coming right up do you know your 4 investigates a timely topic for the festive season what makes the 1st fixed christmas tree america we're back with more news at the top of the hour. on the bench are some of the famous naturalist and explorer. to celebrate alexander from 250. working on the floor of the discovery. expedition in boys. place. to know that 77 percent. are younger than 65. cuts me and me and you. and you know what if time all voices.

on the 77 percent we talk about the issues. this is where you cut. 77 percent this weekend on d w. for most germans christmas just wouldn't be christmas without a tree whether they chop it down themselves punch is one ready count of 5 is a must treat farmers are happy either way is just one thing they construct a host of artificial trees or disastrous for him back a good owns 140 had tons of forest in the sol are around 200 football fields full of christmas tree so finding just the right one is a big. challenge for the sham family. is good but the song.

i. need. one that's about time we were back there i think you know there's no matter what i hear there are tons of trees. cloudy and all of a sham are searching for a tree with their sons phil and tonics and let's look at. all those have already found bantry. shamsul looking for something smaller while the boys are more concerned with who gets to carry the song that mom town tells us what she looks for in a tree. it can be a little crooked when it doesn't have to be perfectly straight and i like it when it's quite broad at the bottom and you can hang a lot of decorations on it much. better a wider tree than a tall narrow one. but we must be able to transport it to other men but in the if

we take that one hole then have to put it on top of the car because we won't get it inside ok we can make 2 trees out of it. with that one in the back when others write i can imagine chris. was that after i thought i was going to say when i was a child we always had a tree and i couldn't imagine it any other way without a tree it just wouldn't be christmas for me that's what's most important for me not having a tree it just made the. reason you got a nice tree. that's just the right size you can stand beside it then will know roughly yeah i'm a bit over one half metres. this is no place for families who take their time looking for trees lumberjacks cut down trees in a matter of seconds since the start of november they'd be. i'm hard at work here

and have felled tens of thousands of trees. though owner vilhelm beck a good isn't willing to reveal exactly how many. can you stand to look at a christmas tree at home. yeah i christmas it's ok again after unwind a bit 1st. he receives orders from all over europe the market for christmas trees is relatively stable and so are the prices people always want to treat to put the presents under. which one is best which would you tell he was. very says the best it's hard to say which is best it depends on the size but this one is good but not too wide it's dense right to the top and looks very different good which is the goal we set ourselves if we were going to have as many talk all the trees like this is possible. thinking. so many in fact that his family can live

from ground christmas trees all year round the trees create wealth for the entire region including full freight like from come and his team can find fleet of a human forest all year round he says that he loves trees but even he can only see so many of them. and they don't even look at a christmas tree in the way i did know when i went out one after christmas if you would handled as many as i do. and i'm going. back to act like i have 2 little kids and they won't want no mark that so i do for them not for me by christmas i've had enough of trees. but isn't that what about that and they're sure it's nice which one there. were no one on which was $100.00 front underneath and not if it is missing a lot of needles on the right so they could put it against the wall now we can go over there i'm glad i was so it was straight. the sham family are still searching

for their tree. kind of treat you like. we're not really sure what should have. i got to talk not too small just write for a living room or go through the ceiling down once in my back. and watch if i want it. christmas tree ornaments and strings of lights and lots of other decorations. you both reach for a deal like this one here for your. tree after tree is being felled are all around them the family has split up in mass search for the perfect tree but now they have lost down. its striking mine i hope not though he's been gone so long you might think so he's getting gloves he's found the perfect tree or that but i've got the start. drinking mulled wine spiced red wine is another german christmas tradition apart

from trees the back of good as farm offers all manner of things for the festive season you can last after people have found their tree they take it home to decorate it and that's your tobacco gooders speciality. i thought that we had that in 2 sizes but i'm not sure what they are. via jaeger now that's the smaller one. so how does your to decorate her tree. this meeting which will last a christmas tree balls and then with things the children made themselves in the ornaments they made in nursery school when they were small lots of different things . now what about that one. most of you haven't even looked at it come on let's try to get in there. cloudier sham has found the perfect tree there's no it's a bit larger than the one metre $51.00 metre 60 we thought of but you could start

off a bit at the top and not over there you can't cut the top off. the rest of us can you see you know what i like about it is you start to talk is that big chris good if i'm a cookie dough knocks the children can't wait to open their presents under it's. all the living room is almost always dark and i just want so much but it's still great because of all the lights and decorations on the christmas tree and just look on the why not. and does this really meanwhile vilhelm back a good talks to marco's tot mom who's come to the farm to pick up a load of trees they're destined to make many families christmas merrier. but does marco put up a tree himself. we don't have a tree what nonsense that you don't have to take part in every silly thing someone's come up with. says a dr

a christmas tree. if you only transfer christmas trees most of our business is construction materials. if you like i said the tradition dates back from the 18th century but you don't have to follow it. this was not always as didn't have a christmas tree. and i know he didn't wanted one. luckily vilhelm back it had a missed that little exchange he's too busy loading trees on to trucks like he's been doing since 6 o'clock this morning the last truck should arrive sometime this evening. this note is headed for the baltic sea coast. treaties from the zone and end up all over germany and even in some neighboring countries. as here is 1100 trees and because there are

a lot of smaller ones you can see that there are sometimes 120 trees on a scale other times just 50 or. 100 years one for the customer. until i don't know the day after. this. we found something no really good 3 people say yeah we just need your blessing then which one highness show your dad the tree. after. that one it's nice. it's a bit over one and a half meters but we could cut it down a little. doable right. so i start cutting. out feeling of.

joy not counting that's a man's job but 3 men might mean it's a lot that's all fashioned when it comes to that i'm old fashioned. speaking about motive traditions in this era of climate change is it still acceptable to cut down a tree just to decorate your living room for a few days. i might want to hear that's ok look at it the other way around and if there were no demand those trees wouldn't exist not so you can do this once a year without their conscience imo $100.00 some even argue that christmas trees actually benefit the climate and future generations that's because during their lifetime the trees capture lots of c o 2 and produce oxygen. when they're around 12 years old they're ready to become christmas trees. stuff mostly because i would be too simple it of him

he'd rather keep sawing it by hand it's ok we have time. now though choosing a tree isn't such a pleasant experience for every family there monkey man comes alone and says my wife said and then it's the woman's fault. then i say i mean next time bring your wife with you and then there's trouble. you know right away sometimes they need to think it over and come back. as i'm twice it's happened. whole. class for all i better take another one but she's just joking the sham's have been trading it's a northman family which has soft needles that prickly it's the most popular kind of christmas tree in your. business let me go 1st. now it just has to be

wrapped and paid for all this year bias can expect to shine out 16 euros per meter for the entry. of the room you. think about the most perfect thanks. though you decided it's the wrong one i'll take another one to function and i'm a bit odd it's a little strange have to go back again to change possible that i've always had your trees been shot down but if i did i gladly exchange it for this family but normally the rule is to chop it you buy it off the ball but if you don't open talk that you know. and buy they did now they just need to wait for santa to put some presents on to the trick.

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