Don’t forget the supply chain and logistical support required to keep people able to…lets call it “Living their best lives”…
Lets just say that when people are going to be “Living their best lives” in the woods, often for weeks and months at a time, they don’t have time to work for money, they don’t have ready access to grocery stores or free stores. They need resources in terms of food, camping supplies, medical supply, boots, rain gear, and recreation and mental health. They also need rotation in that you really don’t want people “Living their best lives” indefinitely, you’re friends need time away from the work. No matter what they claim, they need time NOT “Living their best lives” to be most effective at “Living their best lives”.
This means you need a multiple crews of 3-4 individuals that can rotate through 1-3 week intervals of “Living their best lives”. Don’t try and sustain campaigns “just for the sake of it”. Most of the work of “Living their best lives” isn’t actually out there in the woods “Living their best lives”, its the support network required to those small groups sustained.
There is a great book about “Living their best lives” called The Last Stand, which goes into some loose detail about the timber wars of the 1980’s. It doesn’t cover the gory bits, but if you got a chance to visit the Emerald Triangle in the late 90’s, some of this work was still ongoing (even though it never made it to the news), and many of the surviving old timers were still around to be learned from.
Do you think the cops or courts are gonna be fooled by your euphemisms? Just talk normally.
Just talk normally.
Me, upvoting both of y’all’s comments
The Last Stand is a common title. Do you mean The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street over California’s Ancient Redwoods by David Harris?
For anyone else not sure what they’re looking at…
Tree Spiking
Tree spiking can be an extremely effective method of deterring timber sales, and seems to be growing more and more popular. Mill operators are quite wary of accepting timber that may be contaminated with hidden metal objects, — saws are expensive, and a “spiked” log can literally bring operations to a screeching halt, at least until a new blade can be put into service. The Forest Service and timber industry are very nervous about spiking — when they or the media raise the subject of monkeywrenching, this is the form most commonly discussed. Agency and industry officials are loath, however, to raise the subject. Indeed, the Forest Service (FS) often fails to publicize incidents of spiking, on the theory that the less the practice is publicized, the less likely it is to spread. When the Freddies (FS officials) do publicly acknowledge that a spiking has occurred, they often make a considerable effort to find the perpetrators, even to the point of offering substantial cash rewards. (No modern-day tree spiker has been caught, however.)
The act could have been done 10-20 years prior so…
Never too late
The second best day, is today 😊
So in other words, this should not be reposted ever anywhere
Or, how to commit attempted murder on a logger
Often a banner that says trees are spiked is already enough of a deterrent! Even easier!
they often make a considerable effort to find the perpetrators
I got logger family. If you want to protest logging, there are ways to do it that doesn’t kill loggers. Spiking can kill loggers.
The second philosophy of tree spiking is to place the spikes in the trees well above the area where the fellers will operate — as many feet up the trunk as one can conveniently work. The object of the spiking in this case is to destroy the blades in the sawmill. Since in large mills the blades are either operated from a control booth some distance from the actual cutting, or are protected by a Plexiglas shield, this method is unlikely to cause anyone physical injury even should a blade shatter upon striking a spike, which is unlikely.
For a moment, I wondered if it was a method to eliminate vampire trees.
The real explanation is actually much better.
I heard they are doing lots of testing on lumber nowadays with metal detectors.
Unrelated, does anybody know much about aluminum/ceramics?
You can also use ceramic or stone spikes.
