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When her grandfather, james allen, is a lumberjack in northern california. james, a widower with a son in the army, sees redwood trees so massive that several men can easily fit inside the hollowed trunks. one day, during a sudden rain squall, he seeks shelter in the trunk of a giant redwood. that s when it occurs to james that he could actually make a home out of one. it was the tail end of the depression. he couldn t afford to buy a regular house. my grandma had already passed away. so james allen combs the forest for a suitable tree. he finally discovers the perfect one on the property of the georgia-pacific lumber company, near eureka, california. he traded the lumber company for that section of log for work. and then it took him four months to burrow out all the wood and a year and a half to complete the house. ....
strange inheritance. thanks so much for watching, and remember, you can t take it with you. it s here. we are in the final 48-hours before the pivotal new hampshire primary. candidates looking for the states where the independent voter has a whole lot of power. what do they need to say to persuade voters ahead of tuesday. the republican side according to the university polling we want to show you. donald trump leading the pack with 28 percent support john kasich second at 14 percent and tied with marco rubio, jeb bush, ted cruz. the rest of the field in the low to low single digits there. the news there is no clear second place holder at this point. tough competition. carl cameron is live for us in ....
It with you. i m jamie colby. thanks for watching strange inheritance. majestic trees thousands of years old. these are the biggest trees i ve ever seen, and they re beautiful. the redwood forest has been on the planet since the dinosaurs. then the ax men cometh. one makes a redwood his ultimate log cabin. what? .a log-rolling attraction. it s her strange inheritance. i was the only child, so i knew i was always gonna get the log. but the road takes its toll. it s hard to be the log lady and have a life and be the truck driver and the repair person and do it all. she s got a big decision to make. she sure does, jamie. she sure does. and what happens when it s time for the log to be inherited from you? [ suspenseful music plays ] ....
Do you like bats? not really. are they in here? they might be. they might be right up above you. oh, well, it was nice to see it. [ laughs ] [ soft music plays ] chopping down a tree so old is hard to fathom now, but, beginning with the 1849 gold rush, these behemoths supply a lot of lumber needed to settle northern california. as the miners were looking for gold, the redwoods started to be cut down to build cities like san francisco. even into the 1930s and 40s, redwood trees were still cut down by hand axes and whipsaws. it could take days for a 2-man team to fell a 12-foot-diameter tree. a log could easily weigh 50 tons. we ve lost 95% of ancient forests like this one to harvest. this is one forest you won t find any other place on the planet. so, if this is it and i am ....
well, she s moving it. that doesn t mean that, if it were staying still, that she couldn t generate more money. it s a lot to take in. i don t really want the log to just stay in one place. did you choose this life on the road, or did it choose you? i think that it s a little bit of both. you re doing this since you re 23 years old. do you start to think, maybe i ought to sell ? a lot of people ask me do i want to sell, and i tell them, well, you never sell your family tree. [ upbeat music plays ] a family tree for sure. at the end of the great depression, an old lumberjack fells the 1,900-year-old redwood and makes a cabin from a section of the trunk. it starts out as his home, turns into a roadside attraction, and becomes a living for his son and then his granddaughter. and what happens when it s time for the log to be inherited from you? you don t have children. no, but i have several ....