Laurel woodchip saga

[Mick Dempsey]

My answer is never try and help out members of the public. People ask for a log for an 'art project' , you end spending 15 minutes with them choosing then have to lug it into the car for them. Offered a free tip site, find out there is no access and has to be wheel barrowed, etc, etc, etc! Its never easy.

 

In the OPs case - 'I didnt have any laurel on my chip pile and certainly didn't allow anyone to take any'. 'If you have the persons name that would be great as we deal with all thefts via the police.'

 

I'll agree with that.

 

Many years ago my old boss and me were working in Dulwich for the council.

We were loading some wood onto the transit and a guy came up and said "leave those logs there, I'll pick them up later"

My boss said "just load them on the van"

He explained that in all probability the guy wouldn't return, then the council would phone him up and wind into him about leaving wood onsite......

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Yep..... The job would be a good deal better without the customers at times, I'm on a downer with the lot of em at the moment! Bloody PITA!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/use-wood-mulch-save-planet.html

[Ty Korrigan]

Complaints about woodchip I get are...

It's not very pretty (expecting the same little golden squares you get when bought in 70litre sacs or from Kelloggs perhaps.

It's rotting!...

(It's supposed too)

I bought woodchip from you and it didn't last long...

(Ah but I see your back again though)

I don't want anything too acid...

(Here is a bag of lime then)

You infected my garden with mushrooms!

(These are the babies working on your chip Madam, feeding your plants and inoculating your soil)

Have you chips that are lighter in colour than these...?

(They brought a colour chart with them...)

 

Free wood also got a client a letter of warning from the Mayors office as we dumped it roadside of the property for a free wood collection for a bunch of useless expats who never turned up...grrr!

Next week we are removing it all and more as there is another biomass job in town so it can be dumped on site to all go for chip.

 

Ty

[Ironbark]

Have you chips that are lighter in colour than these...?

(They brought a colour chart with them...)

 

That's ridiculous. I have a colour chart for tea, but not wood chips

[Ty Korrigan]

Oh, yes, this couple had their landscape architect insist on poplar chips only.

They visited in Summer when the trees have leaf and so the chip goes black and mouldy within days.

They then asked for chip without the leaf.

I said "Come back in Winter"...

I then chipped up some cypress and cedar stems, no leaf at all and called them back.

This they rejected because it's 'acid'...

I can in fact supply large clean poplar chip from a landscape supplier but I re-sell that for between 50 and 80euros m3 depending on quantity.

Not surprisingly, I don't get many takers and people usually fall back on my mouldy old chip pile regardless.

Ty