yes, they simply topped the tree and fastened a platform to the trunk
Wouldn't there be a certain "swaying in the breeze factor" to compensate for?
Don
Saw a picture of one once, seems to have been only moments ago that I saw it.
jud
In the 1876 Report to the Chief of Engineers in Washington, D.C., an Army Engineer Captain mentioned that a triangulation party outside of Natchez, Mississippi had to cut their observation season short. Seems like native aborigines were shooting arrows at the observers in their tree-top towers made of scantling timbers.
> Wouldn't there be a certain "swaying in the breeze factor" to compensate for?
Not sure, but that may be some guy wires I see bracing the "tower".
OHSA bedarned ???
DGG
How did we survive? How sad it is. JRL
well, Gunnie, not to be argumentative, cause I really respect you, I think if one little girl's or one little boy's daddy came home at the end of the day because of safety requirements, I ain't gonna bitch about it.
Reminds me of an old crew chief of mine, who always said, "I'm too old for this shtuff"
It is something I'd do!!
(I did not forget to charge the GPS batt, today, boss!)
N