Destroyed Fence and garden bed = 5 trees worth of free firewood!

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rustybumpers

rustybumpers

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Free (debatable) firewood score. My neighbor hired a questionable tree service to cut down 5 significant evergreens - two doug firs for sure and three white pines (I think). Short version of the story; their cutter dropped a tree on my fence and crushed my raised garden bed. To compensate me the tree service rebuilt my raised bed and gave me all the wood from the 5 trees in exchange for the loss of my fence and time. I was more than OK with the trade. The fence was at least 30 years old and my 2 year could have knocked it down. It badly needed to be torn down anyway. It would have take many truck loads and many weekends to go scrounge this many rounds. The poor tree service so poorly underbid the job that they ended up walking away from the project before all the clean up was done. So I had to buck up about half of the trees - they dropped them in 12 to 40 foot sections. Anyway, this should keep me in the splitting hobby for a few weekends! Enjoy the pics!
 

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Wow, that looks like some good-sized trees and quite a bit of wood! I've had some Red Pine that was tough to split due to a lot of branches. Will those bigger trunks be pretty easy to split?
Was there anything in the bed or is that just tree debris? Looks like they were pretty close to missing the fence, unless some of that trunk is already trimmed off...
 
New fence plus firewood. I'd say you turned out very well on that one.
 
uggh......We just dropped two huge white pines at a job, all went flawlessly but being a tree removal guy myself, boy there are a lot of things that can go wrong. It pains me to see what happened here, as it can happen to the best of them. And to hear the poor fella that did the job UNDERBID it, and lost his a$$ on it, pretty much. It should make him think a little extra on the next job, if he gets a next job!
 
No one got hurt. ;ex
You got quit a bit of firewood out of the deal. That's a plus.
Nice scrounge, & the wood was "CLOSE" :)
 
Sounds like the same tree service I used about a month ago. They dropped a tree right over my ~125ft long dog run cable. Snapped a guy wire and bent one of the upright posts almost 90*

I had to "rent" my saw to them too cause they showed up with NOTHING other than a pickup truck. This was a licensed, bonded, insured tree service too, not some random person off Craig's List.
 
nate379 said:
Sounds like the same tree service I used about a month ago. They dropped a tree right over my ~125ft long dog run cable. Snapped a guy wire and bent one of the upright posts almost 90*

I had to "rent" my saw to them too cause they showed up with NOTHING other than a pickup truck. This was a licensed, bonded, insured tree service too, not some random person off Craig's List.
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and they didnt even have a saw? should have told them to take a hike..
 
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That's a little too close for comfort! At least you were able to get the best end of the job! Nice fir!
 
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Scotty Overkill said:
nobody touches my chainsaws but me.........NOBODY! >>
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Only one who touches mine is Dad because he taught me 30+ yrs ago.Not much now he's almost 83 though he still likes to watch me work occasionally,sharpen a chain for me & bring me a thermos of ice water or tea. I treasure those moments,they wont be around forever.
 
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Good story to wrap up the thread Thistle. Enjoy those moments.
 
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I had a wood cutting buddy ask to borrow my saw today. I did hesitate, because he doesn't own one himself. I still feel like I should say no, but he does help me get wood every now and then, and given me wood from his lot before. I think this is only the second time I loaned this saw out, and it's 20 years old.

I loaned an older saw out 10+ years ago to a different friend, and it never started again when I got it back, even after I took it to the shop. Not sure what he did to it, but it acted like it was flooded, and it was toast. That same guy asked to borrow my mini van a few years back. I said emphatically, NO! I sold the saw at a garage sale not running for $15 to someone that said they can get it going again.
 
I'm right there with Scotty and the general hands off policy HOWEVER I do have a short list of trusted friends/family (about 3 people on that list, >>) that I wouldn't hesitate to hand over the saw to. Cutting up a dead pine today I handed my 034 to my BIL cause he was into bigger sections than his MS250 was comforable with.. I was less than 20 ft away but it still was wierd hearing her roar without my hand on the trigger. He was trained by me so I guess that makes it okay. :confused: Most of my friends have no issue with me running their saw. A lot of "oh it always does that, maybe it needs......" :rolleyes:
 
Ain't but about two people I know that I would hand my saw too. Both of them also run good sized stihls. (one has a 390 and the other runs an old school 066).
 
I loaned out my saw to my good friend and got it back missing a nut for the bar and when I started it it raced like it was on fire and then never started again.
Brought it a shop and he said don't waste your money, piston had hole in it and cylinder wall scorched. Must have ran straight gas even though I gave him a can allready mixed.

Since I got this sthil I've been asked a few times by different people to borrow it and I answer with a big fat NO

we are still friends just not STHIL friends;)
 
I found out yesterday that my neighbor is having a bunch of trees taken out. There's one that could hit my wood shed...I hope it does.
 
I got all but a dozen of those rounds split up over the weekend. Even with a splitter that is a lot of work. Ibuprofen is my friend today!
 

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I got all but a dozen of those rounds split up over the weekend. Even with a splitter that is a lot of work. Ibuprofen is my friend today!
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Nice work. How do like the vertical splitter?
 
I like the vertical splitter. This one I rent can be run horizontal or vertical. There is no way I could lift half of these rounds up to a horizontal splitter. The kneeling/bending over gets old but its better than lifting rounds.
 
Woody Stover said:
Wow, that looks like some good-sized trees and quite a bit of wood! I've had some Red Pine that was tough to split due to a lot of branches. Will those bigger trunks be pretty easy to split?
Was there anything in the bed or is that just tree debris? Looks like they were pretty close to missing the fence, unless some of that trunk is already trimmed off...
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No they aren't hard to spltt with the 22 ton splitter. But they are heavy to roll over to the splitter. :)

Luckily we had not planted anything in the raised garden beds yet.
 
rustybumpers said:
I got all but a dozen of those rounds split up over the weekend. Even with a splitter that is a lot of work. Ibuprofen is my friend today!
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Are those splits for the Revere? They look longer than 18".
I've been plugging away for several hours a day at my pile of rounds, trying to make room in the processing area. Thankfully, they're not quite that big. Been splitting the easier stuff (straight White Ash and Red Maple) by hand but I may have to fire up the splitter today for some gnarly chunks and some assorted semi-dry Oak...
Turmeric seems to be helping... :)
 
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