Could it be that they're only harvesting the branches and crown, leaving the tree intact in order to regrow everything?
Also, hey-- guys on the ground, uh... you might want to step lively?
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Nope. They cut the top out then move down cutting the rest into sections. This is how they used to cut tree's way down here. I used to watch from a distance when I was a kid. By the time I was an adult things had moved to tree cutter machines.
Why not just fell it, then cut it in to pieces afterwards? Wouldn't that be safer and easier work?
If the tree falls onto an adjacent tree and gets hung up, then you have an unstable and dangerous situation. You can try to cut your target tree free, but when it breaks loose it might come crashing down in unexpected ways.
Good points.
There's more than a few videos on YT in which we can see folks who completely underestimated or just whiffed upon the amount of potential force involved in lumber-resting-on-lumber.
Might be something so tall and large is more dangerous - or ruins in some way the lumber.
Don't know. I'm just happy I never had to do much of it. When the machines came along there were fewer tree's like that left. Its all one big plantation around here now. The old growth tree's have been replaced by fast growing pine. No more lumberjacks and no more deer hunters. Just machine operators and deer farmers left.
They would normally do that, especially in those days. They topped trees to use them for rigging lines to help skid felled trees to rail lines, water or the mill.
The guys on the ground are way closer to the camera / further from the tree than you think when you first see it.
Look at how big they are compared to the guy on the tree. Which, holy shit the absolute cajones on those loggers - I'd never be able to do that.
Ah, you're right.
Still, I think I'd be even further away, on the other side, based on how tree limbs and pieces sometimes twist unexpectedly.
I expected real beavers. Disappointed.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok...
Journey of Natty Gann vibes.