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STATIC BLOCKING METHODS:
Great Big Rocks
Roll them down the hill, or wrestle them with stout poles or crowbars. Any old grader or dozer will be able to shift them, but they have to get there first .
Log Fires
Very nice on a cold night, but it must be kept stoked until the baddies show. A four-wheel-drive with a winch can move the fire - but some big hot rocks will complicate matters for them
Felled Trees
The effect of this method on the blockaders' image or ideology may be in question. Use a large log or a dead tree - but check it out first for habitat potential!
Holes
Tedious and strenuous to dig - especially in a hard road surface. If the .rain's pissing down you can do some "guided erosion," but then again, nobody logs in the rain anyway.
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Truck Fuckers Please note that, despite the colourful name, these are not designed to fuck truckers or their trucks. They are installed to prevent trucks from entering the particular area- not to cause accidents. They could be innocently or deliberately misconstrued as lethal traps. Thus the potential for accidents should be reduced by creating other blocks on either side of the trucker fuckers (branches, rocks, signs, etc.), painting them pink, hanging streamers and banners or anything else you can think of to avoid bad vibes. |
The Truck Fucker consists of three short pieces of 60-80mm diameter pipes welded together in the shape of a tripod apex. Three slightly smaller diameter pipes or bars (around 1-1.5m) are sharpened, have spurs cut with an angle grinder and are opened with a cold chisel. Set it all up with the bracket about 40Omm above the road and start sledge hammering. Knock each one in turn - a bit at a time. A 400mm piece set temporarily under the bracket may help. Tap the bracket occasionally to stop it binding and keep bashing the pipes 'till it looks right.
This medievaI ironmongery will need digging, cutting or a very serious shove to shift with a few dozen kits stashed around the countryside, a sledge-hammering flying squad could cause quite a bit of bother!
Hot Rocks
This is a beaut blockade tool, but it's really important to get up early enough to light the fire and ensure your rocks are hot enough. By making a large bonfire across the road (if fire risk is low) and piling on large quantities of rocks, heating them to a high temperature, an effective barrier to rubber tyres is created. This needs to be cleared by a bulldozer, so it's best done where these are scarce. Try building it over a couple of trucker-fuckers for added protection against dozers.
It complements tripods and so on very well, as bulldozers can't beat tripods, and cherry pickers can't beat hot rocks. For example, if you can quickly whip up a tripod in front of the hot rocks and any cops hanging around the hot rocks (perhaps a kilometre or two down the.road), in front of the oncoming 'dozer, and then put someone in a. deIuxe sleeping dragon after the bull dpzer has trundled by, you should fix them for a while. The dozer is then trapped between tripod and dragon, and the cherry picker is stuffed by the dragon. Even if you.can't pull something like this off, by combining blockade devices you inevitably tie up more time and resources.