The note "tired" in the video near the 200 ft. height fit with my first thought RE this tree. It's a really tall medium size Douglas fir, and I thought that it's pretty cool that there's guys who enjoy doing what other arborists do out here for work ... just doubled on top of itself. A lot do routine work in 140 foot trees. You recreation guys merely stack the extra workload on top and have fun with it.
This may be a little controversial. but I am going to share it with you. Was sitting at my table on the patio of the Russian River Pub in Forestville and I overheard a family at the next table talking about "Cathedral Redwoods" and "Widowmakers". A man said he was in his hammock in "The Cathedral" and suddenly remembered he was supposed to meet his family members at the pub. Just as he got out of his hammock a "Widowmaker" came crashing down on it, narrowly missing him. He was amazed at his good fortune.
I felt like it was important to warn him, so I intruded on their conversation. Where that branch came from, there likely were others, and they should find someone to clean the dead wood out of those trees. He replied it was a vacation home left among several heirs to an estate, and the heirs likely would not agree to the expense of an arborist, which in California would be several thousand dollars.
I volunteered to check the trees out, Pro Bono, for the pleasure of the climb. I warned him that I am insured for my own health, but any accidental damage to the cabin would be his responsibility. He and the family with him at the table agreed. Wisely I think. If there were dead limbs, they were going to fall anyway. While we were there and watching and could repair the damage - or later, during winter storms, while the cabin was unoccupied, to be discovered only in the spring, after there was water damage in addition to damage caused by the falling limbs.
There followed a week of Pure Pleasure for me, and Great Benefit to him and his family. Understand I only did work that would not have been done had I not been there. I took No Work from any professional arborist. They were second growth Redwoods, logged out in the late 1800's. The tallest one I measured was 184 feet, but there were some taller (I suspect 200 feet+) that I did not get the opportunity to climb (not enough risk to the owners to justify a climb). There were indeed Many hangers and dead branches over the cabin and the hammock area that I removed, many of which were hidden by lower foliage, some of which were as long as 30 feet. Helped the owners. Helped the trees. Helped the "Heritage" cabin (nearly 100 years old). Had several Wonderful climbs. Got down safe, no accidents, no near misses (well, one. A dead branch broke as I put my hand on it, bounced, broke, and a piece of it went through a plastic lawn chair.) Win / Win / Win / Win situation. Except for the plastic lawn chair. That, unfortunately, was a total loss.
I know there are risks involved in what I did. But I am an experienced climber, having done a lot of pro-bono hurricane mitigation in Louisiana. To me, to the trees, and to these property owners, I am confident the benefit far outweighed the risk.