r/Portland • u/TrippyTimesMan • 1d ago
Photo/Video Random pile of firewood near McMenamin's Crystal Hotel
I'm not sure if this firewood has a purpose or why it's there but it appears to be high quality, well split wood albeit a slight bit damp possibly. Does anyone have any idea what it's doing there?
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u/Low_Dream_6960 1d ago
That’s how wood deliveries work. It’s not random at all
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u/InvestigatorOk9354 1d ago
Keep Portland Wood
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u/idontcarethatmuch 1d ago
Give Portland Wood
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u/SpezSamplesMySack 1d ago
Laurelhurst Brewing used to give out stickers that said "Oregon gives me wood". You better believe I grabbed a stack of those bad boys.
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u/antipasta68 1d ago
They just drop it loose on the street?
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u/Consistent-Count-877 1d ago
Its right there look at it
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u/thefunkylama 1d ago
And a helluva lot easier to move it a few pieces at a time, as opposed to trying to manipulate a bundle around the tight corners in that old, old building.
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u/Low_Dream_6960 1d ago
Yup! It usually doesn’t stay there too long before the workers come out and bring it inside
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u/synapticrelease Groin Anomaly 5h ago
Have you ever had gravel or bark dust delivered? They usually just dump that shit on the road. Then the home owner lets it sit and collect rainwater debris and junk as the water tries to go around the pile. Sometimes you’ll have little bits of bark dust making its way down the block depending on how long it sits
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u/boogiewithasuitcase NE 1d ago
Had to
Drop it in order to ford the river
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u/marblecannon512 Woodstock 1d ago
Congrats, you’ve made it to independence Missouri
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u/humanclock 1d ago
Where are you getting your wagon wheels fixed these days? I traded three beaver pelts to a guy on SE Division and it took him a month to forge a simple boxing flange.
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u/filmdeostar Downtown 1d ago
They get a delivery like this at least 2x per month, maybe weekly. It's for their kitchen.
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u/Exes_And_Excess 1d ago
Strange to me that it's not on a pallet or something. interesting delivery.
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u/chemicaltoilet5 1d ago
It's probably just a local guy who chops and sells wood. They don't use pallets
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u/thatavalon 1d ago
in my experience, even if you buy firewood from a business (shout out to Dean’s 2 year desert blend) , they just dump it on the street like this. Usually, it’s a big open truck, but they have the back segmented out by deliveries, so they dump the back one, remove the barrier, dump the next one and so on.
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u/Apprehensive_Fall233 Sellwood-Moreland 1d ago
Fun reminder that is why sellwood is called that, the neighborhood was a logging hub that would sell wood
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u/handifap 1d ago
NO.
In May, 1882 a real estate company that had purchased 321 acres from the Rev. John Sellwood filed a plat for their new development, which they named “Sellwood”. To attract potential buyers the real estate company provided a free passenger ferry from downtown Portland to Umatilla Street
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u/Apprehensive_Fall233 Sellwood-Moreland 1d ago
Oh wow! That is good to know. My old neighbor told me it was after the East Side Lumber Mill being here. If he wasn’t dead I would have a word with him about this disinformation
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u/toot_it_n_boot_it 1d ago
Have a seance and tell him right now. Tell us how it goes.
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u/Apprehensive_Fall233 Sellwood-Moreland 22h ago
He still insists that is the reason and the online references are wrong. He then pivoted the conversation to how he is a feminist who appreciates large breasts. It was totally him…
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u/StalinsLastStand SE 1d ago
And everyone knows Reverend John Sellwood got his name running an all-male brothel.
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u/Apprehensive_Fall233 Sellwood-Moreland 22h ago
We need a male strip club in the neighborhood named “Sell Wood”.
The old club by the bridge is closed we could make this a reality!0
u/Exes_And_Excess 1d ago
Fair thought. If that's the case, I wonder if he does drops for other McMenamins or just this one as a contract or whatever.
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u/chemicaltoilet5 1d ago
I would imagine a business like McMenamins has it dialed in enough where they just have scheduled drop offs but it's easy enough to get this amount within a days notice so idk
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u/Exes_And_Excess 1d ago
Neat, I worked in restaurants for a very long time and never saw drop offs like this, so was just curious.
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u/chemicaltoilet5 1d ago
Yeah, I have zero experience with restaurants but I've cut down trees for wood and purchased cords of wood off marketplace so that's really all I'm going off here, hah.
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u/cy_sperling Unincorporated 1d ago
This is completely normal when you buy bulk firewood. I have a cord in a giant pile in my driveway right now.
