Rotten cottonwood

[Dave]

There is this dead rotten tree standing on the edge of a field. For 5 years I have been saying it needs to come down. For about 4 years I have been saying it is mighty spooky. It is over 4 foot in diameter on the stump and rotten. Big enough that I would have to reach around it to fall it. How far do I go before it decides to come down putting me and / or the saw in danger. Part of it came down on its own. How to get the rest down? I have decided there are two options. #1 take a gallon or two of diesel up to where it broke off and some gas to get the diesel burning and just burn it off. #2 Tannerite. The tannerite sounds like the most fun option. About 2 pounds?

 

[kenny thomas]

Tannerite.

 

[Silver]

I thought on another thread the consensus was diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate to make big things happen.

 

[kenny thomas]

I thought on another thread the consensus was diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate to make big things happen.

Its odd, but i can buy Tannerite but not ammonium nitrate. I have to use Urea .

 

[BFE]

Two pounds is a good start, if at first you don't succeed...

 

[MurraysMutts]

@Ouachita .......


I think he said 4 lbs.... smaller tree tho I think

 

[Ouachita]

@Ouachita .......


I think he said 4 lbs.... smaller tree tho I think

It was my first time. I've since learned how to make a smaller package accomplish the same goal, albeit with a sheepish grin.

 

[sstterry]

We had an old dead oak tree in a bottom field many years ago. It was a huge tree and I remember admiring it and how big it was as a child. After it was dead a few years, my father decided to burn it. As was par for my dad, he waited until Halloween night and lit it up. Think flames going up from a 70ft or so tree. The whole town could see the flames. Someone called the fire department and they showed up in force speeding through out hay fields.

My father was pretty upset that they put out the fire. He later had to burn the rest of it in smaller chunks.
I was in college at the time but, I have been told that the whole town talked about it every Halloween for years. Btw, I vote Tannerite.

 

[greybeard]

2lbs of tanerite? Oh, at least...

 

[tex452]

I have lots of dead trees that have huge dead limbs. It's dangerous, for some reason the cattle like standing under these.
I use my grappler's and pile a lot of dead wood around it, then set it on fire.
My place farther east seems to take more time to burn up, while the ones at home usually burn up over night?

 

[Dave]

We had an old dead oak tree in a bottom field many years ago. It was a huge tree and I remember admiring it and how big it was as a child. After it was dead a few years, my father decided to burn it. As was par for my dad, he waited until Halloween night and lit it up. Think flames going up from a 70ft or so tree. The whole town could see the flames. Someone called the fire department and they showed up in force speeding through out hay fields.

My father was pretty upset that they put out the fire. He later had to burn the rest of it in smaller chunks.
I was in college at the time but, I have been told that the whole town talked about it every Halloween for years. Btw, I vote Tannerite.

I don't have to worry about the fire dept. There is no fire dept here. The closes thing we have to that is the range land protection asso that puts out range fires. The two heads of that are already invited to the tannerite party. Only decisions now are how much tannerite, where to place it, and how far back we need to be.

 

[greybeard]

The problem with explosives as a tool is that a lot of the energy is lost as the substance explodes in all directions. up, out and down. That's why you have to use so much tannerite. Much of the blast energy is lost to directions you don't need it to. IF, the hollow goes all the way down and you can set the tannerite inside but with a view of it, then a 360° blast is preferable. If you use 4lb of tannerite, I wouldn't shoot from closer than 250 yards, and even then, you will feel some blast effects and maybe some debris falling too. I know you live way out away from everyone else, but your neighbors will surely hear it, and probably seem louder to them than it will to you. .

FYI
1 lb of tannerite=one 2″ x 12″ stick of 10% dynamite. (dynamite comes in a lot of different strengths and sizes)

 

[Ouachita]

We were just a shade over 100 yards in that video I posted. We had football size chunks land behind us, so yes we back off much further now and have learned that less is better.

 

[lavacarancher]

I thought on another thread the consensus was diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate to make big things happen.

Ya, but how do you set it off. Setting it on fire won't do the trick because it just burns.

 

[greybeard]

Ya, but how do you set it off. Setting it on fire won't do the trick because it just burns.

tannerite. And now the black helicopters are going to start circling...

 

[Dave]

The problem with explosives as a tool is that a lot of the energy is lost as the substance explodes in all directions. up, out and down. That's why you have to use so much tannerite. Much of the blast energy is lost to directions you don't need it to. IF, the hollow goes all the way down and you can set the tannerite inside but with a view of it, then a 360° blast is preferable. If you use 4lb of tannerite, I wouldn't shoot from closer than 250 yards, and even then, you will feel some blast effects and maybe some debris falling too. I know you live way out away from everyone else, but your neighbors will surely hear it, and probably seem louder to them than it will to you. .

FYI
1 lb of tannerite=one 2″ x 12″ stick of 10% dynamite. (dynamite comes in a lot of different strengths and sizes)

Back in my chocker setting days we used a lot of 1" x 12" 20% stumping powder to blow chocker holes under them big old growth logs. I am not thinking of blasting down the entire tree. Just where that fork going off to the right in the picture is.

 

[Dave]

A friend suggested that we put in the tannerite. Get back a long ways. Everyone puts in $5.00 to take a shot. Move up 50 yards, $5.00 more, and repeat. The person to finally make it explode gets the money. Invite the entire community. I like the idea. Maybe the house should get a percentage to pay for the tannerite and the clean up.

 

[kenny thomas]

A friend suggested that we put in the tannerite. Get back a long ways. Everyone puts in $5.00 to take a shot. Move up 50 yards, $5.00 more, and repeat. The person to finally make it explode gets the money. Invite the entire community. I like the idea. Maybe the house should get a percentage to pay for the tannerite and the clean up.

Start at 1000 yards. Money should be good unless someone is really a marksman

 

[MurraysMutts]

Too bad your so far away.
I got the goods.
Once shot an egg at 600yds

Took me 2 rounds tho

Showed up one time to play at the range. They were having a 500yd shoot. Rifles of coarse. I didn't have a rifle but had my xp100 in 7br.
I shot a 12 inch group at 500 with that pistol. About 6 inches outside the bullseye.
It was fun anyway!
Guys couldn't believe I actually had em all on the paper. I shoot that gun a lot at steel at 500. A silhouette ram at 500 is a much larger target than the 12 inch bullseye on paper that day

 

[greybeard]

A friend suggested that we put in the tannerite. Get back a long ways. Everyone puts in $5.00 to take a shot. Move up 50 yards, $5.00 more, and repeat. The person to finally make it explode gets the money. Invite the entire community. I like the idea. Maybe the house should get a percentage to pay for the tannerite and the clean up.

Now, THAT just depends how close the winning shooter has to get. There's only so many 50 yard increments to move up, until the guy that does shoot it gets blown up into too many pieces to collect.