[geeks] Why?

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com]
~ Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:25 AM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] Why?
~ 
~ 
~ On July 30, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
~ > http://www.plustech.fi/Walking1.html
~ > 
~ > Very cool looking, but what in the world is the commercial
~ > justification for a product like this?  
~ 
~   Well, rolling vehicles in forests crush large amounts of
~ ground...destroying low plants, young trees, root systems, etc.
~ 
~      -Dave

And they can go where nothing else can and harvest individual trees rather
than clear-cutting.

Of course, wait until you see a walking dragline. 500K-tons of walking earth
moving beastie. I watched one for a few days in Pennsylvania at a coal
strip-mine.