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D8Chumley
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KindredSpiritzz
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i'd do it, painting half a house might take you one day, getting that much wood cut and staged like that would take you a lot longer.
The owner of the wood is my father's best friend and the two guys are my father and brother in the pics ha.Yes I should probably take the wood for free to clean up the unsightly mess. But he "my dads friend" has the southern end of his house he wants repainted it will only be a days worth of work only about 600 sq ft. So I feel its not that big of a deal. And there is probably 30-40 full chord there and I will sell probably 10 full chord and recoop some money.
There is obviously a lot more factors than a "guy" wants me to paint his house in exchange for this pile of wood. Now, the guy is your father's best friend. That changes a lot of things. Heck, I would probably paint the house of my father's best friend, especially if we are only talking 600 sf, for free if he bought the paint and supplies. Of course, I am pretty close with my dad and his closest friends. That isn't the case for everybody.
Being that you are painting the house of somebody that is your dad's best friend, there is that much wood in the pile, you can make money selling the wood, and you seem adamant about doing it (i.e., shooting down everybody that says do not do it because they make new chains every second of the day(lol)), I say just go ahead and do it. That one day of painting will seem like nothing if you are processing 30+ cords afterward. Buddy and I spent about 5 half days of work to process 10 cords.
End of the day, you know more about the friendship, etc. than we do, so there is a lot more at play other than "does this make financial sense".
I totally agree with the thought that the pictured landing is a mess and he should be greatful that someone is willing to clean it up. But I'm greedy and want the wood ha. So I found out more monday about the painting deal. I spent 4 hours there scraping off peeling paint, spot priming and painting half of my total responsibility. So taday I will go back for less than four hours and finish up the task at hand then the wood is all mine.
And no there is no time limit on the wood, just mother natures rotting it. As kindredspiritzz stated having it staged is definitely a big help because skidding all that wood is very time consuming and it saves beating up the little JD.
Please keep us updated with pictures. I will be very interested in seeing your work progress.
Congrats on the score.
Congrats on the score.
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