Thursday, October 13, 2022

Redwood Logging | 1946 | Documentary on the Giant Redwood Lumber Industr...


Cool.  Thanks, John, for sending this.

7 comments:

  1. It still amazes me that these behemoth trees were felled by men with a Michigan axe and two man handsaws. Cool! Wonder how many boardfeet of lumber they'd get from each redwood?

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    1. Half a million bd ft in a big redwood. The Gen Sherman redwood est to weigh 600 tons.

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    2. And yet today, we cry if the battery dies on our portable drill and we cant hang that shell wify unit asks for three months ago...

      We're so weak.

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    3. It took you three months to charge the battery so the wify unit will have to wait an other three months. What's the problem will that? You told her it would get done the first time she asked six years ago....

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    4. Speak for yourself, anon.

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  2. Redwood is brittle and many trees just shattered from their own weight when felled.

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  3. The men who built this country were a tougher breed.

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