To have expected logs to be stacked?

[Changerazelea]

Had a delivery of logs today, delivery driver tipped them in my driveway and then proceeded to tell me "We don't stack love"
Spent the next 2 hours moving and stacking them into my garage while DS screamed and I berated myself for not being assertive enough to have insisted driver helped me move into garage.
Does common courtesy no longer exist? Driver seeing me with baby in arms surely should have offered to help...
First world problems but AIBU?

Babes in arms can also be babes in prams, cots or car seats . . . and they do sleep. I hope you've got the message that YABU on this one.

Did you have a 'baby in arms'?. It's just that you haven't mentioned it at all

I used to work for a tree surgeon

The bulk of the cost of logs that we sold was the handling involved. Cut down tree, cut and carry logs to trailer, unload, stack, split them cart to the trailer, deliver.... it all adds up.

The wood itself was a waste product. We had a couple of friendly farmers who would accept 6 foot lengths of tree trunk dumped in their yard for them to shift and cut. They got trailer loads them for free from us, it seriously wasn't worth the labour costs of all the handling.

We would stack wood for a customer, but at a cost. And not just because they had a baby. Most of our customers were either parents or elderly.

Is it unreasonable to have expected some help with a tiny baby in arms?

The thing is that his next customer might have wanted help because they had an arm in a sling. And the next one might have wanted help because they had a bad back. And on and on.

Next time you order, ask if the have a service where they stack them for you too. Some places will do it for you if you pay. But many places don´t, and dumping them and leaving is the norm.

Did you pay a premium to get them stacked?

Just because you have a baby does not mean someone else who has nothing whatsoever to do with you has to do things for you. He will ahve had other deliveries than yours. I suggest you find a company that will stack them and pay extra or wait for someone who does give a damn to do it.

Having a baby doesn't entitle you to free service - if it was a 5 minute job of moving a large parcel or whatever into your house it would be kind of the driver to take It, but an hour's worth of work is completely unreasonable to expect anyone to provide for free! Presumably he had other work to do that day. We get logs, they're always tipped onto the driveway, it's the norm.

Don't stress about it though, lesson learned and next time pay a company to do it for you.

Ours don't stack but they don't drop in the drive either. They use a wheelbarrow to take them to the woodshed but just tip them in there. If I'm in they'll bring a barrow to the kitchen door so I can take them straight indoors into log baskets.

It takes me more than two hours as I have to wheelbarrow them down the garden into a shed. It's not part of the contract I'm afraid. I pay for logs, not for transporting to where I want them and stacking, more's the pity. I've been known to pay a local lad to do it but it ended up costing £10 an hour and took 4 hours!!

They are delivery drivers, not log stackers

Did you try offering a financial incentive? I bet not and they definitely wouldn't do it for free.

What is with “babe in arms”as well? I mean. Babies can be “in arms”TIL quite an age. You’re making a mountain out of a log pile op.

YABU. Many years ago I came home from shopping, two babies in pram, to find the load of sand we ordered had been dumped on the drive, in front of our gates: which opened outwards! I had to climb over the fence holding one baby at a time, lift the prank over, get a shovel and shift the sand away from the gates so I could open them, then

Ours winch ours in in a white builders bag into the garage. We don't have a log storage. You could ring around to find a company who will provide them in bags, or arrange when you order for them to drop them at the rear or garage of your property for example. But no, I would not expect them ever to stand for hours neatly stacking your massive load of logs.

(Posted too soon!) then shovel the sand into a wheelbarrow and take it into my garden. Babies looked on while eating and drinking in their pram

If only it were possible to put babies down...
If only someone had thought to design a portable contraption that would hold a baby outdoors......

Yabu. We got around to our MiLs (60s) and all pitch in. Even children. The delivery company don't stack them!

I cannot abide the attitude if “I have produced offspring I am fluffy I deserve special treatment because... baby”

This has really gripped my shit. I have jumped and hauled logs and coal this evening after a fill day at work. My kids helped. I have kids and dog and cat.

I can’t afford the extra toget my logs and coal delivered so I go to the cash and carry place and collect it and hump the bags out of the car. The log man will deliver me a big white feed bag but I have to unload it to where I want it. He puts the bag in the driveway.

Seriously get a grip. You’re acting totally nonsensically. Get up and get on. And if you aren’t able because c-section or whatever then get the other producer of the baby to bloody do it.

Now I really worried I have been doing this all wrong - our are delivered in a plastic sack and I just leave them in there until I use them. They are not stacked or covered other than the car port?

Not sure he should lose money because of your reproductive choices. It costs extra for stacking in these parts.

It is outrageous for that company to just dump stuff on you OP. I doubt most commercial set ups allow that sort of thing with deliveries. You can't just dump stuff in a builder's yard and bugger off. Not if you want repeat custom. I think the firm and delivery man was taking advantage because you are a domestic customer/soppy woman and don't know.

Unfortunately you have fallen foul of the warriors on AIBU and shouldn't have been so entitled and little-womanish and instead, should have put your back into it and stacked the logs all by yourself or with the help of your hubby.

I had a fridge from John Lewis. The deliverymen didn't say: 'Here it is love. Plug it in yourself,' even though I could have. It was part of the service.

They are cheap, their deliveryman was rude and you shouldn't use them again. Do you live in London btw? Mayor Khan wants to ban wood burning stoves amongst other polluters and and I'm right behind him. They have been falsely marketed as a green alternative and are a menace. But I accept that you might live in a less densely populated area and that is not your point on this day. It's just a bee in my bonnet .

Ours stacks and very fast at it they are too.

Tyneside/South Northumberland folk may be interested in this log social enterprise supporting people with mental health issues and learning difficulties access employment.

www.thewoodfuelcentre.com

What a brave and witty lot you all are piling in on the OP for having made a mistake as to what was included in a particular service (and having totally accepted it when the delivery men left).

How hilarious it is to keep repeating the phrase "babe in arms" as though it's never been heard before.

I have never had my logs stacked. Log man usually delivers as close to storage facility as possible and leaves a heap. In the past I have stacked neatly but realised stray cats et al invade the open carport and create a log avalanche. Therefore, the last load was flung to the back of the carport as I felt a bit fragile being 70yo with mild angina.
Worst case I would cover with a tarp until they were moved by some borrowed muscle

If you order off argos, the washing machine price is the washing machine price. It’s extra to get it connected or the old one taken away.

This is the same.