I love the enthusiasm along with the knee slappers! The rest of our world wood call us nuts (see what I did there?) Its hard to pass up good firewood but what can you do.... If you dont have the space, time, or whatever then leave it Shawn Curry. Im not even able to process due to snow so I can only drool on harvesting threads. I wait with bated breath as to the outcome!
Don't enable the guy... he's a sinner. Flimsy excuses like no time or space... phhhtttt... stack it higher... get the wife, kids, grandkids and grandparents out there splitting and loading! Hell, I've swerved around a 7 car pileup with fatalities out on the freeway just to snag two splits that fell out of a pickup truck! The only two things my truck can't pass are gas stations and free firewood!
I'd grab it ALL & then get to it when you have free time.Long as you have room for it I don't see a problem. At least then its on your property no worries about some thieving scoundrel running off with it. I have probably 3 loads of Red Oak left on that steep hill that was dropped in late June.Finally hauled out 1 load in mid November before more rain/snow put a stop to that.Walked out there & looked it last Saturday,its just fine. GET TO IT MAN!!!!
OK let's work on this.....Watch the swinging ball, you're getting sleeeeepy........Bring the firewood home, BRING THE FIREWOOD HOME.
Maybe you should go get a bigger truck. You can get a flatbed with sides and load up with wood. Just leave it loaded till you get space and time. Since its your money and not mine, you might want a 10 foot bed.
I'm in the same situation Shawn. The power company has spent the last 2 weeks on my road dropping dead ash trees, so needless to say there's all kinds of wood left over just sitting there for the taking. But I'm busy moving and splitting the 4+ cords they dropped on my property, there just isn't time (or space) for me to take everyone else's!!
Bring it to your yard and restack it. Post it on CL for stupid money. I'm more surprised it has lasted out there without someone taking it.
Hey fellas, we'll see if we can straighten out Shawn at the GTG. He is a good guy and easy to work with so I'm sure we can put him back on the right path.
So, I have a somewhat similar situation on my mountain that I would like some opinions on. There are a couple of enormous downed and dead trees on a neighbor's property, and they obviously are not planning on doing anything with them. My quandary is how to best approach them. If I was still a teenager, we would not be having this conversation, but alas those days are long gone. I don't want to leave them a note, but just driving up to their house and saying, "Can I have your trees?" just seems a little odd. Maybe it is the recluse and hoarder in me that wouldn't want someone just coming up my driveway and asking me the same thing, but if the tables were turned, those trees would already be C/S/S. Thoughts?
Well I stopped over there today on my way home from work but they weren't there. My biggest hang up is that I feel a little greedy taking it since I have so much already. That's why I want my brother in law to take it. If they don't burn wood, they're probably thinking about it differently than you or me. Where we see free money, they may only see it as an eyesore and possibly an expense. In this case, much of what's there is in huge blocks, which makes me probably the only neighbor equipped to deal it. My plan is to make their acquaintance and let them know that I can make it disappear.
I left a note on my neighbors door he called me back and said please come get it. But then again I know all my neghbors.
Man wish I had so much wood already that I felt bad about processing more! Hopefully somebody will put it to good use.
Tonight I kneeled before the altar and asked for guidance. It was then I had a vision: of a 30" Tsumura guide bar on the 661... Tomorrow I shall seek purification by firewood. May dirt have mercy on my chains.
We shood be looking at pics of what any of us wood have done by now(ok, not now-it's almost midnite) Shawn Curry
