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Wanted: Firewood.. Alot (barrington)

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Date: 2011-10-31, 3:57PM CDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]
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Looking for ALOT of firewood to take or free, preferably split pieces but will take whatever. Looking for large amounts, enough to fill a 5x8 enclosed trailer and more if possible. Call or txt Mike via 3123160210 or email, please... looking for large amounts not small loads. Thanks for looking.

Wanted: Firewood.. Alot

free split firewood hmm I think I'll give him a full load of my blood sweat and tears... to bad I dont have a pile of tree of heaven laying around. best part this add is from somebody that lives in a town full of money like if you make under 100k you cant afford the property taxes kinda money

 

[D&B Mack]

dry oak firewood - $29 (nekoosa)
Date: 2011-10-31, 8:58AM CDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]
Ready to burn 29.00 a cord split and stacked you haul
Location: nekoosa
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PostingID: 2677719101
dry oak firewood

So, does he ride along with you and stack at your place?

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

I've been out'a school for quite a while now but... exactly when was it that they stopped teaching math?
How that guy ever managed sniper school ballistics computations is a mystery, when the basic volume of his truck bed has him baffled.

7x6=42
42x2=84

Assuming he just fat fingered the decimal point/period in his original ad, and he meant to say 65 cubic feet, that would still mean that his wheel wells were ten cubic feet a piece.

I think he fat-fingered the .65 cubic feet... He meant .65 of a cord. 128 * 0.65 = 83.2

Still, I can't figure out how much he's charging per cord. I keep coming up with ~$84.62/cord.... Jesus... that's a great price per cord delivered... am I doing something wrong?

$x/1.0 cord = $55/0.65cord

55/0.65 = 84.615384615384615384615384615385

Right?

 

[Hank Chinaski]

Free firewood/ You cut and haul (Beebe)
Date: 2011-11-01, 3:46PM CDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]

I have about a dozen standing oak trees that are free for the taking. They are different sizes but most are big. Im looking for a responsible person who will clean up after each tree is cut, before moving to the next one.(I will burn the brush) I also need the stump cut close to the ground before moving on to the next tree. You are responsible for any damages to the property. I hate to sound hard to please, but I have been taken advantage of in the past.....Please call or text if interested....501-259-5968 Thanks, Dan

Location: Beebe
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PostingID: 2680192855

 

[gtsawyer]

... I have been taken advantage of in the past...

...and now want to return the favor by trying to take advantage of others.

 

[coog]

Free firewood/ You cut and haul (Beebe)
Date: 2011-11-01, 3:46PM CDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]

I have about a dozen standing oak trees that are free for the taking. They are different sizes but most are big. Im looking for a responsible person who will clean up after each tree is cut, before moving to the next one.(I will burn the brush) I also need the stump cut close to the ground before moving on to the next tree. You are responsible for any damages to the property. I hate to sound hard to please, but I have been taken advantage of in the past.....Please call or text if interested....501-259-5968 Thanks, Dan

Location: Beebe
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PostingID: 2680192855

I'll bet this guy's phone melts. Since he doesn't mention any buildings, power lines, etc., I think he is being reasonable in his requests.

 

[upsnake]

With out seeing the property it is hard to say but it didn't sound too bad. (if the trees can be dropped safely). Cut the stump low and drag the brush in a pile.

Compared to most that is pretty reasonable.

 

[Iska3]

Wish he lived by me. Worth checking it out. Lot of dead oaks in the area and he might want to get rid of them.

 

[Hank Chinaski]

I read it as there were potiential hazards or he wouldn't have put in the "you are responsible for damage to property" part... if they're out in the middle of a field sure, but if they're riding a fence row, outbuildings etc it's a different story.

Oak is plentiful around here as are places/people to cut for that will offer to help you instead of hold you "responsible"

 

[coog]

Location, location. I figured you must be in a place where oak is readily available. I've see fistfights in the woods over a dead Red Oak.

 

[Trapper63]

Is that like a dead deer? First knife (saw) is the owner? lol

 

[RVALUE]

Free firewood/ You cut and haul (Beebe)
Date: 2011-11-01, 3:46PM CDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]

I have about a dozen standing oak trees that are free for the taking. They are different sizes but most are big. Im looking for a responsible person who will clean up after each tree is cut, before moving to the next one.(I will burn the brush) I also need the stump cut close to the ground before moving on to the next tree. You are responsible for any damages to the property. I hate to sound hard to please, but I have been taken advantage of in the past.....Please call or text if interested....501-259-5968 Thanks, Dan

Location: Beebe
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PostingID: 2680192855

That is Stihl Sawing's neighbor.

