A lost art, and a lost breed of men. The amount of work and knowledge it takes to not only fell that right and safe, but to actually get it out of the woods is amazing. Thanks for sharing this amazing video.

I watched this film with my 2 year old nephew. It was fantastic and we both loved it. Thanks for putting it online.

I'm not a tree hugger on any level, but my favorite place on the earth is the Redwood Forest areas of Humbolt County. Crescent City, Avenue of the Giants, Prairie Creek, Arcata, Eureka, Willits....everything up there. I hate to see any of the old growth trees that are left cut down, even the damaged ones. There's just no place like this anywhere else on earth.

Thanks for the video. I worked for Simpson Timber Co. logging old growth Redwoods back in the late 60's and early 70's mostly along the Klamath River. I never got tired of watching the fallers work their magic. It's a lot harder than it looks.

You know, as I've gotten older, in my 50's, I've learned to appreciate things more! Im from Ga and my wife & I took a trip to San Francisco on vacation and we took several tours out there to see the area surrounding SF including going to 3 SF Giants baseball games! The most enjoyable tour we took was going on the Muir Woods and we got to see a 600 acre track of those majestic Redwood trees and I was amazed at the size of those trees!!! They are magical and you owe it to yourself to see them before you leave this world. And YES, I would fly clear across the US to see them again. Ive never been a logger but Ive cut down tons of trees through the years for the fireplace. Im an ole country boy and I guess I like that sort-of-thang! If my memory serves me right, I think a fellow by the name of John Muir was the man that knew sooner or later all of those Redwood trees might be gone and he bought that 600 acre track, donated it to the state and had it declared a national park or something like that so those Redwood wood be safe. Thank You, Mr John Muir

And I bet that every piece of that tree was not put to waste...that is just awesome....and now with that tree gone, younger more viable trees can take its place.

Great job and a very neat drop on such a massive tree 👍🏻

These are great stewards of the forest. The wood will not be wasted. It is far too precious. I would like to express my thanks and awe at such skilled workers

Very grateful we can use the wood and replant instead of loosing it to fire or rot. Excellent management of our resources

Amazing to think it took 6 hours to take this down. What did it take the boys of yesteryear to take down such a tree. It's the men in jeans that built the nation not the men in suits. I was in California last year and was amazed by these giant trees. Will go back soon. Thanks for posting.

Some serious skill demonstrated in this cut! Cant even imagine, gotta have alot of confidence with stuff like that. I'm still working on gettin comfortable with 30 INCH tree's lol. thanks for sharing. enjoyed!

Great video Greetings from Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦

Awsum!!!! That guy lying in the cut!! Wow. Nicely done boys, respect to that old redwood hope you planted more!!

Much as anyone hates to see an old growth tree get cut - missing it's top was the end of a long and glorious life = better the board feet benefit mankind

This is coming from someone who just used to help clean up when my dad fell a tree, but when you guys kept crawling completely into the notch it made me wince.

don't understand why people get upset over them cutting this down he said the top was missing and the tree was dead. A tree is a living thing and does not live forever. It is safer for them to fall the rather than the tree falling on its own and wasting the wood I am always amazed at this ignorance of the tree huggers.

For a tree this old, this should be illegal

I live on the northern Oregon coast. I have several very large Sikta spruce on my property. I love them; it's an honor to be their steward. One had the mother of all widow-makers hung up about 3/4 of the way up, that endangered the public right-of-way. My arborist buddy kindly got it down for me. My tree-hugging neighbor LOST HER FREAKIN' MIND. She accused my killing the tree, and implied that I'm basically clear-cutting Oregon. When I explained that the massive branch had completely broken off, she argued that I could have attempted to reattach it. Then she held a vigil.

The amazing thing is they didn't kill this tree. The root system is still alive and will Sprout many more trees. They actually made more trees.

This is great! Have been there years ago logging (quartering in the brush large 1-4 cuts with dynamite). Once its in your blood it never leaves, I have been a professional timberman for 40+ years and would not trade the hours of sheer boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror for anything in the world, let alone the camaraderie!

Hard to believe how this awesome video went sideways with comments. If we could see more about men gittin it done I think we'd all come away with a better outlook of who we are as Americans. We took an untamed land and made a great nation. Not one man in this video expect food stamps or un employment

Why all the dislikes? It's not a dolphin or a baby seal is killed. A tree is a plant with no heartbeat or soul. What do you think home construction has been built from the past 200 years? You tree huggers need to realize you all are hypocrites. Trees are wood and paper, try living your life without either of them, then get back to me on that "green" issue you have.

Back in @ 1970 I was in forestry school in Lassen county CA and we went on a tour up through the redwoods and saw a logging operation and got to witness a falling redwood. It was about ten in diameter. They had made a bed to fell it on. Awesome experience.

