2nd growth redwood

[forestryworks]

is it me or does this thing "fall slow?" maybe it's cause the cam moves with the tree as it falls...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbHpeSfSURo

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[2dogs]

Nailed that stump!

Hard to tell with a moving camera.

 

[RRSsawshop]

Yea, it looked slow... Take it that it had no lean what so ever????
I hate it when they sit there and balance....

 

[Meadow Beaver]

It definetly fell quite slow.

 

[bullbuck]

that redwood looks pretty tough,hit that stump pretty hard,i bet that stump is 2 inches lower now

 

[Gologit]

Looked okay to me. Watch the tip and not the whole tree. The camera angle makes it seem slow but the tip speed looked pretty normal.

And bullbuck is right...you can slam dunk a second growth like that but an old growth would have gone to pieces on you.

 

[2dogs]

Most of the second growth I'm working in has heart rot and would have slabbed or exploded when it hit that stump. I am not too impressed with any second growth redwood. It rots too easily and gets buggy fast. Doesn't last in the ground like old growth.

 

[Backwoods]

From a saw miller’s point of view, hitting that stump done more damage then what it appeared to have done. Cracks = chips, not lumber. Either shorten the stump or lay it down beside the stump, and allow the tree to fall nice and slow. With all of the cedars, including redwood, you know as well as I do how prone they are to cracking. Therefore, extra care has to be taken in all aspects of handling of them to avoid ruining a nice log. If it is just going to get trashed before it gets made into a usable product it may as well be left standing.

 

[056kid]

Man he nailed that stump!

that would have enielated a poplar of that stature,(east coast).

it sucks that the second growth dosent have the amazing properties that the old stuff has.

Grandpa & I chipped abunch of old redwood siding of an old homestead that he said was built in the late 1800's.

It had been sitting in the vacant lot next to my Great g-parents house in the elements since the 40's, besides alittle bleaching it was sound as cement.

THAT STUFF IS T,T,TOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[2dogs]

Man he nailed that stump!

that would have enielated a poplar of that stature,(east coast).

it sucks that the second growth dosent have the amazing properties that the old stuff has.

Grandpa & I chipped abunch of old redwood siding of an old homestead that he said was built in the late 1800's.

It had been sitting in the vacant lot next to my Great g-parents house in the elements since the 40's, besides alittle bleaching it was sound as cement.

THAT STUFF IS T,T,TOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!

Next time put it on ebay or CL. Old growth has dollar value!

 

[Greystoke]

Worked in Humboldt for four years, and fell a lot of timber like that, and I thought that was a dang good save Imho, second growth redwood is actually quite brittle, as is old growth; I think the difference is that old growth is a LOT more dense, and therefor heavier, so it hits the ground harder. I think he was actually trying to go for that stump to get the butt up in the air. If you look, that stump has been cut off at an angle so that it would glance off once the butt of the redwood was in the air. It looked like he scarfed his undercut to hold the butt on it's stump until it hit the other stump. The reason being for this it is that redwoods carry most of their weight in the butts so if that butt would have came off the stump it would have surely broke because the ground is so low directly in front of the stump, but he kept it on the stump and if he would not of used that other stump for some elevation the redwood might have had belly, which is BAD for a redwood...Belly=big ripped up slabs, and getting your :censored: chewed by the bullbuck. At least that is what I see in the vid? That guy has skills imao

 

[RandyMac]

Second growth Redwoods are by volume, about half sticks, yep a pole covered with small limbs. Beat you black and blue, from the elbows down. In certain seasons, infested with ticks. Blah

 

[056kid]

Second growth Redwoods are by volume, about half sticks, yep a pole covered with small limbs. Beat you black and blue, from the elbows down. In certain seasons, infested with ticks. Blah

you make it sound like it aint fun...

 

[Greystoke]

Second growth Redwoods are by volume, about half sticks,

yep a pole covered with small limbs

. Beat you black and blue, from the elbows down. In certain seasons, infested with ticks. Blah

Or poisen oak! :jawdrop: ...Just saying it makes my skin crawl. :censored:

 

[Danger Cat]

???

Someone should ask the guy doing the work.

 

[Gologit]

Someone should ask the guy doing the work.

Yup.

 

[slowp]

Or poisen oak! :jawdrop: ...Just saying it makes my skin crawl. :censored:

Carry Technu. I think that's what it is.

 

[Greystoke]

Carry Technu. I think that's what it is.

I used tons of that stuff. It helped with the severity, but I still got poisen oak pretty bad. Of course all I have to do is look at a vine and I start itching!:jawdrop:

 

[2dogs]

Worked in Humboldt for four years, and fell a lot of timber like that, and I thought that was a dang good save Imho, second growth redwood is actually quite brittle, as is old growth; I think the difference is that old growth is a LOT more dense, and therefor heavier, so it hits the ground harder. I think he was actually trying to go for that stump to get the butt up in the air. If you look, that stump has been cut off at an angle so that it would glance off once the butt of the redwood was in the air. It looked like he scarfed his undercut to hold the butt on it's stump until it hit the other stump. The reason being for this it is that redwoods carry most of their weight in the butts so if that butt would have came off the stump it would have surely broke because the ground is so low directly in front of the stump, but he kept it on the stump and if he would not of used that other stump for some elevation the redwood might have had belly, which is BAD for a redwood...Belly=big ripped up slabs, and getting your :censored: chewed by the bullbuck. At least that is what I see in the vid? That guy has skills imao

I never would have thought of that. Just shows what me skill level is!

 

[Greystoke]

I never would have thought of that. Just shows what me skill level is!

I could be way off from what the guy falling that tree was thinking.