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Originally Posted by svxistentialist
Good call Jerry
I sure do envy you having such a cheap resource on your doorstep. I have to pay for mine. 
However I don't begrudge the guy the cost of the timber, it's great value. We are heating the house with sustainable energy, I cut way back on imported oil, plus we get a lovely fire in the living room.
Win/win/win, if I may coin a phrase.
Joe  |
I 'wacked' 5 more trees today!! 2 to get them out of the way, 2 that were threatening to kill a house and 1 just for the fun of it!
I got a call from the guy that I cut for last week. He said that his neighbor had 2 trees that needed cut. I went, I estimated, I came back and WACKED!!
The trees were on his neighbor, but were aiming to smack the back of his house down. She decided that they should go NOW!!
I had to take out 2 small trees so the big ones would not be deflected.
I showed up with the Husky, 100 ft of really strong rope, an Outback and a snatch-block. I chained the snatch-block to a walnut tree, threaded the rope through it, hooked it to the Outback and dropped the tree about 30 ft from the house that it wanted to kill. I cleaned up the mess and tied off the other tree to the Outback. It fell on the sawdust from the first tree!
I wacked it to firewood size, gathered up my toys and rolled on.
I collected $$$$$$ and the firewood went to the woman that paid the bill. The guy that owned the house that was threatened hauled the wood to her house.
Next, I went to OT's house. I noticed that his 'dog' tying tree was not well. Since he needed firewood for the Pumpkin Carve meet, had a tree that might fall on the participants and my saw was warmed up, I wacked his tree too!! I cut it to campfire size pieces and left it for him to stack. N/C!!
I started at 8:45 on monday and was in the shower by 1:30!!
I had $150. to show for the morning and didn't have to haul any wood anywere! What a CONCEPT!!!
I'm feeling a little chilly, I might have to throw a few sticks into the woodburner......