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leon

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Well its almost time to fire up the boiler
here at 1,140 feet above mean sea level.

Facts and figures.

X numbers of 24 mile round trips with a
small pick up and a two ton dump trailer-
(dump trailer still needs to have slippery liner installed).
Short stake racks installed but I can add stop blocks to
the long stakes make them taller(the two by uprights are the
full length of the pocket sleeves)

5 cylinder automatic 2 wheel drive.

His price:
20 dollars a pick up load or make him an offer
for the entire quantity.


Yellow pine blocks exposed to the elements for
three plus years and much more wood available-so he has stated.

The job looks to be about two log truck loads of
pulp wood quality yellow pine(one truck and a log pup)

To me; it is not worth more than $500 total as I have
to do all the hauling and loading with my truck and gas.
I spent $400.00 USD a month for 2 months in gas hauling the
23 cord white oak score last year.


No point in bringing the processor on site as the site is
exposed and as the volume would only increase=more trips
after the wood is split.

The yellow pine still has its bark, WOOF!!!
(I thought you would enjoy that Red Prospector)

There is the potential for the sale of Swedish Candles as well as
making paraffin soaked fat wood from the pine heart wood.
 
That amounts to what...12-15 cords of wood? That's a lot of shoulder season wood. If you have a market for the candles that might cover the gas getting the wood. If he's got it all blocked up, sounds like he was gonna use it and lost interest/demand for it. You might end up paying him for the priveldge of clearing up his lot.
 
That amounts to what...12-15 cords of wood? That's a lot of shoulder season wood. If you have a market for the candles that might cover the gas getting the wood. If he's got it all blocked up, sounds like he was gonna use it and lost interest/demand for it. You might end up paying him for the priveldge of clearing up his lot.

+1
 
did you bust any rounds open? Three years, got to be every stick has ants by now. Or it would around here anyway....

Five cylinder truck?? What is that?

Give him an extreme low ball offer if the wood is still good. Just keep telling yourself what a deal gas is, that it isn't ten bucks a gallon (which could happen overnight given geopolitical wildcard events)....
 
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