Tree felling vids

[Bermy]

Cedar tree smackdown

 

[lxskllr]

Doing an image search...

Here's a Bermuda cedar in Australia...

Impressive tree

for comparison, this is the most interesting ERC I found with a quick image search...

 

[stig]

I can testify that the Bermuda cedar smell both better and stronger.

Fiona sent me a chunk some years back.

 

[Mick!]

Surely all this groping around in the dark with local names is daft.

What are the scientific names for these trees?

 

[lxskllr]

Eastern Red Cedar = juniperus virginiana

Bermuda Cedar = Juniperus bermudiana

 

[Mick!]

Western red cedar = Thuja Plicata.

More often used as a hedging plant over here.

 

[RegC]

Red cedars get big, given time. This ones about 4 hours from home

 

[Mick!]

Rarely achieve any size this side of the pond, seem to die off after 40/50 years max.

 

[Burnham]

A common story with non-native plantings...though not always, obviously. Conifers seem to suffer from it more than some other types, for some reason.

 

[SeanKroll]

How much rain do you get locally, Reg and Mick?

How much do you suppose they get at that location, Reg?

 

[Mick!]

I’ll do some research, if I can find time. There seems to be less rain than the PNW, more temperate.

 

[lxskllr]

What's in the hole in that cedar Reg? Looks like it might be a good place to sleep.

 

[RegC]

How much rain do you get locally, Reg and Mick?

How much do you suppose they get at that location, Reg?

I think its between 250-350cm average in that area Sean.

I dont think theres much going on in the hole lxkllr, but it does go upwards a way and has a nice echo to it. I sat there for a while and had a sandwich. Great thing about sites like this is that very few people go there. It seems they have such a psychological dependency on cell phone service that they are afraid of the back country where there is none.

 

[treebilly]

A meeting of two Titans on friendly terms^^

 

[flushcut]

Can you imagine flopping one of those beasts with an axe and crosscut saw.

 

[pantheraba]

The tree would be easy to flop compared to Reg.....

 

[flushcut]

Reg would dull an axe or saw on first contact.

 

[cory]

Those are a couple of awesome pics to have personally experienced, Reg

 

[RegC]

Thanks Cory and others. What really makes it special is being there alone. Not that I dont like company either, but to be at a location like that knowing that theres not another person around for miles on end makes it all the better.

 

[lxskllr]

Focuses your attention also. No conversations, no distractions, you spend as much time as you like at each place on the journey. I generally prefer my nature solo.

 

[cory]

I hear ya, Reg.

Way back in the day when I was logging in ME, I would sometimes drive way the hell out on the haul road on a weekend, find a turn out and chill, smoke a joint, as we called it then, and just revel in the notion that there was no one else for miles around in that semi wilderness, at least that's how it seemed to me.

 

[biggun]

Definitely some inner peace when I am alone.

I also get the same feeling when I am up late at night or get up early for work. There is a different feeling to me when I know most people are still sleeping and tucked up in bed.

 

[murphy4trees]

This guy's a trip.. his can-do attitude is very inspiring

 

[spankywheatjeans]

Ran across Willie (SOTC) on youtube today...

One of the best vids I have seen in a long time....Beautiful work....

 

[Mick!]

Been on here before, but yes, good work for sure.