@@adamossg old forest's are a bit different, my family comes from Orbost and they hate the fact the town has destroyed almost all old wood forests in the area The balance is us doing it sustainably and you known the bush needs fire...
I was a tree faller for several years.The way they cut down the tree at the start was a very sloppy way to do it.They didn't cut out a proper scarf/wedge, they just did a inadequate slot.The tree didn't break away cleanly off the stump leaving all those slivers making a hole on the base of the log ,degrading the log and causing wastage. It was a very quick transition from axe and handsaw to chainsaws at around this time.When that happened there was a decline in the quality of workmanship falling trees.Around 30 years ago it was decided to go back to the old technique of how to fall a tree properly(in New Zealand anyway!) making it safe for the faller,controlling the tree better and more yield of wood from the tree
Yes that stump pull was as bad as I have seen. I fell for years in the Queen Charlotte Is. You would get sent down the road for that kind of shoddy work. Degrades the value of the log big$$$$. I know that they are not using light, powerful Husquvarna 2100's but still??? Bad job.
@@mikeuyeda2330 Later in the clip I saw they had felled the trees properly judging from the cuts on the logs and stumps.Not from the same guys at the start I'd say. I seldom see any videos of tree felling done properly or safely ,even by so called professionals.Guys get set in their ways on doing something and don't improve their ways when they should.I was rough as guts when I started but after plenty of training(as in getting my butt kicked!) and nearly getting killed several times by taking short cuts I fine tuned my technique.
@@Dave_9547 I watched him.He is better than most I've seen.Though he doesn't cut out a big enough scarf wedge to direct the tree,hence it didn't fall on its own and he had to waste a lot of time and energy tapping in felling wedges to get the tree falling.The scarf shout be around a 1/3 the diameter of the tree.And he started doing a flat cut on the scarf first then a upwards angle cut.That makes the cuts more difficult to meet and is a waste of energy
Cannot say with 100% accuracy but the high country Victoria Mount Buller region would be my best bet my friend found these films in an old Bunker Hutt near Mount Buller both many years ago
G'day Adam they've shut it all down now the city folk who earn huge salaries and enjoy bush walking no more logging to protect two small marsupials from losing hollow tree habitat that is not felled for the simple reason it is of no commercial value. Its their cats and the foxes that are responsible, unmanaged it will burn like 39 the tree changers that is Lord help them.
A big old rotten cottonwood tree. In those days they were junk, skidded to a landing and lit on fire. Regarding the yield per tree, that wasn't an issue as everybody was told the timber would never end.
Footage of the rape and pillage of our natural resources. It could make you weep to contemplate what was lost and what we have over exploited. The environmental damage unfathomable. This footage is an important historical document.
