Cybercowboy |
02-25-2018 6:50pm |
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Originally Posted by datawiz
(Post 1615807)
WAY easier to cut that thing up. I don't see the need for distress. :confused: Looks like you won the lottery.
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20 years ago roughly, bought a lot to build our house on. Two huge oak trees right where the house goes, so big they didn't take them with the other trees that were cut down. Two giant logs sitting on my property during the initial stages of construction. Finally I asked my contractor what was the deal with them. He said "Well, I hate to tell you but it's going to cost about $800 to have them hauled off." I was not happy to hear that. Told him to hold off for now.
Later that week I was checking on the house as was my daily ritual and a couple guys in a pickup came from a few houses down. They were doing an engineering study on this house with drainage problems, a local engineering firm logo on their company truck.
"Hey, you the property owner?"
"Yes, why you ask?"
"What are you going to do with those two oak trunks?"
"Get rid of them, hopefully."
"We can take them today."
"Oh, how much?"
"Nothing, we'll just take them off your hands."
"That works for me!" :lol:
No kidding, an hour later they show up with a semi/flatbed with a crane on it. They load those two logs up, chain them down, 10 feet+ sticking out from the back of the flatbed, and side-by-side were as wide as the trailer. Later I asked them what they did with them. They said they sold them to a local wood mill, got a couple thousand for them.
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