Cutting Down A Tree With A Minigun

• Anthony
  February 28th, 2008 at 8:29 am

  .45 is not the same as 45.

• Andrew345
  February 28th, 2008 at 8:46 am

  What a waste of a perfectly good tree. This has to be the most pointless experiment ever.

• Steve
  February 28th, 2008 at 10:07 am

  This video makes me sick to my stomach!!

• Moodindigo
  February 28th, 2008 at 10:22 am

  I’m not sure that leafless, limbless husk in the desert counts as a “perfectly good tree”.

• Twee
  February 28th, 2008 at 10:27 am

  The tree wasn’t even growing there, it was dead and put there for the experiment. No need to worry, treehuggers!

• Grok
  February 28th, 2008 at 11:37 am

  Agreed. Those who actually watched this episode would know that the MB team took trees that had already been felled and dug the logs in the ground for the purposes of this busting. In general, the team usually does their best at being economically and environmentally responsible for all their “pointless experiments” (e.g., scavaging scrap yards, re-using equipment and materials). As for why? Well, they’re not called Mythbusters (not to mention this website isn’t Neatorama) for nothing.

• Colt Seaver
  February 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am

  Waste of ammo is more like it. In that 45 seconds, they blew through $500 in shells.

• shecky
  February 28th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

  Frankly, I’m surprised it took so long.

• Christophe
  February 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

  Isn’t that supposed to chop off heads and limbs?
  Neat in an eery way.

• Hillary
  February 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

  It’s even cooler when mounted on a helicopter and is mowing down terrorists! Spatter… Spatter…

• twodollars
  February 28th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

  Kari Byron + Minigun = Hotness.

• Jason
  February 29th, 2008 at 4:48 am

  twodollars said:
  “Kari Byron + Minigun = Hotness.”

  Subtract the “Minigun” and the equation still works!

• Brian
  February 29th, 2008 at 8:56 am

  It probably would have gone faster if they had shot the trees at a closer range.

• Justin
  February 29th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

  Agreed brian. They probably missed 50% of the time at least.

  Also, was anyone else surprised at how there was no visible recoil? I’m sure mounting it helped, but it didn’t seem to be recoiling at all.

• pfelelep
  February 29th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

  how could I’ve lived without experiment this before?

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