The firewood supplier I've used for a number of years 'failed me' pretty badly this year, bringing me mostly marginal wood. I made some noise and they split the last pickup loads to smaller sizes... and I figured I would just have to make do.
I stacked the wood and - for the hell of it - measured the stacks... and there appears to be a real shortfall. Five truckloads should be close to 2.5 cords. If I've got 1.5 on hand, it's a stretch. I _might_ have burned as much as a half cord of what they brought me already, but I think that would also be a stretch.
I've trusted these people through the years and _don't_ think they'd deliberately short me. But it appears as if - accidentally - I'm a pickup load shy. Yet I have no way of proving it, and it might make for such bad feeling that they wouldn't supply me anymore... or even make up the <needed> difference in my winter's fuel supply.
Any suggestions on how to handle this?
Thanks...
Peter B.
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I stacked the wood and - for the hell of it - measured the stacks... and there appears to be a real shortfall. Five truckloads should be close to 2.5 cords. If I've got 1.5 on hand, it's a stretch. I _might_ have burned as much as a half cord of what they brought me already, but I think that would also be a stretch.
I've trusted these people through the years and _don't_ think they'd deliberately short me. But it appears as if - accidentally - I'm a pickup load shy. Yet I have no way of proving it, and it might make for such bad feeling that they wouldn't supply me anymore... or even make up the <needed> difference in my winter's fuel supply.
Any suggestions on how to handle this?
Thanks...
Peter B.
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