Alot of ignorant comments on here. Nice video man, im an arborist out here in maine and i would love to get a chance to climb a red wood haha. Sucks seeing old growth trees have to be taken down, but its better to get a second life out of it than to let it rot. We lost our biggest elm out here to dutch elm disease and it had to come down, but they used it for timber, furniture and so on so it still lives on. If only people who hate arborists actually realized how much we all care about trees and the beauty and materials they provide for us.

great video.. I am glad the tree was used rather than let rot..

Thanks for posting this. such a grand tree needs to be celebrated for its long life.

Thank for thinning out diseased or dying trees. This helps sustain the forest. Too bad so few people know that. Stay safe..

Big tree big paycheck, specialty cutters with balls of steel. Currently I work in a hem/fir sawmill we produce around 50,000 board ft per hour, its overwhelming and astounding to think that there is a true demand and need for such volumes of lumber. I should really get back into the carpentry side of the lumber industry much more rewarding. Surprised none of these huggers mentioned the amount of carbon released back into the atmosphere once a tree has been processed.

I really dislike seeing these old redwoods taken down.

This is truly sad.

REALLY awsome video. I'm a young sawyer n find it fascinating n educational to watch u seasoned vets knock down the big wood.

That was an interesting and we'll carried out felling and at the least the trunk was salvaged rather than just left to rot! I'm an English arborist who hates seeing waste and recycling is one of my top priorities! Most of the time I have to work with young trees that have grown in the wrong place but occasionally I can save magnificent trees! If they can live on in some beautiful way, then it's not such a great loss!

I LIKE lookin at the old pics of them poor bastards who used to cut twice that size down with axes and two man hand saws for weeks on end only to collect their pay checks,ride into town and blow it all in one nite on whiskey and women.LOL.then go back and do it all again..quite the hard workin easy life back then..cool vid!!

Takes some balls of steel to climb under that thing man.

There are few of us with the skills and tooling to get one of these big,dangerous beasties laid to rest without damaging the wood within.This one was an a-typical,could been a shitty day but you sir set that down with hardly an internal crack and I respect you and your crew for your talents.

My God that is awesome. I work in construction and some of the things I do I think I am nuts for even trying it. But it is all about the experience I have. And the same goes in your work. Good job. May you and your family have a blessed day

You know it's a big tree when you have to use hydraulic jacks instead of wedges. My house is over 100 years old and framed out of redwood. Not one bit of bug damage present when I gutted it to remodel and insulate. Sad is not cutting down the tree, it's not replanting one or two more redwoods to replace it. Unmanaged land is what burns people's houses down in wild fires. Even the wedge removed from that tree could be used for something. Just remember that you can replant a tree but you can't replace oil.

One day ill be logging on this level. Hats off to you gents.

Good job! A once-in-a-lifetime falling. 37,000BF and the top was off already. Amazing.

My dad was always the great craftsmanship dropping these trees way he did it is with blasting caps and a special cable to pull in one direction. They use special blasting caps that didn't do a lot of damage just enough to separate the trunk from the root so nothing didn't go to waste.

No one is boycotting the furniture in their homes to save the trees

👍 Awesome work fellas! Didn't think that one fella was ever gonna get dirty! 😂

Very interesting to watch. As described this tree was not complete anymore so I agree that it might as well be harvested. Nice cut

Great video. My father was one of the men in the video. Wish I would have been there to help

sad that the top broke, i was in the redwood forest when a giant broke and ill never forget the sound. at least theres a ton of beautiful lumber. Also dont be sad so long as the stump wasnt killed baseless sprouts will pop up all over and grow incredibly strong.

Quality work. Living in the Sierra next to a closed mill I understand logs too well. The art in falling that tree clean is hard for the majority to understand. As a woodworker I would love that heartwood.

This was on private property and I'm pretty sure those trees are protected for the most part. Awesome video.

I'm not a tree huger, but dam guys, so many years of growing and so little time to take it down !!

A lot of people don't realize that out of this stump, a new tree will appear. Redwoods are like weeds, it will grow back. These trees, as with all living thing, have a life cycle, they my have a longer life span than us, but they die eventually, and regrow. Fire is also a way for old growth to reseed. The underbrush of these forests are so thick, once a fire starts, it's too intense to put out. Select cutting should be part of the plan to keep these forests healthy.

Chainsaw Enthusiasts the world over are salivating over such a job.

That is one big tree... impressive skills on display knocking that over.

That guy crawling in that tree just made me cringe... what the?

I learned to hug trees...in forestry school...to see which way they wanted to fall. I also learned to thank God and the tree.

I am no tree hugger, but seeing such a mighty tree fall, brings a tear to my eye.

in the 1970's ,the construction company i worked for ( new tract homes) we used all redwood studs ...treated wood for the bottom plate and Douglas fir for the top plates -joist- trusses

I have trouble limbing a 60 pine on the ground! Remarkable feat, guys.

The saddest aspect of my work related to this wonderful type of wood is having to demo redwood exterior decks because the homeowners failed to maintain the wood from weather and bees (central Missouri). Some exterior decks that are properly maintained can last many decades, decks receiving no maintence might last 5 - 10 years.

