Buzz Buzz Thump!

[deguspice]

What goes "buzz buzz snap crackle THUMP!"



A tree being cut down.

Sitting about 300' away, and on the second floor, I felt the tree go THUMP when it hit the ground.

They've been clearing trees for the development across the street. Today they started soon after 7am. The noise of the chain saw overwhelmed earplugs and a white noise machine. :(

Until things quiet down, I'm planning on going to sleep by midnight on "school nights."

Comments

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

I saw a nastier version of one of those on a Learning Channel show once. The big one could grab a tree, slice it off at the bottom, and then shoot it through a channel, whacking off all the branches and cutting off 12-foot sections on the fly, about one every second or two. It destroyed trees *fast*. Eek. Apparently, it was mostly computer controlled, the operator just told it which tree was the next victim and it did the rest.

Devil's advocate*

[c1.livejournal.com]

Just remember where paper comes from. And lumber for houses and furniture. And bio-mass for fuel pellets...

/Devil's advocate.

*Actually, most of this (in the US) comes from managed tree plantations.