So I went and cruised a job today... its 10 acres of a 197 acre parcel that hasn't been logged in 100 years, some of these trees where left when they logged way back when ever...
Any way its steep ground, I've logged steeper, and there is a road sorta through the bit he wants logged, Doug Firs approaching 4', hemlocks not far behind, Alder with 30' of good peeler logs, the evergreen timber all knocking on 100' tall everything sounds great right?
Now for the problems, dude started cutting already, has at least one tree parked in another, slopping back cuts... lengths are a little funky, but I can deal with that if he stops now...
Other issue is dude made a deal with some other "logger" says he gave him 5k to "move equipment in" well suffice to say, the "logger" never showed... Makes me nervous, I mean I don't mind shafting a crook, but crooks tend to show up and demand retribution, then I have to shoot somebody... anyway it gets messy...
There is also an ongoing dispute with the county... county wants part of his property, county morons already have a hard on over logging because of the Oso slide... so dude don't want to get no permit... which I really don't care one way or the other, but if the county wants to get pushy I get stuck in the middle... though a DNR permit would be plenty...
So to make a long story short, this is the kind of job I've been looking for, but do the less then optimal circumstances add up to make me walk away? I've done dumber ****, and I'll probably do it again... but somethings telling me to walk on this one...