Man, that was so good of you to help out a neighbor in need. Reminds me of an event that happened many years ago.
A guy had a log load delivered to his house, then dropped dead of heart attack a week later. His widow advertised in the local paper to have someone process the wood for her, and some guy offered to cut,split, and stack the load if he could have half. She agreed.
For a week the guy would show up, work a few hours, then load his truck and head home, and the widow thought nothing of it. Until she noticed that her "pile" wasnt growing much.She asked my uncle to swing on by after work to take a look, and when we eye balled the load, he indicated that of the wood that was still left she should have four cords for her half when he was done.
Fast forward two weeks, and we stopped by after she called. She had less than two cords left, and all the logs were gone.It was clear that the guy had walked off with the majority of the wood.After getting the address, my uncle and I stopped at the guys house, and there we found almost fifteen cords all stacked up. The guy came out, and after the discussion turned to the woodpile, he claimed that more than half of it was from other places other than the widows home. Then my uncle spotted the widows chainsaw sitting in the toolshed.
He offered the guy a deal. Take the saw back, and half of the wood pile, and the sherriff wouldnt get involved. The guy laughed, told my uncle to get off his property, and asked him just what was he going to do about it if he refused.
My uncle was fast.Without even blinking he clocked that guy, and never let up on him. After the guy hit the ground,my uncle gave him fifteen minutes to catch his breath, and then told him to go get his truck and back it up to the woodpile.We helped him load his truck and ours, and returned to the widows home with the wood and the saw. The guy spent the remainder of the week returning the wood.
It took her three years to burn though that wood pile, but my uncle made time every year after that to tend to her woodpile along with our own.
OP, sorry for hijacking your thread, but your story reminded me of this event, and in my own way I consider you a good man right up there with my uncle. You sound like good people!
