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.
