Pat Doble
01-05-2008, 9:56 PM
So I'm minding my own business in the shop doing some rough outs when LOML comes in a tells me to come outside. I, being the obedient husband :o, follow her outside where she points 3 houses down and across the street. Hmmmm - neighbor is having a tree taken down.
So I spend the next 15 minutes or so pondering whether I want to mosey down and ask the crew if I can grab some wood. (Normally there wouldn't be any doubt, but the shop is full of blanks, I've got about a dozen large box elder crotches under a tarp in the backyard, and about 6 big cottonwood chunks on and around that -and everything will need to move right away in the spring to expand the garden that got smaller this year when I added my shop to the back of the garage).
But of course, being hopelessly lost in the vortex, I soon head down and talk to the foreman - he says they have to go get their log lifter and truck, just cut what I want and he'll move it down to my driveway when he gets back. Fire up the Stihl - done.
So here's today's score - Mustard size hunks o' Ash. The log on the right is just under 20" diameter.
78716
But the best part (and future gloat potential) is that while talking with him about an estimate for some trimming, he gives me his number and tells me whenever I need more wood to give him a call and he'll let me go through their log yard :eek:. They do 'board up' most of the large trunks they get, but he said anything else would be fair game. Said he'd rather see someone use it for woodworking than have them chip it. Yaaaahooooo.
So I spend the next 15 minutes or so pondering whether I want to mosey down and ask the crew if I can grab some wood. (Normally there wouldn't be any doubt, but the shop is full of blanks, I've got about a dozen large box elder crotches under a tarp in the backyard, and about 6 big cottonwood chunks on and around that -and everything will need to move right away in the spring to expand the garden that got smaller this year when I added my shop to the back of the garage).
But of course, being hopelessly lost in the vortex, I soon head down and talk to the foreman - he says they have to go get their log lifter and truck, just cut what I want and he'll move it down to my driveway when he gets back. Fire up the Stihl - done.
So here's today's score - Mustard size hunks o' Ash. The log on the right is just under 20" diameter.
78716
But the best part (and future gloat potential) is that while talking with him about an estimate for some trimming, he gives me his number and tells me whenever I need more wood to give him a call and he'll let me go through their log yard :eek:. They do 'board up' most of the large trunks they get, but he said anything else would be fair game. Said he'd rather see someone use it for woodworking than have them chip it. Yaaaahooooo.