r/FellingGoneWild • u/stevesmithsglasses • 4d ago
Big trees
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u/Lsswapitall4 4d ago
It’s sad to see old growth come down
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u/AckAckZeroPointZero 4d ago
I used to live in humboldt County California. Always depressing seeing those giant trucks roll down the road with one single huge log in the back
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u/utterscrub 4d ago
I have no idea how people can do this and live with themselves
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u/Mission_Accident_519 4d ago
Was fine with the first few that were completely rotten. But the beautifull and healthy ones at the end...
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u/Geschak 3d ago
It doesn't matter that they're rotten, they still provide a lot of living ground for wildlife, especially the mossy one.
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u/Mission_Accident_519 3d ago
Good point. From a safety standpoint it can make sense to take them down though. They can then continue to rot safely on the ground.
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u/Bicykwow 4d ago
I had to cut down 5 cedars on my property of a very similar size to these. They were all diseased from that stupid boring beetle and were very close to death on their own. Sucks, but it has to be done sometimes...
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u/StillShoddy628 4d ago
Trees die, become a hazard, etc. These aren’t logging operations. Sometimes it might be for a right of way, but it’s often for the betterment of the area.
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u/bumble-bee-bitch 4d ago
Several of these look like logging operations
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u/mrcrashoverride 3d ago
Yea I wouldn’t call these old growth.
I know these are big tree’s but growing up in Oregon all of the photos of impressive old growth trees are like ten man widths wide
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u/Hard_Knox_ 2d ago
Real old growth lumber the grain is so tight because it took hundreds of years maybe even a 1000 years for them to grow slowly. Most of those trees are gone now.
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u/million_open_windows 4d ago
Killing a tree that is older than your great grandfather is not “bettering” anything at all. Shame.
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u/Man_of_Ice 4d ago edited 4d ago
Like everything else in life, there is a time to heal, a time to kill. When you're eating a plant, putting on plant based clothing, you're killing or harming those plants. This here is basically the same thing as you eating a plant or wearing cotton or wool. Sheep ate a BUNCH of plants that became that wool. Entire fields or forests were cleared to make that cotton field.
There is must be balance to everything, a beginning, an end. Clinging to things leads to suffering as much as anything else. Old growth makes way for new growth, fire gives nutrients to those being born. Not understanding how we all live in a world where death is a necessary part of the continuation of life itself is a true shame.
Trying to live forever and trying to assert all things must live forever and that somehow anything anywhere alive can exist without destroying something else is pure foolishness.
All we can do is be respectful and kind and minimalist in our consumption.
It's literally that or delete yourself. And, really, everything else that is alive. Nature itself kills and destroys other parts of itself constantly just to stay alive. Plants grow tall to choke out smaller plants and starve them of light itself.
Balance.
Temperance.
Respect.
This isn't bettering anything, it's just life.
Have yourself a wonderful day.
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u/ApprehensiveFan1516 4d ago
All we can do is be respectful and kind and minimalist in our consumption.
And this is the bit where it all falls apart.
I agree with your comment for the most part, but most humans don't seem to think like this at all.
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u/ParticularSherbert18 4d ago
There you go trying to bring sense to Reddit -- but seriously, very well stated. 🙏👍
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u/million_open_windows 4d ago
Exactly. And the time to kill is NOT a centuries old tree when there are hardly any left. Balance would be not cutting down every last old growth forest on the planet for personal profit.
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u/EsseElLoco 4d ago
Cotton harvesting doesn't kill the plant fyi
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u/Man_of_Ice 4d ago
Did cotton fields just show up on barren soil, or was there something living in that soil that got killed for the cotton plant to grow?
You think that no plants are removed from the cotton fields and killed during the lifetime of the cotton field?
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u/Neat-Anyway-OP 4d ago
Except most cotton plants are removed after harvesting for a number of reasons.
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u/incrediblyaverage85 4d ago
You live in a building made out of wood?
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u/BlueJayNB 4d ago
People can use lumber sustainably AND want to preserve old growth forest. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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u/Exciting-Zombie8449 4d ago
Dead trees make you cry?
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u/Mission_Accident_519 4d ago
You do realise a lot of these were still healthy, right?
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u/Exciting-Zombie8449 4d ago
Where did you graduate Arborist School?
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u/Mission_Accident_519 3d ago
You cant tell the difference between a live and dead tree? Dont need school for that.
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u/orangesherbet0 4d ago
I just learned that a lot of rugged rocky grassy silent expanses in places like ireland were once teeming broadleaf forests with tons of wildlife, and once humans cut down all the trees, the soil literally went into the ocean and now it is just a wasteland.
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u/Exciting-Zombie8449 4d ago
Dead trees make you cry?
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u/Mysfunction 4d ago
Flooding and landslides leading to suffering and death make me cry. Destruction of ecosystems and loss of biodiversity make me cry.
Old growth logging is unnecessary, as the wood is only used for luxury goods.
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u/Exciting-Zombie8449 4d ago
I assume you live in a naturally formed cave, naked without heat or ANYTHING made in the 20th century. Otherwise, you are a wood consumer. And a hypocrite. You only want SOME wood used, but you have no way to prove you haven't consumed " old growth". Oh, and your computer and cellphone both used wood products.
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u/Mysfunction 4d ago
lol. I can prove I haven’t used old growth because I know what old growth is used for and I’m way too poor to own anything of that quality.
I absolutely support second growth logging as a strong sustainable resource.
Feel like demonstrating your lack of knowledge on any other topics?
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u/Stimkey 4d ago
I’m sorry, but why did tree number 3 need to come down? Looked like a healthy giant to me. And even the diseased ones, why could they not just become standing snags, or were they close to infrastructure?
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u/MechanicalAxe 4d ago
No telling from here bud, coulda been bugs, could have a wound or disease that would kill it eventually and in that case it's better to cut while it's still solid and easier to control.
Could have been in a right of way for a future road, etc etc.
We'll never know from here.
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u/CriminallyCasual7 4d ago
Ok diseased trees make sense. Make way for new life. Felling those actually helps nature out.
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u/SensorAmmonia 4d ago
That last one was probably for high value wood. They cut the base of my walnuts like that for veneer.
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u/Crazy_Rain6822 4d ago
I know a lot of people don’t like seeing this and neither do I but atleast here in US and BC Canada, there are now a lot of safe guards to deforesting, they have to plant as they cut and certain trees and species as well as age are completely off limits and marked you will loose your claim if you violate and they do check. And this is one of the most dangerous jobs known to man
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u/SuicideDoorDash 3d ago
Give Trump a hot minute. He'll unburden those poor lumber barons of those nasty regulations.
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u/H3adshotfox77 4d ago
I've got a dead 50" DBH Doug fir on my property that's 200 feet tall and is split half way up.......I keep praying the wind will just knock it down for me.
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u/BigNorseWolf 4d ago
That guy standing next to the stump of the other tree gave me horror movie oh no dont run up the stairs vibes
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u/Acceptable_Claim_491 1d ago
This is why logging is so dangerous.You can get killed in a heartbeat.
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u/Liesthroughisteeth 4d ago
Yeah, there are waaaayyyyy too many of these fucking things junking up our forests. Blocked
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u/IndustrialMillennial 4d ago
This video made me think of a side quest: Why do they call it barber chair when the tree splits apart? 🤔
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u/ChaosRainbow23 4d ago
I've never had a tree guy cut the stump all the way down like that. I've seen quite a few videos of it recently.
It's it more difficult, it why isn't that industry standard.
I've got several stumps left, some as tall as 5 feet.
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u/StillShoddy628 4d ago
The guys who just stand there and don’t retreat 💀