dry wood and I stress this big time. the ONLY way to get the great burn is with dry wood. for any producer to have dry wood it is VERY unusual. if wood is left in a pile anywhere, people (find) it. think because it has been there for a while that the wood has been abandon and there for ok to take it.
I had a load in the woods. hooked to the tractor and chained down. some week end campers came over from their property. got about 10 or so smaller logs off the top of the load and dragged them to their camp site.
when i got there monday they were gone of course but this is a example of what we are working with. soooooooooooooooo we do not leave wood anywhere unless it is absolutely necessary .
when producers load it and take it to their yard it takes money. adding to the cost. customers that wait untill november/december and are finally shure that winter is coming this year, then want dry wood. here is what I tell them. aint no easter bunny. no santa clause and no dry wood.
if you want dry wood and this is the only way you can insure that fact is buy it early. buy enough to be a year ahead. and be smart and stack it so when you use it the dry for next year isnt trapped in the shed behind the green wood you are going to put in there.
(side ways) stack it in rows from front to back or on either end of the shed. like the wind shield wiper. it goes bak and forth. NOT up and down. just be smart about it and do a wee bit of planning here.
frost laws—- these are load limits imposed on our trucks in the spring. when the earth under the black top is froze hard and the road way or black top is starting to unthaw. when something heavy goes over the top it rolls the top like a pie dough roller. it brakes the bond between the two and then the black top starts to crumble. that is what it is all about. the fines are there to make shure that dosnt happen or the truck can go with 35% less load and 35 mph max speed.
totally counter productive for us to even think of delivering wood in the spring. repeat “COUNTER PRODUCTIVE”
I dont do it. fyi. lack of planning on your part dont constitute an emergency on mine. delivered a load yesterday. 12/10/10 it was 9 degrees. used two 300 thousand btu salamanders . one on each side of my truk motor. left them there for a hour. started it. then spent two ours thawing out brakes that somehow had ice in the lines and the valves that let the air work were all locked up.
put those two heaters plus a propane fired weed burner that blows a blu flame 3 ft long and a foot wide under the trailer and flat out cooked everything for another house. had angle worms under there thinkin it was spring. thought i even saw a dandy lion starting to bloom. anyway. four solid hours of screwin with equipment. why.
cuz a guy discovered he was going to be serious short for the winter.
the one thing that kinda bugs me is nobody. absolutely no body wood do this for me. soooooooooooo as the wood guy that trys to get er done. please have it so when i walk outside and get in my truck with my cut offs on. and am delivering wood real early in the morning to avoid the heat of the day. oh boy. what a major difference it makes in my life. and in reality yours too. no plowing your location. I can maneuver really well and put the wood where you (need) it. not anyplace i can even remotely get it. oh yeah. much much better.
oh. putting on chains is a sweet deal to. a absolute necessary act to go anywhere when you have 60 thousand pls of wagon and wood behind your horse. here is a couple of picture of a little 300$ mistake i made when I thought the drive was wider than it was because of a (optical delusion.) the snow on the weeds is the same snow that was on the drive way but the weeds were in a 3 ft ditch and it just looked like drive way. should have got my lazy ass out of the truck and looked but totally looked cool.
all my customers that order their wood and have it a year ahead do so much better.
as for the money. what are you going to do with the money in the bank and the boiler is out of fuel. supply changes dramatically at times. this new ( economy downturn ) they call it. I call it a flat ass depression. has removed so many producers from the supply side it is not funny.
they are disappearing at a high rate of speed and more people are switching.. ( PAY ATTENTION TO THIS) SUPPLIERS ARE DISSAPEARING. not good. in the town of luter there were 10 producers. now we have 2. a one horse guy and a monster producer. that can do wood like crazy but they do pine. where the money is. when they go to oak. its a runaway coal train so i gotta have my duks in a row and blow it outa there as fast as i can.
customers need to be ready and able to take it on sudden notice when this happens. when you order ask about timing.. some are retired and a 24 hr notice is fine.
sometimes i have a customer that is too something and i cant get in theri driveway. something. i call the next guy in the area. think and plan for this. it helps the whole deal. communication, cooperation works all the time
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