For the price of a pair of cheerily patterned, breezily cut trunks (£115 to £135, or $181 to $213), one can splash around with a bit of Rio's vibrant spirit hanging off one's hips but in the lightweight fabrics and athletic shaping that reflect a British sensibility.
You may need to cut the trunk in half (which may require a chainsaw) to allow the trunk to balance.
In fact, the width of the growth rings visible on the surface of the cut tree trunk provides a partial history of climatic conditions, the spacing of the growth rings of different size having been correlated with known periods of drought and cold to provide reliable archaeological dating of various structures, as in the timbers used in Indian pueblos in the southwestern United States.
One of the most often cited example of environmental information is the series of concentric rings visible in the wood of a cut tree trunk, which may be used to estimate its age.
Maya cities with a history of stonecarving that extended back into the Early Classic preferred to pair their stelae with a circular altar, which may have represented a cut tree trunk and have been used to perform human sacrifice, given the prevalence of sacrificial imagery on such monuments.
The wood is a good cedar-like timber but long pieces can not be cut because trunk is usually crooked and sometimes hallow.
Since the boiler takes logs of up to half a metre, we cut the trunks into lengths of two chainsaws (160cm) which we can then cross-cut later in the summer into four 40cm lengths.
Barges loaded with sand, freshly cut tree trunks and other goods move slowly up and down the muddy Yangtze River and the equally murky Jialing River, which meet in the heart of Chongqing.
The seven para-enforcers descend like a pack of wolves on the two loggers, who are sawing into the cut-down trunk of an Apitong tree, a critically endangered hardwood that is a favourite among developers in the nearby tourism boom town of El Nido.
During a visit last week to the plant, a reporter also observed a steady stream of trucks entering the front gate, each hauling trailers stacked with up to 50 freshly cut tree trunks, many of them more than a foot in diameter.
