Author Topic: New Wood-Mizer mill stolen Near NC-TN line (Read 3662 times)

customdave · « **Reply #40 on:** January 29, 2012, 09:00:29 am »

I was hoping we would have heard some good news from Jasperfield by now! must be hard sittin &waiting for this, hope the culprits get caught

. Hang in there Jasperfield....

Dave

Meadows Miller · « **Reply #41 on:** January 29, 2012, 09:04:38 am »

I dont know what people who steal suff get out off it honestly as they must lead pretty bloody hollow and useless lives

I hope Jasper has some good news soon

Den Socling · « **Reply #42 on:** January 29, 2012, 10:07:41 am »

Talk about hollow and useless lives, one Christmas someone stopped on the road in front of our house. They cut down a pine tree in my yard. Can you imagine enjoying a Christmas with a stolen tree in your living room? This was petty - nothing like a mill but done by a jerk like the jerk who stole your mill.

js2743 · « **Reply #43 on:** February 01, 2012, 02:47:42 am »

Earlier tonight there was a post in sawmills and milling about a saw on craigslist in chattanooga, TN the post got moved or deleted might be worth checking on.

Jeff · « **Reply #44 on:** February 01, 2012, 12:49:38 pm »

I removed the post because craigslist or ebay links are not allowed by the forum rules, it never occurred to me about the stolen mill at the time. When I went back to look at the link, it said it had been pulled which seems mighty strange. I'll post it here again for the sake of this topic, and also who it was posted by.

Quote from: OcoeeG on January 31, 2012, 10:41:42 pm

This is a little too big for what I need to do right now and I am out of the county until June so I could not get it anyway. It is WM LT-40 with full hydr. I will let the Craigslist add speak for itself. Seems like an awesome deal to me though.

http://chattanooga.craigslist.org/grd/2820833708.html

P.S. I am not selling this mill nor am I associated in any way with the guy who is. I just saw it on craigslist and noticed before that you guys post these things on here for folks who are in the market. Hope that's cool.

westyswoods · « **Reply #45 on:** February 01, 2012, 01:54:52 pm »

Although I live 1/3 mile off road, been seriously considering mounting a Stealth Cam in shop area where all my equipment is kept. Very seldom am I not home and the dogs are great but all it takes is once.

Sorry for you and hope the ... get all that is due.

Westy

js2743 · « **Reply #46 on:** February 01, 2012, 03:30:01 pm »

yes really strange it is gone so soon, i knew it hadnt clicked with you about this mill be stolen. but it being listed like it was and then its gone sets off an alarm for sure. plus its in the areas the saw was stolen from, hope it can get followed up on.

Jeff · « **Reply #47 on:** February 01, 2012, 03:50:38 pm »

Id suggest that Jasperfield send OcoeeG a private message to find our what he may remember about the ad. Not sure why Ocoeeg would be finding an ad in Tennessee when his I.P. address resolves to Colombia in South America.

doctorb · « **Reply #48 on:** February 01, 2012, 04:54:08 pm »

His descritptor under his name says Chattanooga by June.

LeeB · « **Reply #49 on:** February 01, 2012, 10:46:28 pm »

The add was for a mill with I believe 2500 hours and a price tag of $14k. I didn't really think it was the same mill, but you never know.

Raider Bill · « **Reply #50 on:** February 02, 2012, 09:12:55 am »

Quote from: Jeff on February 01, 2012, 03:50:38 pm

Id suggest that Jasperfield send OcoeeG a private message to find our what he may remember about the ad. Not sure why Ocoeeg would be finding an ad in Tennessee when his I.P. address resolves to Colombia in South America.

Ocoee Tenn is just west of my Tenn place near Cleveland TN. and a hour from Chattanooga. I he may have been just browsing CL as he plans on building a Timberframe when he returns to the states.

Chris Burchfield · « **Reply #51 on:** February 02, 2012, 02:19:40 pm »

I've been checking Craigslist here since the post. Saw Mill slab firewood and one old circular saw is all that's been listed. I'll keep it up hopefully till the mills found. Knock on wood!

Jasperfield · « **Reply #52 on:** February 25, 2012, 05:30:04 pm »

I want to genuinely thank all of you who have offered support, help, and good advice following the theft of my mill. Your all's support has been a blessing and the single ray of optimism surrounding this tremendous loss.

Here, in these mountains we've sustained heavy losses, due to theft, for decades. Back in 1984 my brother was shot in the head by a thief who stole our farm tractor, resulting in his total loss of vision. Below me, and on the same highway for about 15 miles, my neighbors and I have lost almost $500,000 worth of equipment & tools within the preceding six months. Over the past three years I've lost $55,000 worth of equipment.

I haven't heard, seen, or found out anything since the sawmill was taken. I decided a few weeks ago to liquidate almost all of my equipment in order to retain its value before it is all inevitably stolen. And in doing so Jeff has agreed to help me list & post photo's here on the forum. I've already sold some things, but still have some we'll post.

Thank you, again.

Jasperfield

terry f · « **Reply #53 on:** February 25, 2012, 08:45:42 pm »

Meth.......Hate to see them win, but you have to do what you feel is right. Sorry to hear this story.

