9. Cutting, Wedging, Falling and Bucking a Big Tree | Should’ve had my PowerWedge

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[@malcolmpym507]

Large dangerous partly rotten trees do get you to think. What a stunning view in the mountains. Take care with those trees.

[@libertywayranch2424]

Your new microphone is awesome! Really enjoy listening to you talk through your options and what you are thinking.

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Lots of high quality shakes and shims in that busted up wood!!!!

[@alans.7733]

Nothing like making a living while saying “that was fun”… and an awesome view to boot.

[@VeteranTreeService]

Great shot of you from a distance on the log. Really shows how massive that tree is! Unbelievable.

[@ronaldmatros9890]

You sir are a 2 legged Billy goat. You never fail to impress. Great view too.

[@leonardryan8723]

Bjarne beautiful little cedar for you buddy , glad your thinking 🤔 SAFETY and always put SAFETY FIRST BJarne 😊. Great idea where the cedar is going buddy . 😊 iiiii iiiiii love 💕 to have 8000 board feet 🦶 for my man den in garage. 😊

[@Mike7478F]

Sheww, im exhausted from this epic cut. I was breathing harder and my pulse was elevated with sweaty palms. Even my hound got nervous!! 🤪🤘

[@dws5951]

Gotta say... more action adventure, danger and suspence than a John Wick movie.

[@AaronTheViking250]

another frosty day in the office, hey. lol be safe, be kind, stay warm, and have a great day, buddy 👍✊️👍✊️

[@KevinsDisobedience]

It’s so impressive to me that you can lift a huge tree like that with a few tiny wedges. You needed your new ones on that pig of a cedar!

[@sporranheid]

Having an existential moment, thinking, why does any of this have to be like this, and yet there ye are. The mind and body combo working with the maximum efficiency, in a ridiculous terrain, getting it done. Aside from all the million computations your brain does in a day, assessing x, y & z, and all the other skills that flow from your humble being, if we could bottle the way you swing an axe at wedges you'd be made. Hand-eye, mind-body coordination that flows so naturally. So many humans have lost touch with how to simply move and be. Don't know what else to say. You move well. To the editor: 30:02-32:03 Stunning pull back. Beautiful work.

[@2990rick]

😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@BjarneButler]

Thanks 🙏.

[@chadaccettura1993]

Nice work man!

[@albemarlelandscapestreeser1653]

Thank you for sharing

[@michaelodonoghue9385]

Impressive! Both the tree and your skill in bringing it down safely.😊

[@michaelhertwig4528]

Great country, and an impressive tree.

[@jeffcampbell6314]

The equipment working below is cool. Look like Tonka Trucks.

[@calebbell952]

I feel your pain. Losing good footage is a real drag. They should implement a beeping sound when battery level is below 10%

[@TreeSawTTV]

Epic!

[@barryhoneycutt3894]

Nice job as always Bjarne, i know you know.. extreme caution sir. Had to say it. Been a fan a while. Keep fallen those massage trees, bosses love it that big Cedar smells like money to them lol

[@BjarneButler]

Thanks for watching Barry

[@drive9997]

thazz a big one

[@frankworsley7476]

All I can say is “Holly Toots”!!!!

[@robertodebeers2551]

Show this video to the company boys. Let them know what they're getting for their money.

[@BjarneButler]

Ya the owners of this wood should know that it’s not how fast you can cut trees down but to spend the extra time when needed to make sure your aim is right, you working your quarter optimally and efficiently to make sure your not smashing tree on stumps, boulders, ridges and also minimizing secondary breakage. It’ll cost a huge financial loss on a low bidding contractor that does a port job but get the wood down fast than hiring fallers with a good/great track record of saving out and bucking the wood properly. Smash one solid 10fter and there goes thousands down the drain. Nobody seems to understand that or really grasp the amount of money lost in hiring bad fallers and it’s not the contractor but the actual fallers hired.

[@robertodebeers2551]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Bjarne. Stay safe out there. @@BjarneButler

[@VeteranTreeService]

I bet you could do a mean Christopher walkin impression. 😂

[@BjarneButler]

🤣

[@JohnSmith-ym3zq]

Blowing up that tree in the other video was cool to see. Your new mic is great with your voice, but it makes your saw sound terrible, could hear you ok with the old mic setup!

[@pekerja27]

👍👍👍 sangat menegangkan kami yang menonton, besar kayu nya😮😮

[@eddyarundale1566]

👋🏻

[@gusdolan6801]

Awesome video! Why did you make the high side of the back cut higher than the low side? Thanks

[@williambrucemacdonald4886]

You sir have balls bigger than that tree.😎

[@navydogsadventures3500]

Morning Bjarne, that would have been great to see in person. So, on the hill on the other side of the draw, was there a landslide?

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Yes, always landslides happening, the slope is beyond the angle of repose due to erosion.

[@navydogsadventures3500]

@@masaharumorimoto4761 I thought so.

[@BjarneButler]

No those are snow avalanche areas. Any trees that try to grow there get wiped out

[@navydogsadventures3500]

@@BjarneButler ok, thanks!!

[@jerrydonaldson3269]

Are they opening up that area for mining or just forestry Bjarne

[@BjarneButler]

Just forestry but I’m checking every creek and and exposed bedrock I come across. I took some samples honey at the end of last shift. I’m just waiting to buy a small saw for my chainsaw rock crusher

[@rolfwhite2563]

Was the rest of that block cut by someone else. Did you then just get the hard trees?

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

It's cut by machine, a harvester processor on a winch cable to anchor it from falling down the slope, the larger trees can't fit in the jaws of the harvester head so they're left for manual cutting by people like Bjarne. If you want to see the winch in action check out the show "Mud Mountain Haulers" they use one in that show, it's a newer show on History.

[@BjarneButler]

I have done oversized trees on bunched blocks before but in this video I was taking over from another faller when their shift was over.

[@rolfwhite2563]

@@BjarneButler I was guessing it wasn’t a machine block as the top of it looked a bit steep for a machine and the timber wasn’t laid out like it looks from a machine block. I did see in the background of one of the videos a grapple yarder so thanks for the clarification

[@markchambers3269]

What do they do with the trees when they are rotten

[@iffykidmn8170]

They are large enough that the outside of the log can still be milled.

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Mostly used for shakes and shims, the shakes are shingles for roofing and siding on homes, the BC has loads of homes with this as their siding and roofing material. It's highly valued and sought after world wide, but only really gets produced in BC, so the broken up trees with lots of volume are still worth hauling out to the mill for shakes and shims.

[@edwinhsingmaster9135]

Likes the added commentary, as minutes of a droning saw gets monotonous. Is there someone that comes in behind you to evaluate the bigger pieces?

[@cameronhamer9432]

They skid all the timber to a landing , then they measure and buck it to length . Any timber that doesn’t make the grade is piled up and burnt . 👍🇨🇦

[@richardthut7071]

​to bad we export all the second growth could have kept the saw mills working save the old for the natural world and to admire it si not like it is going to go anywhere. I now because I dageled on the end of a saw 30 years

[@obiwanjacobi]

That saw sounds awful through the new mic. Better use the on-camera mic, I think. The dialog sounds excellent, though.

[@BjarneButler]

Ya the saw sounds a lot different with the mic. I’m gunna a turn it off while I cut from now on, except I already film an entire shift this way. So it’ll be a dozen videos or so before you’ll see any changes. 🤷‍♂️

[@kenclark0619]

Man I sure hope they pay you one hell of a lot money because you take some insane risk to cut down a damn tree..

[@jameslindenthal840]

AMAZING SKILLS