in western Oregon for the first time
owner mike pihl's son danny is
overseeing their new job site beginning
to end but to stay in charge this job
needs to go smoothly and it won't be
easy this is the toughest logging he's
ever seen 15 acres of massive old-growth
Cedars in Douglas firs 200 feet tall in
25,000 pounds of piece in a steep narrow
Valley with no space to land the trees I
want to make sure that iris little
issues as possible if I'm gonna be
having this kind of responsibility
logging this site will be a challenge
but at 3,500 bucks each the trees are
worth it well young mr. peel how are you
today good how are you guys
Danny's relying on two veteran cutters
to provide the experience he lacks I
don't have time and service as a logger
as you guys do Dwayne Dethlefs and Chuck
Barlow I'm just here for whatever you
guys need I know where I stand and I
know you guys are the experts so I'm the
wedge that need to get pounded and you
guys need help buckin or anything like
that want to show me some things I'm
available so glad to use all the help I
can get you're here to learn actually
I'm here for
we're here to teach all right sounds
good to me hopefully it's long enough
these man killers are three feet thick
so Dwayne and Chuck are using the
biggest guns in their arsenal so we
don't want to take any chances
customized saws with four-foot long
cutting bars this is a hot rod at 661
one of the largest saw that still makes
natural hot rod at Husqvarna a 390 XP
let's go have some fun yeah like a bunch
of badasses coming to town danny has
seven days to clear the site that means
taking down at least seven monsters per
day
oh boy these are tall trees this is
gonna be real interesting easier said
than done despite over 50 years of
combined experience come around the
corner I'll show you something
Dwayne and Chuck don't see anywhere
it'll land a deadly trees without
damaging them and costing Pele big money
probably the longest laugh scene the
young leaders only hope is the combined
experience of the two veterans back out
this way
yeah see I was curious about this shot
here it looks like we got several trees
little caught here right yeah Jack them
right out on this flat right here I
think that's what we should do all right
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cutting trees this massive is why
logging is one of the world's most
dangerous jobs and the veterans know
better than anyone anything can go wrong
at any time
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that is pretty good a couple of but now
they're up against their biggest
challenge yet the crews encountered a
two-headed monster to 20,000 pound 20
story trees growing out of a single
trunk Chuck needs to bring them both
down at the same time
I don't want to cut any more trees
trying to separate we have one arm
leaning at us and the other ones leaning
away from us but if I cut any more who
knows what will happen
maybe maybe they'll separate and one
will actually fall this way and we can't
afford that so the only thing I can do
is play Domino's chucks only option is
cutting a third tree with surgical
precision and dropping it onto the
double taking down 60,000 pounds at once
I just got to hit my shot here this is
crucial if I miss my shop that arm is
going to come back at us the other one
might follow the other way so I have to
nail this thing
they only get one shot Chuck's cutting
the only tree in striking distance a
Miss will cost peal five grand or worse
it could destabilize the double snapping
it back in lending and on Chuck Dwayne
and Danny
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[Applause]
Chuck Niels the head trick perfectly
landing 10 grand were the trees with
seasoned veterans alongside him Danny
hit today's seven tree goal keeping Pia
logging on track everything is going
good we're hitting the right numbers for
ranks I'm having a good day
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