Yeah, right.
You committed a theft and then posted it on the internet. I don't think you'll be asking anyone anything, but you'll only be more careful not to post about it here.
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Yeah, right.
You committed a theft and then posted it on the internet. I don't think you'll be asking anyone anything, but you'll only be more careful not to post about it here.
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2 months is like 2 minutes in oak years. its not like they were gonna rot anytime soon. It wouldn't be worth the anxiety for me. I drive past a smaller industrial park on my way to the dump and there is always pallets sitting between the sidewalk and the road in front of some small tool and die shops. i assume they are free for the taking, but also don't know if someone has dibs on them.
I stop and ask, lumber store, roofing biz, granite &flooring shop. Granite ships in on "A" frames of wood that I can get. Gonna use for best mirror aiming yet= solar heat assist.
Have ended up with more than enough pallets for what I've got for splitting so far.
I’m sure the landowner appreciated that
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cedarhollow
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i guess i'm lucky to be in a county where when there are trees down by the roadside or getting in way of power lines, the county workers cut and stack it for anyone to pick it up
Similar situation here on the highway coming in to town which is lined with trees. The shire workmen clean up the brush and buck up the trunks or branches and anyone can get them. It normally doesn't take long for them to disappear and I think that it's good that they do this.
Last year I stop to talk a guy on the side of the road loading rocks off a stone wall. He tells me he has permission from the land owner to take them, I say thats funny because I'm the land owner and if you don't put them back I will call the PD. He put them back, if he had asked I wouldn't have cared.
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Just to be clear.
I do agree I should have asked first. However, people burning wood are a niche community. People on forums like this make up a single digit percent of people on earth, if that. I just love how people act as though a 42" diameter x 13.5' long log is a gift from the heavens. The reality is most people, including many here wouldn't/couldn't even bother cutting it up. Too much work, and/or don't have a saw big enough. Would you same guys be thanking me profusely if I dropped a log of this size at the end of your driveway? Or would you cuss me out???
Guess its easier to sit behind your screen and make one line wisecracks talking **** on the guy trying to keep his family warm. I know what people are going to say, its the principal, you should have asked first. I KNOW, I said I was in the wrong. Get over it. Its not a Channel 4 news story.
I do agree I should have asked first. However, people burning wood are a niche community. People on forums like this make up a single digit percent of people on earth, if that. I just love how people act as though a 42" diameter x 13.5' long log is a gift from the heavens. The reality is most people, including many here wouldn't/couldn't even bother cutting it up. Too much work, and/or don't have a saw big enough. Would you same guys be thanking me profusely if I dropped a log of this size at the end of your driveway? Or would you cuss me out???
Guess its easier to sit behind your screen and make one line wisecracks talking **** on the guy trying to keep his family warm. I know what people are going to say, its the principal, you should have asked first. I KNOW, I said I was in the wrong. Get over it. Its not a Channel 4 news story.
I'm not gonna lose sleep over this either way.
It has nothing to do with being a niche community. Nobody is saying it's a golden log. It could be a rotting piece of pine. What most of the guys are getting at is if it ain't yours don't take it. No matter the value, no matter who could or couldn't handle it.
If you're saying you're wrong I can respect that, we're all human. That's all anybody is saying.
The sad thing is, people will let many things rot before they give the ok to somebody who can use it. That's their choice and they'll have to deal with that.
There was a decent pile of cedar logs in a field near my grandparents, talked to the neighbors, nobody knew anything, was even gonna offer money. Now there's a crappy pile of logs sitting there, many years later.
It has nothing to do with being a niche community. Nobody is saying it's a golden log. It could be a rotting piece of pine. What most of the guys are getting at is if it ain't yours don't take it. No matter the value, no matter who could or couldn't handle it.
If you're saying you're wrong I can respect that, we're all human. That's all anybody is saying.
The sad thing is, people will let many things rot before they give the ok to somebody who can use it. That's their choice and they'll have to deal with that.
There was a decent pile of cedar logs in a field near my grandparents, talked to the neighbors, nobody knew anything, was even gonna offer money. Now there's a crappy pile of logs sitting there, many years later.
If your referring to me sorry you feel that way, I could not give two sh-ts what you do. I only thought of that story from reading the above, nothing to do with you or what you did or did not do. just thought it was a good story, nothing more.
