Techniques for knocking down 4-5 centuries old trees. Extremely dangerous.

That logger is (probably) cutting down HIS PERSONAL PROPERTY although speaking from the land of big trees Washington state, the trouble with big wood is that it takes big equipment to harvest and then make into lumber which doesn’t exist any longer because most of the privately owned big wood is already long gone. I lived near the Kapowsin Tree Farm in southeast Pierce County Washington (near Mt Rainier) for many years which originally belonged to and was logged by St Regis (yes…that St Regis. The one that’s comparable to timber giant Weyerhaeuser (or their real estate subsidiary Plum Creek Timber) who owned and logged their timberlands at nearby Vale which is about 20 miles west from Kapowsin) which was all old growth that was harvested off their lands which ran right up from the Puyallup River at Electron, Orting, South Prairie, etc etc) up to the borderline of Mt Rainier Nat’l Park – A huge productive swath of very valuable timberlands. It took till the early 1980’s to harvest all that old growth. I remember the logging trains that used to come out from Tacoma to drop off 100 empty log cars EVERY weekday morning. They’d drop those off behind Kapowsin Lake at the “reload” and then hook up to the 100 cars that were full of old growth logs loaded the day before. Those went into Tacoma on the afternoon return trip EVERY afternoon where St Regis had a huge mill with huge saws and planers and the like to mill the huge logs into marketable lumber that came in there every day for close to 100 years or so till they closed down because all the old growth timber had finally been harvested. When the trains stopped running because of the Milwaukee Road (railroad) bankruptcy then these logs were trucked from Kapowsin to the Port of Olympia an hour away where they were then loaded on to Japanese ships and taken/exported to Japan where they had/have hundreds of small mills that could handle small portions of these giant logs to be made into Japanese lumber products (a HUGE controversy even 30 years later around here – exporting raw materials instead of finished lumber products which isn’t good imo). Then St Regis divested itself away from these timberlands as soon as all the valuable old growth was harvested. They also sold the land in Tacoma where the old mills once stood as those were razed around that time as well. Now the Kapowsin Tree Farm is professionally managed for timber production where they have a couple of contractors all mechanized from the cutting and falling to hauling it into markets. So the only thing that has really changed here is the size and quantity of the logs they harvest nowadays. That and St Regis is hardly heard of or from anymore too it seems…Anyway if you want to see some of this famous “old growth” may I suggest a trip through Mt Rainier Nat’l Park where every old growth tree that has sprouted since time began and grown into the huge trees this area is famous for is still there for you and yours to visit and enjoy??? That wood and those trees belong to us all. Where as the privately owned trees and timberlands do not…