MASSIVE 400 Year Old Fir Falls Over! (Almost Hits The House!) 

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......

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 it’s almost 146$ a board 😂

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

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

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

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

I’ve been there, pulling until my shoulder is sore, without thinking to check for fuel…

Funny thing is we all do it :D

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

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), isn’t much.

@@Kohler_Wood try 5 to 10k on a nice epoxy ring slab.

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

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 doesn’t 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.

Yep, I’m too am a 74 year old carpenter and woodworker. Cut the pieces tapered slightly like a “v” 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. RU-vid-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..

Trees fall all the time!

Yeah, that is beautiful wood. Especially the heart wood.

​@@jwfinley7808Clearly means missing the buildings

FoSho it’s a-shame it wasn’t used for at least 1 beautiful piece of furniture to show off it’s age. That kind of tree & it’s 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.

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.

Do you know what kind it is?

@@corymauch779 Fir

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.

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!

How long does it take to sharpen 14' of chain ...

@@kristmadsentoo damn long😵‍💫

WOW

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.

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

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

Hehehe!

I was wondering how many of the chickens shyt out eggs by the dozen when that happened? lol!!

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.

house probably jumped!

@@-L.S , Bet it made seismographs flicker!

Appreciate knowing the name of pro pants

Good point!

Actually would of been really cool conversation piece lol. Cut a clean path to the front door and call it a day.

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Lmao thos comment is great

I thought the same thing! Cutting parallel sided slices is pointless with such sideload and pinching,,,, make the first cuts wider apart at the top, tapering to the bottom, then a horizontal plunge cut about a foot off the ground… physics is on your side

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

Lol

Bruhh😂

Shits wild makes the work harder

its the pacific north west its always raining on the coast

Been there

hold my beer while i compute a new chart.

German dude agrees with shame. Hugs

All the cracking was caused from the impact of it hitting the ground

Maybe, but I suspect it was mostly from the 200 foot fall: when it hits like that, the shockwave runs up and down the length of the tree several times: this one actually held together rather well considering. If you look up that giant that went down in California a couple years back, it just exploded, nothing but big toothpicks left. There's just so much energy released in an event like that. This tree should have been harvested while it was still standing.

The actual tree guys that came in on lunch break said "Hold my beer."

thing is cocky ones know how to do it and get stuck nice big 84 saw still had to cut it out. 80% of every job is planning.

It was in the ground and they didn't want to dull their saws, but that's what I'd have done. Take the shortest chain you have, and go through to give it some room to breath. Ya you'll dull the chain, but they can be sharpened, and a new chain isn't that expensive. One person probably could have resharpened an 18 inch change in the time the crew wasted avoiding sharpening the chain...

Oh, She will pay you back when you show this to her!

Hmm so are you saying she is over 400 years old or that she died at a normal old age and you’re around 370 years old?

The tree fell down. What are they going to do, stand it back up and gorilla glue it back together?

Haha I was so confident 😂

The mice living in the neckbeard keeps em toasty warm.