How The Japanese Make Wood WITHOUT Cutting Down Trees!

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Almost every culture around the world has used wood as a building material at some point, you just chop down a tree and voila! But the Japanese culture has its roots in harmony and balance, so rather than just kill a tree, they farm it and harvest it! This technique is called Daisugi.

The technique was developed back in the 14th century in the region of Kitayama.
Wood was in high demand but there wasn't enough flat land to grow it on so tree farmers or Niwashi came up with a technique similar to the bonsai technique.

By pruning the mother cedar tree heavily, they encouraged tall thin saplings to shoot upward, these saplings were either planted elsewhere or cultivated on the mother tree.

Old mother trees can be hundreds of years old and are capable of growing a hundred shoots at one time, these shoots are pruned every 3 to 4 years to keep the timber straight and knot-less and after 20 years the timber can be harvested.

Thanks to Daisugi, the timber harvested is not only long and straight, which is ideal for building with, but it's twice as strong and 140% more flexible than standard cedarwood.

Although nowadays, thanks to architectural advancements this wood isn't in such high demand, it is still used for posts, furniture, and even chopsticks, not to mention its alien-like beauty is highly coveted for ornamental gardens.

Whether you like this timber or not, or whether you appreciate this technique or not, you have to admit, that something magical happens when mankind "guides" nature instead of trying to "control" it!

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Not for timber but as fodder - it's called *_pollarding, _* where the top and branches are cut off leaving a base stem. This technique has been and is currently practiced by millions of farmers all over the world. I myself have two Salix spp. trees in my garden and though I don't have cattle or goats I cut the straight branches from these trees every 3-4 yrs and make fences (against deer) and sticks for my veggie garden.

SteifWood
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Japanese people, living in the future, since the begining of the universe.
What an amazing culture !

SebastianPerezG
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How come others aren't utilizing this technique?😮 This is awesome. We could save so much

thaifighter
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Genius!
I wish this world could come together. What great things we could accomplish…

EyeBDaMD
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Japanese is truly a unique humankind. Love it. Hoping other nation will follow soon so we can eliminate carbon buildup in this world

JAVTROOPER
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So beautiful too and less invasive, allowing nature to foster while humans are benefiting from it at zero percent destruction

elviea
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At 0:08 when the narrator says "but in japanese culture..." and we see an old man next to a reclining Buddha, that's not Japan, that's Wat Pho in Thailand.

blurry_eyes
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Ich finde IKEA Pressspan trotzdem geiler...

annikake
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Should be how every country harvests lumber.

ristube
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Oaks also grow after cut down till the ground. Centuries going own typical pruduction forests, nothing special.

DhrRobMoorman
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some people admire indians and some chinese. i admire most japanese and american indian natives. wish they take over the world.

oguzhanyldz
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Tree..riffic; thank goodness someone understands forestry ;if only they could educate the Brazilians

MrFelix
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Rather when man works with nature instead of destroying it.

dawnsstar
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Woodglut has a lot of plans to choose from.

aleidabianchi
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like the content, but hate the cringy cliche sound effects. thumbs down from me.

ErwinErwin-cgit
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Can you use any tree to do this method??

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