Here ya go. Cutting down a tree with a gun. It’s pretty amazing to see the brass waterfalling out of that thing. I want to be a mythbuster.
The first known instance of this took a lot longer. At the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, the hot lead was so unremitting and thick that it cut down an oak tree of a foot-and-a-half diameter over the hours-long duration of the battle. The stump is now in the American Museum of History. It was probably the most intense battle of the war up to that point, and it’s hard to contemplate the hell it must have been for the combatants.
I was wandering through the Spotsylvania battlefield several years ago. I was sitting on the edge of path massaging my sore knee when a park ranger wandered by. He stopped to see if I was OK and we got to talking. I was sitting right next to where that tree stood – they had a sign there. We were discussing the battle when he told me to slip down into the ditch I was sitting on the edge of, then roll over and look to our left.
As we both did this I realized that we were laying in one of the trenches the union has used. Across the way was the confederate trench, not more than 50 feet away.
The sun was setting, there was a light mist in the warm afternoon air, my skin was crawling. I laid there for a moment when that ranger told me “I come out here and do this everytime I start thinking my life sucks. Then I decide that I actually have things pretty good.”
A cute, smart, red-haired girl, wind blowing her summer light dress, and a mini-gun blasting a tree to smithereens.
I’m in love!!
Spotsylvania is the site of my favorite quote from the American Civil War…Gen. John Sedgewick’s last words, “They couldn’t hit an elephant from this dist…”
Steve Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 10:37 am
“A cute, smart, red-haired girl, wind blowing her summer light dress, and a mini-gun blasting a tree to smithereens.
I’m in love!!”
Yea, Carrie is the red hotness! If you go back to the first season where she first appears on the show she was more, apt to display her assets. In particular the episode where she serves as a model for a fat persons rear side. There was also the being painted in gold episode that every drools about but I’m ‘meh’ to women being coated with tattoos, paint, and food.
You really know you are a red neck when your brother-in-law suggests using a 20-gauge to take down a tree branch you can’t reach with the tree pruner. And you think it is a good idea!
Yes it works on black walnut up to 2″, but your shoulder really hurts afterwards.
I got rid of a yellowjacket’s nest that was built around a bluebird house on top of a 15 foot poll.
I used a 12 guage with 3 inch magnum #4 buck shells. Did a wonderful job and permitted me to make a clean escape.
Blew the nest and the totally encased bird house to fragments.
Carrie’s hot, but I have to admit the blonde welder from even earlier, Scottie, still haunts me. My wife recently called her “scary,” though.