MASSIVE 400 Year Old Fir Falls Over! (Almost Hits The House!)

In this video me and the boys at Eastside Tree Works buck up a huge 400 year old Douglas Fir tree that fell over in somebody's yard! 🌲
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[firesurfer]

I tried to count rings at 41:21. The best estimate I could come up with is well over 500 years old.
Tight rings, slow grower. Possibly 600-700 yo.
Btw, put a 6" c-clamp on your bar as a carry handle. 1'-2' from the end.

[mikeremski]

Paraphrasing Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a tree, THIS is a TREE!" Sincere thanks for sharing this.

[eagleeye]

Thinking about it, I had to make a second comment.
Seeing how hard of a job this is, with the modern equipment.
Really makes you want to respect those old time loggers a lot more, I'm talking 100 plus years ago when all they had was big hand saws and axes, mules and horses.

[DFPercush]

Imagine the irony of buying lumber to replace that hand rail.

[davidtyndall]

I am not an arborist but I am a 75 year old carpenter and woodworker. I have a suggestion that you may find useful if you ever run across a situation like this in the future. Make two cuts at a slight angle facing each other, in other words cut a wedge shaped piece. That way the slightest movement will cause the piece to get smaller as it is lifted and it will come right out.
You guys really work well together and do a fantastic job.

[paavonurmi]

That part about the saw being out of gas just killed me

[danielbramlett]

When your "smaller saw" is a 42 inch bar lol 😆

[TreeManDingo]

Buddy that is some cool stuff right there. That tree is magical. Could feel the energy coming from it. That 88 is pretty sweet also

[willstephenson]

It’s mad to think about what the world was like when that tree first started growing .

[markp.]

Said this before it’s the only YouTube site I will give more than 10 minutes to.

Great stuff as always. Trees older than the US by 150 years or so...amazing. Home owner was lucky it didn’t crush their house and them.

[danpowell]

No wasted video here. There is plenty to be learned by watching you guys struggling to free this tree. Nice job. Glad that some of this tree will at least keep someone warm.

[briangarrow]

I worked on the Quinault Indian Reservation in Washington state as a young man for a few months as a logger and I measured some cedar stumps that were over 24 feet in diameter. The trees had been cut probably 30 or 40 years before I happened upon them but since cedar resists rot, they were still in amazing shape.

[emeyers]

Holy Moly!! The Good Lord was watching out for them! Your 7’ bar saw is a beast!

[nakulah]

Haven’t watched yet but I can’t believe there was a remnant old growth that huge in someone’s yard!!

[thebradleysoncatbirdhill]

"We've been here a long time working but it doesn't look like we've accomplished much".... At least I'm not the only one who says that! Awesome video! 👍

[DXT]

10:05 started laughing out loud when he joined in with the mini me. You know you are in big wood when a 395xp is the smaller saw.

[andrewmorton]

Notice the tone of his voice when he expressed the disappointment that the tree fell. True tree cutters are more in favor of conservation than they get credit for.

Cheers from Washington State! There is a reason we are the evergreen state.

[thecasper]

Jake I imagine that there are people that would pay a fortune for a clean 6 inch ring of that for a natural table!

[stephenxburrage]

The saw running out of gas had me HOLLERING 😂

[TheExPatGuidePH]

WOW! What a TREASSURE, I would do anything to save this wood, especially for woodworkers. It is so RARE to find a 400–600-year-old tree like this. I know allot of woodworkers that would die to get their hands on this old tree and make something special out of it. The homeowners should keep some it on the property in some form or another, it's that kind of a treasure. This tree provided LIFE to so many living creatures for so long, it server her purpose well and it just brings me to tears to see her go out like this. There has to be a way to save the roots and seeds and replant her family!!!! She started growing in the 1200-1300, WOW, the tales she could tell! She was almost half her life when America was first discovered. Prior to that she grew FREE. Maybe the Indians of the time knew her well and slept under her shade.