WDH · « **Reply #54 on:** February 25, 2012, 10:45:05 pm »

Jasperfield,

It is sad when you have to bring your tractor inside the house at night to sleep with to keep some loser from stealing it $:-\$ .

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #55 on:** February 25, 2012, 10:51:43 pm »

I will be on lookout here, too. Semi-intelligent thieves haul stuff like this to another state to sell it. Really intelligent ones ship it to third world countries.

WDH · « **Reply #56 on:** February 25, 2012, 10:54:08 pm »

Most of the scrap dealers must be thieves, too. It seems like there is a system.

Okrafarmer · « **Reply #57 on:** February 25, 2012, 11:17:29 pm »

Reminds me of the auctioneers that go around and bunch stuff into lots that nobody really wants to buy and then they have their own people bid on the awkward lots and win them really cheap, to be able to go sell the stuff at the next auction.

Like an auction I went to, dispersing storage unit contents of people who didn't pay their storage bills

in the hot summer sun. The auctioneer wandered us through the worst stuff first, having people winning bids on odd boxes of worn out shoes and stuff for $1 apiece and so on until everyone was dying of thirst and sunstroke, then went on to the better stuff-- opens a new compartment, and says there is a jewelry box full of jewelry inside this dresser-- so we will sell the dresser, jewelry box, and all its contents together as one lot.

You got to be kidding. Anybody interested in the jewelry box now would have to dispose of the dresser. What if they didn't come equipped to haul furniture, and only were interested in little things like jewelry boxes? Anyone who might have been interested in the dresser now had to compete for price with anyone who might want the jewelry box, so now furniture people are just going to let that dresser go because they don't know how to price it. Predictable result? One of the auctioneer's lackeys wins the high bid, around $50, I think. Then (100 degrees in the shade, but there is no shade), they move to the last huge storage compartment, open it up, and it is slap-packed full of decent-looking furniture and you can't even see what all is in there because it is blocking the view of whatever is in back. They pause, the auctioneer says, "folks, tell you what. It's a hot day. How about if we bid on everything in this unit as one lot." A few sharp releases of breath, but nobody says anything. Most of the people there probably just came looking to buy a few things, certainly not haul off a whole house-load of furniture. Predictable result: one of the auctioneer's lackeys won the bid for around $450.

Yes, many times, many of these people are just scoundrels, thieves, and cut-throats. Scrap metal buyers, used car salesmen, tractor throwers, gun-swappers-- some people are on the up-and-up, and some are not. I'm telling you, it's just getting worse and worse. This upcoming Great Depression 2 won't be as civil as the first one, because the people of the United States have lost much of the moral fabric they had 80 years ago.

Now we're just over-run with people who have no compunctions whatever about doing whatever just because they want to. May we never run out of government hand-outs for these losers, because I sure would hate to see what would happen if all of a sudden these varmints were to have to truly fend for themselves

Cedarman · « **Reply #58 on:** February 26, 2012, 08:11:39 am »

Twice now my son Aaron has tracked down thieves and got his stuff back. First time they stole a Cat skid steer on grouser tracks. Even after a rain, he was able to track the path the skid steer made on a paved road to the thieves house. The deputy was driving while Aaron hung out the window looking for that little tell tale mark that could barely be seen.
The guy went to jail I think.
Second time happened a couple weeks ago. He put a grinder screen at a friends place who had a sawmill and other stuff and it was convenient to store it there. The place was sold and Aaron went to pick it up. The new owner knew the screen was Aaron's and that he was picking it up when he got the other stuff. Screen gone. So Aaron let the new owner know he was looking for it. New owner says that some Mexicans who were dropping roofing shingles off probably took it for scrap. Aaron took pictures of another screen he had ($1500.00 screen) and showed it to a scrap dealer. No luck. Then he got a call from the older fellow Aaron got to know and who had helped finish a sawing job on the sawmill we purchased that was on this site. He said the new owner was the one who took it to another scrap yard. Aaron went to the other scrap yard with the picture and sure enough there was the screen. He got it back. New owner had sold the screen for scrap. $45.00 The scrap dealer wanted to know if Aaron was going to press charges. No. It was up to the scrap dealer to get his money back. I have left out a lot of details to get this short enough.
So far so good.

Busy Beaver Lumber · « **Reply #59 on:** February 26, 2012, 08:52:56 am »

I grew up in Queens Ny and there was a nice little pizza shop two doors down from where we lived. The owner was a great guy who had a soft spot in his heart for local kids that wanted to earn an honest dollar or work in exchange for a few slices of his tasty pizza.

One day while sweeping up around the shop, he came to me and put his hand on my shoulder and said "Freddy, you are good boy and do good job. You go home now and come back tomorrow and I pay you and give you some pizza."

As I was leaving, I could here an employee named John, being escorted against his will to the back office area. Two days later I saw him walking the street with both hands heavily bandaged. Apparently he had a slip and fall accident at work and when he tried to break his fall, his hands unfortunately landed right in the path of a meat tenderizing mallet. Very tragic work related incident, but I am sure it was quite some time before his hands fit into the cash drawer of another merchant's register to make an unauthorized withdrawal.

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Author Topic: New Wood-Mizer mill stolen Near NC-TN line (Read 3662 times)