Volume 12 , Issue 25

150 Year Ponderosa Pine Comes Down June 16, 2010

How many lumberjacks does it take to roll a seventeen foot, 150 year-old log over so it can be cut into smaller logs? See photo on the left.

We managed to get a few digitals and videos edited, placed on our YouTube, Picasa, Facebook and Flickr sites, but we are still sorting through hundreds of digitals and video that we took of the Vallecito tree trimming, 15 June 2010, Tuesday of last week.

They worked from seven o'clock in the morning to six o'clock in the evening, leaving only a seventeen foot stump to bring down the next day, Wednesday, 16 June 2010, in the earlier morning hours.

Here are the links to our Picasa and YouTube sites if you care to take a look at our Lumberjacks of Colorado: Picasa Web Albumsfor NW Okie and OkieLegacy YouTube. Both under the category of "Lumberjack Colorado."

Russ Geier with his brother, Rod, with the help of Dori, spent the whole day, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 and part of the next morning, Wednesday, taking down a 150 year old tree (95-100 feet high) that was growing quite close to a garage.

We have speeded up the entire day into a time-lapse video that my youngest son, Robert, compiled. It ends the next day, Wednesday, with the "Kabooming" of the seventeen foot stump that remained at the end of the day, Tuesday.



This sixty-something old lady even climbed a mountain in the backyard to get a eye-level view even with the lumberjacks working atop the 95-100 foot, 150 year-old Ponderosa pine down below.

Did you realize that looking at the rings of the tree you can tell the legacy of that particular tree? This 95-100 foot, 150 year old Ponderosa pine had been through a drought for the last eighty some years. That would put it back to the 1930s, huh?

This Ponderosa pine began its life some seventy years earlier in the mid-nineteenth century before the Civil War.

When Riddle's cabin and garage were built in the 1960s, our Ponderosa pine was around a hundred years old.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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