Hi Marianne :)
These sound like very desirable peices of timber.
I wonder if they could be floated to somewhere more accessible? Maybe you know someone with a boat?
A bunch of friends or relatives might help provide some muscle or maybe a trolley or two. It seems a shame that they`ll be allowed to rot just because no one can find a way to transport them. Someone could use a chainsaw but that would be a last resort, I`d say.
A true story....Once upon a time, many years ago in the days of the Spanish wars, one terrible and stormy night a ship of the royal navy was wrecked on its maiden voyage with the loss of all its crew and cargo. The stricken vessel was washed up on the shore maybe of the Channel Islands or Cornwall or some remote wild place. A week later, when the Kings men arrived, mounted on horseback wearing their grand navy uniforms only a few sticks were to be seen lying on the beach. Riding up to an elderly women there they asked if she had seen or heard anything. The honest widow told them that she herself had removed some wood to her home at the top of the cliffs. Looking up the steep sandy cliffs thick with gorse the Kings men could see a tumble-down paupers shack and with pity in their voices they told the woman she could take whatever she liked...
It never occured to them that before they had arrived on the scene the bent-over old woman had removed the huge beams of the pride of the English Navy from the beach, hauled them up the cliffs and made herself a terraced garden. She was now just collecting a few pea sticks.
;D
Col