 

[Hank Chinaski]

That is Stihl Sawing's neighbor.

aw man, I hope I didn't bust out SS... :msp_unsure:

 

[Rearden]

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Free giant tree for wood (belair rd.)
Date: 2011-11-01, 7:45PM EDT
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Cut it down and keep enough wood for a year. Great tree but I have had it for fifty years and am tired of racking the leaves. This is a real
big tree. Someone said it was used for perfume. Maybe so. You cut and haul. If interested 2423 Chesterfield Ave. in rear off 3600 Harford Rd.
or 3500 I believe Belair Rd. In between the two. Please email me if you are coming. So I know.
Thanks

Location: belair rd.
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PostingID: 2680505641

Google is amazing and scary all at once. Use Google earth/maps to search this address, ten click on the little street view figure icon and you can almost walk up and touch this tree in the back yard. Looks like they caught the homeowner in the pic as well.
Guess she just forgot to mention the "great" power lines running along side, or the "great" lawyer that she was married to.

 

[coog]

Wow! I think I can hear the theme for "The Twilight Zone" playing when I look at that.

 

[doobie57z]

This ad bugs the crap outta me. I get $100/ half cord delivered.
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Firewood - $50 (Hurley area)
Date: 2011-11-02, 7:18PM CDT
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I have cut, split and dried hardwood firewood for sale. $50 per cord if you pick it up, and $60 per cord delivered



FIREWOOD

 

[Rearden]

I think it's called "Trickle Up" economics. The majority of the populace becomes dependent upon the government (just the way they want it), between years of unemployment benefits, welfare, loan bail-out programs, Medical Care, Grants, education and home loan programs, WIC and food stamps. Eventually the subjects are confronted with the reality that confronted the Soviet people, that you can't redistribute wealth forever, eventually you just run out of wealth to redistribute (or your scrip is finally recognized as Wiemar Republic-like and valueless) The stench of the "redistribution network" system's cronyism and graft becomes like a rotting corpse in the room and people finally just refuse to participate. Many, particularly people such as those running scams like Solyndra, and folks already on the dole, will simply look for ways to grab all that they can before the teat runs dry.

Dollar to a donut, the guy sellin' $50 cords is an unemployed union carpenter - or some other scamming sot, collecting "benefits", with no intention of even beginning to look for work til the faucet gets turned off. In what's left of our free markets there aren't that many suppliers, and that few users, that $50 a cord would emerge as a fair value. This only happens when there's a government involved somewhere "stimulating" or "subsidizing" with other people's money - hence the presumption that it's someone collecting "benefits" and looking to supplement with unreported illicit cash.

Better get used to it, especially with X-mas coming. More and more folks will be delving into the underground/cash economy. Ask a realtor about the upswing in homes being broken into and gutted of copper pipe and appliances or A/C units. Commodities are more rapidly becoming the only safe place to put your money as well as the basis of trade, so they also become very attractive to people trying to make a quick buck... or those who are just that desperate.

Sorry it's not a laugh. Just callin' 'em as I keep seein' more and more of 'em.

 

[Philbert]

This ad bugs the crap outta me. I get $100/ half cord delivered. . . . .

"I have cut, split and dried hardwood firewood for sale. $50 per cord if you pick it up, and $60 per cord delivered"

Are we talking 'half-full-cords' and 'full-face-cords', or are you sure that we are comparing apples-to apples?

Philbert

P.S. - If it's legit, you can save yourself a lot of cutting and splitting, and just be in the pick-up and delivery business for $150 gross profit/delivered cord!

 

[1harlowr]

Are we talking 'half-full-cords' and 'full-face-cords', or are you sure that we are comparing apples-to apples?

Philbert

P.S. - If it's legit, you can save yourself a lot of cutting and splitting, and just be in the pick-up and delivery business for $150 gross profit/delivered cord!

Looks like a great business deal to me. If it's full cords and you can pick up for $50 and sell for $200. I wouldn't run another saw or pick up a 75# round to split if I could make $150 per cord, heck cut your price by 25% and still make $100. Can't see the logic of getting upset if you really can get $100 per 1/2 cord.

 

[doobie57z]

I bet a dollar to a donut its not a full 4x4x8 foot "cord" he's selling.I'm tempted to order a few and have it delivered.