Car Talk Promotes Arbor Abuse--Picketing Friday!

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guymayor

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I don't listen to these guys much, but today they told a guy to drive up to a huge old tree and mash on the gas to see how the clutch worked. So I went to their website and wrote this:

Are you nuts? Driving up to a huge old tree and mashing on the gas to check clutch performance would do horrible damage to its skin. The pressure could bring in decay like incurable gangrene. Not to mention the damage to the roots from driving on them.

The tree might rot out totally and fall on you when you are on your way to the bar. Not good. Please post a retraction, and for stall tests recommend immovable objects that are also inanimate.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Trees, Yelling! (PETT,Y!) convenes in Boston next week at the New England Grows trade show and conference. We will picket your offices next Friday at noon if a retraction is not printed forthwith and heretofore, in perpetuity.

We understand you meant no harm, and appreciate your consideration of trees in the future.

Guy Meilleur, ISA Board-Certified Master Arborist,
Founder, People for the Ethical Treatment of Trees, Yelling!

Who wants to join the picketing? I'm dead serious about this--it's time to yell (and have a little fun)! Or comment here: http://action.publicbroadcasting.net/cartalk/posts/list/2136440.page
 
I heard that over a year ago. I personally think they were just being their usual joking selves and didn't think of the damage and used it as an example of a solid object. But it is good to make note that it would damage.
 
Joking or not, they have to be responsible for their show and saying "oh I was just joking", doesn't cut it..

The way to check the clutch is engage the emergency brake, put the tranny in 3rd and let out on the clutch.. if it doesn't die immediately, its a clutch problem.. No need to mash on trees...

And there is an old RR overpass on a quiet road I used to back up to, when I needed to push a log further into the bed, after I had just notched and dropped it onto the bed of the dump truck. I haven't done that for 20 years.. Wish I didn't have to remember things like that.. but hey we all did what we had to do..
 
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And there is an old RR overpass on a quiet road I used to back up to, when I needed to push a log further into the bed, after I had just notched and dropped it onto the bed of the dump truck. I haven't done that for 20 years.. Wish I didn't have to remember things like that.. but hey we all did what we had to do..

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What, you didn't just get'er rolling and slam on the brakes?

-Tom
 
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