I wish I could show this to my Grandpa, he worked in the mills in the 50’s & 60’s, he’d get a kick out this. He was very proud to work as a lumber grader.

After Lewis & Clark made their report Jefferson assume it would take 1000 years (a full millennium) to populate the continent. He was not counting on the railroad.

This is how they got logs out on the west coast of the South island of New Zealand in the late sixties. Minus the hand sawing and steam engines. But the wider ropes and Spartree log halling was used so less impact on surrounding trees was used. The lumber jacks climbed the 90 foot tree cut the top off to fix the pulley to so the wider ropes could be slung over it. Dangerous job people were injured and killed.

The way that lumber jack climbed up and up and up that big tree and cut the top off....yikes. I hope he was well paid.

At 2:15 “It will take 100 years”. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I'm so pissed off I had a beautiful sawmill set up that I had stored for 30 years and because I couldn't find a place for it these people took it and scrapped it for eight cents a pound probably now probably not probably one cent to pound can't believe it

So sad. I will never see trees like that in my lifetime. They cut them all down.

@May the conquest of the forest be to the continued economic benefit of OUR people.” Who are “OUR” people?