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<blockquote data-quote="Grandpa" data-source="post: 981163" data-attributes="member: 14666"><p>On my 190 acres, there is one 42-acre patch of thick timber, mostly post oak. I can barely walk through it with the trees and briars and don't even consider going in during the summer. A guy who is a church elder and has a firewood business asked if he could cut some. I said yes, it would thin it out and get some grass back in there; even showed him what trees to cut, basically 2 of every three trees. He promised to clean it up and stack the brush where I could burn the piles. He did that faithfully until his last load, then conveniently left the brush scattered where it was cut. I got that mess cleaned up. The next year he came back and asked to do some more, so I chewed him out about his workers' mess and he promised to make it right (Yes, I'm a slow learner). This time he put a non-English speaking hand to work and told him to "stack the brush", which the guy did, right under the trees. Burning the brush there would have started a forest fire. Took me a week with my tractor and loader to get that straightened up. Don't know how many dozens of cords he cut and hauled out for free, but I didn't ask for my key back; I changed the locks. :dunce:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grandpa, post: 981163, member: 14666"] On my 190 acres, there is one 42-acre patch of thick timber, mostly post oak. I can barely walk through it with the trees and briars and don't even consider going in during the summer. A guy who is a church elder and has a firewood business asked if he could cut some. I said yes, it would thin it out and get some grass back in there; even showed him what trees to cut, basically 2 of every three trees. He promised to clean it up and stack the brush where I could burn the piles. He did that faithfully until his last load, then conveniently left the brush scattered where it was cut. I got that mess cleaned up. The next year he came back and asked to do some more, so I chewed him out about his workers' mess and he promised to make it right (Yes, I'm a slow learner). This time he put a non-English speaking hand to work and told him to "stack the brush", which the guy did, right under the trees. Burning the brush there would have started a forest fire. Took me a week with my tractor and loader to get that straightened up. Don't know how many dozens of cords he cut and hauled out for free, but I didn't ask for my key back; I changed the locks. :dunce: [/QUOTE]
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