Tree DemoIition

Lazy Logging. Just an excuse to have a little fun really. These woods are going to be cleared soon so no innocent trees are being decimated. The sycamores will be milled for lumber, and the two oaks we blew up will be used for firewood. Much of the wood has laready been split. :-D Sierra Clubbers need not rant. The 26" oak was downed with a 3 pound charge. 2.5 pounds were a shaped charge (I just used a cheap, thin plastic welding rod canister) inserted into a bore hole in the tree. The tree was weakened with wedge cuts parallel to the long slender charge.

When the charge failed to detonate the first time, I taped a 1/2 lb. canister to the front of the bore hole to set off the shaped charge with a sympathetic explosion. I figure the failure was due to the shooter's angle of fire; the projectile could not travel down the axis of the welding canister from our firing angle, so it only caught a small portion of the charge, and was not enough to detonate it. That's my theory anyway. We did not want to relocate because the Bois D' Arc tree we were behind offered great protection, a stable firing platform, and was the right distance for where the shooter already had his scope optimized.

The smaller oak was downed with only 1.5 lbs of non-shaped charge. Tannerite was used. The projectile in both cases was a 240 grain soft point .44 magnum, shot from a lever-action Marlin rifle.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• logging
• chainsaw
• chainsaws
• chainsawing
• sawmilling
• sawmill
• woodworking
• tree demolition
• tannerite

[sejatski]

The higher the VOD (velocity od detonation) the more shattering effect an explosive has. For example, ETN, Nitro, EGDN, methyl nitrate, PETN, Ect would be good for taking down trees.

If i were you, id make a small hole, just enought to fit about 800g ANFO, and drill it all the way into the center of the tree. fill the rest with sand and let the blasting cap do all the work.

[kevjay777]

@sejatski I wanted to keep it legal. Taking down a tree isn't high enough priority to risk a long stretch in the pokey.

[jrdrg911]

now i like that

[kevjay777]

Thanks. Have blown some other things up lately too. Fixing to try my hand at anvil launching . . . . . . .

[InTheWorkshop]

wow kevin...you done good..and cured a tough situation and had fun doing it..love it , Charles Neil

[kevjay777]

Next time y'all in the neighborhood you'll have to drop by and pull a trigger or two. :-)

[fly2000jtb]

fire wood or just clearing land? cool video either way Joseph T fly2000jtb

[TheDrumChannel]

Looks like a blast! Ha Ha

[sejatski]

@kevjay777 so you bought this tannerite?