthier

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It’s horrible. Shortsighted. Old Growth are being logged and we lose entire ecosystems. Devastating. 😭

@@Pamichen There's not a snowball's chance you'd have ever seen this tree. This is so remote the only way to log this is with a helicopter.

Old growth trees sequester less Co2 than a growing forest so they are less healthy than a growing forest. What do you recommend things be built with? Plastic, concrete, steel? Do those not require mining or extracting resources?

@@MatthewWilson83 it's not about me seeing it or not...it's wrong to take down Ancient Growth trees. They provide ecosystems that die with them...that includes various other plants, animals and insects that are beneficial to life. There are better ways to log. Wood is a sustainable resource but ONLY when we do it right. Check out the Wildwood Eco forest. This CAN be done huge scale creating higher quality wood and good revenue for logging families. It's so important to think about tomorrow rather than clearcutting it all down. Please if you could take a little time to look at another viable option. peace.

I agree. Bjarne is a very skilled logger. I have no complaint about what he does. And as to "seeing" the tree...that isn't the point. Yes, we do need wood. It IS a renewable resource. But the way we log has got to change even more. We all decry the way logging was done in the 1800's, clearing and burning HUGE swathes of forest, without even taking the wood. But even in the later half of the last century, clear cutting happened that was foolish. Talk to the loggers that protested the "tree huggers" protesting the cutting. Even they now, without jobs, have to admit that too much wood was cut and sold too cheaply. I used to buy VG clear redwood back in the 70's for $1.20 a bd ft. Now, can't find it, or if you do, it is $15 a bd ft. Why did we cut so much and sell it off to other countries? I have 100 acres of logged over forest. I planted trees back in the 70's. Now they are just young trees, 2 ft diameter. In another 100 years they will be nice trees. My neighbor has 2000 acres. He logs, but he logs only every 5 years or so, and takes no more than a few trees per acre. And is CAREFUL with the slash and leaves all the young trees he can. I have to say that there doesn't seem to be much effort to leave the 12" trees in most cutting. Those 12" trees will grow up, and those are already 20 years old, leaving them means that you can re-harvest that much sooner. Another thing, sure, some of these older trees are rotting. I understand that. But just because a tree is big, doesn't mean that it is not growing as fast as young trees. There are very well documented studies that have shown that the giant trees in a redwood forest for example, are actually adding more mass each year by a good percentage than the younger trees around them. I'm NOT against cutting trees for sure. We just need to manage that resource better. Stop making it only about money.

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They used to be chocked with a cable but that not allowed any more. So it’s all done with a grapple now. I got some old footage of it in another video

Yup that’s about right. I try to finish my last cut around waist level

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That varies greatly. It depends on if it’s hollow or solid, how tall it is and what it’s hitting. A nice big solid tree will smash to toothpicks if it hits a stump or boulder. A lot of money can be wasted from a tiny mistake. Poor aim, poor planning, even bucking incorrect lengths will lose money and nobody likes that

Oh there was plenty of other big ones in the area. That job site had a prescription of 30% retention, so there was a bunch of big ones we left standing. Generally on a job like that, anything that will probably smash to pieces and is not a hazard then we leave it standing.

Lot of high grade lumber in there. If you listen to what I say in the video, you’ll understand how I’ve planned my work area for the day. Keep in mind that this job site has a minimum 30% retention and it is a heli block too

Half my house is built with that! My ceiling/roof is 6"x18" rough cut cedar beams with cedar planking laid on top that, and all the exterior siding is tongue and groove cedar. 😁👍

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I’m using my 390 with a 33” bar

Do you have any mods made or is the 390 bone stock?

I think high grade cedar is $400 m/3?