edwin dirnbeck
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If you could make some piano wire out of the highest tensile strength material,could you wrap it around a tree to slice it down? Edwin Dirnbeck
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No. Try it with a 2x4 first.
Years ago I even read of a technique where a plunge cut was made into the trunk and a bag inserted and then filled with a 2 part liquid explosive that would "slice" through the trunk on detonation. apparently it was meant for military uses such as quickly clearing trees and also for things like cutting firebreaks in a hurry.
"If God meant us to work that hard he wouldn't have invented power tools"
"If God meant us to work that hard he wouldn't have invented power tools"
Yes I have this. Seemed like a great idea at the time.Does anyone here remember the flexible pull saw?
If you could make some piano wire out of the highest tensile strength material,could you wrap it around a tree to slice it down? Edwin Dirnbeck
Many years ago, I read a science fiction story that included the hero arranging some nearly infinitely strong and nearly infinitely thin material across a doorway. The story said a villain trying to walk through the door in a hurry would cut himself in half. I guess the flaw is, how do you attach the material at the ends so that it does not cut through the attaching points.
Larry
Have you ever seen the movie Cube? In this Sci fi/horror movie a bunch of strangers wake up in a strange maze made of cube shaped rooms with hatches to other cubes in all six faces. Sometimes the neighboring cube is ok, other times there are various deadly booby traps. In one room, the guy goes through and at first he seems fine but then a series of bloody lines appear and as the viewer realizes he's literally been diced by tiny invisible wires the pieces fall apart.
Yes. More explicitly the disrupted cambium will starve and thereby kill the roots. This will in turn, stop water and nutrients from reaching the leaves which then kills the tree.Just wrap it with nichrome wire.
Apply voltage . . .and burn through the cambium layer.
Then wait . . . and wait . . . and wait . . . for the tree to fall.
More seriously, there are several ways to girdle a tree -- and leave it dead and standing (for a while). If you prevent the entire cambium layer from transport, the tree will die.
That's understandable as I usually am inept at just about everything except The Addams Family pinball and masturbation.
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