Felling a tree with a machine gun

[MattyD]

On Discovery channel the mythbusters are trying it out.

 

[Colin]

Those dudes are just wack, yo.

 

[treedogg]

thanks for the heads up

 

[rangerdanger]

I was just getting ready to post that on here. Pretty cool.

 

[Blinky]

So, how did it go?

 

[MattyD]

Nothing special just blew the hell out of a tree with machine guns.

 

[Treelimbjim]

If you carefully Google "shotgun tree pruning" or something of the sort you may find a buddy of mine's account in East Texas.

Not that this is recommended practice, or anything.

 

[coblesklill]

A friend of mine pruned his maples with a .22. Pretty easy when the limbs have a good coating of ice . Just nick the branch with the rifle and crack. Kind of ugly though.

 

[MattyD]

Yikes!

 

[spydermonkey1]

sounds very dangerous what about ricasheas(probly not spelled right) but sounds like a recipe for a lost eye or worse

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

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A friend of mine pruned his maples with a .22. Pretty easy when the limbs have a good coating of ice . Just nick the branch with the rifle and crack. Kind of ugly though.

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Ha! A new coronet style of pruning.

 

[coblesklill]

Yeah, its probably not a practice to reccomend. I doubt he was in danger of a richochet as he was taking out small limbs way up in the top.

 

[fastlil1]

I wouldn't be nearly as worried about richochets as I would be about missing. Even with a .22 the bullet can go over a mile and still have the power to kill. Yea, chances are minimal, but...
By the way, nothing I haven't done before.

 

[Dusty]

Before I got into tree cutting, our satelitte had started to lose signal one spring afternoon. With two kids and a wife trying to watch their favorite show I had to act. When I went outside the wind was blowing the newly grown leaves in front of the satelite. So out came the 12 ga. and a superfull turkey choke. It didn't do a bad job pruning, and the shot doesn't travel as far as a bullet from a rifle.

 

[boreality]

One realistic use for this would be to allow clearance when the branch is touching a primary power line and you are not a utility worker. Not the best practice but an option. Also this has been a standard practice for cone collection in forestry.

 

[Blinky]

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[...] Also this has been a standard practice for cone collection in forestry.

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Yep, and John James Audubon used to collect birds with a shotgun.

 

[mdvaden]

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Nothing special just blew the hell out of a tree with machine guns.

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Did it fall - yes / no?

If it didn't, I'd guess that the tree was way to big, or they didn't try a 50 caliber, since those rounds can penetrate about 9" of concrete. But then again, maybe they wouldn't shatter enough tissue.

I like the slow motion replays on the show.

 

[Alves]

Back home a buddy of mine and I shot down a dead jack pine, it was pretty small, 10" dbh maybe, but it cost an astronomical amount of ammunition to do it.

 

[Blinky]

I stumbled into the myth busters video, it's confirmed.

<u>Felling with a Dillon minigun</u>

I wonder if I can get one at Sherrills?

...Kari is soooo sexy.

 

[Rocks_and_Trees]

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I stumbled into the myth busters video, it's confirmed.

<u>Felling with a Dillon minigun</u>

I wonder if I can get one at Sherrills?

...Kari is soooo sexy.

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Daaaaamn, that looks like a good time. My customers might have a problem with that for a backyard mesquite removal.