At this day and age we still have to cut down such beautiful trees? There's no alternative? Heartbreaking...

Amazing skill of those men.

For all the people crying out there this tree was probably dead or dying. Now we do have a major problem with cutting down the amazon and jungles like that along with the red woods which needs to stop. But this tree looked gray like it was about to die and was missing it’s top.

Most these comments clearly have no idea what goes into being an arborist not many people can handle felling a tree half that size with no knowledge of what is actually being done here and why. Been doing arbor work for over 6 years now we fell dead trees for a good reason and prune live ones for a reason, do y’all’s research before assuming it’s bad for the environment. Just like people who hunt deer and other animals, not my field probably never will be. What would we do without arborist keeping live trees healthy and dead trees out of harms way so they don’t hurt/kill or destroy peoples homes from too much topside weight especially when the trees are wilting and rotting. Just the other day removed 5 hackberry trees right in between two residential homes because they were dead and hazardous and potentially deadly to the home owners .

wow you boys did a hell of a job. Thanks for the video

I miss hearing the yarder whistles echoing through the hills. Nice video. I wish there were cameras and KZfaq when my dad and grandfather were cutting these down. There's a treasure trove on Monument. My grandfather and the guys he was working with took cats and buried the burls, including root burls. They never retrieved them and nobody knows where they are anymore. Hundreds of them.

Nicely done, fellas. You are clearly pros. I'm sure the wood was put to good use.

These trees are really something!

Nice love that big timber! Got some big 4,5,6,foot oak, poplar, walnut around here in sw virginia but nothing like that.

What a rare right of passage to climb into the cut of the fall...

Not their first day on the job .That is a huge tree.

That is some nice high dollar wood they got there

Im kinda glad there aren't trees that size in Finland. It would be a way too big operation to cut it down :D

Awesome... sad... but still awesome ! I agree with "Log Splitta"

Imagine how long this took with an axe a couple hundred years ago

3:50 Good Lord, why would they crawl in there like that?

Gotta love the comment section for some good laughs! Greetings from the NW!! Keep looking up brother!!

gives new meaning to the term "Lumber Jack"

So, this land has been yours for 2000+ years, therefore it's just fine to cut down that tree? And trees without their tops are dead or useless? How can you live with yourself for cutting down such a monument of nature? Not to offend you personally, but this is just disgusting to me. I can't understand how anyone could ever come to the conclusion that it is best to cut down such a giant.

Simply awesome.

Awesome man. Felled a few Biggie's using a 48" bar, but nothing like as big as that. Would love to have been part of this job. Nice work :-)

SilencerOftheHills Great job! I was up there about a year before for a get-together/ recreational climb with Jerry Beranek and a bunch of pals. Most people can't appreciate these giants, until you get near one. Ignore the haters; I'm sure it went to good use.

Cutting down trees is okay as long as you eat all the wood.

5:40 - tree falls. 6:02 - "Hey, anybody see Dave anywhere?"

Thats one bigass tree. Nice work guys!

I grew up in Humboldt thanks for the memories

Sad to see such an old tree has to be chopped down. But ti is necessary in view of the condition of the tree.

im a lumberjack in scandinavia and we dont have trees that size at all :D that chainsaw is massive! would love to try it

Carpenters like me love the material born from these great trees!

HARD TO BELIEVE THEY USED TO TAKE THESE MONSTERS DOWN WITH AXES AND HAND SAWS!

It doesn't state the tree was dead. It just says it was missing it's top. It is on private property. If they saw fit to cut it down, it is their right. It would be awesome to have had someone count the rings.

excellent work guys

Good job men, but the guy at 3:48 is absolutely crazy.

Cool footage. In Maine, I've never had a tree with more than 3000 bd ft!

Reminds me when I was cutting down my live Oak in my backyard. This had to be done after two Hurricanes back to back in 2005. That was one hell of a job took me and my buddies 6 days to remove it. It was real close to my house.

I mainly watch these videos for the comment drama.

Although I carve wood, love wood and all the wonderful things that can be made from it my heart goes out to such trees they have been around for a very long time and, although they have a story hidden in them if they could speak I wonder what they would say in their defense to being cut down; I have a right to live, go on in life..

Holy smokes, that is just too cool! I'd like to have just one of the small blocks cut out to turn a bowl with. Great vid.

Good job. I did smaller tree work in the south and I know it's hard work.

Do people have to cut really old growth like this? Isn't anything sacred?

Such a beautiful sequoia, I am glad he will sprout 🌱 again 😍 🙏

This was a blast to watch, for so many reasons! I am looking to buy my first serious saw, and took a break from researching to enjoy a few videos just slightly....(tongue in cheek)above my skill level. If anybody cares to leave an opinion, I am looking at the Husky 550 XP and the Stihl MS 261 C-M. Any advice or knowledgeable opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Good answer! No limped-wristed fellers in this video, that's for sure!