Really funny Lee, I enjoyed this one. Gary
On Dec 8, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Lee Frelich <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob: > > There is no way you can measure a tree to the nearest hundreth of a > foot--e.g. 156.05 feet. Please get out your 7th grade math textbook > and > review the chapter on significant digits. > > Also, because cold air is denser than warm air, the laser beam goes > through it more slowly, thereby over-estimating tree heights on cold > days. Therefore, all of the trees you measured are an inch shorter > than > you reported. In the future, please restrict tree height measuring to > days when the temperature is within +/- 2 degrees of the temperature > inside the factory where your rangefinder was made. > > Lee > > > > [email protected] wrote: >> ENTS, >> >> Braving a colder than comfortable temperature, I finished remeasuring >> the 150s in the Trees of Peace today - at least I think I have. The >> trees in the table below have been measured within the Trees of Peace >> stand, not to include the Mast Pine area. I have a more work to do >> there. Plenty of pines have been measured elsewhere, which will be >> reported in due course. >> >> One very important measurement today was the confirmation of the >> Mirror Tree as 156.05 feet in height taken at mid-slope. I should >> explain. The tree's trunk is partly buried. Will Blozan and I >> measured >> it a few seasons ago and projected the location of its true base. It >> was a provisional 156 then. Today I dug down at mid-slope location >> and >> took a new mid-slope spot as the base, although I still had not >> reached the root flare. However, the new mid-slope basal position is >> sufficiently low to allow a 156.05-foot measurement. The tree's true >> base is farther down. How much? Maybe another 0.5 to 1.0 feet. I >> don't >> think more than that. Now to the table. The height of the Joe Norton >> tree reflects Andrew's tape drop measurement. >> >> >> Crown Distance - Yds Crown Angle -degrees Hgt Above Eye Level >> -ft >> Base Distance - Yds Base Angle -degrees Hgt Below Eye Level -ft >> Offset -ft Total Tree Height-ft Tree Name Tag # Date >> 72.00 31.50 112.86 62.00 17.20 55.00 1.50 >> 169.36 Jake >> Swamp 58 12/2/09 >> 163.50 163.50 Joe >> Norton 52 10/17/09 >> 61.00 49.00 138.11 37.00 11.80 22.70 >> 160.81 John Brown 48 >> 12/2/09 >> 63.00 37.60 115.32 52.00 13.00 35.09 6.70 >> 157.11 Tom >> Porter 31 12/2/09 >> 55.00 48.00 122.62 42.00 15.50 33.67 >> 156.29 Tuning Fork >> 44 12/2/09 >> 68.50 37.90 126.24 55.00 10.20 29.22 0.60 >> 156.05 Mirror 77 >> 12/7/09 >> 59.00 37.90 108.73 47.50 18.60 45.45 1.10 >> 155.28 Arovl Lookin >> Horse 26 12/2/09 >> 60.50 50.50 140.05 41.00 4.90 10.51 4.50 >> 155.06 Unnamed 37 >> 12/2/09 >> 66.00 41.40 130.94 52.50 6.80 18.65 5.00 >> 154.59 Lynn >> Rogers 34 12/2/09 >> 51.50 54.90 126.40 28.00 18.50 26.65 1.30 >> 154.36 Paula >> Horn 27 11/4/09 >> 53.00 50.80 123.22 39.00 15.00 30.28 >> 153.50 Tribe-1 41 >> 12/2/09 >> 64.00 36.80 115.01 53.50 13.70 38.01 >> 153.03 Ravine 82 12/7/09 >> 57.50 49.20 130.58 36.00 7.70 14.47 6.00 >> 151.05 Guardian 70 >> 12/2/09 >> 55.50 52.60 132.27 41.00 8.60 18.39 >> 150.66 Unnamed 35 12/2/09 >> 53.00 49.00 120.00 36.00 13.70 25.58 5.00 >> 150.58 Hollow 83 >> 12/7/09 >> 55.50 47.20 122.17 37.00 14.50 27.79 0.50 >> 150.46 Ann Joc >> None 12/2/09 >> 63.00 44.80 133.18 44.00 7.50 17.23 >> 150.41 Unnamed 85 12/2/09 >> 49.00 60.90 128.44 24.00 12.30 15.34 6.60 >> 150.38 Unnamed 28 >> 12/7/09 >> 67.00 32.10 106.81 57.00 14.70 43.39 >> 150.20 Unnamed 5 12/2/09 >> 63.00 38.60 117.91 57.00 9.00 26.75 4.80 >> 149.46 Unnamed 36 >> 12/2/09 >> 51.00 52.80 121.87 32.50 12.20 20.60 5.60 >> 148.07 Member of >> Tribe 40 12/7/09 >> 63.00 39.70 120.73 51.50 7.70 20.70 5.00 >> 146.43 Dave Chief >> 63 12/7/09 >> 47.00 54.00 114.07 29.00 16.60 24.85 6.50 >> 145.43 Road >> warrior 79 12/7/09 >> 53.50 42.60 108.64 39.50 18.00 36.62 >> 145.26 Dave Chief 63 >> 12/2/09 >> 53.00 43.90 110.25 40.50 13.30 27.95 6.30 >> 144.50 Italian >> None 12/2/09 >> 48.00 51.20 112.22 34.00 11.20 19.81 6.00 >> 138.04 Member of >> Tribe 39 12/7/09 >> 47.50 50.40 109.80 31.50 10.90 17.87 6.30 >> 133.97 Unnamed 29 >> 12/7/09 >> >> >> Before I left, I measured one tree in the Cherokee-Choctaw area. It >> is >> a tree visible from the the road down to the lower meadow. I spent a >> good 35 minutes with the tree and finally settled on a height of >> 149.3 >> feet. The pine's girth is 10.1 feet in girth. This is the second pine >> I've confirmed in the re-measurement project above 149 feet but not >> quite 150. Next year, both should be inducted into the 150 Club. >> >> So what's the bottom line? The final count of 150s in the Trees of >> Peace stands at 19. The net change of 150s is down by one from what I >> previously had listed. The Dave Chief was a big surprise. I >> re-measured it again and can't get over 146.4 feet. It used to be a >> 150. 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