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    212 ft. Sequoiadendron outside indigenous range

    That's cool, thanks for posting. I always wanted to see one of those, as they look really majestic in the photos -- more so than redwoods, which I have seen. They're nice looking trees. I bet that one would be fun to climb -- the branches look almost perfectly placed for climbing.
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    How would you remove this broken dead tree that's resting on a nearby tree?

    I wonder what that would do to a lawn chair or mud bucket if you placed it wrong?
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    Sewing while Sheltering in Place

    Good idea. Or even plastic grocery bags, particularly if you bag your groceries yourself, as I've been doing lately in the self-checkout lanes...fewer hands on each bag...
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    How would you remove this broken dead tree that's resting on a nearby tree?

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    How would you remove this broken dead tree that's resting on a nearby tree?

    Is this a candidate for the storied "intentional chair" method on an adjacent tree?
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    Sewing while Sheltering in Place

    Anything that keeps you from touching your mouth and nose, including a bandanna, is probably gonna stop > 50% of the routes of infection, and if it also stops say half of all airborne sneeze/cough/spit aerosols, I bet that puts it up over 95%. Not a doctor but I once drove by a Holiday Inn...
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    Disinfecting Tools

    Not many living things like copper much, including sperm. For one thing, it's very noble on the galvanic series. In an electrolyte like rainwater, almost every metal on earth will be sacrificed to copper in a galvanic cell. It's also the 3rd-most conductive metal on earth, after silver (#1) and...
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    Big black walnut

    Hmmm...I just noticed some kind of large ants coming out of a hole in an otherwise healthy-appearing BW in the yard here. Any way to get rid of them? I like this tree and would like to conserve its wood for myself or someone who comes after me...it has a huge almost codominant crotch where I...
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    Disinfecting Tools

    160 F or if you absolutely must, 212 F with boiling water. I would not go hotter than that. I suspect either one is going to kill darn near 100% of pathogens. This ain't a surgical suite, and there's lots of stuff that blows in the wind and rain. I think "ruining tools to get them 100% sterile...
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    Disinfecting Tools

    Normalizing = Annealing = Bringing the steel up to critical (non-magnetic) temperature (generally around 1200*F) and then letting it cool verrrrrrrry slowly. It softens the steel and removes any hardening, leaving it dead-soft. Typically steel is hardened by heating to critical temperature...
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    arboristsite.com down

    I've been on A/S for 10-15 yrs and never seen any of that stuff on A/S either ... is there a basement or "Politics Shit Show" or "Inmates Only" sub-forum that I've somehow missed? Seriously, I have never and I mean "not even once" seen stuff like that there. Not saying you folks are lying, just...
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    Scientists discover how knots work

    I think some folks today don't believe that life would be possible without a smartphone ... "How could they possibly think up this stuff without Wi-Fi? How did they even SURVIVE???"
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    What happens when trees near buried electrical service cables are struck by lightning?

    No idea what the answer to your question is, but I know lightning is some funny stuff. My brother had it come through the screen door of his kitchen and strike a pot full of noodles that was cooking on the electric stove. Only reason he knew it was lightning was because after the flash and...
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    Face masks

    I use the 3M 8212 N95 "respirator" masks for welding, supposedly they even catch metal vapors. Not sure whether they catch hex chrome but it's worth trying. Even if they only get the manganese, that's associated with parkinsonism...
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    Chain organization

    I use those tupperware-style plastic boxes they sell lunch meats in to store my chains.
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    Magnetic block heaters?

    I use a 200W "Kat's" heater (about $40) on the raw-water-cooled Chevy 350 in my inboard boat. It's magnetic, and I stick it to the bottom of the oil pan. I figure "heat rises" and by heating the oil in the pan, the heat gets distributed throughout the engine fairly well (along with maybe some...
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    Affordable leather and webbing machine

    Thanks for the tip, that's pretty slick. A real patcher will go for a pretty penny by comparison. What needle style does it use? The Amazon ad says you can get a needle up to size 22, so I guess you can use thread up to size 138...? I recently picked up an Adler 67 for boat canvas/car...
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    "How the Ginkgo biloba achieves near-immortality"

    Huh. I was going to ask whether trees lacked telomeres but the googlemachine says yes: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/asu-cpt111419.php
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    Some things you can't unlearn - you are warned

    I know when lightning hits the trees here in the yard (happens a lot out here in the middle of open farmland/flatland), when the lightning first establishes an arc, for about a quarter of a second, it makes this crunching sound that sounds like celery when I chew it.
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    OMG, strange climbing contraption. Tree bike?

    Imagine the kickback you could get on some of those machines :eek: if, for example, somebody unspooled about 1000 yards of 130# Power Pro dyneema (or barbed wire) in those branches That spherical boxwood trimmer was cool!

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