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Article #251Re: Firewood costs
From: D.Hu
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 00:00
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G.C. wrote: > > In article <32D34C4F.7D61@xl.ca>, dhu@xl.ca says... > > > >bretjohnston wrote: > >> > >> I am doing a survey of the price of firewood across Canada. Your E-mail > >> would be appreciated. Please include the following: > >> - cost of cut and split cord (4'x4'x8') > >> - hardwood, softwood or mixed > >> - dry or green > >> > >> I will reply to all with the results... > >> > >> Bret > > > > Free! Neighbours dropped a few mature trees around my place > >over the years and teenagers went around the blocks asking if anyone > >wanted the rounds. I took quite a few and split them, dried them > >and chopped them. For free! One was yellow cedar and one was spruce. > >These trees were sickly and all the leaves have turned brown. > > > > I felled a sickly 35' cherry in the back yard and gave that to > >my neighbour across the street. > > > You gave(choke) cherry wood away? Are you aware that most > fireplace owners would think they'd died and gone to heaven, > if they had cherrywood to burn instead of cedar or spruce? > Methinks you should trade some of your dried, split, sparky > burning matter for the "good" stuff.:) > HAHAHAHAHAA.... At the time it wasn't funny. But the neighbour DID die a week after picking up the cherry chunks. Hope he went to heaven. A heck of nice guy. He always came over to help when I was improving my lawn, pulling up yards of cherry runner roots from under the turf. [50 yo cherry trees on the boulevard in front of the house], or lent me tools that worked better than the ones I had. > G.C. -- Diana Hu Vancouver, BC <dhu @ xl.ca> Canada
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109a5e,604b9eb2993a2d92 X-Google-Attributes: gid109a5e,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,604b9eb2993a2d92 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 10a88a,604b9eb2993a2d92 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a88a,public X-Google-Thread: f67a2,604b9eb2993a2d92 X-Google-Attributes: gidf67a2,public From: "D.Hu" <dhu@xl.ca> Subject: Re: Firewood costs Date: 1997/01/08 Message-ID: <32D49965.6522@xl.ca> X-Deja-AN: 208793187 references: <32D2FE37.4413@ns.sympatico.ca> <32D34C4F.7D61@xl.ca> <5b1cbd$b81$5@noc.van.hookup.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: - mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: man.general,bc.general,calgary.general,can.atlantic.general x-mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I)