Re: Trees cut across property line by neighbors logger

Posted by JDseller on May 23, 2012 at 07:35:31 from (208.126.196.144):

In Reply to: Trees cut across property line by neighbors logger posted by wd45mich on May 22, 2012 at 20:53:25:

I had to threaten to shot a logger that was supposed to be on a neighboring property a few years ago. He was on my property by 500 feet across a five strand bard fence.

My land was logged by my Grand Dad. HE did it himself with a big team of horses. He logged a lot of the farms around. I helped him do it. I will have to admit his team made it much easier. You could walk that team to where you wanted the logs one time. After that you could just hook them up and tell them to go and they would drag that log right next to the last one they took. Unhook them and they would go back to Grand Dad by themselves. I never say them get tangled up or anything else.

This guy was trying to get a mature walnut tree. He was really out of line and said he was going to kick my old butt. When I put my 45 in his nose he really quited down in a hurry. LOL I held him until the Sheriff got there. The logger got a year in the county jail. I had turned a pocket recorder on before I confronted him. So he got charged with trespassing and threatening me with bodily harm. It turns out he had stolen trees four times before and was on probation. He lost all of his equipment while he was in the lockup. The neighbor was actually lucky that the logger got locked up. The logger had not been paid yet on the logs he had hauled/cut. The neighbor was able to get his money and the lumber buyer paid the logger direct. The logger had skipped payment on a bunch of other people.

So I would go after the logger, the neighbor, and the lumber buyer. I have seen the lumber buyer get charged with receiving stolen property. You need a good prosecuting attorney but it can be done.

The only way I would sell any lumber would be with me there to watch every bit of work being done. Then the logs would be laid out right on MY property. The log buyer would look at them there and write ME a check for my share BEFORE the first log left the place. If you let them be loaded and taken you will get screwed. Logs will get missed and not counted. The trick pulled a lot around here is the tree makes three logs but the owner only sees the sheet for two logs. Truthfully the majority of loggers around here are just crooks and cheats. I would just about let the trees rot as have to deal with any of them.

It is not hard to log trees. Most of us on here have tractors and chains saws. You just need to find a good log buyer and see what is the most valuable. Then what lengths to cut to bring the best money. Most log buyers will pick up the logs right on your farm. They just have to be drug up close to a road or good access.

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