I like how theres pauses between the commentary to just stop and watch. Most tv productions today continuously move on.

The sawmill shown at 6:30 was The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia Ca. I hauled in and out of that mill for 19 years. A lot of the old mill was left when they closed. You would have been amazed at the size of the timbers used in building the overhead crane system. Some were four to six FEET thick. It was an amazing place.

I would have loved to been able to see the western USA forests before they started to log them. There was some big big trees. Not just the redwoods either. I've heard of some huge Doug Fir that were logged back a hundred years or so ago. As a kid we had some huge old stumps on our property in southern Oregon. Would have loved to have seen them before they were logged.

Beautiful old video you have here. It's a shame there are not more out there from the same era. Being bred as a logger then faller and cutting so many of these old giants down my self while holding the hands of men gasping there last breath of life which old ladys have taken i come to realize. The giant Redwoods, Sitka Spruce, Douglas Fir, Red and Yellow Cedars are the mothers of life. Without them we and rest of life on earth would not exist. The few areas in the world left that can support their future will soon be scraped off and by then i am sure we already will be overcome by our own needless greeds.

That topper at 1:30 has some BALLS!

Amazing ! I love watching old-time industry ! Logging and railroading. Adding to favorites to show my kids ! Thanks for sharing the history !

That has got to be the best video i've seen in a while. Exellent work. Thank You

Me Too! Those were tough old guys.

Awesome footage, thank you to bring it to youtube.

Used to build forts in stumps like these in Cali. It was awesome fun.

Simply amazing! These guys were some hard workers

Just spectacular. I'm not going to lie, the video made me a bit sad. But then again it was 60 years, all we can do is learn from the past and do our best. Very fascinating nonetheless.

This is a great video. I'm glad you enjoyed it too.

thank you for a great video. i am a tree trimmer and those guys had hard work would easily kick tree trimmers /lumberjacks asses os today lol we have gotten soft

Love the video. Older trees like that are amazing

RESPECT to this old GUYS !!! thats the muscle power !!!

Cool video. most people never get to see the way it "Used" to be done. Thanks for that.

...Heros of History...great video..and amazing courage! Today..Sthil & Husquvarna..

Vrlo zanimljiv i poučan uradak,svakako ga valja pogledati.Kazuje kako su ljudi i na kakve načine u povijesti rušili drveće kao što je pokazano na lokaciji oduvijek poznatoj po šumarstvu i preradi drva.

That's quite an operation there. Impressive.

Back then in Mendocino county an average of one man a day would be killed in logging accidents. Brave men.

its pretty nice to know that your great grandpa was a man who cut these logs for a living many many years ago...

probably the best video i have watched on youtube. comment at top made me laugh too ----"What Majestic Trees! - Hey, Let's cut 'em down!"

Yeah, 4K years old. They grow slowly and last a long time.

loggers back then are some of the most badass loggers to haver ever lived

Redwood is fantastic, like the video said, each tree can supply enough lumber to build multiple houses.

Its something to see the trees that wide cut in the mill...67 years ago...We built a lot of homes for our family's with that wood...Beats living in a cave...

I remember when I was 9 years old and my grandfather told us his stories of woodcutter when he worked at age 25 that the hard times were the ones that the thing is to read so is in my blood

makes me really appreciate my husqy 3120xp and the rest of my saws.

@ohlhous Really enjoyed this video, so many thanks for the upload OK? On this particular tree it was amazing the accuracy and judgement wrapped into the loggers of the day who had to do things for the most part 'the hard way'! The extremely exact axe cutting was great to see, and the surfaces left so smooth it was almost as if they had been polished. Take care, mrbluenun

kemény munka.

set aside for our enjoyment lol. Couldn't imagine being one of them what a thrill

now that's old dam dam dam

it seems criminal to cut down a 2000 or 3000 year old tree.

I think OSHA would have a field day with this.

Big ones

LOL the announcer keeps rubbing it in over and over, reminding us of the tree's majesty, age, size etc.

think of the fatwood and sap you could find at the base of those... sap balls the size of a basketball or bigger

@880CHEVYMAN same here. ppl have to work. yet ive much respect for these majestic trees. but still understand hte need for them. but at least its not irrespnsibly done anymore Eh?

