Well folks, I never thought I'd say no to free firewood, but when my tree service guy texted me the other day with a tree he had cut down, I had to say no. Mind you, I went back and forth for half the day before I replied... With the new garage plans and my hydraulic splitter being down, I just have too many rounds I need to split and stack to bring in more right now. I am hoping in a couple weeks I can resume his rotation for free wood, just need too get caught up, and make sure I make good use of my limited space to store firewood. I'm on a mission to get to my 3-year goal this year. In years past, I have only harvested standing dead in the summer for the upcoming winter, so this has been a lot of fun for me scrounging like I have over the winter. Funny thing is, be fore this year I had never scrounged firewood, but there's a ton of it out there if one has the time to get it. Or the luck to get the good ones before someone beats me to it. It's like a game I guess... Win some, lose some. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
it's ok, Lone_Gun , it's the standard catch 22... personally I got 3 acre processing area 500 yards behind house.. no one up here delivers wood for free... get your garage built and put a overhang on one side so you can split out of the weather!
I feel your pain. I learned creative stacking when needed. It would kill the hoarder in me to turn wood away.
Puts me in mind of a time long long ago. I was sitting in a dark dirty smokey midweswtern bar late one night. I was just finishing up what was my last beer. My wallet was almost empty and the 1961 XLCH I had parked at the curb out side had just enough gas in the tank to get me home. All of a sudden in this lonely out of the way saloon the bar scank came over and sat down next to me and tried to chat me up. Well, I was cold, wet and just wanted to get down the road to home so I shut down that situation. When I got home the hooch was cold, dark and lonely. As I sat there in my little room watching the sign off on the tube for the viewing day I couldnt help but ask myself, hmmmm, turning down free? Well at that moment in time it worked for me but it may not for you when you get cold.
Don't feel too bad Lone_Gun. One has to keep his priorities straight. Get the garage built and the splitter fixed then go back to getting the firewood. If that is all you need is a couple weeks, that should not be a big problem.
I wouldn't get too upset over it. Sounds like you can have at some more any time. Get caught up on the rest of things and then get back to some wood.
I found myself in a similar situation many ,many years ago Butcher, unfortunately, I was a hoarder then also LOL. Cost me over $100,000 when it was all said and done! I learned a valuable lesson, and I am partial to coffee and diet soda now also! LOL. The one good thing is many years after that debacle, I met the love of my life in wife #2.
Having it delivered for free would be even better, but even getting a text with an address is always a welcome treat! I like the overhang idea, I will have to see if we can work that in on the quote. Thanks!
This particular tree is Ponderosa Pine, which I have burned a lot of this past year or two. But if it was something more desirable, I would have likely found a way to get it somehow. Just sneak it in when my wife isn't looking <wink>
Wow, that's quite the story my friend, thank you for sharing... Now that I've cleaned up the iced tea from my iPad screen... Thanks for the laughs!
Feel your pain. I've turned down a few people this year. I have tons of rounds and rounds on properties waiting on me to pick em up. I have 20+ cords split and stacked not including those rounds.
Just hoping I can keep my connection with the tree guy. It was nice stumbling onto the guy on Craigslist in the first place. I'll take the demerits and earn them back... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Nothing's free butcher. That probably would have resulted in some communicable disease. Better that you passed on that.
Sounds like it was Iowa. But she probably floated down the river from Minnesota, and ended up on the west side of the river The low on gas Milwaukee tool helped get him out of free crabs for life.
