smokinjay said:szmaine said:So "alot" of poplar turned out to be some poplar - I'd say a cord or less. So I managed to get $80 off the cost but I won't be calling these folks again anyway.
The driver was pretty surly and afraid of possibly getting stuck on the dirt road to our wood area and the only place he could be convinced to put it was at the top of our driveway where we usually park. He sunk a divot in the admittedly in not good shape to begin with hot top - my husband thought he was quite considerate to bring boards to put under the stabilizers but as it turned out he had taken them from a bunch of 2x8s that were leaning against the barn without asking and broke one in the process.
We do have boards he could have used if he had asked. Sheesh!
I would say this is the reason more people don't sell to consumer's. Not knocking you but if that driver was to get that truck stuck and what home owner is set up for that kinda of truck....Nightmare! bothways.... :cheese:
Yeah, I agree he could have been stuck. We usually get our loads when the ground is frozen or in one case totally dried out due to a hot dry summer.
I'm trying to work on my husband about relocating the whole wood processing operation closer to the house anyway so that he doesn't have to wait for the road to dry out to process the stuff and then haul it to another spot (way at the far end of the property from the house) to dry, then haul it to the house to go in the attached shed as he does now. If we cut out a 150x100 section of ratty old trees he could have a spot to do everything all in the same place (and only 25ft from the wood shed) including having the wood deliveries there..we'll see.