wood thieves!

Iatrapper said:

3 bundles of that junk wood they sell at the gas station for $10 a bundle. Better than nothin i gues.

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Around here, the gas station wood is all kiln-dried Oak...

I like that spray paint idea. My stacks are in the back yard, which is backed by 7 acres of private woods, so usually no concern. However, they've been building a house behind me, and it's a revolving door of construction workers and dump trucks in and out of there, the past 8 months. All in relatively plain view of my stacks totaling 18 cords CSS'd.

I was splitting out there two weeks ago, and thought I saw one of the new stacks looking shorter at one end than I had remembered it, but wasn't sure enough about my memory to do anything about it.

Yeah, at our summer home the local kids used to clean out any wood stacked outside over the winters when all of us summer people were gone for the season. My father eventually got the grand idea to stack leftover wood inside the detached garage. It wasn't any big deal to anyone really, just an inconvenience.

Hmmm.... This could work,trapper!

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Sorry to hear about your neighbors, Trapper. The good thing is that you approached them and gave them the opportunity to "make things right". Given their track record, you don't think they stole the wood from the gas station and now it's sitting at your house??? Hmm

Guy down the street from me has a security camera pointed at his woodpile.. nowhere else, just his woodpile...

Iatrapper said:

My buddy knows a guy that spray paints a solid red stripe down the top of the length of his wood pile, if a piece is missing the stripes broke. Thought that was a pretty good idea if you've got a lot to look after

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Not a bad idea, but, still it is NOT gonna stop someone from taking any wood if they want it. It just let's the owner know that some one did. Too late then.

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Never had any wood stolen yet. Last weekend some mischievous vandals knocked over a long row of splits I had recently stacked in the lower lot. ( bout 200 feet from house).

The row is about 40 feet from the main road. I figure a few teens stopped their car and quickly ran over and managed to get the row to fall. Heavy and the row was stacked very well.

Found shoe print in the dirt and the neighbor says he remembers hearing voices and laughter around midnight, and a loud noise.

Punks!


? 20lb test fishing line tied knee high from tree to tree???

CenterTree said:

Last weekend some mischievous vandals knocked over a long row of splits I had recently stacked in the lower lot.

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Wood pile tipping, the new cow tipping..

[QUOTE/] 20lb test fishing line tied knee high from tree to tree???[/quote]

This. Definitely this.

HybridFyre said:

[QUOTE/] 20lb test fishing line tied knee high from tree to tree???

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This. Definitely this.[/quote]


For added awesome, walk your dog in this area. Landing in a few piles then having to get into you buddy's car will make them think twice in the future.

I mean, its hard enough to clean off your shoes... I can only imagine what it would do to auto upholstery...

A guy here just got busted selling other homeowner's wood on craigslist. He would watch homes and see when people were gone to work, he advertised the wood on CL and had specific pickup times. A guy bought a cord of very seasoned wood for $100 pickup only and when he showed up there were four guys to help him load it. They seemed in a rush to get it loaded and get out of there so he contacted the PD and sure enough they had done this over a series of towns

johnpma said:

A guy here just got busted selling other homeowner's wood on craigslist. He would watch homes and see when people were gone to work, he advertised the wood on CL and had specific pickup times. A guy bought a cord of very seasoned wood for $100 pickup only and when he showed up there were four guys to help him load it. They seemed in a rush to get it loaded and get out of there so he contacted the PD and sure enough they had done this over a series of towns

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Gotta love craigslist...and opportunists!

BrotherBart said:

Ten years ago after coming home from a business trip I went for a walk in the woods. Coming back I noticed that maybe a dozen large oak splits were missing from the back of stacks. My wife said there had been a noisy all night party on the place next to us while I was gone so figuring out what happened was pretty easy. I just went just across the property line and whacked two small oaks that wouldn't require splitting and refilled the stack. And just waited to hear about it.

Never have.

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I can honestly say I would enjoy having you for a neighbor!

Yep, i had a wood pile a few years back out in my driveway and noticed a few times it looked like someone had taken a bit off the top row. First time I thought i was paranoid, the second time i was 100% sure. i had my suspicions on the thief, so casually brought up in conversation that someone had been taking wood and that I had set up a camera to catch them....never happened again....

A couple years back had a problem with some lite fingered wood fairies, So I set out some junk wood stacks with cams on them as bait. Trick is to set cams up to get them and plates of the vehicle. Most of the day/night cams ain't worth a hoot unless you buy a unit that has a very low light requirement as the infrared emitters make the plates bloom and ya can't get the numbers. Cam I used works with natural light down to something like .1 lumen. Cost the wood fairy $750 green backs in fines, I didn't get anything out of it except satisfaction. Things have been very quiet since then except for the dxxx scrappers. Cought a pair of them a few weeks back, scared them living bejeezes out of them, been quiet again now for a while.

Gareth96 said:

Guy down the street from me has a security camera pointed at his woodpile.. nowhere else, just his woodpile...

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I have an IR trail cam on mine. Not that I'm worried about thieves, but some interesting critters like to use them as a wall since they border a field.

Going to need to set up some monitoring and/or deterrence systems this summer, as I already have 5 cords CSS in my yard for next winter. My neighborhood is quiet and full of mellow, snow loving wood burners in the winter, but unfortunately there is a lot more traffic during the summer months.

Summer only folks have a bad reputation for sticky fingers and general lack of respect for the full time residents' property. Oh well, only 5 months until winter.

Post a few of these, might do the trick