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

ag4yo why do you think they went through the trouble of falling these monsters? cuz its some of the best wood in the world.... well for those ppl that say they shouldnt cut any of these trees down, try living in the bush. cuz thats where youd be if it wasnt for the logging industry... these trees built the cities you live in. thanks for posting i appreciate it, i also appreciate Gods creation even more. its mankind though that has not simply used but abused these beautiful forests.

Just slightly dangerous.

Getting shit done that's for sure.

preserve those trees, dudes, some countries would pay millions to have them!

Yes, it is sad to see the big trees cut, but we all live in wooden houses. No easy answers...

triste muito triste.

Isn't it amazing how if you speak in a calm, soothing voice and talk about pride and a better life for one's family, then you can hack away at a 2000-year old tree, destroy and ancient ecosystem, and have people applaud you for it? How easy it is to manipulate the human mind...

It might seem a shame to have to cut these biggun's down, but to get the other wood out by rail and to actually make room to move logs about, I am sure this was emphasised because it was probably the largest in that local cutting area. The other may be only 500-1000 years old. This film was made specifically for the Cinema, and watching a tree the thickness of a telegraph pole being cut down is hardly gripping stuff is it. Watching this may also serve to save many others. Just a thought.

Great video. Its an amazing skill and nice to see how hard our ancestors worked. Nothing like Americans today who sit around complaing about videos like this while consuming too much food and still dtiving. Lol. And its nice we are replacing more trees than we cut down!

It's not the use of trees for industry and fabrication that annoys me it's the wholesale use of trees to generate wealth making a 4000 year old tree into a house that will last 1-200 years at best when less important quick growing trees are available and far more ethical... This is not a quaint Walton run wood yard that supplies their neighbours it's huge lumber yards undervaluing an important resource to supply the world

Do you live in a clay house?

One tree, 20 homes they said. 4000 years of growth for only 20 homes. Redwood wasn't used for framing homes during the late 1940's. Seems kinda sad to me.

Those men were real men.

All the biggest of the biggest have been gone for many years.

Neither do you.

Now they want Brazil to preserve its forest ? Funny.

I am so glad that they didn't have chain saws back then

@420Todd67 and people complain while living in a wodden house, with wooden floors, cosuming foods out of containers made usign timber products and printing out items on paper made from well, wood . if things were doen now like htey were then. yes wed have nothing. a plot of land might be usable for timber. once, MAYBE twice in a sawyers lifetime. in the meantime, more are planted. it is VERY highly regulated. and damn near impossible to get away wiht anythign. so hardly anyone tries

this is about a civilization that does know what it talks about : "we cut the oldest living thing on earth, maybe older than our civilization … " to build houses and furnitures. We don't have any sense about life, this is ridiculous.

we are monsters

@ohlhous ever heard of farming? or perhaps even pine plantations?

Man is not the measure of all things, new trees replace the old, just because we won't live 2,000 years to see it doesn't mean it won't happen. How are lives better for using concrete, steel or plastic? Use wood, even recycled wood, create jobs and preserve open spaces for forestry and agriculture.

Unless you live in an Adobe Hut don't leave bad comments about this video please.

Redwood sucks ass I'm a builder and the wood is a crappy building material, ya bugs wont eat it, buts its as soft as a marshmellow and wont hold its "beautiful color" unless you buy a 100 gallons of sealer every year... crap wood, much better to us living in the forests.

@eastern412bmx maybe in the case of other types of trees but with something that takes so long to reach the breath taking size they hit wouldnt it be smarter to leave redwoods alone so my children's grandchildren will be able to walk the giants as I have.

It's simple: Money & Greed

That is when wood was wood

Well, that was depressing...

These men had a job to do and they did it, and it took more courage and strength and than what most of us do these days. Pity it had to be destroying these magnificent organisms though, but again who am I to judge sitting here at my electricity powered computer drinking my tea which I bought in a large supermarket. They needed good wood to build shit, end of story.

what's with the Tom and Jerry music

Respekt!!!

