Mexicali_Kid
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Crossing firewood
I would like to take some firewood to Mexico. I have been told you can not cross the border in either direction with fire wood. Have any of you
gotten the red light and you had fire wood? What happens?
Thanks in advance
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woody with a view
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i put the wood (4"x6" pieces cut into 1 foot lengths) in a single layer in the back of the truck and load the rest of my stuffs on top of it. i'm not
trying to smuggle firewood, i just think it packs better that way....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexicali_Kid
I would like to take some firewood to Mexico. I have been told you can not cross the border in either direction with fire wood. Have any of you
gotten the red light and you had fire wood? What happens?
Thanks in advance |
We have a home in SF and cross many times per year. I always have firewood in the rear....with the bags and such up top of it all. Been red lighted in
Mexicali without issues.....without issues on those given days. Who knows what tomorrow will bring! Worst is they will tell you to rid it.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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BornFisher
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| Quote: | | Worst is they will tell you to rid it. |
That`s the problem! Get rid of firewood? Heck when I`m driving along and see a good log or 2x4, I`ll pull an illegal U turn just to get at it!! I`ve
got my oak and pine tucked away pretty good---------------- BUT no, you can`t bring firewood back!! Getting rid of it? Oh how that would pain me!
Almost torture!!
[Edited on 2-20-2011 by BornFisher]
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DENNIS
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Have a buddy who was turned back. He was doing a job in Temecula and had a truck load of scrap. He had no idea of the rule.
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| Quote: | | Quote: | Originally posted by BornFisher
Worst is they will tell you to rid it. |
That`s the problem! Get rid of firewood? Heck when I`m driving along and see a good log or 2x4, I`ll pull an illegal U turn just to get at it!! I`ve
got my oak and pine tucked away pretty good---------------- BUT no, you can`t bring firewood back!! Getting rid of it? Oh how that would pain me!
Almost torture!!
[Edited on 2-20-2011 by BornFisher] |
too funny, used to due the same 
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have several friends who have been turned back, with firewood, bags of mulch, topsoil-thru SY and head to Otay and get across. Depends on the "LIGHT"
having said that, the first coupla years coming down as touristas we had no idea about the light. we actually waved at the guys the first time and had
no idea they wanted us to stop-they never followed.
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woody with a view
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topsoil?
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oh yes!
| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
topsoil? |
Topsoil is non existence in areas like San Felipe. To grow a decent veggie plot...much less a potted plant....one needs topsoil. It's 100% pure sand
in our area.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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woody with a view
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i know. i take a 3cu. ft. bag to friends every time down. it is against the rules to cross south with it?
"have several friends who have been turned back, with firewood, bags of mulch, topsoil-thru SY and head to Otay and get across."
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krafty
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so they say....depends who you are talking to-a neighbor had wood in the form of a chair they were bringing down to have reupholstered and they were
turned back
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About every single trip to Baja we have at least one bundle of the store bought fireplace wood... never ever been stopped for it going south.
When we once brought it back north because we didn't use it, the U.S. customs took it from us, however!
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Mexicali_Kid
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So the worst that can happen is I get turned back. Thanks for the input.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexicali_Kid
So the worst that can happen is I get turned back. Thanks for the input. |
At TJ, not much could be worse. It's a little more than a U-TURN.
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TheBajaKid
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You should be fine, ive done it many times and even when Red lighted they never said anything about the firewood.
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I have crossed going S many, many times with a week's worth of firewood on open display - often on my roof - and never once had an issue. If this is
a law, it's not enforced.
As for going N, never brought back so much as a twig. The last nite's fire is always the biggest.
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USCustomes let me bring back a small chunk of dead dry mesquite for my smoker. They didnt want to let me at first and i made them look in to it becuse
its a hardwood and is bug free i told them. Took a little time for them to find out and let me go with it.
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DENNIS
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The border, both ways, is a flip of the coin regardless of how we assume it should be.
No one knows what will happen.
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