You know the time of year when people start asking if they can have some free wood because they ran out Ive turned 3 people down this week because we're moving later this year and I only css enough for this winter at our current house. Told 1 of the guys who lives close to our new house to meet me there this weekend and we can cut as much dead standing for him as his trailer will hold. He said its to cold for him to be outside but asked again if I could drop some off and stack it for him.
Wow. You offered him a more than generous deal. That’s his loss. My policy is to help someone as much as I can without putting myself out, and avoid helping people that won’t help themselves.
Sounds like my brother. It is either too nice outside or too not so nice to cut wood. That is why he always out of firewood.
This is part of the reason people took to heating their homes with other fuels; it is easier. When I was a child almost everyone around us an others we knew heated with wood unless they were rich. But as it got closer to 1960 more and more got rid of wood and coal heat. But back then heating oil cost $.12 per gallon so that made a difference.
Yup. My wood sales are usually better when we have a cold spell after new years and/or later into the burning season. Folks love the heat and ambiance but God forbid they have to work for it!
Wow I cannot believe someone would be so crazy as to ask for someone else's hard work and be so cavalier about it. I would have a tendency to be let's say cautious when dealing with them.
Seems so ironic. They switched to other fuels to heat with because it's easier but noone remembers how much work it is to get some firewood and think it should be free AND stacked. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
During the oil crunch I was amazed how many then bought wood stoves. Still, as soon as the embargo let up most of them stopped burning wood. The number one reason I got from them was the wife did not like it and mostly because it was dirty. And believe it or not, most of these were farmers.
Reminds me of one of my stepdaughters BF's! On disability and not working, but goes to the gym to work out. Cuts the grass, does snow removal. Ive offered to drop rounds for free cut to his requested 15" but nope. Offered to teach him splitting, sledge and wedge etc., set up a nice area for a stacking too so i charge them for a half cord every Fall. He doesnt even stack it. Sits in a mound, tarped!
Some people saw my stacks down at my cabin and stopped to ask if i would sell some. They said that they paid somebody to drop off a truckload but it was too green to burn. I was thinking DUH what did you think you were going to get this time of year. I am always worried that somebody will steal my wood down there but then i remember that would require work to move it, and thieves are usually to lazy for that.
Hasn't happened yet at our small campground, 40 sites, but a few of the bigger, like 400 site, campgrounds have a few out of state waterfowl hunters that only come late to hunt that have helped themselves. One guy I know lost about 1/2 a cord of oak and was ♤¡$$€■ off. I usually leave for the year stocked up, about a cord so in spring it is one less thing to worry about. I don't mind helping out but at least ask, don't ask and you will never get help again.
Buddy of mine noticed he had a few logs missing last winter, like an arms full is all, not sure whether they could sell it for alchohol etc. Or keep the family warm. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
I lost firewood at my cabin when they could back right up to the porch and throw it on a pickup. I put a post gate up about 50' away at end of driveway. None missing since because like you said, they would have to carry it that far.
