I agree with FS, I would (at a minimum) file complaints against them with the Better Business Bureau. What they are doing is illegal.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Couple more scraps this evening. It's cold enough that I'm still burning so these got dumped by the OWB to be burned this week. I don't do that with full size rounds or wet wood, but this stuff is ready. 
KiwiBro
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Okay so I owe you all some pics, and then perhaps Sensei Dan can (see what I did there?) decide if I have progressed to '1st Dan'
first of all a progress pic. most of the oak/chestnut/leylandii delivery that was short enough has been split and stacked, and getting the splitting done on the large Pine delivery. 2.5m3 or so stacked there now ( a cord is ~3.5m3)
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the wall is south facing and its been gorgeous here for the last week or 10 days so its drying fast and already settled enough to squeeze another row of splits under the windows
Some of the pine has been big enough to test my splitting, a few rounds approaching 30" and some from the trunk splitting into 2 leaders. The stihl maul persuaded some and the rest I remembered the 'flake it off the outside' technique, or 50p technique as I think of it (our 50p coin is a septagon and the round getting flaked reminds me of that). only a few unsplitables being added to the 'need the saw' pile on the right.
So when outside splitting a bit for my daily lockdown exercise yesterday a neighbour across the street told me of a house around the corner 'a load of trees' were being dropped. He said he'd spoken to the tree guy about me so it should appear. Just in case I took a walk around the corner and found the place just as the occupier was coming out so I checked it was ok and then went back once my girls were in bed with the car. My wifes little runabout (Hyundai i10) was on the drive in front of my vRS in the garage and I'd seen the pile wasn't that large so.....
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yep it wasn't a big scrounge....but you'll notice the car is down at the back....very
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very very.
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I thought Hawthorn, but I learnt it is pear. Bloomin' heavy though.
Had to squeeze the last few bits up front
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maybe 1/2 a cube, maybe just under.
Then while outside this morning to take the photos and unload....the tree guy pulls up. And as well as aking for my contact details as he is local and would like to tip more with me he dropped a bit of leylandii he had in the truck!
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So more wood and best of all a second new local contact in a few weeks. I'm doing better under lockdown than normal! perhaps because its so quiet I can hear a chainsaw running anywhere nearby....but more likely because more and more neighbours know I'm the weirdo that collects logs. I've probably got half the year's supply replenished already, way ahead of where I'd normally be atthis point, and I've got 2 new contacts. yay!
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Hey Neil,
This guy deserves a medal:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...om-moore-raises-12m-nhs-completes-garden-walk
This guy deserves a medal:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...om-moore-raises-12m-nhs-completes-garden-walk
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The more I have thought about iit the more likely that is going to happen. It can't be coincidence. How many people are just signing on the line because they're happy with the payment without looking at what's going on with the actual price?
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Think of the people you could be saving from that sort of behavior in the future if you report these scoundrels now.
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Reminds me of my dad taking the back seat out of ma's 68 rambler ambassador to haul home a stud POA pony. Around "71" twas.
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Always last minute up the interest rate or tack on charges. Roll it into financing. Not much changes in the car world.
One memory brings up another. And this one tangentially connected to firewood.
It might have been 1976, we were living in an 1850s farmhouse (as we were when I killed the VW van hauling hay). The place had no electricity or plumbing, which was fine as we lived a 19th-century lifestyle, home-grown, with our garden and barn mostly feeding us.
But we depended on a '64 Chrysler Belvedere (slant-six--a bullet-proof engine) for transportation. Great car--you could lift out the back seat, put down some construction plastic and hay, and haul livestock, calves, goats, hogs, what have you. We nicknamed that car the "green limousine," because it was a smooth runner next to my 62 Chevy 3/4-ton.
I got a job that winter working as a milking hand for a nearby dairy farmer. Had to be at his barn at 5 a.m. for morning milking, then 4-ish in the evening for evening milking.
We had severe winters up there next to Canada, and while everyone else up there had an electric plug hanging out of their front bumper to power the block heater, I had nothing to plug it into. In order to start an engine at 20 below zero, I came up with an ingenious plan.
Waking in the morning, first thing I did was to rake the overnight coals from my woodstove into an aluminum pan--a turkey roaster. (Hot pads and gloves were necessary) Carry that thing out and slide it underneath the oil pan of my Chrysler. Twenty minutes later that thing was warm enough to start.
I was so proud of that arrangement.
