Special Firewood customer calls again!!

O

OliverGuy

Well-known Member

• Nov 24, 2013

• #1

I take firewood to one of my customers with several special requirements you won't believe. This will be the third year. 18", 99% no bark, cherry with a little oak mixed in, whisk broomed off and for sure neatly stacked in a custom by me off the ground firewood holder. Some people just have too much money!

 

J

JayinNY

Well-known Member

• Nov 24, 2013

• #1

Just be glad to pick his pockets!

 

D

David G

Well-known Member

• Nov 24, 2013

• #1

Just charge the special price, no problems.

 

F

Formerly PaMike

Member

• Nov 24, 2013

• #1

I sell a good bit of wood. 99% of my customers want it just to burn for fun. No one actually heats with it...

 

C

Clodbuster

Member

• Nov 24, 2013

• #1

If he pays you well for the special order and the check doesn't bounce...he should be your favorite customer!

 

D

Dan T in MO

Member

• Nov 24, 2013

• #1

I have a customer requesting about 1/4 of a pickup load of green hickory. Since I just sold them a hog, I understand the request completely.

 

D

Dick2

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

I ran across a DVD yesterday that someone gave us; it was just a video of the flames in a fireplace that people could watch without having a fire in a fireplace. Just plain boring!!!

Told the wife to put it in with the next batch of stuff to go to Goodwill.

 

H

HillsofTn

Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

All that DVD needs is for Glade Air Freshener to bring out a "wood-smoke" air freshener spray. It sure would make things a lot easier!

 

F

FBH44

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

At our Utilities warehouse annual Thanskgiving lunch feast, the parts gal has a flame-fireplace video she sticks in, makes a real homey nice look. We all like it.

 

A

Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

how much are they payin you for all that pampering?

 

M

mick in il.

Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

How long does it take to de-bark each piece?

 

OP

OP

O

OliverGuy

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

I've got a special spot in my pile for him. I take any bigger cherry and it gets cut one or two years ago to 18" and then we split it with a 3 pt splitter to get as much heartwood as possible. The bark and outside go to my house!! Amazingly it burns just fine! His is only for a nice fire while football is on Saturday or Sunday. No heating going on here. Sure is a beautiful uniform pile when we get it stacked!

 

W

Wile E

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

What does this picky guy pay you to do all of this?

 

R

Russ from MN

Well-known Member

Location

Bemidji MN

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

One way to get him to share the wealth! I harvest quite a bit of elm for our own use and I like to leave it stand dead until the bark falls off, makes for clean wood and fewer ashes.

 

G

gtractorfan

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

You mean you don't make him a stack like this? Slackered... LOL!

 

R

RodinNS

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

I hope you charge 1000 per cord for the screwing around.
I'm not to sure I'd bother even then...

Rod

 

OP

OP

O

OliverGuy

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

Close to a level pickup load for $300.

 

S

ss55

Well-known Member

• Nov 25, 2013

• #1

That is a lot of fire wood from just one tree! Thank you for posting, I needed to smile.

 

3

36 Coupe

Well-known Member

• Nov 26, 2013

• #1

People who demand custom work are not wrapped too tight but they seem to have the money to pay for things they want.