logs stolen

[MattyF]

I have had a couple of loads stolen am not splitting any now untill they have a place to go wich is frustrating but to be expected these days you cant leave any thing around unless its locked up .....but evan then:thumbdown:

[Husqvarna King]

I've been coppicing Hornbeam/Field Maple for the last few days, mostly 80ft trees with 18"DBH. Im working in the middle of nowhere and have lost count of the number of people who have approached me asking for the wood....we are stacking it up for the land owner to collect in the Spring....One van even turned up beside the wood in the field, guy got out, saw us, ran off and got stuck!! i dont think there will be half as much wood left by the Spring for the land owner to collect!!

[Dave Martin]

I have had a couple of loads stolen am not splitting any now untill they have a place to go wich is frustrating but to be expected these days you cant leave any thing around unless its locked up .....but evan then:thumbdown:

 

Will they still season?

[Marlin.45]

Doubt it.

 

Numpties will buy anything over this Xmas period and cold snap just to have something 'warming in the grate'. Not that it will do much of that but the local supermarket will do a roaring trade in firelighters....and later the local sweep in tar build-up removal.

[MattyF]

Will they still season?

 

most the wood was dead when i felled it....most of my customers order a year in advance any way... i dont really do fire wood its just a nice little extra for the new year.

[Mesterh]

Do you think that some people dont think of it as theft or something!

 

Maybe they think it is a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark.

[Johny Walker]

we have jolly big squirrel that raids are yard & the cheeky sod even uses my barrow:thumbdown:,but his days are numbered :laugh1:i have a cunning plan

[widmere]

I had the same big squirrel visit my pile - i don't know if big squirrels can read but I am forced to place a sign notifying anyone looking at my wood that one of the logs in the pile is drilled out and filled with gunpowder.

 

This seems to have done the trick and you would be amazed how many people have heard what I doing.

 

Make Christmas go with a bang.

 

Adios

 

W

[s.varty]

I had the same big squirrel visit my pile - i don't know if big squirrels can read but I am forced to place a sign notifying anyone looking at my wood that one of the logs in the pile is drilled out and filled with gunpowder.

 

This seems to have done the trick and you would be amazed how many people have heard what I doing.

 

Make Christmas go with a bang.

 

Adios

 

W

 

widmere, this is a brilliant idea.

[Ian C]

This sort of thing WILL get worse, my wood pile at the moment in on a piece of field visable from the village road and the amount of people that have asked thinking its free wood is amasing. My log pile is tucked away at the same farm but out of view, i am moving into a barn in the yard in Jan so all my unprocessed stuff and logs will be out of site to everyone.

 

Trouble is people think cos trees grow out of the ground there free to take, and when they have a woodburner fitted cos there "cheap" to run they never factor in the wood costs because they think they can get it anywhere.