I
It might have been 1976, we were living in an 1850s farmhouse (as we were when I killed the VW van hauling hay). The place had no electricity or plumbing, which was fine as we lived a 19th-century lifestyle, home-grown, with our garden and barn mostly feeding us.
But we depended on a '64 Chrysler Belvedere (slant-six--a bullet-proof engine) for transportation. Great car--you could lift out the back seat, put down some construction plastic and hay, and haul livestock, calves, goats, hogs, what have you. We nicknamed that car the "green limousine," because it was a smooth runner next to my 62 Chevy 3/4-ton.
I got a job that winter working as a milking hand for a nearby dairy farmer. Had to be at his barn at 5 a.m. for morning milking, then 4-ish in the evening for evening milking.
We had severe winters up there next to Canada, and while everyone else up there had an electric plug hanging out of their front bumper to power the block heater, I had nothing to plug it into. In order to start an engine at 20 below zero, I came up with an ingenious plan.
Waking in the morning, first thing I did was to rake the overnight coals from my woodstove into an aluminum pan--a turkey roaster. (Hot pads and gloves were necessary) Carry that thing out and slide it underneath the oil pan of my Chrysler. Twenty minutes later that thing was warm enough to start.
I was so proud of that arrangement.
I
I’ve heard of that around here too...people have an agreement, sign the forms then they get the coupon book for the loan and the payment is 100 bucks a month more.
(that posted before I was finished)
I was so proud, thought I had it all worked out. A neighbor was trying to start his car one morning as I rolled home from milking, and he asked me "What do you take that thing to bed with you?"
I was proud till spring when I found out that the heat I'd been supplying beneath the oil pan was too great and I'd cooked the oil, ruined it. That car was trailing blue smoke by spring.
You learn a lot the hard way when you're young.
I was so proud, thought I had it all worked out. A neighbor was trying to start his car one morning as I rolled home from milking, and he asked me "What do you take that thing to bed with you?"
I was proud till spring when I found out that the heat I'd been supplying beneath the oil pan was too great and I'd cooked the oil, ruined it. That car was trailing blue smoke by spring.
You learn a lot the hard way when you're young.
In the late '70s I was working for a neighbor building fence one spring. Harold was famous as a trader. If you had one left shoe he'd find something to trade for it. We had to stop work one afternoon while he made some kind of deal, and wound up sending away a guy with a pony that he shoved into the back seat of a Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth something-or-other. It's an image I'll never forget.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention! Likely, if you had synthetic oil back then, all would be OK.
Took Cowlad out to the farm again this arvo after work to get into the leftover blue gum rounds. I split and he loaded. It is a good arrangement.
Stihl have a bit to go with these ones, then there are some more from the other day's cutting too. I figure on another 3 loads and some clean up of bark and sticks and junk and stuff.
There was also his choice of drinks in whatever size he wanted at the bottle-o afterwards.
Stihl have a bit to go with these ones, then there are some more from the other day's cutting too. I figure on another 3 loads and some clean up of bark and sticks and junk and stuff.
There was also his choice of drinks in whatever size he wanted at the bottle-o afterwards.
Frustrating couple days. Have been dealing on a couple Ford Rangers. Yesterday I had an agreed on price on an XLT, then at the last minute sales guy says I need to bring 1200 more in down payment cash or add 1200 to the financed amount. Politely said thanks, but no thanks.
Today the same thing at another dealer. Had a price in writing on a Lariat that I was going to take. They wrote up the finance agreement for $1250 more. Again, I said not going to do that.
These are not fees, additional interest, or taxes, they just boldly tacked an additional amount into the financing. It's partly the extra $1200~1250, it's more the underhanded way they're trying to tack it on.
The old F250 will be around a while longer
Thanks for a venue to vent my frustration
When I bought my last new car (2005 ford) I told him no extra service contract. He filled it out, flipped it over for my signature and there was the $700 service contract written in. I shuld have picked it up, torn it and thrown it in his face but I wimped otu and had him redo it.
Leaping lizards, car salesmen are snakes over there. We have bought three new vehicles and each time we got what we asked for, for the price we were quoted. I was planning to pay for the Suby by bank cheque but the bank closed earlier than I was expecting (a Friday) and the boss salesman said "That's ok, take the new car and fix us up next week" !!! We had taken the Suby predecessor there for servicing for several years, but stihl! We made phone calls to the bank head office and made arrangements for them to be paid by EFT before we took the car, I wasn't going to leave in the new wheels without paying.
They were all country dealers, Subaru, Holden (GM) and Ford. Might be different if we were buying BMWs down in the big smoke, who knows.
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