More timber fairies

[Shane]

I'm starting to get paranoid about this.

 

On Wednesday we took down a pine in Goring (Worthing) and left all the big stuff for the client. Just like the previous 'hit' it was stacked out the back and was not visible from the road.

 

In the morning all that was left were the big rings of the trunk!

 

I'm not really too bothered as it not the best wood to burn and I wasn't charging the client for it. BUT I can understand how some of you loggists must feel when it's your living that these 'fellows' are helping themselves to.

 

Thats 5 tons lifted recently, from the centre of a big town.

[StephF]

Probably logged and and sold by now!

[Orson]

Caravan Utilising Nomadic TravellerS by any chance?

[Bearded Munch]

Its the same here in S Wales one of us usually stays by the job while the other tips the chip off or when we would come back the wood is gone. If we doing something like poplar we will leave it in smaller chunks and it will disappear. Don't mind if they ask we will let them have some.

[NoRush]

People think they have the right to take what they want as it only wood. Had a tree down in the next village in a allotment and some guys were cutting it up with chainsaws till late at night (past 11pm) in the rain. When challenged buy the police the claimed as it had fallen down it was free for anyone to collect. I'm going to set a camera at some of my log piles to catch them give them a chance to pay for what they stolen or force the police to act or u tube

[Kenty]

If it doesn't belong to you it's stealing, so it's about time it was taken a bit more serious by the authorities, after all for some it's how we earn a living.

[breffni]

Caravan Utilising Nomadic TravellerS by any chance?

 

It must be as ALL stuff nicked is the travellers according to some people. House dwellers are all upstanding citizens. FACT.................

[HGBMX]

Worthing is a nightmare for timber going missing, I often bring a load back in my truck from the woods and almost every time I am unloading it and putting it into my back garden I have someone asking if they can "have a bit" I had a load of cord on the back just before Christmas, went into my girlfriends came out 15 minutes later and it was all gone apart from 2 bits!

[ArthurBottlesworth]

I didn't believe this till I saw it myself

 

Next time you see a lorry on the motorway on its side

Look whose range rover is backed up to the open doors

They are filling the range rover with stuff from the lorry

 

It doesn't belong to them .....but they take it

[peatff]

Caravan Utilising Nomadic TravellerS by any chance?

 

They don't take anything that involves work, it's against their principles. If they can't sell it straight on they don't want to know.