As obvious as it sounds, after all the effort of constructing a blockade that needs a bunny to make it work, MAKE SURE someone is ready to occupy it at any time at a moment's notice - especially if the heat is on. Cops or loggers may turn.up to trash your blockade and spoil your fun AT ANY TIME, day or night. This is a major bummer and this warning is only here because this has happened too many times before. If the target road is being patrolled, then watch it for a while to judge the frequency. On the night, let one go by and then into action, before the next. A couple of patrolling cops that stumble upon your show may not arrest anyone, but they could call in more troops, or just hang, be dutifully boring and spoil the party!
So...
- post lookouts with radios or very loud voices
- don't park cars at the site (if.possible)
- if you drop people and gear off, don't do a screaming.3 pointer and leave,tracks.
- do as much felling, rigging and general preparation in thebush, before you get onto the road, as posslble
- if.you.have to scarper during construction - take the bloody tools with you!! So they don't get lost or confiscated and used to disassemble your creation.
- if you have a tool in your hand, it is your tool!
- if you put it down, it is still your tool until someone else picks it up. When you run, it runs. with you!!
- Where are the cops camping? How.many are there? When are the shift-changes?How keen are they? How heavy are they? Where and how often do they patrol?
-Where are the blockade spots? Narrows? Drop-offs? Corners? Intersections'? '
-Is there somewhere to stash cars and set up camp?
-Will radio and/or mobile phone contact be possible?
-Where are the rescue squad trucks, grader, cherry picker, crane?
N.B. A mono will stop a grader getting to a hot rock fire and hot rocks will the stop the picker getting to a .mono etc., etc...
As soon as obvious construction begins, you must put some road blocks on the approaches(see photo). Rocks, logs or signs will do. These are for your and their safety.
Keep them at a good distance so you can still piss off if the bad guys turn up early.
Complex construction work, in the dead of night, with the threat of arrest is intense!
Work fast -. don't hurry!
Don't freak out!
Ask - don't tell!
It's fun - laugh!!
OM GAIA DUDES!
