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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a non-reddit, legible version available?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you, I didn't realize how poor quality this was until I posted it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I fell for that one

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

use ax as plumb line

Lol sure, if you're the kind of noob who doesn't carry a plumb bob with them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I wonder if you can fell a tree with a shirt on too?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Trees don't wear shirts, silly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Only a plaid shirt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Well, once you take yours off, naturally you hang it on the tree. Problem solved!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Step 1: use a chainsaw instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

A few years agoI started dropping a ~10" tree for my parents. They had an axe, so I said "ok, whatever, it's good exercise".

Thirty minutes later I was driving to a friend's house to borrow a 12" chainsaw... Which was all he had.

That must've been the world's dullest axe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Boy Scouts call #2 The Blood Zone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

You local troop needs to eat more fibre :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm already lost at step one. The diagram doesn't really explain wtf he is measuring

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Plumb lines are used to find how off center something is from straight up/down. I think this is so you can know which side the tree naturally wants to fall towards and work with that