Best read ever: “A skill I accidentally acquired while working on a grounds crew years ago was taking down rather large trees and making them fall exactly where I wanted them to (i.e., NOT onto houses, fences, other trees, etc.). I would spend a LOT of time assessing a tree, figuring out it’s center of mass, the leverage and torque, the state of its trunk, where and how to rope it, etc. Then I would spend very little time cutting it. Sometimes, just for fun, after roping it, doing the wedge, and doing some back cut, I would shut the chainsaw off and walk away a bit. On occasion someone would ask, “Why did you stop?” to which I would reply, “Because I’m finished.” Having done it a lot of times, when the back cut approached the wedge, I could notice the rate at which the internal trunk fibers were snapping—too quiet to hear from any distance away—and know that as long as the rate was staying steady or increasing, the tree was already as good as down. I think my record was about ten minutes, from when I stopped cutting, strolled back and sat down, to when the tree fell over. So what’s the point? Look all over Facebook, and YouTube, and the internet in general, and on the radio, and at various events, and listen for all those individual “fibers” of statism snapping. And the rate is only increasing. Yeah, the “tree” of authoritarianism (apologies to Mother Nature for that unkind comparison) still looks as big and tall as it ever did. But that bastard is coming down, and nothing in the world will stop that.” - Larken Rose
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:59:58 +0000
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