Free 186 More Best Homemade Tools eBook:  
Get tool plans

User Tag List

Results 1 to 4 of 4

Thread: Cutting down a tree burning from the inside - GIF

  1. #1
    Supporting Member Altair's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Posts
    12,020
    Thanks
    1,365
    Thanked 30,299 Times in 9,998 Posts

    Cutting down a tree burning from the inside - GIF


    186 More Best Homemade Tools eBook

  2. The Following 8 Users Say Thank You to Altair For This Useful Post:

    Inner (Aug 21, 2023), KustomsbyKent (Aug 22, 2023), Little Rabbit (Aug 22, 2023), mwmkravchenko (Aug 21, 2023), nova_robotics (Aug 21, 2023), piper184 (Aug 22, 2023), thevillageinn (Aug 21, 2023), Tule (Aug 22, 2023)

  3. #2
    Supporting Member Hoosiersmoker's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2018
    Posts
    1,838
    Thanks
    405
    Thanked 358 Times in 286 Posts
    Is it better to let it burn standing up or cut it down and spread the fire over a larger area? How does this happen anyway? Lightning strike? Arborist arsonist?

    2,000+ Tool Plans
    "This country was founded by a bunch of slave owners that told us all men are created equal..." - George Carlin

  4. #3
    piper184's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2016
    Posts
    213
    Thanks
    955
    Thanked 76 Times in 49 Posts

    piper184's Tools
    Best guess would be a lightning strike.

    With a fire crew on hand it is probably best to knock it down and put it out while they are there and can attend to it. Letting it burn upright runs the risk of letting the wind spread the sparks farther away. Sometimes it is best to just let a fire burn out but usually you try to get it out as soon as possible.

  5. #4
    Supporting Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2018
    Posts
    2,346
    Thanks
    11,132
    Thanked 1,219 Times in 664 Posts

    nova_robotics's Tools
    Lightning hit a tree about 50 ft from my house about 5 years ago. I didn't know at the time, but the tree caught fire and burnt the middle out. It survived. It's still alive and standing.

    Cutting down a tree burning from the inside - GIF-img_20170102_163703-recompressed.jpg

    Cutting down a tree burning from the inside - GIF-img_20170102_163715-resized.jpg



    2,000+ Tool Plans

  6. The Following User Says Thank You to nova_robotics For This Useful Post:

    piper184 (Aug 26, 2023)

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •