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Sinker logs no longer sunk
« on: November 08, 2007, 10:02:36 pm »
Ron Scott, I'm hoping you have a ready answer for this one.

We have had a heck of a hard blow up here the last few days and one of the near by bays shore is suddenly covered with dozens of sinker logs.  The shoreline is right in front of a state pulloff fon 134. Icould easily get the logs with my arch. I'm wondering if there is a legal way  to do it. I know the next big storm and they will probably be all gone again for another 100 years. I took several photos, but only a couple with the camera on te phone . I'll try and send those to Tom 
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2007, 10:51:25 pm »
Probably the best legal way is don't ask, don't tell. If anyone questions you, just say you thought it was alright to take things out of the water, you just could not dump anything in the water.  ;D  ;D

That must have been some strange underwater current that would bring those logs up on shore.
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2007, 10:54:50 pm »
If I was faced with this situation in the remote north, I would probably be up all night hauling logs before the wind changed directions.
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2007, 10:56:27 pm »
Sounds like driftwood to me.
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2007, 11:05:00 pm »
One real problem is the young gungho (a better word sounds similar to gungho but more like basspole) DNR lives not far away.
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2007, 11:06:32 pm »
Jeff's pics:






DanG, can ya belive the state owns driftwood as well? ::)

Actually, are you sure those logs washed up?
There has been a major water level drop in Lake Michigan in the last few weeks.
I first noticed it at the Kallamazoo river where US-31 crosses it near the lakeshore.
Found 4 places over the weekend up at the lake showing a major drop, and then found the same thing in Spring Lake Monday.
Google searches shows as much as 5" drop in water levels in a little over a month.
Based on what I saw, I was guessing 6"-12" drop.
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2007, 11:27:47 pm »
Do they own sawdust and boards? ;D
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2007, 11:34:10 pm »
I know this bay very well. fished it swam it waded it all my life. 
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2007, 11:38:42 pm »
Are they marked with who owned them when they sank? ...not that they'll be around to come pick the up or anything  ;D...just curious.

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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2007, 11:44:38 pm »
Be careful Jeff...not a way to get to visit wit Chet... ;D :o

Swimmin there looks tough.. :)
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2007, 05:59:52 am »
beg or barrow a boat and drag a few of them down to the next farthest boat ramp. I would not snag them from shore.....I am sure they will get you on wetlands destruction or something.
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2007, 06:13:02 am »
Lake Superior is low this year.

Can ya get a salvage permit?


Jeff, the Michigan Beach Comber. You old Relic.  ;D





Jeff, I would think the jurisdiction over those logs would be with the Feds since it's international navigational waters. ;)
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2007, 08:26:37 am »
Might be a good job for this weekend.  ;D
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2007, 08:36:35 am »
Get the T, R, and Sec and get a firewood permit for that spot from the local DNR Field Office  ;) ;D
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2007, 09:41:44 am »
Complain that you nearly smashed your boat on property of the state and tell them instead of suing them for mental anquish that as a concerned citizen you are willing to dispose of the logs.  ::)
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2007, 09:48:36 am »
First thing...don't tell anybody about them.
Then do what ya want.

OOPS.......you told us.

Well, now you need to post that you have become uninterested in them at all.
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2007, 10:01:41 am »
Quote from: cantcutter on November 09, 2007, 05:59:52 am
beg or barrow a boat and drag a few of them down to the next farthest boat ramp.

On the shore where they are they are probably considered habitat...near the boat ramp they are a danger. I would haul them down there and charge for "removal" as a public safety measure.  :D
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2007, 10:07:45 am »
Be careful here. Unauthorized salvage might be considered theft.
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2007, 10:13:01 am »
 

I see what happened.  There was a prehistoric indian (the inventor of the "bow" saw)  in his boat, carrying the logs home for firewood when a tsunami overtook the Lake and he overturned and drowned.  The significance was that he was the high and mighty chief of all of North America and his death caused the downfall of his family crest, a long revered name of Suompdoki.  After this trajedy, the family lived in exile awaiting a leader to appear.  Eyes have been turned east for thousands of years waiting for a charming soul from the hidden land of nieubrunzwk where it is rumored a new leader will appear. The world is hosting hundreds of vestal virgins whose sole purpose in life will be to recreate the line of blue blood.  

The logs are virgin timber too. ;D
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Re: Sinker logs no longer sunk
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2007, 10:25:50 am »
 :D :D :D :D That is too funny.
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