Driving home from Killington vermont. First ski weekend of the season. It’s what we call siblings weekend. 4 of us staying at my brothers condo which is half a mile from the base
Go and take all you can. Ask no one. Speak to no one. Wear a hard hat and vest. You’ll look official If you need a way to rationalize it with yourself just know you will be saving them time and work. Plus it’s Jersey. You are owed that wood with the taxes you pay
Along with breaking the law by trespassing on land that’s not his and taking wood that’s not his. Did you ask the developer for the wood?
jrider , If you remember when they did the widening of the Garden state parkway all the way up to mile marker 120, "Every piece of wood", Oak's, Maples's, Pine's, Hickory's, Sweet Gum and many others "ALL" went into the chipper! I was nauseated, With no exaggeration there must have been 100,000+ cord of wood all went to the land fill and turned into pulp! I even stopped to ask some of the guys down here my way if we could have some of the Oak and Hickory's, they told me flat out no, it was a contract.
Because you asked.... I was on my way home from a soccer tournament on the GSP during that time. I pulled over and popped the back of my wife’s Honda Pilot and loaded up with Oak. Hazards on and all. Took 3-4 minutes. Got damm near a face cord of oak. If I lived near there I would have gone by every day
I wasn't about to go to jail, "In New Jersey" for a few pieces of wood! As much as I respect the law, "mostly" NJ state police are as Gestapo as you can get. The guy I spoke with told me people were trying to make $$$ selling it and got caught, some of their own crew members, "fired"!!! I wasn't chancing anything!
I feel like I should chime in here. I worked for a landclearing company for a bunch of years. As a wood hoarder, when I first started I wanted to cry when I saw what went through the chipper. As time went on, and I realized this was someone's business. This business was to clear land, sometimes salvage decent wood off the job and move on to the next job. Leaving behind a few pieces of wood for someone was not an option, plus, we were on someone else's property, working for them so we had no right to give anyone permission to come by and cut a few sticks left behind. I know, it stinks.
No judgment here, bill’s have to be paid. Is there any return for the resulting shred pile or is it part of the expense of clearing a plot in a given amount of time? I just can’t believe a better relationship with a mill or firewood processing operation wouldn’t be more profitable. Again asking since you would obviously know, it’s interesting.
That makes me cry....A few years back there was all woods across from the building I work at. One morning I saw they were dropping trees, and pushing with a dozer. That was a Thursday before I was going on family vacation...I came back to work after a week or so to see about 20 acres cleared!!! All trees just scattered, left where they were dropped, and a rough road installed....I found out they were putting in another office building, all trees were destined to the shredder. I asked a white hat ( job site super) if I can cut some wood, he said have at it. I cut a couple truckloads every morning for 3 days. Then the shredder arrived. They stacked all the logs for easy access. I started cutting at night, kind of on my extended lunch, extended by a couple hours due to some gifts landing on my supervisors desk. Little did I know the construction company had a night guard on watch for the equipment. He confronted me, knowing I wasn't messing with equipment. He must have seen this before. He proceeded to tell me I can cut all I want for 100 bucks a night, and he won't call the local police on me trespassing. I bargained down to 50, telling him I can only cut 2 trucks a night, and I knew the supervisor of the site. Bob is a common name....lol. I cut 2 trucks a night, along with 3 of my buddies who also cut 2 trucks a night. That was back in 2013, I am still burning that oak and locust.
I remember when a logging company was contracted to take out some sugar maples in a state park because They got a fungus. Their contract mandated that the trees were cut down and chipped and all debris left on the property. So that the soil’s loss no nutrients. Considering one out of four people In state burn firewood, the representatives to the state legislature from that area had 0% chance at re election.
At the time we were working we used to salvage anything of value, any logs, and firewood. Anything else got chipped and delivered to power plants. I remember one of the truck drivers telling me there was a time when chips were worth so much that most guys were chipping processor quality firewood and small logs. Now chips are barely worth much. The guy I used to work for was a logger by nature so he salvaged more than others
