Loggers
My one dealing with a logger was not a good experience. My aunt had contracted verbally (despite being repeatedly told to have it drawn up as a legal binding contract-this afterall was a deal to removed about $40,000 of timber out of the woods over a two year period) to have some ash and maple removed from the woods by what turned out to be the local village idiot. He cut wood alright, but about 60 trees worth over $15,000 were off the neighbours land which had been surveyed and clearly marked just prior. What a legal mess. A classic case of you get what you pay for: hire a reputable insured professional with a WRITTEN contract. This may cost more up front, but in the long run will avoid financial grief and local embaressment. All this mess transpired when she was in the hospital, so I got to deal with the whole thing. The neighbours, cottagers who visited once a year from BC were really pissed, and rightly so. The cops ended up getting involved as I told the neighbour I would consider it theft, so they did call the Sureté de Quebec, then the whole mess appeared in the local paper. A forester finally did get involved; to determine the costs of the damage; his fee was included in the bill my aunt had to pay. In the end all value of the wood that was removed off her land went to pay legal bills, court costs and damages; the logger had no money to pay a red cent worth. I would have wrung his neck if I could have.