Death from above..........

[csr0831]

He notched the front of it and then made a back cut and pulled it down with their swinger (a nice little articulated tractor....did not even damage the grass).

 

[buickanddeere]

A couple wraps of DET cord

 

[cqaigy2]

A couple wraps of DET cord

Quick, but a little noisy. :laughing:

 

[csr0831]

OK...I'm gonna show my ignorance (nothing strange there), "DET cord"?

 

[aczlan]

OK...I'm gonna show my ignorance (nothing strange there), "DET cord"?

Detonating Cord. Basically a fuse that burns very fast and can be used as a low grade explosive. See: Detonating cord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aaron Z

 

[k0ua]

OK...I'm gonna show my ignorance (nothing strange there), "DET cord"?

If you don't know what it is,, you don't need any

 

[CliffordK]

I had already suggested blowing the top off and leaving the snag for wildlife habitat. But with the amount of rot inside the trunk, the tree might have been severely compromised, and probably would not have lasted very long.

Cutting down to the ground was good.

 

[k0ua]

The Finnish army colloquialism for detonation cord is anopin pyykkinaru (mother-in-law's clothesline), as it resembles ordinary clothesline.

In Filipino, the corresponding word mitsa has come to be used in a phrase “mitsa ng buhay” which translates to "detonating cord of [one’s] life", a metaphor for something that is very likely to cause one’s death via direct jeopardization (e.g. extreme sports, versus smoking).

I though that was pretty funny.

 

[csr0831]

I suspected it was something like that.