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Re: Firewood costs

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From: D.Hu
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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From: "D.Hu" <dhu@xl.ca>
Subject: Re: Firewood costs
Date: 1997/01/08
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