Anyone want this job in Croydon?? Oak logs

[topchippyles]

12 hours ago, essexjack said:

£250 left on this job in Croydon does anyone want it

A MANS GOT TO KNOW HIS LIMITATIONS (DIRTY HARRY) ?

[Rough Hewn]

[emoji23][emoji23] take its this is a job to learn from , shame that no one want the wood for fire wood.

Learning curve mate.
Ignore the wind ups on here.
There's always another.
Big solid trunks are always worth posting on here.
I regularly buy trunks off Arbtalk l.
Play it smart next time..
Offer the log for free milling if you get a slab.
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[Big J]

22 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

I regularly buy trunks off Arbtalk
 

 

Yeah, but that's not gone so well for you in the past though has it? ?

 

Edited March 15, 2020 by Big J

[nepia]

11 hours ago, essexjack said:

take its this is a job to learn from , shame that no one want the wood for fire wood.

Er - did you get my PM?

 

But I'm not fussed or desperate!

[HuntingHicap]

So you are offering £250 to whoever takes it away?

[Rough Hewn]

 
Yeah, but that's not gone so well for you in the past though has it? [emoji38]
 

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[Dan Maynard]

Learning curve mate.
Ignore the wind ups on here.
There's always another.
Big solid trunks are always worth posting on here.
I regularly buy trunks off Arbtalk l.
Play it smart next time..
Offer the log for free milling if you get a slab.
[emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

... and to be completely fair, if you also said at the beginning nobody who has ever underpriced ringing up a big tree need take the piss it would have been a very short thread.

Mine was 36" slightly punky poplar though, so a lot lot easier to cut than that lump of oak.

[openspaceman]

15 hours ago, Jack.P said:

looks like £550-£600 job to chop ,take away and tidy.

whoever does it a big snow shovel will come in handy for all that sawdust 

 

 

I would have been happy to finish that off for firewood if it were a little closer and £250 would easily cover the cost of disposing the sawdust. That looks about 4m3 of solid wood and would sort all my logs for the coming winter.

[openspaceman]

16 hours ago, MattyF said:

by the filings around the vice and the cuts.

That's most likely iron from the chain that's filed off and reacted with tannin in the oak.

[Mick Dempsey]

Imo, nothing wrong with a bit of piss take, I’m sure the OP is ok with it.

 

Most of us will have been in the same situation, I know I have.

 

What it shows that if you had a mini loader, or the hire of one, you’d be home and hosed with the money in your pocket.

 

There has to be a market for a guy with a small loader on the back of his van (trailers in London are a pita) subbing out to tree blokes, who arrives in the afternoon to help load this stuff, or drag branches to the chipper.

£250 for a half day.

Edited March 15, 2020 by Mick Dempsey