Chasin' Paper

Sgriff · Nov 1, 2015

Nice,those were some real sweet looking trees!!

Stihlmadd · Nov 1, 2015

BrendanG said:
Mr Stihlmadd, love this video and all the rest, your editing skills are wasted here, Hollywood will surely come knocking soon. These Eucalyptus have me baffled, achieving such colossal heights yet appear so brittle, is this just my perception? The hinge wood seems almost none existent, originally from the UK, now on the east coast of the US so oaks are my thing, hinge wood is generally big and talking them into walking is easy but they don't get that tall, what's the Eucalyptus's secret? Secondly, I've watched many videos from Aus of guys taking down, deader than dead Eucalyptus, powder almost, the Tahune Airwalk tree jumps to mind (if any of you haven't seen the video, stop what your doing, even if your delivering your first born, Google and watch) if a colleague of mine attempted to climb an oak in such condition I would stop them before the suicide attempt got any further, so what makes the Eucalyptus different? Anyway maybe the only way to answer my questions is to make the trip but any insight would be greatly appreciated that way I can avoid having to sell a kidney to pay for the trip, maybe Quantus could show your videos during the 24 hour flight and the time would pass by no bother. Thanks, Brendan.

Crikey Brendan theres a little bit to cover there cobber.
Eucalyptus timber in general is decieving, yes it does seem to be brittle and some species are but overall the tear/break point on the hinge can be over the top compared to pines or oaks or some other more sensible kind of tree say an ash.
combine that with the timbers weight factor and that is why I will use a bottle jack to fell with as this allows me to still have some kind of hinge wood left and get the bastard to tip when required (especially in a tight gap where you can't pound in the wedges)
Graemes efforts at Tahune were out on another level, but having said that a great example of the vertical separation of the grain while still being attached on the horizontal level and retaining a structure ( a tree) while under all that load.
pretty wacky heh?
you should see one that has been struck by lightning - it is a giant toothpick factory .
if you do still wish to encounter these wee beasties yourself then gives us a hollar before you come on down under.
cheers Ben.