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To have expected logs to be stacked?

206 replies

Changerazelea · 05/10/2017 17:55

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?

OP posts:
RavenLG · 06/10/2017 01:05

YABVU.
So you have a baby? What if every customer had a baby / puppy / poorly gran / dying fish?

Next time, ask for delivery and them to be stacked but pay them for their time instead of acting entitled because of your child.

theoldtrout01876 · 06/10/2017 01:06

as someone who has just spent 8 hours moving a winters worth of logs off my driveway and stacking them YABVU

Though about 3 years ago I had a company offer to drop the wood on a pallet in my back yard ( 8 gazillion feet of plastic wrap holding it all on the pallet). I couldnt use it as the pallet wouldnt fit through my gate. Plus it was twice the price as one of them had to stack it and wrap it before drop off.

SunWindSun5 · 06/10/2017 02:38

Logs are never stacked, just delivered

NewLove · 06/10/2017 02:48

In my eight hour shift

Good for you doing an 8 hours shift - try 5 back to back 13 hour night shifts. Is my cock bigger than yours?

BoomBoomsCousin · 06/10/2017 05:18

Since it takes 2 hours to stack the logs, then yes, even with a babe in arms, YABU to expect when it isn't a normal part of the service. If it were a 2-minute job I would have a lot more sympathy for the idea.

haveacupoftea · 06/10/2017 05:22

You have a tiny baby and you left him to scream while you spent 2 hours stacking logs Confused priorities...

elfinpre · 06/10/2017 05:34

I don't understand why people are having logs delivered? We just go and buy a sack from Homebase for our fire and keep them in the living room. No stacking, we just keep them inside the coffee table box thing. There must be an awful lot of logs for two hours of stacking. And an awful lot of space to store them. Why buy so many?

thenewaveragebear1983 · 06/10/2017 06:07

Because if you have a log burner those bags from homebase would end up costing about £10 or more fire a fire. We pay £80 for a huge white builders bag that lasts around 10 weeks.

thenewaveragebear1983 · 06/10/2017 06:08

*for a fire

(It's too early to be up!)

Evelynismyspyname · 06/10/2017 06:13

elfin two cubic meters lasts us the while winter - big saving in fuel costs over driving to buy a bag that only lasts two fires (in practice I used to heft 6 bags and fill the boot every couple of weeks but that's still a waste of petrol and a big faff).

Bulk logs are cheaper by far as well as not having to be collected using multiple car trips, even ours which come on a pallet and are delivered into the garage, so don't need stacking.

We have fires 6 months per year (we live somewhere with more extreme seasons - we always get snow and double minus digit temperatures in winter but summers are also hotter) and have oil heating, which is expensive. We dont have to use the heating much with the log burner though.

OnionKnight · 06/10/2017 06:22

You paid for a delivery, not a delivery and log stacking service.

Why is that so difficult to understand? Hmm

flumpybear · 06/10/2017 06:23

Stacking logs was one of my jobs as s kid .... abs hate spiders ... loads of spiders on logs Shock

Evelynismyspyname · 06/10/2017 06:31

flumpy we used to have to go to the sawmill with DF as kids and fill the trailer, drive home and unload onto the log pile, so effectively stack twice Shock in that respect OP has it easy Wink

I hated it (not because of spiders) though and am glad we get ours on a pallet (which isn't plastic wrapped at all btw, it has thin wooden struts keeping the logs in, which we also burn).

Where we live it's a legal obligation to shovel the pavement in front of your house clear when it snows - I used to have to do that with a baby in a sling and a toddler in a snow suit "helping" if it had snowed again after DH left for work, or he just hadn't done it as he leaves very early.

Nobody expects people to need massive help just because they have a baby, most people work around it by using a sling or just leaving jobs til the baby naps or a family member or friend can help. It isn't easy I agree, but doesn't mean that people do your domestic work for you for free!

Wrap slings are great - you have to do things slower, but I never left a baby to scream in my life.

CamperVamp · 06/10/2017 08:14

So, log stacking adds £30 to the delivery cost, or is built into the price.

Now you know Smile

JonSnowsWife · 06/10/2017 09:25

Still don't think it is beyond the realms of possibility that the delivery driver could have offered helped me stack the logs.

Of course it's a possibility. But providing you with two hours free labour when he has rent and bills to pay like the rest of us. YWBU.

If you want the extra service you pay for it.

limitedperiodonly · 06/10/2017 09:27

It's not my fault you chose the wrong job NewLove. Take it up with your careers teacher

dangermouseisace · 06/10/2017 09:41

Homebase/supermarket logs are shite that's why- usually difficult to burn/high moisture content and clog up your chimney with soot.

You have to pay the log person to stack (if they offer that).

When my kids were little I used to get kiln dried logs delivered in nets- just stacked them in the nets...lot quicker.

TeachesOfPeaches · 06/10/2017 09:47

I got my Ocado delivery and was OUTRAGED that they didn't stack my cupboards with the goods I bought. I have a toddler ffs!!!!!

Witsender · 06/10/2017 09:48

Never buy from a shop unless in dire emergencies, rubbish quality and so expensive! We tend to get through two or three cubic metres over the Autumn/Winter which is at £70 a bag is less than the equivalent in shop logs I'm sure.

MujosMama · 06/10/2017 09:54

Sorry OP I know it's crap - my son is now 4 months and I learned very quickly that he could go in a sling and leave me both hands free to get stuff done. I've had supermarket deliveries where they will only bring the bags in as far as the porch even though I was obviously feeding the baby when they arrived, and when he was really tiny (about 2 weeks) we had some flat pack furniture delivered which again they just set down in the porch and I had to carry through and stack. It's just a fact that unless you pay a premium the delivery drivers are on a schedule and you'll be left to deal with what's there, baby or no baby. If they had offered to carry stuff into the kitchen or put things away that would have been great but I would never ask or expect them to go over and above their brief. Apart from anything else, I know in the case of furniture the liability for damage transfers from the driver to you when they deliver it, so if they were to damage the item moving it through my. house as a favour they'd technically be liable I guess. Maybe it's the same if the driver stacked the logs wrong and damaged them then it would leave them open to a claim?

headintheproverbial · 06/10/2017 10:06

YABU unfortunately. As everyone else on the thread has told you!

A quick 5 mins help when you have a tiny baby is one thing but this sounds like a big job and I'm not sure why you think him running an hour late (or whatever) is justified. Lots of people have babies...

JonSnowsWife · 06/10/2017 10:35

I've had supermarket deliveries where they will only bring the bags in as far as the porch even though I was obviously feeding the baby when they arrived,

It's not in their remit though! Confused a lot of them aren't even allowed to cross your threshold in the first place. It's not part of the service!

He/She is on a schedule. Given the nature of the DCs schools and what I have to do. If I leave here at 8am. I am late. I got most disgruntled the other day when my delivery driver was late. No traffic - nothing they were just sauntering along. If I could have still been hanging around at 8:30am I'd have booked the slot between 8-9 in the first place!

Some people on this thread appear to have this befuddled notion that you will be the only delivery for that driver that day!

Slarti · 06/10/2017 10:44

Stacking, when offered, is usually a separate service with a separate charge. Tbh I find the stacking to be half the fun (the other half being burning them) but I can appreciate in your circumstances that is not the case.

Slarti · 06/10/2017 11:08

Also why couldn't you wait for a more convenient time to stack them, or wait for help?

TheEmmaDilemma · 06/10/2017 12:44

Some of the comments on here are hilarious.

Just nip down Homebase for a £10 bag. Hmm

Most people are buying several cubic meters to heat their homes, not a bag for a pretty fucking fire.

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