Grafting calculator

Tom · August 22, 2005, 01:14:12 PM

I just saw a classified ad asking for a Grafting Calculator because the fellow needs one for college.

What in the deuce is a Grafting Calculator?

ronwood · August 22, 2005, 01:20:49 PM

Tom.

There is a number of handheld calculators on the market that will let you enter data and has a screen to show a plot of the entered data. Might be what is is looking for.

Ron

DanG · August 22, 2005, 01:32:15 PM

Maybe he's going into politics. :D :D

Buzz-sawyer · August 22, 2005, 01:43:21 PM

He must be a political science major...cause hes looking for a GRAPHING calc. :D :D :D :D :D :DJEEEEEZ LEWEEEEZ :D :D :D

Gilman · August 22, 2005, 01:46:10 PM

Tom,
They are low end graphing calculators. You punch the equation into the calculator, enter your number(s) and get your answers. From there you get a piece of paper and a #2 Ticonderoga and graphite it out.

submarinesailor · August 22, 2005, 01:56:41 PM

Tom and Gilman,

Some of them actually display the graph. The TI 83 comes to mind because we needed three of them, that about $95 a price, one for each daughter in high school/college.

Bruce

Buzz-sawyer · August 22, 2005, 02:13:26 PM

Found this add online "...........the zs 456 enables you to efforlesly calculate the amount to slip a Florida building inspector to PASS your home sawn lumber........fast efficient and accurate"

beenthere · August 22, 2005, 02:14:43 PM

Buzz :D :D :D

My freshman grand daughter has one, and was asking for help on a math homework assignment last spring, that specifically said to NOT use the calculator. She was 'lost' doing some simple ax + b = c problems. We managed to get over her urge to pick up the calculator, and hopefully she had a better understanding of what the calculator was doing for her. I think hers was the TI 83 as well.

Maybe 'Grafting' is what he meant, like DanG says ;D ;D

Dan_Shade · August 22, 2005, 03:05:18 PM

hah, i had a TI-81 back in the day

I used to be a real math weenie, I've forgotten most of it, use it or loose it!

submarinesailor · August 22, 2005, 07:17:44 PM

Dan - know what you mean. I have forgotten it all.

Bruce

pigman · August 22, 2005, 10:24:02 PM

Quote from: Tom on August 22, 2005, 01:14:12 PM

What in the deuce is a Grafting Calculator?

That is easy to answer. It is a devise that helps to determine the best location to graft a new tree on to root stock. 8) :

Well this is the forestry forum. :D

Dan_Shade · August 22, 2005, 10:32:17 PM

there was a guy at work taking a calculus class a few years ago, he was stuck so I told him I'd help him out, heh, good thing another guy had been helping him all along...

I could probably do that, if they came for help every week as they went along it would probably come back, but to jump into the middle, nope....

Gilman · August 22, 2005, 11:15:28 PM

Pigman,
The first time I read the header, I thought the same thing. :D :D

I thought, "Hmm I wonder if the first graft is supposed to so many inches up based upon the diameter." Then I read who posted it. I knew the thread was up to no good once I found out it was Tom.