BFR Mulch delivers?
The BFR
Mulch guy called this
morning saying he could only deliver us 6 scoops of
compost instead of the 9
that was mentioned last week due to the dump mechanism not being able
to handle the extra weight.
I was thinking it was still a
good deal that would save me from making 3 round trips to Norton. Add
the travel time with the time to unload each load and it equals up to
somewhere over a day's worth of labor. The delivery charge was going to
be 75 dollars.
I was very clear on the phone
that I needed them to cross a creek and requested the 4 wheel drive
Mitsubishi Fuso dump truck by name.
They made it as far as our
ford when they had to
stop and give up. It seems like someone decided to add a snow plow
attachment that shrinks the clearance down to a paltry 8 or 10 inchs!
I can see how they would want
to take advantage of this 4 wheel drive beast in the winter by pushing
snow, but why not install it so that you could unbolt it for the
summer? It was welded on and the only obstacle to getting the load back
to our garden.
I almost had them dump the
load out by our parking area, but decided that would be even more work
loading back on the truck and then unloading it at the garden.
The driver was a nice guy and
apologetic about the handicapped truck.
"I guess most people don't
live this far back in the woods anymore these days?" I asked the guy
while we puzzled over the problem at the creek.
I felt bad about sending him
back with the full load, but even felt worse over the wasted morning
with nothing to show for it. This still seems to be a good option for
mulch and compost delivery, just don't expect them to go up any sort of
hill or over a big bump.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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