Logging big timber in Alaska

Loggers rule! Big thanks to all the fellas past and present doing a real job.

i logged for two winters and it was some of the hardest and most dangerest work i have ever done hats off to the guys who do this year in and year out

I always had the cobbler put Tricounis on my corks and the faller in this video is the only other cutter that I've ever seen with Tricounis. Loved those things especially on steep and rocky ground. And he has a Mag-driver in his pouch. I like this guy.

Jerry knows his stuff, a true craftsman in my view.

Good ol stihl, i love the smell of two stroke in the morning.

I like how he took his calculator off of his head to figure the weight of the log for the next cut. He is definitely a skilled logger.

gotta respect the American/Canadian loggers. they keep us with a roof over our heads.

Hmm. Not too bad. WE used the 084 for that, much more effective. Good to see some video of the bigger stuff coming down.

Stihl Power!

Nice Pumpkin Patch. Looks like your getting some good scale. Nice video. I sure do miss Southeast Alaska!

Keep up the great work!!! My husband is a logger as well :) I ran the dozer for him for several yrs!! LOVE IT

@doktorandom Logging in southeast Alaska is different than Oregon, Washington, and California. Wolf, Deer and Bear populations have skyrocketed since logging started there. There are no endangered species to protect, and after 60 years of commercial harvest there has been no drop in population of any species of flora or fauna. Populations have only increased. 1% of the Tongass's 17.2 million acres have been harvested for commercial use. That is a far cry from other American states.

Logged for years up north in B.C. Meziadin Used the 2100 husky 36 inch bar. No better job in the world. I miss it. Average butt diameter was 4 to 6 feet.

better to plant a tree than to cuss a logger

Nice looking Humbolt on that second tree. It looks like you dropped it right where you wanted it too. Well done.

And that is how Fallers play "Whack-a-Mole" lol

Love falling big timber!

The chainsaw symbolizes the power and control of mankind over nature. I agree that listening to the birds singing and the crickets chirping is great....but let´s admit that the sound of a chainsaw thundering through a forest is simply poetry to our ears.....

Good to see I am not the only hoser who uses a hand sledge to drive hi swedges. Sometimes I use one of mysteel HD wedges.

looks like you got some big trees over there ! i like your work and keep it up !

You should see what a mother deer and her fawn look like when they get tangled up in the cutter head of a wheat harvester. The owl who loses his house gets off easy compared to Bambi and his mom. Think about that next time you pour yourself a bowl of Wheaties or butter your toast and feel comfort that no animals were harmed in the making of your breakfast.

Awesome! Great job!!

Awsome job man!

Love the sound of big wood hitting the ground

Beautiful, controlled cutting, a dying art here in Australia

Good shot jerry...I thought i saw a tree that you dropped it on so it is easier to work..We call it benching..great vid bounty rooster.

I can't help but laugh at charlie chap's comment on how tree's groan in agony, pain and fear when they fall. Absolutely ridiculous.

Heres a great quote. Destroy something man-made , you are called a vandal. Destory something mothernature made, you are called a developer.

TIMMMMMBER!!!!!Important part of our economy,keep up the good work.

GREAT WORK GUYS!!! KEEP IT UP!!

well done..... thx for the vids

I wish y'all left some trees here in the Midwest. No nature left here except flooding, erosion, and tornadoes. Damn good job to y'all.

That first one the bro bent his bar for sure haha

nice! good fall my friend!!!

Thats the second biggest log I've ever seen!

if you don't like logging. move out of your house and into a tent.the logging industry has planted move these than anyone else.

Great Video. and a question for you, after felling those tree how do you get them out ?? Skyline or skid them ???

2nd tree looks like a barber chair surprise

Trees are like people. They die as they get old. Did you notice how punky the first tree he cut was?

they use diff methods , sometimes they use cranes , or wires that run across the whole hill down ...and even rivers ... and there are still some outhere who cut the logs into pieces small enough to be hauled by a truck ... ect.

@thatguy2105 How long does it take for em to grow back? just asking im not sure

That is one hell of a cedar! We got Incense cedar down in oregon, they make pencils out of them.

Probably just to make it easier on his back. Also, if he went lower he would be in the "bell" shape of the trunk which would require extra cutting. Hardly worth the extra work for an extra foot or so of length on a tree that size, though I have worked for people who would want the stumps lower because it is a huge waste of wood (money) over the long run. Especially regarding trees that size.

After cocktail waitressing, logging is the most dangerous job in Canada

I am a forester in England,UK..am confused as to why your stumps are so high..it is the best timber and also makes extraction a hell of a lot safer and easier? You seem to waste a good 4-5 feet of good timber on every tree you yanks fell? is there a reason for this?

The wedges are used to keep pressure off the saw. The direction is determined by the lean of the tree, the undercut, and/or by the wind. The wedges dont always make the tree fall in the opposite direction...some trees can sit back hard and fall right back over your wedges...that can be dangerous

that saw looks to be a Stihl ms660 which is 91.6 cc's and I think he is running a 36 in. bar

Sure seems to be a lot of bugs in Alaska with all that "Bug Dust" coming from those cuts. I'm sure 9 yrs. later the bugs aren't so bad. looks like pretty tough going in Alaska!!

How much fuel/bar oil do these guys carry when they go out? Do they usually bring more than one chain?

You still need an ass-load of trees to keep carbon levels down and provide habitats for wildlife. They are nature's air filters, after all.

