Redbug
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Good question AllToys. I was wondering, also. So, I Googled it...
How to Measure the Height of a Tree - wikiHow
How to Measure the Height of a Tree - wikiHow
Cut a stick/broom handle etc to your eye level height , stand away from the tree with the stick touching the ground while looking over the top of it at the tip of the tree . Then measure from the base of the stick to the base of the tree , this is the height of the tree . Add another 40' or so for safety reasons , flying branches when it hits the ground etc .
Good question AllToys. I was wondering, also. So, I Googled it...
How to Measure the Height of a Tree - wikiHow
Doesn't matter to me how others take out their trees. I'll keep using my chainsaws. Don't remember How I got these pics. Think by an email. If someone posted them here on tbn I'm sorry, but think there relevant to this thred.
Do you hold the stick at arms length or at the tip of your nose?? I gather it would help to have level ground as well.
My land has a lot of what I call 40ft stumps. Trees that died from being shaded out by faster growing trees. I don't see any safe way to deal with them. Some are so rotted the top can fall off from a small bump. I tried ONE time to push one over with my tractor. The top 5-6 feet fell back toward me. No harm to me or the tractor. Now I am careful to look up a lot when going in the woods. Large branches fall from the newer dead ones from time to time. I had one drop some 30 feet behind where I had just walked. It shattered when it hit the ground.
hbaird , if it wont cause a grass fire , piling some dead branches around the base and lighting is really the only safe way to bring dangerous trees like your down .
I'm sure that if somebody posted a picture of a car that had run into a tree and injured the driver, we wouldn't drive cars either.