Does anybody haveexperience with loggers stealing their stands?

Some property that i hunt was logged a few weeks ago. Yesterday i was looking for sheds and walked up to where my stand was and of course the tree was cut down and my stand was gone. I know who's name was on the logging equipment so i am thinking about giving him a call. Yes i know that loggers buy the trees they cut down, but they dont buy the stands that are in them

Did you talk to the landowner? Maybe the loggers brought the stand to them?

Gotta ask.....didnt your landowner tell you they were gonna log the area? Did you have time to get your stand down.....or did they cut a tree down they shouldn't have?

If I knew that the property was going to be cut I'd be out there in a hurry taking down stands. Sorry to say, but I believe it got yoinked.

no i was not told that it would be logged.....and yes it was a good tree to be logged.

You got to find out man call them up and ask them if they know of anyone taking it.

I'm not taking the side of the loggers here, but it is amazng how many deer stands (abandoned or otherwise) that can be found in even small patches of woods. In such instances, they probably dont have time to track down who owns what. But that is no excuse for taking them, they should just leave them lay since, as someone pointed out, they are only buying the timber.

Not loggers - but pipeliners...

When we were kids, the gas companywas re-workinga small gas line through my homeboy's property- andsomebodysnatched our ginseng patch (worth around $1K). I guess that'sall part of the game.The reality is thatanytime you have people wandering around unsupervised- there's always a chance that they might see something they like... *Poof.* Gone.

Really sucked, b/c I had some transplanted plants in there that wereprobably 40+ years old and irreplaceable.

Loggers don't have time to try and track down who's stand it is...They move in, get their timber and move out...It's not their fault...

As Lance said, they see stands all the time...Sounds like you need to have better a better relationship with the land owner...

As another consideration, lots of times you will get landowners that let lots of people come in and cut firewood from the tree tops that are left behind by loggers. One of them could be the culprit if the stand was actually left sitting on the ground by loggers.