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Not that I wouldn’t want to, but somehow drilling 4 holes in an 8” tree, packing with explosives, then bucking up logs with a chainsaw and moving them with excavators doesn’t seem like a super efficient way of clearing a landing zone. Again, fun , but the practically vs just tipping them over with the excavator…
Oh yes it would! You just have to wrap it enough times. Primacord was used in VN and Borneo to clear huge trees to make LZ’s.
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A now passed EOD bud said he was called out to drop a tree outside a firebase. Took a look, fair sized, wrapped what he thought was sufficient detcord, added a cap and time fuze and pulled the M60. Surprised it didn't fall, he walked over to inspect. Said it did little damage and he was later told it was an ironwood tree.
DISCLAIMER: I was not there and he told many stories that began, "This ain't no shit..."
Wife left the driver door open when she went to fill up her Durango with gas at the local station.
Small town, pop 150
When she went to get back in, had a yellow lab as a passenger
Had to buy a stick of jerky to get him out
I used to built Ford 300 straight 6 engines, Hard to break, expensive builds for domestic engines.
There you go showing off your white privlegde. Look at the stove and all those pots to piss in. News paper cost money you know. For fuck sake she is wearing shoes and that's not a dirt floor.
100 grain a foot maybe on a small tree. Regular commercial det cord nope. Even using that size it would be extremely inefficient because of how many times you would have to wrap it.
I used commercial det cord to girdle juniper trees along a creek for a fisheries project. We tipped over some of them with some shearing charges. Using cast boosters. Also ANFO in the corner of plastic bags. Tried some left over Austin RockCrushers and they blew a perfect hole right through the center of the trees.
When using detcord and rock softener, can you direct the fall like a proficient caller can?
I don’t think explosives help the merchantability of the tree for lumber.
I don’t think explosives help the merchantability of the tree for lumber.
This is totally me trying to deal with automated menus on the phone!
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We removed trees to clear fields of fire for a COP once. They were palm trees, but we wrapped em tight and let ‘em rip
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Won’t disagree. Just remember the ass chewing and near infamy I received on my first day sawing landing under a high lead, also with a Cat crew skidding logs to my landing (got thrown to the wolves right off the bat). I cut a tamarack at a couple preferred lengths and had a 5’ end left over. You would’ve thought I killed someone! They (kinda) shut the job down, ran me through the wringer up, down and sideways about wasting wood and all that. Everyone on the job had to repeat the ordeal to me and that weekend at the bar, a guy asked me if I was “that guy”. Stuff sticks with ya for a while.
Yeah Oaktrees would probably be different. I recall Det cord taking care of a lotta problems in the field… but as I said, there is usually also C4 in copious quantities.
