Let's Save All The Trees.!

[treemandan]

Well if you bust a chain while on a backcut its coming at your crotch most likely. I have seen a saw flying out of control upon contact with rebar within the tree. The operator was able to ditch it in a different direction than he was going.

I have an image in my head of Joni Mitchell hammering steel spikes in the trees.

 

[Ivan H.]

Exactly. With the highspeed bandsaw mills the blades are moving at warp speed and the logs are moving really, really fast. The force of the log being moved through the blade is huge and any slowing of the blade due to a nail causes the blade to break. They often explode and cause major problems. A mill in MN I used to go to had pictures in their office of one of their blades that blew up and it was a mess. Stuff all over the barn was smashed and broken. There is a reason the guy operating the bandsaw is behind a steel cage and it is to protect him from blades going ka-pow.

I've seen what those railroad steaks can do to the saw blades. rips them up like a knife going through a tin can.

 

[Steve NW WI]

Arrest Made!

Park Rapids Enterprise story

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Backus man charged with red pine damage
Bethany Wesley, Bemidji Pioneer
Published: December 8, 2009 7:07:49 AM CST
A 51-year-old Backus man has been charged with first-degree criminal damage to property for driving 6-inch nails into about 500 red pine trees that were sold at auction.

Stephen Louis Olson was charged Monday in Cass County District Court with Criminal Damage to Property in the First Degree – Under Theory of Liability of Crimes of Another.

If convicted, Olson faces a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a $10,000 fine.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office arrested Olson on Friday after executing a search warrant at his residence, according to a Cass County press release.

According to the criminal complaint:

A logger reported in mid-November that he had received a bid on a tree sale and was preparing to log the area when he noticed a handwritten sign nailed to a pine tree with two 6-inch long pole barn nails.

The sign claimed there were nails in each tree.

Investigation revealed more than 500 trees that had been spiked.

The spiking reduced the value of the trees by more than $1,000.

Investigators learned that Olson – who owns adjacent land – had expressed anger, frustration and resentment for the county’s plans to have the trees logged, according to the complaint. Olson told others that he intended to spike the tees with pole barn nails.

In an interview with investigators, another man said that he and Olson purchased six boxes of pole barn nails and spiked the trees in about one week with the help of a juvenile, according to the complaint.

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No mention of it, other than the loss of value, which seems low, but more than $1,000 could mean $12,675 I guess, but I hope restitution is part of the penalty as well.

A radio station report said they did it to keep the trees there as they were adjacent to their land.

 

[slowp]

Maybe they'll make him pull out the spikes too.

 

[Mike PA]

Am I missing something hear? How are the trees dangerous with the nails in them just standing there for fear of someone cutting them down, as compared to PURPOSELY cutting all of them down?

When those trees would be cut in the future, there may be no memory of the nails in the trees. Therefore, cut them now, while people know the nails are in them and can be dealt with.

 

[joecool85]

When those trees would be cut in the future, there may be no memory of the nails in the trees. Therefore, cut them now, while people know the nails are in them and can be dealt with.

That makes a lot of sense.