the scumbags finally hit my wood pile

[muddstopper]

I have been busy all year and just hadnt had the time to move the wood skidded off my new house place . I had a large cache of tree length wood that I cut in sept of 2019. Wood is very handy to get to, right beside a major highway. I had rented a trackhoe yesterday and went by the rental place to pay my bill and the owner asked me if I had been working up my wood. NO. well he seen somebody yesterday sawing the logs up and thought it was me. Well I went straight to the log pile and sure enough, someone had started in the middle of the logs sawing firewood. They didnt go for the limby or butt cuts, right in the middle of the easy to split good stuff. Made a call to the police and filled out a report, for all the good that will do. I plan on placing a couple of game cameras since there is still a couple of cords they haven't touched yet. I drove on up into the my lot to see if they had cut any of the logs piled up there, tree across the road so they hadnt made it that far yet. found out later today, my BIL had actually caught the thieves and and talked to them. They had some excuse that they had a Forest Service permit to get down wood. That may be true, but the forest service dont own my land. He let them load what they had cut, which they are just lucky it was him that caught them and not me. Pee'd me off, he didnt even get their name, and he didnt have the right to just let them take my wood either. He did tell them not to cut anymore, like that does me a lot of good. Now that someone has started cutting, its just a matter of time before someone else finishes off the wood pile. I dont have any equipment available to move the wood up to the house site and cutting the logs in the middle would meant double the trips to skid it.

 

[holeycow]

Damn Montanians.

I hope you catch them in the act. Perhaps they were clueless, (like your BIL)...and thought that wood was fair game for their permit. You never know..

 

[LondonNeil]

That's sickening.

 

[farmer steve]

I'm on another forum and guys see wood along the road and just cut it up and take it. Anytime I've said something they just shrug it off like it was on the right away. Put some no trespassing signs up.

 

[dave_dj1]

Sorry to hear Mudd, dirty bastids! Hopefully they get theirs, Karma is a *****

 

[Deleted member 117362]

Wonder if they had been hunting, saw it and ran back home for saws and trailer. May have felt like robbing a bank.

 

[muddstopper]

Wood on the side of the road is a maybe, but wood 100ft from the road on private property is another matter. I can think of no excuse that would justify entering another person property and taking anything. I have given and hauled wood to several folks this year and in the past. If the thief had asked, I would have let him have some or all of the wood laying there. This person didnt ask and then used a Forest Service permit to try and justify his reason for getting the wood. I aint buying it. They are thieves, no other way to look at it. I'll eventually find out who it was they had best hope I am in a different mood than I am now. Police report filed already, I might just let them explain to the judge how they mistook private property for belonging to the US Forest Service.

 

[Del_]

found out later today, my BIL had actually caught the thieves and and talked to them. They had some excuse that they had a Forest Service permit to get down wood. That may be true, but the forest service dont own my land. He let them load what they had cut, which they are just lucky it was him that caught them and not me. Pee'd me off, he didnt even get their name, and he didnt have the right to just let them take my wood either. He did tell them not to cut anymore, like that does me a lot of good.

Your BIL is a party to the theft.

 

[svk]

Bastiges

I had a tree fall literally next to a no trespassing sign, someone cut up and hauled off the whole thing.

 

[turnkey4099]

I have been busy all year and just hadnt had the time to move the wood skidded off my new house place . I had a large cache of tree length wood that I cut in sept of 2019. Wood is very handy to get to, right beside a major highway. I had rented a trackhoe yesterday and went by the rental place to pay my bill and the owner asked me if I had been working up my wood. NO. well he seen somebody yesterday sawing the logs up and thought it was me. Well I went straight to the log pile and sure enough, someone had started in the middle of the logs sawing firewood. They didnt go for the limby or butt cuts, right in the middle of the easy to split good stuff. Made a call to the police and filled out a report, for all the good that will do. I plan on placing a couple of game cameras since there is still a couple of cords they haven't touched yet. I drove on up into the my lot to see if they had cut any of the logs piled up there, tree across the road so they hadnt made it that far yet. found out later today, my BIL had actually caught the thieves and and talked to them. They had some excuse that they had a Forest Service permit to get down wood. That may be true, but the forest service dont own my land. He let them load what they had cut, which they are just lucky it was him that caught them and not me. Pee'd me off, he didnt even get their name, and he didnt have the right to just let them take my wood either. He did tell them not to cut anymore, like that does me a lot of good. Now that someone has started cutting, its just a matter of time before someone else finishes off the wood pile. I dont have any equipment available to move the wood up to the house site and cutting the logs in the middle would meant double the trips to skid it.

