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Workman Problems - Advice again, please
Oct. 21st, 2011 06:23 pmI still can't win for losing.
The lightning-struck tree was cut down. And although I went with the recommendation of someone who is very particular about their property, I've got several problems.
1) I wanted the mulch. I didn't want a huge pile of untreated mulch left right next to my wooden house. (So close that it's cutting off a walkway and an area with obvious tire tracks.)
2) I specified wood cut into firewood lengths (with one exception) and stacked behind the garage. What I've got are massive cross-sections of trunk tossed randomly behind the garage.
3) The exception to chopping/mulching was to branches between 1-3 inches in diameter (and this was written INTO THE CONTRACT.) I intended to sell that wood for walking sticks and wands. It was all turned into that mulch I have to move. The guy running the contract has offered to bring me other branches; I'm not quite getting it into his head that the sales deal was for *lightning struck wood* not just "wood."
4) Adding insult to injury, I pointed out the wonderful jagged part of the trunk where the wood broke off and told him that I wanted to keep that. He specified that the trunk be left 1 foot high to preserve it. The stump's a foot high all right... but you can see the mark of the chainsaw that started to cut it lower... cutting out all of the wonderful stuff that I wanted to keep.
I don't even have a picture of that part of the trunk. I was going to take it when it was the stump. I'm actually crying about losing that. It absolutely breaks my heart to have lost that beautiful, natural work of art.
Now... he's coming to talk to me tomorrow. I have not yet paid, although I do intend to because he did drop the tree. But he also abrogated one thing that we discussed face to face and one part of the contract as written. And I don't even know how he can make it right. What I wanted is gone and can't be given back or replaced.
Now what?
The lightning-struck tree was cut down. And although I went with the recommendation of someone who is very particular about their property, I've got several problems.
1) I wanted the mulch. I didn't want a huge pile of untreated mulch left right next to my wooden house. (So close that it's cutting off a walkway and an area with obvious tire tracks.)
2) I specified wood cut into firewood lengths (with one exception) and stacked behind the garage. What I've got are massive cross-sections of trunk tossed randomly behind the garage.
3) The exception to chopping/mulching was to branches between 1-3 inches in diameter (and this was written INTO THE CONTRACT.) I intended to sell that wood for walking sticks and wands. It was all turned into that mulch I have to move. The guy running the contract has offered to bring me other branches; I'm not quite getting it into his head that the sales deal was for *lightning struck wood* not just "wood."
4) Adding insult to injury, I pointed out the wonderful jagged part of the trunk where the wood broke off and told him that I wanted to keep that. He specified that the trunk be left 1 foot high to preserve it. The stump's a foot high all right... but you can see the mark of the chainsaw that started to cut it lower... cutting out all of the wonderful stuff that I wanted to keep.
I don't even have a picture of that part of the trunk. I was going to take it when it was the stump. I'm actually crying about losing that. It absolutely breaks my heart to have lost that beautiful, natural work of art.
Now... he's coming to talk to me tomorrow. I have not yet paid, although I do intend to because he did drop the tree. But he also abrogated one thing that we discussed face to face and one part of the contract as written. And I don't even know how he can make it right. What I wanted is gone and can't be given back or replaced.
Now what?
