Talk:Tree spiking
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I tried to move this and then got in a muddle as I mis-capitalised the title. I deleted the redirects I created only to discover the page already exists at Tree spiking which is what caused the problems in the first place. I hope someone else can sort it out as I am going to sleep. Angela 04:17 BST.
- Okay, I've moved Tree-spiking to Tree spiking, and I've merged the content of Treespiking into Tree spiking as well. Is that what your intention was? I hope so, because otherwise I've probably just messed things up even more... ;) -- Oliver P. 03:39, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Yep, that seems like what I would have done if I'd not been editing whilst sleeping. Angela
Why does this page link with anti-rape female condom? If no one objects, I'm removing the link from both pages. Gimme danger 04:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Quote: 'A metal saw blade hitting an embedded spike could break or shatter, possibly injuring or killing loggers. This is why advocates of tree spiking say to drive the spike or nail into the tree above your head, where it'll be out of range of a chainsaw blade and not endanger the logger.' If it's out of range of a chainsaw blade, what's the point of spiking a tree? -Toptomcat 17:40, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- That's actually a red herring. The point of spiking trees is to damage bandsaws in the mills that try and slice the tree up. Even if it's above head height, it doesn't matter from the point of the bandsaws in the mill: they slice the tree lengthwise. However, a logger cutting a tree down with a chainsaw could also be injured by the chainsaw hitting a spike. Of course, you could argue that properly used, bandsaws aren't going to injure anyone if they break, and consequently hammering the spike in at a height is merely to avoid injuring the loggers with the chainsaws.
ManicParroT 22:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Uncited
I removed this: "While both the County sheriff and Alexander's employers, Louisiana-Pacific, blamed environmentalists for the spiking, when Earth First! activist Judi Bari obtained the sheriff's files on the incident some years later, she discovered that one of the suspects for the spiking was Bill Ervin, a 50 year old property-owner, unconnected with Earth First!. While Ervin freely admitted spiking trees on his own land to prevent Louisiana-Pacific from taking timber on his side of the property line, he was never charged with spiking the tree that injured Alexander. [citation needed]" as it has sat, uncited for at least nine months, and Googling turned up no reliable sources. Achromatic (talk) 00:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