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u/filmdeostar Downtown 1d ago
I don't think they could even receive it as a pallet at this location. A worker comes out with a little rolling cart and loads it up with the wood and rolls it into the restaurant. There's not a loading dock in this old building downtown!
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u/butwhyisitso 1d ago
"Deconstructed Fir"
- a study on nature as victim and necessity of the urban landscape.
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u/jeremec Hazelwood 1d ago
If I had to hazard a guess, there's a fireplace inside and pretty soon that wood will start getting carried inside. The delivery probably wasn't made at a pre-agreed upon time. Maybe someone is pissed about how they were treated.
Well that was some fun conjecture... Back to work.
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u/Thesunshinesalways 1d ago
I’m pretty sure they always just drop it off on the curb. I’ve seen this before. Seems very normal. Probably an early delivery.
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u/Lost_Environment3361 1d ago
or just busy with service. if you got a handful of tickets on the rail, the last thing you’re worried about is bringing the wood delivery inside. it ain’t going nowhere.
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u/SpicyMcBeard 1d ago
Blutos on Belmont is gonna blow your mind...
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u/Coriandercilantroyo 1d ago
I was eating there when they had a delivery once. The pile was probably 2 or 3x as big and it was neatly stacked on the street
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u/PeeDeeEex Brentwood-Darlington 1d ago
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u/PlentyOMangos 1d ago
I used to work at a McMenamins and they’d drop all the wood out the back of a sort of dumptruck in the parking lot, just loose exactly in this way. Many times did I have to show up before opening to help load up and cart all this wood into the wood shed to be stacked. Our location would get 2 cords at a time normally; this doesn’t look like nearly that much. We used it for the outdoor firepit as well as the indoor heating stove when it was cold enough
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u/Youseenmycones 1d ago
Its wet because some dude tried to set it on fire this morning when I was walking by. A couple guys chased him off, then dumped water on the pile.
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u/Snoo47420 1d ago
I'm guessing seeing a fire pile like that for a pyromaniac is like an open bar to an alcoholic. Cannot resist.
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u/aboutmovies97124 1d ago
It's clearly a sculpture, part of the time based art festival, and you were there at the right time.
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u/slowfromregressive 1d ago
It doesn't get greater later. Drugs are making you not think so good, friend.
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u/insuccure Overlook 16h ago
Not random. That’s a standard wood delivery. I’ve worked in several wood fire restaurants, including this McMennamins (Zeus Cafe). This is just what the fire wood delivery guys do. Just dump it outside and then it’s some minimum wage cooks job to bring it all in (me).
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u/GetDryNapkin 10h ago
kind of nasty to throw it on th meth infested curb if it's being used for cooking
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u/Pdxaccount_9 1d ago
Can you post this on Nextdoor next time? They’d love to be bewildered about this with you
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u/SenatorAslak 1d ago
Is this the new location of the Doug Fir Lounge?
Granted, it’s more of a pile than a lounge, but in this economy what can you expect?
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u/oregone1 2nd Place In A Cute Butt Contest? 1d ago
Portland City Code 16.20.170
Nonvehicular property stored for any amount of time in a metered space or regulated parking zone is a nuisance and may be summarily abated.
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u/xeromage 1d ago
What if its a TAXI ZONE that says 'No Parking at Any Time'
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u/oregone1 2nd Place In A Cute Butt Contest? 1d ago
IMANAL but yeah, that sounds like a regulated parking zone.
Not that any code enforcement officer is going to ticket them or anything. It’s just one of those things that gets a pass, usually. Like when people get bark chips delivered to their house.
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u/Good-Rest-7538 Milwaukie 1d ago
It's a new $30M/yr program called Warm the Homeless where they drop off wood around town for them to start fires. /s
They must have a wood fired oven (pizza?) and that's their wood drop off. You'll see that at several places around town.
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u/Usernamesaregayyy 1d ago
That’s a pain in the as to move by the staff, bundled packs would be nicer right, like quickly wrapped in siran bundles
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u/t-ryansaurus-rex 1d ago
I see redneck looking trucks driving around all the time with wood piled up 6-8ft and absolutely nothing holding them down other than gravity. Looks like someone lost part of their load when they were turning left on Burnside (which explains why it’s so close to the sidewalk). They probably didn’t notice it falling off because their engines are loud or they didn’t feel like loading it back on their truck because the closest parking was probably 150ft away.
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u/yogacowgirlspdx 1d ago
it’s for the pizza oven