I had that happen, They only got part of one tree. I posted several flyers in the grove saying that the police had been notified and if they were caught in there it would be a trip to jail. No more problems.

 

[Short timer]

https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/unbelievable-wood-find.345978/

 

[holeycow]

Yup, Montanians I tell ya.

 

[muddstopper]

https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/unbelievable-wood-find.345978/

In my world, what montana resident did was steal, yes as in being a thief, wood that did not belong to him. Catch him on my property stealing my wood and he would go to jail. Now, one can try and justify their decision to steal the wood saying they found it on the side of the road, but he found the wood, cut to length and trimmed of it branches. The person that cut those trees and bucked and trimmed them didnt do it for the thief's convenience that would be a fact. What he did would be no different than someone driving up into his driveway and loading up his split and stacked firewood. The thief that stole my wood, did so by entering upon private property and cutting up trees I had skidded out and stacked to season until I had time to buck and split. Say what you want about me leaving wood in plain site of a major highway, but my property joins that major highway and I cant move my property somewhere else and the states not likely to move the road anytime soon.

 

[Short timer]

In my world, what montana resident did was steal, yes as in being a thief, wood that did not belong to him. Catch him on my property stealing my wood and he would go to jail. Now, one can try and justify their decision to steal the wood saying they found it on the side of the road, but he found the wood, cut to length and trimmed of it branches. The person that cut those trees and bucked and trimmed them didnt do it for the thief's convenience that would be a fact. What he did would be no different than someone driving up into his driveway and loading up his split and stacked firewood. The thief that stole my wood, did so by entering upon private property and cutting up trees I had skidded out and stacked to season until I had time to buck and split. Say what you want about me leaving wood in plain site of a major highway, but my property joins that major highway and I cant move my property somewhere else and the states not likely to move the road anytime soon.

If his conscience told him “I felt like I was robbing a bank” as it did, then he knew it was wrong but didn’t care.

 

[Short timer]

In your scenario, I’d post the property as private no trespassing and put up a trail cam like you said you were going to do until you could get your wood out of there.

 

[olyman]

In my world, what montana resident did was steal, yes as in being a thief, wood that did not belong to him. Catch him on my property stealing my wood and he would go to jail. Now, one can try and justify their decision to steal the wood saying they found it on the side of the road, but he found the wood, cut to length and trimmed of it branches. The person that cut those trees and bucked and trimmed them didnt do it for the thief's convenience that would be a fact. What he did would be no different than someone driving up into his driveway and loading up his split and stacked firewood. The thief that stole my wood, did so by entering upon private property and cutting up trees I had skidded out and stacked to season until I had time to buck and split. Say what you want about me leaving wood in plain site of a major highway, but my property joins that major highway and I cant move my property somewhere else and the states not likely to move the road anytime soon.

hope you catch them red-handed,,with a pistol at your side..damn thieves....

 

[muddstopper]

I made the decision and arrangements today to donate the wood to a disabled vet. I have been supplying him wood for a few years now. My BIL is going to buck the wood up and haul it to him. I figured getting rid of the wood before I caught someone else stealing it would keep me out of jail. I still have several tree length cords stacked up near my new house site and with a tree cut across the drive leading up to the site, honest folks wont be driving up there.

 

[Marley5]

Same thing happened to me except I had the wood cut and stacked.
Caught them Red handed with pickup almost full.

Stood there and watched them unload every piece.....people are nuts.

 

[olyman]

Same thing happened to me except I had the wood cut and stacked.
Caught them Red handed with pickup almost full.

Stood there and watched them unload every piece.....people are nuts.

did you load them full of lead first?????????????

 

[H-Ranch]

Caught them Red handed with pickup almost full.

Stood there and watched them unload every piece.

Oh, that must have been satisfying standing there smoking a victory cigar while they worked.