Sinker logs no longer sunk

[SwampDonkey]

I go to the woods for awhile and come back and see how I'm abused. 

[Ron Scott]

Jeff,
The logs are on Michigan bottom lands and you would need to get a log salvage permit from the MDNR to remove them. They would scale the volume and determine the salvage value for the log sale. That is if they do not consider them woody debri for fish and wetland habitat.

Check with the local MDNR office there and see what they say. It's worth a discussion and to let them know of your interest in them.

By the time you were able to get a permit though, the water level might be back up and the logs no longer an easy salvage venture.

Do you know what species they might be and if they have any ownership log marks on them?

[Tom]

Down here, you have 12 hours till the next tide.  You better hurry!

[SwampDonkey]

Man, that would be one mighty tide up there. I don't think we built the house high enough. 

[LOGDOG]

   Down here you need to get permission from the Army Corps of Engineers as they have authority over the waterways and the State Land Office. Logs like this are considered abandoned property since in realitythey belonged to the timber companies who had originally either bought the stumpage or the land they were on - harvested them and abandoned them when they sank. I'm permitted in Louisiana to pull both by the Corps and the State Land Office.

   Here's what you do if you'd really like to have the wood. (And by the way, there's no way I'd pass these up SERIOUSLY!) Go out there and take some large eye bolts with you and a cordless drill with a couple batteries. Tap the logs with a bit smaller than the diamter of your eyebolts and then turn the bolts in. Also bring some long sections of rope. Strong rope. Tie one end to the eyebolt and the other to a jug. If you have a gps -maybe even mark each spot in case the water comes back in. The jugs should do the trick though. Just make sure you've leave enough length to account for the normal depth in a high water time of year.

   Go get your permission or find out what you need to. Then come back. If the beach is dry - use the arch. If the beach is under water bring the boat and go to the jugs. Then go about pulling them to the landing. You get the idea. If you need any help locating the right branch to contact holler. I want to see the inside of those logs!!! 


LOGDOG

[Furby]

A couple things to point out LogDog, this is one of the great lakes.
If these are indeed sinkers as Jeff said, they will be pulled back out into the lake during the next heavy storm.
With winter coming, there will be some major storms/waves up there and tying a jug to the logs will do no good.
Might, and I stress might, be able to tether them to shore, but that's a big if and probly breaking a few laws there as well.
I'm really doubting Jeff getting legal permission to remove them while they are on the beach.
Bout the only way I can see him getting them, is if they are floaters.
Could be wrong though.

[LOGDOG]

Just an FYI ... I know an individual personally that runs the largest Sinker Log recovery operation on the Great Lakes - and that's multiple Great Lakes. I'm also from up there. Not my first time at this dance.  This can be done.

LOGDOG