For the last six weeks the DOT has had a crew widening Highway 1 less than a mile from my house. The first thing they did was cut down all the trees adjacent to the highway. I talked to the foreman and he said they were hauling the trees to the dump. They bucked them into 8' logs. He wouldn't load my truck or give me permission to take wood while they were working but he did say that if the wood was gone when he came back to work Monday that would be fine by him.
Every weekend I hauled at least one truckload of oak loaded level with the roof of my cab out of the work area. I cleaned out the area in the residential neighborhood first then I worked on the southbound side of the highway for the remained of the time. This weekend I was going to start on the northbound side. It had been inaccessible because they had k-rail (temporary wall) blocking the shoulder. This week they removed parts of the k-rail so you could get in and out. My plan was to drop a buddy off in the neighborhood next to the highway. He would walk in and remove the cones blocking the entrance. I would drive in and he would close the cones behind me. Then we would load our trucks.
Yesterday I was coming home to see them loading the beautiful oak logs into the container truck to take to the dump. I was so upset I thought I would have to pull over to cry. I guess they couldn't wait anymore to start work. This darn day job gets in the way of all kinds of things, this time it's free premium firewood.
I can't believe they hauled this off and PAID to dump it when I would have taken it for free. My wife and friends keep pointing out how much I was able to get. I knew this would be a place I could post where people would understand my sense of profound loss. It hurts to see firewood go to waste.
Every weekend I hauled at least one truckload of oak loaded level with the roof of my cab out of the work area. I cleaned out the area in the residential neighborhood first then I worked on the southbound side of the highway for the remained of the time. This weekend I was going to start on the northbound side. It had been inaccessible because they had k-rail (temporary wall) blocking the shoulder. This week they removed parts of the k-rail so you could get in and out. My plan was to drop a buddy off in the neighborhood next to the highway. He would walk in and remove the cones blocking the entrance. I would drive in and he would close the cones behind me. Then we would load our trucks.
Yesterday I was coming home to see them loading the beautiful oak logs into the container truck to take to the dump. I was so upset I thought I would have to pull over to cry. I guess they couldn't wait anymore to start work. This darn day job gets in the way of all kinds of things, this time it's free premium firewood.
I can't believe they hauled this off and PAID to dump it when I would have taken it for free. My wife and friends keep pointing out how much I was able to get. I knew this would be a place I could post where people would understand my sense of profound loss. It hurts to see firewood go to waste.