While he walked in to look the 25 foot trees over that someone else had cut but left unguarded someone else walked up to the unguarded truck he had left behind.The person saw no one in site. the person thought to himself,, another abandoned truck left in our woods to rot With a warm feeling in his heart feeling he was helping to save the planet he drove the truck to the scrap yard in the hopes it would be recycled.
How many Times a DAY, does someone remind you to BREATHE????
Outside of the now extinct Pol/Rel, I had a pretty high opinion of most AS Members, that is declining. I have often disagreed with MT Res, but I totally Agree with him in this case. I don't know what world some of you live in, but even the Forest Circus agrees, if it is left in the Forest, it DOESN'T BELONG TO ANYONE, just the WOOD, NOT Personal Property for those with a sub 64 IQ, and need THAT Explained to them
IF they had left a note stuck with a screwdriver or scrench, saying that they would be back shortly for the rest, which it doesn't appear that they did, then it would be different, THEN taking the wood and the scrench would be a Schitty thing to do, but that ain't what happened here
I have both taken, and left behind cut wood, there are reasons beyond "I am coming back" for leaving wood behind, not paying enough attention to how full the trailer is, simply ENJOYING running the saws and over cutting, or the main reason that I would be leaving wood behind, is that we are required to do a One Hour "Fire Watch" after the last saw is shut down, so I will buck a lot of rounds all at once, so my hour long Fire watch is mostly covered while loading wood and gear, if I cut more than I can haul............ well it gets left behind, some would fire up a saw to fill out the load, and "Forget" that their fire watch hour starts over after the saw is shut down again
In the Western woods, cutting it only makes it "Yours" until you leave it behind, most out here understand that.
I have left cut wood behind, only RARELY did I ever expect to go back and get the rest, and if I did and it was gone, it was an "Oh Well" moment, and not worthy of raising the Blood Pressure, never mind getting as upset as some members here suggest. It maybe in large part because, here out West ,the National Forests are HUUUUUGE, the cutting permitted areas may be well into the Forests, and in addition to the travel from home to the NF, we are traveling further than I have seen many here post that they would travel for firewood, so returning to a cache of cut wood, just isn't that common here.
I Stihl can't believe how many are so Butthurt, over what we considered normal here, my Gawd, without calculating the cubic footage, of his score that MIGHT $250 worth of wood, IF it was Cut, Split, Seasoned, Delivered and Stacked, which is where the real value in Firewood is, the MAKING it into FIREWOOD, not the wood itself, Laying in the forest, not even fully cut into rounds, there was MAYBE $50 worth of wood that someone only had a small amount of time "Invested" in, Jumpinjawhousifats, some of you must not have many REAL PROBLEMS in your Lives to worry about, which Might be Nice, but I can't imagine a life that trouble free, being a very INTERESTING Life to Live, the more interesting a Life, the more Challenges that seem to accompany it.
It is Amazing that so many are so worked up over a LITTLE bit of wood, in a NATIONAL FOREST, Dayum some really need to Grow Up.
MT Res, we have disagreed on many issues in the past, but IMO. you did NOTHING WRONG, or have any need to apologize for anything.
Doug
