Falling, bucking, and limbing a Sitka spruce-tree beside a fish creek near Winter Harbour on north-west Vancouver Island in 1989. Even with new growth on the branches, the tree was designated a snag, due to a broken top. A cavity up at the break filled with rainwater, which poured out the undercut -- that doesn't happen often so capturing it on video was an unexpected bonus.
Note the modifications to the Husqvarna 2100 XP chainsaw -- customised muffler with dual exhaust-ports and some internal baffles removed, giving the saw that "snarly" sound -- two circular air-intake ports on the back of the air-filter cover -- added "dogs" to the side-cover, known as "double dogs". A viewer commented that the saw is "Walkerized" which means the upgrades were done by Walker's Saw Shop in Nanaimo, B.C. on Vancouver Island. The bar (blade) is a 36-inch Oregon roller-tip, running skip-tooth chain with .404-inch pitch. Souped-up rigs, like this one, are favoured by timberfallers in Oregon, western Washington, coastal British Columbia and Alaska.
As a side-note -- model numbers of Husqvarna (Husky) chainsaws are decoded as follows: the first digit is the generation and the remaining digits represent the cylinder displacement; therefore, a Husky 1100 is 1st generation, 100 cc -- its successor, the Husky 2100 is 2nd generation, 100 cc -- the Husky 394 is 3rd generation with 94 cc displacement -- and so on for generation 4xx models, generation 5xx models, etc.
This video was filmed by veteran faller/film-maker Marcel Levesque using a Panasonic Super VHS camera. After the death of his teenage son, Marcel had a dream/vision where his son appeared to him and suggested that he use a video camera to record working-life in the forest industry, as a hobby to take his mind off his deep sorrow and grief. Then, the lyrics to a song by Oregon logger/musician Buzz Martin, describing when a faller packs his gear into the forest looking for a natural "opening" where he can begin placing his timber -- "now I've found my opening, and a whole new life is mine" -- meant to Marcel that his camera work was an "opening" for him. Many years later, the internet and then KZitem came along enabling Marcel to greatly enlarge his "opening" to a potential worldwide viewing audience. So, a spiritual inspiration helped Marcel and kept him motivated -- a man on a mission. During his decades of film-making, Marcel has compiled a visual record of various aspects of the forest industry. Videos by Marcel Levesque can be found on several KZitem channels.
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