Looks like you'll get some real nice boards out of that stump.
Shame about the fir log. Maybe the stamps should have a date code and if they haven't collected it in six months time it is fair game. Truth is once that log got seperated in the water there was a fairly slim chance it would ever be recovered.
I wonder if the same rules apply for log salavage as boat salvage.
With boat salvage if you salvage a boat the owner is responsable for all cost to remove the boat from the water this includes hourly wages expenses ie fuel and loss of equipment in the salvaging process. so if your boat sinks you are responsible for the cost to resurface it. In most cases the vessal is insured and that cost will be transferred to the insurrer.
Once said vesel is resurfaced the salvager must notify owner most cases insurance company. The salvager has the option to ask the owner to surender the vessal for the cost or to bill and turn over the vessel or dispose of the vessal ot the owners expense.
In most cases the insurance companys hope noone discovers the vessal becouse the cost of salvage is usally more expensive then the repairs and resale.
So maybe you can apply this to any driftwood. Its alot of bs paperwork but once you figure out the channels it mite be usefull as most logging companys are not going to want to pay the expence to transport one log
all full salvage laws can be found through the canada gov site i will look to see if i can find the link and post it
Nope, the log salvage regulations in BC were designed by the Provincial Government, Ministry of Forests. They were developed back in a time when there was LOTS of coastal logging activity and much of the wood was transported by flat boom to the mills (primarily in Vancouver). Now, most wood is transported in bundle booms (logs are bundled together, about the same amount as a logging truck and banded - then the bundles are formed into a boom), which do not have the same amount of log loss in storms or by log barge. Flat booms (where outside containment logs are chained together and then the centre logs float free without being tied up) were notorious for breaking up or losing logs in storms. However, they were also susceptible to theft and it is the theft that was trying to be controlled.
Why was theft important to the Government, because the logs weren't scaled and stumpage revenue to the Government calculated until they reached booming grounds near the mills. So, if logs were lost from the booms in the ocean, the Government would lose revenue (and we can't have that). Hence the need for strict control.
These rules usually weren't developed by some multinational company, 1000's of miles away, the concepts were usually originated by some field guy looking to correct a problem. The solution was then championed by some manager/director through the bureauracy. Often many changes were made, to meet various laws and policy, but usually it had it's origin with some field guy with an idea.
Log stamps for the industrial companies designate the company and what cut block that log came from. Now a days, stumpage is determined for each cut block (and will vary cut block to cut block), so the log needs to identifiable back to that cut block.
The reason log stamps are used, is that after the logs are hammered, fibres are disturbed quite a distance into the log and can be read even if the log end is cut off with a saw. CSI BC coast.
