Using lasers to cut tree branches around power lines

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This is cool

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[CincyDem]

1. "Phasers set on stun, mr. Sulu". "Aye, Cap'n". n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Actually, they need to be set on "prune". nt

[CincyDem]

13. Oh snap...upgraded quote for sure.

[RockRaven]

2. Doesn't look as cool as this method, though:

[Phoenix61]

3. I've seen one of those in action. The stuff nightmares are made of. nt

[Kablooie]

4. Wait till the NRA adds THIS to their arsenal.

Just add a little rifle stock and away we go!

[rsdsharp]

5. I gotta get me one of those!

[DBoon]

6. You never know when a good guy needs a weapon to fight evil tree branches

[jmowreader]

12. Don't laugh when I tell you this...

...but the US Forest Service recruits retired Army snipers to shoot branches off trees.

The deal is that pine cones have to be picked up off the ground just as soon as they fall off the trees if you want to grow new trees from them. And to be sure you have crews in the woods to do this, you need to know when the cones are ripe. So...the safest way to collect cones for testing is to send a sniper out in the woods to shoot off branches. They fall to the ground, the sniper picks them up and turns them into the lab, and Smokey the Bear knows when to send out cone gatherers.

[Bayard]

7. I was imagining a guy in a bucket lift,

With a light sabre.

[Kali]

8. it does look cool

wonder if it ever starts fires, though.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Agent Mike, my former drinking buddy and sage to me.....

"Don't even think of going there"

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Falls into the wrong hands in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... nt