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When the Prince and Princess and other dignitaries arrived for the
demonstration the next day, there had been no time for a test run. None of
the men believed the flimsy-appearing structure could carry even one of
the massive logs without disaster. But it did work. The cold water floated
heavy logs and the shape of the chute spiralled the water, which swept the
logs always toward the centre of the current and away from the sides of
the wooden flume. The serpentine movement was a success.
PROFESSIONALS JEALOUS
In gratitude the Prince appointed Schauberger as head warden of all his
hunting and forest districts. Then Schauberger was awarded a further honour—the
position of State Consultant for Timber Flotation Installations.
Not everyone was pleased, however. Experts with academics degrees
resented the fact that a non-academic had landed such a high-salaried
position, and the fact that they had to consult with him. Finally the payscale
furore reached high levels, and the federal minister who hired
Schauberger had to cut his salary in half. Schauberger was welcome to
stay on the job, though, and the minister offered to make up the missing
half of his wages out of the minister's "black funds." Schauberger would
have nothing to do with such sleazy practices, however, and he immediately
resigned.
He was then hired by a private building contractor to construct log
flumes in various European countries until 1934, when Schauberger again
criticized an employer's manipulations.
Why would a natural philosopher like Schauberger get involved in log
transport, anyway The answer is complex. Earlier as a forester, it was his
job to plan how to move wind-felled timber from high slopes down to valleys
where people could use it for firewood and building. Schauberger
opposed what he saw as exploitation of horses; he objected to the practice
of forcing draft animals to burst their sinews pulling heavy logs down
mountainsides. Also, his biographer Olaf Alexandersson writes, Schauberger
naively tried to restrict tree-cutting by reducing transport costs—the companies
would not need to cut as many trees in order to make the same
amount of profit.
At the same time as he was flume-building, he gave speeches and wrote
articles about the result of clearing a forest area totally—loss of healthy
water downstream and, eventually, drought.
"Every economic death of a people is always preceded by the death of
its forests," he warned.
Forests were not as checkered with clearcuts at that time, and local
sawmills were not all bought up by large companies which were to become
voracious in their appetite for timber. However, Schauberger was alarmed