Dave Hinz wrote:
So share the misery - saunter over to the neighbor, sigh, and say
"Shame that you're getting 100 dollars worth of heat out of a tree
that would have got you 500 bucks for lumber wood..." and walk away.
No reason for you to be the only miserable one.

I think you're letting him off to easy. You could say, "Ya know,
cherry sells for between 6 and 10 dollars a board foot. That
makes each of those wedges worth about $5-7. Let's see, you got
20 chunks times 6 splits, that's 180 wedges or so, times 5-7,
that's about $900-1260. Then there's the large branches and the
part after it starts to branch, Yup, you've prolly got $2000 worth
of cherry there. Ya know, a cord of wood goes for about $60,
seasoned, which this isn't. Too bad ya went and wasted all that
expensive wood. At least it'll make the grill cook tastier.
'Less you were just gonna throw it in the fireplace.

The math doesn't have to be exact, just high enough to give him
that sick feeling.

Dave in Fairfax
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