Should I feel bad?

[higginscl]

Saturday I had a guy stop and ask if I sold firewood. He sees my stacks every day and had been wanting to stop and ask and finally did so. I said well I don't but if you want some Ill sell some I guess. He just wanted to use it for his fire pit so I gave him enough to cover the bottom of a short box truck. It was all cottonwood that I gave him and charged him $25. He seemed very thankful but I felt bad just giving him nasty cottonwood.

 

[blujacket]

The only problem I see is you have Cottonwood in your stacks

 

[higginscl]

The only problem I see is you have Cottonwood in your stacks

Right after I posted this I was wondering who would be the first one to say that.

 

[teutonicking]

The only problem I see is you have Cottonwood in your stacks

No worries, I think it belongs in a fire pit. Now you can replace it with some better wood. A win win.

 

[Jags]

Yes you should feel bad. I would have charged YOU a $25 dumping fee.

 

[ScotO]

Right after I posted this I was wondering who would be the first one to say that.

Dammit, blujacket beat me to it!!

 

[blujacket]

Dammit, blujacket beat me to it!!

 

[ScotO]

 

[Woody Stover]

Does it burn hot and fast? Might be good in the fire pit; I use a lot of Pine for outside fires....

The only thing you did wrong was not giving him a good enough deal so that you could have gotten rid of all of the Crottenwood.

 

[higginscl]

Does it burn hot and fast? Might be good in the fire pit; I use a lot of Pine for outside fires....

The only thing you did wrong was not giving him a good enough deal so that you could have gotten rid of all of the Crottenwood.

Im almost ashamed to say it but if I gave away all my crottenwood id be down to almost half of what I have accumulated so far. On a bright side my tree service guys just dropped off a load with some honey locust and maple about half and half. But of course there is the obligatory bunch of crottenwood wood that always seems to end up on the truck but ill take the good with the bad.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

You can burn cottonwood with no problems. It's just not a good wood for burning during the cold nights when you need a longer fire. You did fine.

 

[Locust Post]

If the two of you agreed on the price and he didn't care what he was getting you did fine. You would have felt bad if you gave him some good hard wood that you may need this winter. No harm no foul.

 

[firefighterjake]

Seems fair enough . . . especially since this was a wood that would work well for a fire pit. I suspect he probably left thinking he got a decent deal with a fair amount of wood at a fair price compared to what he may have paid at the local grocery store for the plastic wrapped stuff.

And yeah . . . it may have been a low value wood . . . but it is still future heat and you did put the same amount of labor into processing it and getting it split that you did with all the rest of the wood.

In the end . . . all that matters is if both you as the seller and he as the buyer felt they had a fair trade of money and product.

 

[amateur cutter]

Jake is right on. Did it cost any less time & money to process the Cottonwood? Trees on the ground are yardwaste till somebody gets em bucked, split, & stacked. A C

 

[Paulywalnut]

If he didn't know anything about wood types he probably wouldn't appreciate oak or ash anyway. You actually did him a favor.
When burning that cottonwood his fire pit will be blazing. Not very long but blazing.

 

[Wood Duck]

I prefer lightweight woods like Cottonwood for fire pits. It will burn fast and hot, you get to add logs to the fire often, and it doesn't create tons of coals that are hard to extinguish.

 

[bigbarf48]

I like cottonwood for firepit use. Sounds like a fine deal to me!

 

[Hills Hoard]

he sounds like a happy customer!! help your fellow wood burners out when you can because i've read some great stories on here about very kind people helping us out with wood.

 

[bogydave]

Seems fair enough . . . especially since this was a wood that would work well for a fire pit. I suspect he probably left thinking he got a decent deal with a fair amount of wood at a fair price compared to what he may have paid at the local grocery store for the plastic wrapped stuff.

And yeah . . . it may have been a low value wood . . . but it is still future heat and you did put the same amount of labor into processing it and getting it split that you did with all the rest of the wood.

In the end . . . all that matters is if both you as the seller and he as the buyer felt they had a fair trade of money and product.

+1
Sounds like both parties are happy.
Great deal.

 

[billb3]

poplar and white pine is preferred firepit wood here in back yards and campgrounds.
It burns quick which is usually what you want and need. A quick hot entertaining fire for a couple of hours and then go to bed.