If you can stand on it and roll it with your feets, that's a log. Can't do that with a stick. Nobody ever heard of the stick rolling championships.
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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When a dog cannot carry it
Are we talking Chihuahua or English Mastiff?
boop
Any dog.
Ankle bitter aren't dogs. If it's small enough to be drop kicked over a fence, it's not a dog it's a cruel genetic mistake made by humanity.
I was going to say a human can't carry it, but yours is good too.
Making these up.
Logs:
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Take more than 1 hand to pick up
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Burns for more than 30mins
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Can cause concussion if thrown through the air.
First it must become a branch, then work its way up to being a limb, and through perseverence and bravery, it may one day be a trunk. Trunks make great logs.
YES! It's not just stick>log. There's several steps between the two!
Limbs can also become logs.
When you can't wrap your hand fully around it, I'd say, is the boundary between a stick and a log.
I feel personally attacked
I really like this definition!
Stick is a branch where as log is part of the trunk. Narrow trunk is called a sapling.
What about branches the size of trees?
About two seconds after that booty clap
When the average person cannot lift it with one hand
If you can lift it with one hand, it's a stick. Possibly a staff if you'rewearing a pointy hat. A log requires at least two hands.
Gotta have those small logs, or split logs to get a good fire going
At the point where you put down the reciprocating cutter and pick up the chainsaw.
If it sticks around for long enough, it eventually gets logged
Yours is a stick. Mine is a log.
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You see, dicks
Depends if you've got a stove/open fire as a source of heating.
Sticks are used as kindling to get it going, logs are used to keep it going
When you can no longer hold it!
When you remove a single grain of sand from a heap, and as a result, it is no longer a heap.
Some definitions have fuzzy edges. Actually most words are really fuzzy that way. Mathematical concepts are precise, but normal everyday words aren’t. Treat them accordingly.
When diameter > 100mm
What about cords, twigs, or timber? You can't jump straight from sticks to logs.
No cords. These trees are Bluetooth.
bigger than your thigh
When you write on it.
At the same time grains of sand becomes a heap.
5"
When I get semi-aroused.