Taking down a 5' yellow cedar with a boys axe.

sidehill gouger said:
did a bit of forestry research on yellow cedar. It is rated as the slowest growing of the cedars, which i already knew. 40 to 50 years to the inch of diameter. That was a very old tree in the video. Some are aged at close to 2000 years old. While it is a high elevation species here in washington and oregon, some do grow down to sea level on the olympic peninsula and points north to alaska.
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wow!!!!
 
It was probably passed over 100 years ago because it had a split trunk. I find big old tree trunks in the wilds of the Puget Sound lowlands fairly regularly. One thing they all have in common is a flawed top. Forked tops or broken tops is what I always see. In the old days they just passed over those. Why not? There were a million other trees waiting to be cut.

It's ironic, that big old cedar tree that got struck by lightning and lost it's top was spared by the loggers because of that very same lightning strike. What at first seemed like a curse turned out to be a blessing.
 
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