philoshop
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An interesting study of small hollow tree forces/reactions. I woke up this morning and immediately noticed this tree leaning.
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Its been a squirrel house since I moved in and I had planned on taking it down.
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I moved the splitter and the trailer out of the danger zone, put a line about 30 ft up ( I used to be able to do a 50 ft throw without much difficulty, )and pulled it over with the tractor. It was just slightly hung in another canopy but it came down without much effort. Looked it over carefully and decided to make the first cut away from the base and from the same side that this pic was taken. The moon and stars were in alignment, the trunk went away from me and up about 6".
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The 180 is there for scale at the base of the tree, and the rope is on the stem just out of the pic to the left. It's about 16' hanging there.
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Its been a squirrel house since I moved in and I had planned on taking it down.
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I moved the splitter and the trailer out of the danger zone, put a line about 30 ft up ( I used to be able to do a 50 ft throw without much difficulty, )and pulled it over with the tractor. It was just slightly hung in another canopy but it came down without much effort. Looked it over carefully and decided to make the first cut away from the base and from the same side that this pic was taken. The moon and stars were in alignment, the trunk went away from me and up about 6".
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The 180 is there for scale at the base of the tree, and the rope is on the stem just out of the pic to the left. It's about 16' hanging there.