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[urbpan]

Here's a gadget that I don't need but sorely want!  It's for measuring the diameter of trees, useful for determining whether a tree can be rightfully called a champion or heritage tree.  How often would I use it?  At least once, I suppose. 

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[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

down in the south Pi is "3" ;) j/k

looks like it would easy enough to take a regular tape measure, and write on the back of it, various sizes, and divide by Pi; or just even a cloth style measure, which weighs nothing, and approximate in your head, or use calculator/phone or even a little wallet chart.

i suppose for a plumber, who is doing this day in and day out it might be useful.

actually, if the size is the pure limiting factor, you could make a string the right length, and trees that are bigger won't fit, and would be heritage, and lesser trees would meet or overlap and wouldn't be (and thus are edible?)

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[harebell.livejournal.com]

I want one, too. I've been obsessing on the trees that I know, lately. I would like to document them.
There's a ponderosa that I really want to measure. Long ago my grandpa, a forest ranger, said it was the most beautiful specimen he had ever seen. And it really is a grand.

[iheartoothecae.livejournal.com]

But think of all the other things you could find the diameters of too!

Dogs!
People's heads!
Coffee cups!
Lamp posts!
Cigars!
Soup cans!
Flower pots!

The possibilities are endless!

[bdot.livejournal.com]

what is a heritage tree? the link doesn't go to heritage trees....

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

A tailor's tape measure or anything like that works perfectly well! I was part of the city street tree census years back, and they just gave us one of those to measure circumferences. Plug that number into a cell phone calculator and divide by 3.14, and you're golden!