After Thirty Seven Years

[SwampDonkey]

Estate land and heirship is most always clear cut up here. Lump sum payment I believe to the heirs. It's a lot easier to divide money than land. Then after that they usually let nature rule as you can't get those types of ownership to do any follow up management like thinning even when not out of their own pocket. You soon find out how the family felt about dear old dad's land after he passes on.

[sealark37]

Several years ago I answered an ad for "walnut lumber".  The "lumber" was a 32" dbh walnut about eleven inches from an old house in a nice neighborhood.  The lady wanted $1000 and my insurance certificate for the tree if I took it down.  I suspected foul play, so I looked up the tax-paying owner.  Sure enough, the seller was a renter who was about to be evicted for back rent.  The real owner said,"I'm glad you called me, my Grandad planted that tree when he came home from WWI."  Since then, I have been very wary of small timber sales.  Regards, Clark

[Taylortractornut]

I had a run in with a power company worker a few years ago.   We had an ROW  crew memberthat whe na tree was taken he had his worker come in with a grapple truck and  get the log s and mill them.       Took several  large pines off an  ROW extension  including several about  35       24 to 36 inch  pines that belonged to the land owners.     Needless to say  about the same time I had a large post oak  down   near the road in my pasture that had a branch withing 25 feet of the  powerline to the house.   I had run home early  one day to grabe my welding trailer and some tools and saw the ROW crew and a  log truck    in my feild.         I  drove down into the  pasture and had an episode.    I had   rul book on ROW maintenance as the 25 feet requires the   trunk of the tree to be within 25 feet.    Later after  many trips and them seeing me drive a few spikes in the  trunk they  backed off.      THe PC  had to pay for the trees taken in the past.      Seems he was  having a new barn built on his farm and liked the easy pickings.

[SwampDonkey]

The power company would hire logging contractors and brushmen to cut lines and keep them cleaned. Years ago, in the 50's when the first dams for hydro on the public grid (some towns owned their own) the contractors would take all the wood without payment. My grandfather told the power company if your not paying for my wood than I'm the one going to cut the trees. And he did, he set up a circular in the right-of-way and cut all his own trees and what wasn't a log or pulp was turned to firewood. The circular was used to buck firewood. My uncle said they were not allowed near it during operation when they were kids because it was a dangerous saw. It could throw wood like a table saw would. I remember the old irons in the power line when I was a kid. I think gramps took it out of there for scrap iron.

[Autocar]

The county sheriff called me today telling me the prosecuteing attorney could get him on a mistermeanter probably turning into ten to thirty days in jail. Like I told the sheriff Ive already written off the five hundred bucks but felt I couldn't do anything because the fellow would probably do it again if he got away with it this time. So hopefuly he will see the light and get a real job