Haste makes Waste

[Sixacresand]

Got a call on way home from Mississippi asking me if was interested in some pine trees at a site for a new house.  After I got home and unloaded, I rode down to meet the guy and look.  There was already a dozer there pushing them (and dirt) into piles. Most were 15" or less at the base and some would have had  some potential.  I just told him I didn't have the time and equipment to retrieve logs from a pile and certainly was not going to pay him for them.  Haste makes waste.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Ahhhh.......you're belly was full from the Chickin Crisp'n. I wouldn't have got the logs either.  :D :D :D

[mesquite buckeye]

Besides all the dirt and dangerous conditions, lots of times they are cracked inside from the shoving. I hate dirt pile logs. >:(

[giant splinter]

You did the right thing, he might as well cut and split them on the spot and build a firewood drying shed along with the house. It just takes to much time to clean them up and as Mesquite says .... the logs get fractured from the pushing and shoving along with the dirt and rocks in the bark.
not even worth it for free if he delivered them.            Good Call

[Peter Drouin]

To bad, that's the lazy way to log with a dozer like that

[bandmiller2]

Just as bad are trees pulled down with an excvavator,life is too short to mess with that crap. Frank C.

[Sixacresand]

I pick out a few nice trees that I could get to.  Today, I sawed off the root balls, limbs and tops and got them ready to drag out into the open for parbucking onto my trailer. Before I take a tractor down there, I need to make sure the owner knows I'm not paying for his logs.  He has already been rejected by a logger due to small tract and tree size.  So, What I don't get will rot or be burned and I can certainly live without them and save my back. 

[woodmills1]

dirt guys dont like trees
tree guys like dirt

[Sixacresand]

Well it turned out  that since I was the only one expressed any interest his trees, the owner loaded my 2 axle trailer twice with his FEL.   I mill one 18' log which yeilded 6 nice, white, knot free 2X4's.  A big deal for a small timer like me. I'm tickled: Rafters for the porch.