I have photos of my great grandpa near Big Sur California around 1940 and there isn’t a tree in sight because they used all the wood to power their stamp mill they used for gold mining and for cribbing in their mine. Now there’s trees as far as the eye can see.

i use concrete, and this new amazing product called steel.. as for wiping my arse yup recycled paper is kewl.. i dont deny old time loggers a right to show their art but as we have learnt by strip logging old growth forest and seeing and learning the effects.. erosion, extinction, blackberries.. BTW nice saw and great saw work.. just wish i had a had to wipe my arse with.. would save so much on a termite ridden timber framed house that blew away in a tornado

he didn't have much hinge left on that 2nd one. But he knew when to quit sawing and use the wedges.

hey Jerry,,sound like your runnig out of gas..Great work....That is a big tree.Are those typical trees over in Alaska?

Jerry sure knows how to drop'em

@Wiccanking1 good comment i wish other people would understand that if there weren't loggers that other jobs would be shut down and people wouldn't have houses funriture and toys to play with

Makes sense. I know they are originally European, I just arrogantly thought they sold their saws in a different nomencature for American sales. ( I forgot about Canada, who has the biggest influence in the market for North America).

Where was this taken? Who were you falling timber for, and how much were you getting a thousand? lol...Sorry for all the questions, its just that I lived and fell timber in southeast alaska for a few years.

Man that's one hell of a job to get one of those down. How do ya'll get the wood out once its down. Looks like a remote area.

dropped a few of them myself years ago then along came osha . with all of their rules and regulations . always liked the big huskies. mac. and homelites but never cared for the big stills the 151 with a 5 foot bar was heavy and hard to drag around plus it uses a lot of fuel . I wound up with a 100 cc partner with a 4 foot bar loved that saw I tried the smaller stills i think they were the 45 and the 65 but not sure about the number that was years ago and my memory is not that good

nice job didnt even bust it and very little splinters

thats whats wrong with kids and adults these days. they dont now how to work hard

i run a debarker in wa state wish my mill could get some lumber like this all the good logs seem to get bought and shipped over seas and we end up with a 20-25 inch Scribner cutting pulp logs into studs

the direction is mostly determined by the faller, either with wedges or jacks,I have seen them take a 6 ft'er from 15degrees left and fall it right good fallers, if the trees are not parrell to each other then they get broken more and are harder to choke and skip.

this guy can cut timber. god job.

do you have cupboards, furniture, doors, drywall?

very nice .

How long is the bar on your saw?

What model was that saw?

the thing is when a tree is fully grown like this it has had a full life so i dont know what everyone has such an issue over it. it should be the baby trees that are protected as they have hundreds of years of growth left. there are too many out there who comment on things they know nothing about . oh i am not a logger

What kind of saw is that?

I don't understand, if the trees are keeping you alive why do you destroy them? Are their resources really more important than living?

is there any chance that the log will split and the wood get ruined if you don't fell it the right way?

Out with the old, in with the new:)

what size is that saw?

woodcutting level?

How did you guess that?!?! Do you run a ms660?!?!

@straightpipesrule You couldn't be further off I live no place near CA. If you read both of my posts you would have noticed that I was talking about harvesting crops in the mid-west and comparing those renewable resources to logging. What I said was deer will sit still in the field when I approach on a WHEAT harvester (i.e. Combine) often get tangled up in it. Again was making a comparison since another poster was complaining how cutting down trees destroys an owls house. I am all for logging.

@kalob35 But timber companies won't wait 600 years for the next crop. Nor will the soil still be there after so many harvests. Not to mention bidiversity. There's no free lunch. Not a tree hugger, I used to set chokers, pull both green and dry chain, and drive carrier. Just saying...

most people..........fo every tree a logger cuts down 3-5 trees are replanted by the stump of the cut down tree

whoa dude...you fell trees before? you knocked that thing into standing timber..

Spruce?

is that jerry martin

Don't know if you would refer me being smart. We began logging in the middle 1970's. I loved it, I loved working in the outdoors with nature. Yes, It was extreme physical work. And I am paying for it..there isn't an inch on my body that is pain-free. Full of arthritis. We didn't have high end materials to work with, as an example working with house logs. All loaded onto the truck by hand. Folks now are spoiled.

Nice

arborporn, i always just fast forward to the money shot.

very good timber cutting

Great Video. I am looking to license this shot to use it on television if anyone knows how I can contact the owner of the footage please let me know! Thank you,

@transdrole The amount of oxygen emitted by older trees, is not near as much as younger healthier trees. By cutting down older trees, it opens the floor to regeneration (Lots more younger trees) to come up. If you never worked in the woods, you don't know anything about trees.

Timber @ 8:25 With an steel wedge? Never seen one in action before.

Chainsaw noise is how you understand what you doing!!!

Quite a risk leaving the saw in the cut (3:45). Good way to be -$1000.

Did the first tree crash your chainsaw?

What you are supposed to do, is when you fell a tree, you fell it so that it tears the limbs out of all of the standing timber around the fall! That way, you don't have to ever come back and cut the other trees! Lumber Jack's making videos!

omg limbing that wold suck... i only limbed birch and a little maple for my dad...

@Soundgarden8497 by the looks of things its a pine forest not disiduel! therefore not a wild forest!

whats your house made of?

do you know how many college grads don't have a job? Also, lumberjacks make pretty good money. They're healthy, and can take care of themselves. Lets see a college educated person do that.

@ 3:33 👍

@PsychoKai1 You are correct that a bird or other tree living creature may lose its house when a tree gets cut down, but have you ever harvested on a farm before? I have and you would be surprised of the number of deer, turkey, pheasants and other animals that get run over and killed when we clear cut corn, wheat and soy bean and hay fields. Every year it never fails that many of these animals bed down in the fields and out of fear stay perfectly still despite the approaching harvester.