Brainiac Needed

[Warbird]

Wow.  What's your secret, Jeff?  Just workin' out and eatin' healthy?

[Fla._Deadheader]

   

[johnjbc]

Run a string from the bottom of the hill to the top. Use a level and a protractor to measure the angle. Then measure how long your string was and you got it

[Don_Papenburg]

To find the hight of the tree ;  Measure the shadow length , measure your shadow length .  Devide by your hight  that gives you the ratio to devide the trees shadow to get its hight . 
   Another way an older feller told me was to stand with you back to the tree spread your legs a bit ,  bend over enough to look at the tree through your legs .  now move forward or back till you can see the top of the tree.  Measure the distance from you to the tree . That will give you the hight of the tree.

[low_48]

To find the hight of the tree ;  Measure the shadow length , measure your shadow length .  Devide by your hight  that gives you the ratio to devide the trees shadow to get its hight . 
   Another way an older feller told me was to stand with you back to the tree spread your legs a bit ,  bend over enough to look at the tree through your legs .  now move forward or back till you can see the top of the tree.  Measure the distance from you to the tree . That will give you the hight of the tree.

Considering the average age and I presume girth diameter of most of the forumites, this might be a tall order Don. Just imagine if you were on one of those mountains that the Axmen worked on. You would be rolling down the mountain trying to get a look at the top of one of those 200 footers. I guess you would see the top every revolution of your summersalts. I don't think my back has been that limber enough in 25 years for this technique.
I'm sure it works though!

[Coon]

I think this last method would fit in great with the redneck olympics, especially after a few of those barley pops.   

[Don_Papenburg]

I never thought about useing that method on a hill    I can see all them tree hight checkers a rolling down the hills  faster'n a hoopsnake . We don't have hills in my neck of the woods like the axmen play on.

 I was just reporting a method of measure , I did not endorse one over the other.      Compensation for loss resulting from the use of either method will be for no more than actual cost of the advice you recived.  Paid by elastnomaric check drawn on the First Foresty Forum National Bank

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

The "stick" is the Biltmore stick (I think).

It basically works according to reply #15 by left coast chris.


Wouldn't a low tech water wheel, geared up to run a gear-mesh
type pump be a more efficient way to get the water up that hill?
Or a slow water wheel hooked to a mudhog diaphragm pump?

[Fla._Deadheader]

  No Phil
 When it rains hard (Regularly) the waterwheel would have problems from flooding. The other requires fuel. The Ram requires nothing but water weight, to pump water. There is so much debris in this area, it would be better to just run a metal Pipe from an access to the water, to a dedicated area away from the flood area, and install the pump there.

  I've got a real good handle on the situation. I combined several ideas from this thread, and found I have adequate water and weight to get done what I need.

  Thanks to all for responding