I have no neighbors for one square mile around me in any God given direction mind you as I tell this and I own and live on a small timber farm in Southern Ohio, USA. I also heat my farm house with a wood stove.
So on 3-6-2026 at 7 AM in the morning I was awaken by the sound of a chain saw running and thought who the Heck is cutting down my trees. I jumped out of bed and hit the light switch to get dressed and to go out die to see who had the balls to cut trees on my farm. Well after three different light switch flips with no lights coming on in the farmhouse I realized two things at once, That I was out of power and that trees must have fallen over off of the hillside into the state route knocking the power out. I went outside and sure enough saw a line of cars and the Ohio Department of Transportation trucks and the power company trucks on the road with a back hoe trying to clear the roadway of two massive White Oak Trees that fell over taking out the power pole and blocking the road. So, I knew why I heard chainsaws.
Once the road was cleared and the power pole reset getting the power re-established. I went out and started processing the down White Oak trees for firewood saving the state from coming back to clean up the debree on both sides of the state route. I am still working on the logs given all the rain and hillside I am awaiting drier ground before moving in n chain sawing for safety reasons.
I own a woods separate from my home a few miles away the neighbor who lives next to me said someone was using a chainsaw in my woods. I went over to check it out the county had to cut back limbs that fell on the road and the winds had snapped 2 huge trees so looked like they had been cut down so just nature at work!
You have a lovely property. Do you have any of those big redwood trees? We have lots in the UK that came from USA. They look amazing. Unlike you, most of us would never have room for even one of them.
We ran into that same crap 15 or so years ago, but we caught them and had them busted for traspassing. (Actually our dogs at we had back then caught them)
Yeah, speaking of ginseng and Goldenseal (aka Yellow Root) when prices were sky high. We always found people walking though our woods at super early in morning or at sunset with shovels
@HumanEarth Flipping amazing to me, "F" you the property owner that may need that crop to make ends meet for you! ERRRR! And why I responded like I did and have and will.
@MarineBob Nah, they told me they would have a chipping crew come down in a weeks time to chip up the tops, I said, "The Hell you Will", "I will have that cleaned up in a day or two". It only took me one day to clean up the tops. And I saved them a chipping crew expense.
But your wright if they could find a way to luxury tax it they would. Of Course then I would file a claim with the state farm bureau for lost harvest potential for those two white oaks that would have been excellent market logs.😁
@JohnnySpot My farm is predominantly Oaks, mostly white oak then poplar cherry and a mix of hardwoods. Few Walnut trees in the creek bottoms where the moisture is right for them to grow, but not many of them being hilly terrain here.
@WillaKissing huge sycamore trees because they're dredging the creek because it's on a flood zone maybe some Walnut I collected a great variety of firewood and some pieces for art projects
