Missed a scrounge... Doh!

[bluedogz]

Late last night on the way home, noted road crews clearing at side of I-95, leaving big rounds of hickory behind. Thought to myself, "ooh... grab THOSE tomorrow."

Pulled over this afternoon... nothing there but twigs and a pile of chips. Doh!

 

[Blue Vomit]

MSP probably grabbed them, threw them in the trunk of their cruisers! :zip:

 

[bogydave]

Late last night on the way home, noted road crews clearing at side of I-95, leaving big rounds of hickory behind. Thought to myself, "ooh... grab THOSE tomorrow."

Pulled over this afternoon... nothing there but twigs and a pile of chips. Doh!

Know the feeling. I missed one (over a cord) a few hundred yard from the house, birch. Still can't shake the memory :lol:

 

[SmokeyCity]

Late last night on the way home, noted road crews clearing at side of I-95, leaving big rounds of hickory behind. Thought to myself, "ooh... grab THOSE tomorrow."

Pulled over this afternoon... nothing there but twigs and a pile of chips. Doh!

You'll get lucky next time.

 

[firefighterjake]

MSP probably grabbed them, threw them in the trunk of their cruisers! :zip:

Not if MSP is anything like MSP up here . . . those guys pack more stuff into the back of their cruiser's trunks . . . I mean it's almost crazy with all the stuff they haul around.

 

[babzog]

Late last night on the way home, noted road crews clearing at side of I-95, leaving big rounds of hickory behind. Thought to myself, "ooh... grab THOSE tomorrow."

Pulled over this afternoon... nothing there but twigs and a pile of chips. Doh!

There's yer problem... what's that saying about the early bird? I'm not a morning person by any stretch but ya gotta get out there early for free pickins. I missed some cream (the easily handled stuff) a few weeks ago by probably a half hour and settled for a (huge) trailer load of big sugar maple rounds. Got it all loaded but while I was bucking the trunk at the fellow's home, another scrounger came sniffing, probably a half hour after I got there. I'd have been out there at dawn (as painful as that sounds), breakfast being a hot cup and a protein bar.

 

[Wood Duck]

I was painting the church hall all weekend so I made a bunch of trips in and out of town. Friday night about 10 pm I left the church and saw maybe 20 rounds of sycamore cut and neatly stacked by the curb. The car was full of my kids so I figured I'd get the wood in the morning. My wife mentioned seeing the wood when she drove past at 8:30 am but by 9:30 when I went to get it, the wood was gone. From now on I will stop even late at night.

 

[babzog]

Well, ol Murph stumped me today. Out too late for a kijiji scrounge and showed up to find a brush pile, a stump and some wheel marks.

Wife was making French toast for brkfst and I didn't check email early enough. Oh well, that's how she bounces sometimes, huh?

Still felt like a dumbass.

 

[ChrisNJ]

Yea a couple weeks ago going out to lunch and saw a small pile of walnut rounds along the road but on the other side of the road I would be on the way back, on the way back after lunch 30 minutes later there was a van parked and a loading :-( could not believe the poor timing on my part, next time I will do some U turns.