*Words of a former U.S. Marine and lumber mill worker.

@doktorandom Egads, man. Let's not start bringing fairy tales into the picture.......

@ohlhous Remarks on inappropriate comments… If people do not want to watch because they are not interested, fair enough. However, to watch and often within the first sentence to throw insults and nasty words around, is not good "Netiquette" to say the least, and some things cannot be read as anything other than insults. You the people saying these nasty things want to grow up and realise you are in fact insulting yourself I think is termed as "Reflected insults". check it on google.

what is it, 96% of the redwood forests gone? please preserve and expand the last trees before theyre gone forever!

they will be 6 feet in a year

it seemed to be (very) healty... poor tree.

No wonder all the houses tip over when i blows in the us. Consider making house of bricks instead.

what a waste of nature

@shinglehillclimber88 Its a shame people have to work for a living too.

@ohlhous We should invent replicator so We Wouldn't have to destroy everything in our wake , synthetic wood?

I work at a forestry as a sawyer, and watching them cut those redwoods is kinda sad.

Stop bitching everybody its done...Do what you can today for tomorrow. Recycle those aluminum cans and other materials. PLANT A TREE, SHRUB, SOMETHING. Dwelling in the past is not going to help one bit.SHOULDA, COULDA, WOULDA.....ALL SLANG BUT SO MANY SAY IT SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS OR THAT--JUST DO IT--

who wants super old rare trees?!?!?! not me!!! cut em down for money!!! yay!!!

Jesus christ...the amount of people crying and complaining about what foresters did in the 1940's....do you go onto videos of Dutch elm or Ash Dieback and say ''omg this makes me want to puke'' too? I've been a working Arborist for the last 7 years and i can honestly say i respect the hell out of the men in this video...i couldn't imagine doing all of this in a time before Chainsaws...there is no use complaining about Cutting down ancient Trees....you live in towns and cities that had mass areas clear felled to make room...you sit at home with electricity that is produced using mass amounts of coal...its all well and good calling these foresters bastards from on top of your high horse...but this needed to be done...there are still redwoods...they are not going to disappear all together...why dont you all go and complain about things that you can actually change? complaining about something that happened over 70 years ago isnt going to change a thing...what about our Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters that are overseas fighting an un-winnable war? what about Famine and Disease in Third world countries? what about world fucking hunger? They are just trees...no matter how old they are...

@ohlhous Its a shame that redwoods are the only tree to use for timber. Its pathetic how man thinks he has the right to destroy anything he chooses. Choose a different tree, its not like there the only ones, why choose one that has been around since the dinosaurs walked earth, Somethings should never be messed with and clearly the redwood is one of them

@77kirkwood as long as there are americans in america they don't grow until 4000 years old

rip

Hey baby , before DRILL BABY DRILL it was CHOP BABY CHOP! Eat bark ninja!

@ohlhous it's a shame population keeps growing

Earth First! We will Log the other planets later.

What a waste of a comment. The back bone of America is industry.

its a shame all these were cut down for railroad ties and buildings that most off them are all rotten and gone... there were plenty of other big ass trees that were not the redwood giants that could have been used for timber. to bad the forest service didnt buy up all the land with the redwoods before these morons killed them all. im no tree hugger i sometimes kill live trees for building a structure but usually i find the trees that are dead standing or near dead its called being a good steward of your forest so i can leave many big live trees for my children and grandchildren. seeing these big trees die are sad... nothing we can do about it though. at least many of them have been saved and the biggest tree in the world is still alive for people to see.

its a shame thay have to cut them down!

Nisene marks state parks in Santa Cruz ca, was clear cut of its redwoods 140 years ago...it has grown back to the point where you cannot tell it had ever been logged... Shut up crybaby huggers

Great grandpa had no vision.

you have to cut trees so the forest will keep growing you cut one an two may grow in its place thar for creating more oxygen creating more jobs down the line.... its not the cutting that ppl should be worryed about.. it HOW its done an HOW much is cut that should be worryd about...

grow up.

@ohlhous Sure, but there's other ways to make money.

Cherokee indian name in california??? lmao