A half finished job

[Hedge Monkey]

13 hours ago, doobin said:

Are you an employee or a contractor??

This has clusterfk and falling out with everyone written all over it.

The owner is a friend and my main employer. The option is there for me to get a few loads of firewood out.... if I want to. I'd be paid an hourly rate, as per usual. 

 

It's taken a while to dawn on me that the whole problem stems back to the fact that the original owner fell behind with the thinnings. The ash is on a hillside, needed to come down and there's no space to fell cleanly. 

 

I think the best thing to do given the situation is log up anything that's safe and easy to pick out and not get over involved. There's 50 more acres of woodland to worry about, with good access and good timber to extract. 

[Hedge Monkey]

13 hours ago, coppice cutter said:

Personally I'd love to be getting in there and getting stuck in.

 

If it was my day job and getting paid for it as well, heaven!

 

Good luck and enjoy your work. 👍

 

 

I reckon its whatever I want to make of it. Could be a worthy side project, will have find out! 

[oldwoodcutter]

I’d have to think long and hard before I jumped in. 
At least I’d get some prices off a proper forestry harvesting firm with all the big kit to see what’s what.

Theres been more falling out, and friendships broken getting tangled up with this kind of work scenario than anything.

[Hedge Monkey]

3 minutes ago, oldwoodcutter said:

I’d have to think long and hard before I jumped in. 
At least I’d get some prices off a proper forestry harvesting firm with all the big kit to see what’s what.

Theres been more falling out, and friendships broken getting tangled up with this kind of work scenario than anything.

Yup, good advice, I'm not going to get overly involved at this point. Whatever the outcome, researching this has been interesting, finding out more about forwarding and looking at various tools and options. I've been looking at log arches and atvs on YouTube but won't dive in with all my savings just yet 😅