The Bovine Bugle

A welcome sight after a winter using expensive bagged sawdust

Much to my delight, we had a load of bulk sawdust delivered to the farm today. We had been waiting since last November for a load. Yesterday I had made a bunch of phone calls including one to my sawdust supplier to make sure he hadn't forgotten us. About six weeks ago when I called he had said maybe 2-3 weeks. So when the truck pulled into the yard the day after I called I was really surprised.

The truck holds about 2,000 cubic feet of dry sawdust. The price today was $750, almost $100 dollars more than the last load. The stronger Canadian dollar and high fuel prices contributed to the higher price of the sawdust. It took the driver about half an hour to unload the sawdust, stopping twice for me to push what he had unloaded into the storage bay. Once the driver was on his way back to Quebec, I finished pushing in the sawdust, rinsed the dust out of my mouth and eyes, and headed back to where Karen was still working on a section of fence we were fixing when the sawdust truck arrived.

--Jonathan, Howmars Farm
Franklin, Vermont

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Posted by Blogger Chris at April 19, 2005 10:10 AM