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Here's how you set up the horseshoe nail. Get as long a horseshoe nail as you can find. Hammer the head flat so you can comfortably push it with your thumb. You can pull it free with the tape as long as it's not kinked up.

You can sure do that, Butch...but a half minutes' work might tell you that you have room to just fell it with no climbing involved, and get you home quicker with money made easier in your pocket. ;) Or keep you from making a bad mistake and turning the day into a money looser :cry:. You can...

OK, kids...here's how it works. All this takes far more time to write out than to do, and it's easier than it sounds by a long shot. We'll start with the simplest example, flat ground. Pin your logger's tape into the face of the tree at your eye height (you DO have a long horseshoe nail bent...

Paulie, I have to run right now, but I'll get back to this today I hope, and walk you through the methodology. It's child's play.

The first model listed, reading in percent and degrees, is the classic forestry clinometer. It'll do the trick for you. http://www.benmeadows.com/store/Navigation/Clinometers/Manual_Clinometers/1304/?noredirect=true

I'd expect it would...hang a minute and let me google it.

Don't listen to Squish :D. Sure, I can tell...do you have a clino that reads in percent slope up into the 150+% range? I've posted this before and no one seemed to have the required instrument.

Clino and a 75-100' loggers tape, with help from a pocket calculator...I can give you the height of any tree I can see the top of, no matter the slope, to within a couple percent. Basic forestry measurement technique.