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Being from the south, we have pine trees and the limbs start growing at a height that is rather high, to get around this problem, we take a ball that is heavy enough to have a good deal of kinetic energy when thrown, but also to be able to be thrown, a croquet ball works great, and then bore a small hole through the center. Take a 30' piece of paracord or something similiar and thread it through then tie it off. Then attach a chainsaw blade to the end of the paracord, and then add another long peice of paracord and tie that to the end. Then take the ball and sling it over the tree limb as close as possible to the trunk of the tree and have two people who do a sort of back and forth sawing motion and cut off the limb, try and ensure that the chainsaw blade is straight or it will not cut. I also have two creative weapons that can be used as a last resort, a water bottle, when full of water makes a wonderful baton since water does not condense. A knife can be made by cracking a cd or dvd in half and then wrapping cloth of some sort around one half for the handle.