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No, Brian, the people who are destroying property that does not belong to
them are the timber companies.

Incidentally, tree-spiking was never aimed at the chainsaw, as most spikes
are driven well above the level of the initial cut. Spikes are intended to
disable sawblades in the mill. Unfortunately, most mill owners are reluctant
to spend any money on such useless things as worker protection. A shattered
sawblade is a very dangerous thing for a millworker to have to deal with. This
is the primary reason why much of the Northwestern Earth First! movement
has renounced tree-spiking, in an attempt to continue their productive work
making alliances with timber workers.

It is interesting to note that only one worker has ever been injured by a
sawblade hitting a metal object in a milled log, and there was no indication
that that object was placed in the tree deliberately as a sabotage method.
Sawblades do break quite often, injuring dozens of workers a year, largely due
to owner negligience and lack of required maintenance to the machinery.

Most of the sabotage being done to sawmills, finally, is done by the workers 
themselves, as is true in any other industry. Speed kills, and millworkers, 
if they have work at all, are usually worked too fast. Accidents result from
fatigue on account of speedups. A bolt or wrench "accidentally" dropped near 
a blade, with the person operating it safely hidden, can bring on a well-deserved afternoon off with pay.

chris
(one who knows...)