Aggravations of a portable sawyer

[Sixacresand]

I always like the "I have a huge dead pine next to my house.  You can have it if you cut it down and clean up every thing.  Are you insured?"  Sorry, you need to call the tree service that previously gave you a quote of $400.  (and I will contact the tree service to see if he wants to dispose of any good logs at my place.  )

[rjwoelk]

My Southern accent can't reach "pawkhan".   ???

And a peecan is what we put under the bed at night in case we have to go.   ;D

Now i was all thinkin you fellers wer talkin about a what we call a peekin tom. Who does do some peecan through the window.
So MM. I was peecan at this thread and saw your reply, which i did did some peecan at.I take it that if you cut a peecan you will need to peecan around the corner to see the end of the peecan board. If that peecan cuttin drives you to drinkin, then at night you will be peecan under the bed for the peecan.

[Mad Professor]

    And sometimes (like the job I looked at day before yesterday) they're still attached to the blown down tree.  In the middle of flooded woods.  I passed on that job. :

But those logs are the easiest to move!   You set up the mill on the shore and float the logs over with a flatbottom trappers skiff as a tugboat! :D
Then ya use yure boat trailer and its winch, to beach the logs, and stage at the mill. And, the logs all been washed clean on the way!
You don't have a trappers boat  and waders handy?

And I bet those "logs" were pine?  Poor Customer was just keeping them in water to prevent blue stain. ;D

P.S. Merry Christmas everyone!

[mart]

"I want some of your boards that you throw away. Like free ones." I show him the slab pile and rejects pile and he says "No, they gotta be nicer than that. Im building a fence" Thats when I try real hard to break wind......

I get ones like this a lot.  I tell them the scraps came from high quality logs so they must be high quality scraps.
Then I tell them that they cost $20 for a pickup truck load and all of a sudden they want them.  Go figure.  :D

My best friend owned a big circle mill back east before coming to Alaska. He helps me a lot on my mill and has told the story about his slab pile. He originally had it staged near the road with a sign that said, "Free Firewood." He said the pile was rarely if ever touched. An old sawyer stopped by one day and told him he needed to charge for it. He argued that if he couldn't get people to take it for free, how could he get people to pay for it. The old guy persisted and my friend moved the pile out of sight of the road and put up a sign that said, "Slabwood/Firewood, $10 a pickup load." He said the pile went down in a hurry and they were selling a few loads every day. Go figure.

[alanh]

I have a couple guys that buy (small) amounts of hardwood from me,I believe they make cutting boards and such, one is quite regular and always pays what I ask, he gets handed a few pieces of "scraps" as freebies. The other one is inconsistant..and cheap, if he does agree to buy there`s always a catch.. "can you saw them to 5" wide by 7/8 thick so I can save on bdft?"  etc., He gets no freebies. Turns out they know each other.. he messages me the other day a little pissy that how come I give * stuff and not him? My answer was "Because your a pain in my ass and he`s not" I haven`t heard back...

[Darrel]

I was amused by this so read it to my wife. She's still laughing!  :D :D :D

[Dave Shepard]

He asked. He got an answer.  :D

[moosehunter]

alanh, your my hero of the day :D :D

mh

[YellowHammer]

 :D

[Nomad]

 :D  I'll have to keep that one in mind.

[moodnacreek]

"I want some of your boards that you throw away. Like free ones." I show him the slab pile and rejects pile and he says "No, they gotta be nicer than that. Im building a fence" Thats when I try real hard to break wind......

I get ones like this a lot.  I tell them the scraps came from high quality logs so they must be high quality scraps.
Then I tell them that they cost $20 for a pickup truck load and all of a sudden they want them.  Go figure.  :D

My best friend owned a big circle mill back east before coming to Alaska. He helps me a lot on my mill and has told the story about his slab pile. He originally had it staged near the road with a sign that said, "Free Firewood." He said the pile was rarely if ever touched. An old sawyer stopped by one day and told him he needed to charge for it. He argued that if he couldn't get people to take it for free, how could he get people to pay for it. The old guy persisted and my friend moved the pile out of sight of the road and put up a sign that said, "Slabwood/Firewood, $10 a pickup load." He said the pile went down in a hurry and they were selling a few loads every day. Go figure.
I had a pile of free slabwood, cut to length for years. Guess who had to clean it up? You can sell firewood but you can't give it away.

[Mike W]

2nd or 3rd that, similar situation, removed an old pellet stove from the home, put it out front by the drive with a big sign that read "Free, you haul" sat there for a couple weeks, decided I would haul it myself to the dump.  Just had a weird idea and put a sign on it "first $50.00 gets this stove", it was stolen that night!! 8)

[Old Greenhorn]

My dad always said 'if you really want to get rid of something bad enough, just chain it to a tree on your lawn with a for sale sign.'

[Darrel]

Lived for two years in Roy, Utah. If you wanted to get rid of something, all you had to do was put it out on the street with a sign that read, "free". I think it must be a utah thing because I've never seen it work anywhere else. 

[Mike W]

Good Dads pass on the wisdom they acquired through the years for sure.

Darrel, there is one other place that I am aware of, lived in Hawaii for 10 years, trash is part of the State taxes, you get the usual trash bin, green bin and recycle bin picked up once a week.  Once a month the first week is dedicated for trash pickup of large household items needing to be disposed of.  During this week its like watching "black Friday" sales of peeps trampling each other for the good deals (best of the free stuff on the curb)  I know a few residents that have literally furnished their entire house this way.. go figure.  You are right though, in almost every other place I've lived its been this way, the mindset of the many ??? can't figure it out.