Wood Scrounge
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A little back ground info:
I work with a lot of folks who make 6 figures more then I do, live in McMansions in the suburbs or old town homes in the city. I think the technical term for these “men” is metrosexuals, some of them are good people just confused on life priorities.
This week every year I load my truck up with wood and let them fill their BMWs, Mercedes and the like with as much firewood as they want. Many of them have those prefabed metal fireplaces in their homes, and some of the folks in the city even have stoves.
I own 4 saws a husky 350 with a narrow kerf bar and chain, a 372 XP and a $40 Craig’s list Wild thing, I am just a homeowner who cuts wood for himself and friends.
I am in the process of taking trees mostly ash and cherry out of a horse pasture for a guy.
A few weeks ago one of the guys I work with asks if he can help me cut wood one weekend just for the experience, I say “sure meet me at 7:30 “. He is at the decided location promptly at 7:30 and we go to a place where I cut, I lend him a pair of chaps and he has safety glasses, and I drop the first tree a little ash tree. I allow him to buck up the tree after a little lesson on chainsaw usage and safety (I am no expert but have done it long enough to know what to be afraid of), I then show him how to drop another small ash tree which he does well. We load up the trailer and take about a face cord to my house to be split and stacked. At the end of the day he thanked me and he seemed to have enjoyed himself.
Last week he comes to me and asks if he can borrow a saw to cut a large branch up that fell in his yard. The next day I hand him my chaps and the Wild Thing, he says “oh I did not realize you were going to give me your good saw”………………………………
Ok not much of a story and my delivery may not be that great, but it made me chuckle.
I work with a lot of folks who make 6 figures more then I do, live in McMansions in the suburbs or old town homes in the city. I think the technical term for these “men” is metrosexuals, some of them are good people just confused on life priorities.
This week every year I load my truck up with wood and let them fill their BMWs, Mercedes and the like with as much firewood as they want. Many of them have those prefabed metal fireplaces in their homes, and some of the folks in the city even have stoves.
I own 4 saws a husky 350 with a narrow kerf bar and chain, a 372 XP and a $40 Craig’s list Wild thing, I am just a homeowner who cuts wood for himself and friends.
I am in the process of taking trees mostly ash and cherry out of a horse pasture for a guy.
A few weeks ago one of the guys I work with asks if he can help me cut wood one weekend just for the experience, I say “sure meet me at 7:30 “. He is at the decided location promptly at 7:30 and we go to a place where I cut, I lend him a pair of chaps and he has safety glasses, and I drop the first tree a little ash tree. I allow him to buck up the tree after a little lesson on chainsaw usage and safety (I am no expert but have done it long enough to know what to be afraid of), I then show him how to drop another small ash tree which he does well. We load up the trailer and take about a face cord to my house to be split and stacked. At the end of the day he thanked me and he seemed to have enjoyed himself.
Last week he comes to me and asks if he can borrow a saw to cut a large branch up that fell in his yard. The next day I hand him my chaps and the Wild Thing, he says “oh I did not realize you were going to give me your good saw”………………………………
Ok not much of a story and my delivery may not be that great, but it made me chuckle.