ADAMS, Tenn. (WKRN) — A man accused of stealing valuable timber from at least two Robertson County farms and floating them down the Red River for profit is now behind bars facing several charges, officials said.
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He must've floated them down one or two at a time. The Red River isn't wide enough to float a raft of them.
Something like this happened to my daughter. The thief used a skidder and just drove over the boundary which was a stone wall with bright orange surveyors ribbon every 50 feet. He took 10 pine trees all over 4' diameter.
ReplyDeleteCommon transport in the old day. In fact this type of activity inspired the term "water logged"
ReplyDeleteDon't look on rez land, I've seen them take a D-2 and wind it through a hardwood stand cutting all the bird's-eye maple veneer with no consequences.
ReplyDeleteSkidded the logs right around the single-wide and trucked down the road, about $20K or so from a dozen or so trees.