[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by CoombellKid

Having worked in the timber industry for a number of years. I can understand why some of these forestry workers react the way they do/did. And know what some of these feral greenies get up to too... the sabotageof machinery (designed to injure the operator) and the spiking of trees. While I dont agree with either sides violence, I certainly see why it happens. I think you would get pretty upset too if someone came in and made your workplace unsafe.

regards,CS

Perhaps you can clarify something for me regarding the spiking of trees. Do the spikers announce what they have done and make it clear that milling these trees could be dangerous? If they do then serious questions have to be asked of logging management. Any employer who becomes aware of a danger to their employees and fails to act is legally and morally culpable. Obviously the outcome the greenies want is to stop logging but there are alternatives. It can't be that hard to detect whether there is a piece of metal in a tree, after all airports routinely detect metal on people.