A different kind of sawmill story.
I was talking to an old logger, custom log house builder friend of mine yesterday, and he told me this story about one of his mills.
He had a manual mill with a 13 horse Honda and 40 feet of track, not exactly portable.
He had loaned it to another guy that has been in and around the logging business around these parts for years,and it was stolen from the site he was building a cabin at.
It rocked on for several months, with no word of it's where abouts, when a guy with a somewhat shady lifestyle hit him up to borrow money.
The guy told him no as far as the loan, but since he knew he knew much of the shady crowd in the area, he would give him 500bucks if he located the stolen mill.
A few days later he tells them he thinks he has some leads on it, so my friend and the guy that he loaned it too and was paying the reward load this cat up and go to one place, where the guy talks to the people and gets a line on the mill, supposedly. They go to another place on a main road and sit in the driveway in plain view for 30 minutes or more while th shady cat is looking for the guy, he finally comes back and tells them we have to get out of here, the mill is not there, but he found the guy in the garage, graveyard dead. He wants to leave quick, as he is well known to local authorities, and not exactly in a good way.
My friend, says, my pickup has been parked here in plain view of everybody driving by for 30 minutes or more, no way am I just driving off without calling the law. lol
The law came and it was explained why they happened to be there and that was the end of it, with no problems for anybody, but I thought it was funny.
A couple of months later another guy that works in the woods and knew the mill spotted it and he got it back, but not with the help of the shady dude.lol