How to Measure the Height of a Tree

First speaker: How can you measure a tree from there to there, without climbing up yourself or asking a squirrel? Well, there are two easy ways.

The first way is a native American tree. What you do, is you bend over and you look between your legs and until you can see the top of the tree. A bit close.

Now the reason this works, is that when you look up between your legs, you look at the angle of 45 degrees. There. So the distance of my feet here to the base of the tree should be about the same as bottom of the tree to the top of the tree.

But there is a much easier and much more accurate way of measuring it, using just your thumb.

Second speaker: With your arm stretched out, put your thumb at the top of the tree and move until the bottom of your hand appears at the base of the tree, like this. Then rotate your arm, making sure that the bottom of your hand is still at the base of the tree.

Place a marker, such a friend, where your thumb appears to be and measure that distance and that will be the height of the tree.

First Speaker: And I can prove it to you using my shed and this piece of wood. Look, this piece of wood is of same length as the shed. If I lay it down, the shed, is the same distance as there to there.

Second speaker: There you go. They are both the same. Now, all I need is a measuring tape.


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