Felling Giant Trees

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] that is a big one sunshine how is it oh you know it's always terrifying especially when you get those crazy ones with all the create the limbs on the top [Music] so I might be wrong about the circumference of this tree let's check it can you hold that on there mama just right down there right at the very base at the ground yeah let's see what the what the diameter stump is oh that's big that's 43 inches that's almost 4 foot across 43 inches at the stone how old do you think it is [Music] did you set them 58 59 60 so Mrs W and I just counted growth rings on this I'd like you to give your best guess how old do you think this tree was or is and I'll let you know in the next video and whoever guesses correctly if it's one or many you'll get an honorable mention maybe even your picture in the video or your avatar anyway so here's a pretty good example I get better and better at it all the time I'm certainly not an expert by any means but plenty of hand hinge wood there I wouldn't wanted to cut any more I was just getting ready to stop I was actually one more second I would have stopped when it started to lay down and I was going to try to wedge it over but I judge the tree correctly these are kind of tricky because they have those mother you know mother trees they've got those big branches or big multiple trunks going all different directions and asymmetrical limb patterns and so they're tricky they're not like a long straight one that's predictable but all went well so mrs. W want to mention there's gonna be questions why we why this particular tree there were a number of reasons we decided to take this tree down first and foremost was that we have an historic barn on the property it's well over 120 years old something like that yeah and it was threatening that secondly it was blocking sunlight from the orchard third it wasn't a very attractive tree there's trees where they're located in just the right spot or they're a beautiful tree and makes you happy to see them this treated nothing it was just always in the way when we're headed to the pond and these trees the the standalone trees like this can be really dangerous especially in high wind areas that we have not had a lot of wind in this area until the private timber company to the west took a huge tract of timber out and that's changed our weather patterns severely so this tree grew up not having the support of other trees and when you watch it in the windstorm it's highly it's highly likely that the thing will come down and it could come down you know when we have visitors here there's always kids playing around here so a tree like this makes me nervous but the the good thing of it is as I spoke earlier it just it's not going to go to waste it's gonna be good use and limbs for compost and and there'll be a couple cords of firewood and we'll get some nice Timbers out of it so we don't think we don't take taking trees down lightly we do not take trees no lightly and you know we try to offset that you know last few weeks back we with the help of some subscribers we planted nearly a thousand trees so we are very conscious about stewardship but trees are meant to be used and we try to we tried not to waste anything around here so how do you feel about it is it exciting to watch your man cutting down these monster trees it's more exciting to cut them down myself the expectations are high now love should never put me on a chainsaw crosscut huh we'll see you guys on the next video [Music]

Channel: Wranglerstar

Views: 604,606

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Length: 9min 4sec (544 seconds)

Published: Sat May 09 2015