Have you ever noticed...

cory

Branched out member
That many "rich" people simply hate to see firewood carted off their property?? These people invariably burn very little wood per year (e.g 2 wheelbarrows full), they have alot of rotten firewood on their property already which they will ask you to take away to help make way for the new firewood you are making. On the appointment I always tell them they can have as much or as little firewood from a removal as they want, but unless they are really into burning alot of fires, the best bet would be to keep a quantity of small stuff which can be burned without splitting. They say "fine" to that, but when they see all the rest of it in a truck about to be hauled away, they come out and think they better keep some more...I think they think that anything that has some value and is being hauled off their propery to someone who is going to process it and make a coupla bucks from it, well, there must be something wrong with that, and they better keep most of it.

A guy last week came home just after the loaded truck departed, and he said he'd been thinking about it, and he wanted that wood. "Where is MY TREE now? he wanted to know.

OMG.
 
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Yup, BUT it happen to us when we bought a bandsaw mill! We NOW make sure it is spelled out in advance.

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Please explain.
 
Once the word was out that we bought the mill, people assumed we were making a profit off THEIR scraps. LOL We also bought crane to load and haul the logs. We are a small operation (just my wife and me) and are old.

The equipment makes us more efficient, on the job site (less time due to the fact we haul 20' limbs, so NO bucking on site) AND we are making something useful (fence boards) out of logs that would be next to worthless as firewood. Ourr mill will handle 36" diameter logs 20' long. We could haul the mill to their site, BUT I would like to be paid for my time!!!

The profit from milling is NOTHING in comparison to doing tree work!
 

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