A logger cuts a tree which contains, let's say, 600 board feet. He'll haul that to the mill and they'll say it contains 550 and try to pay him for 500. He'll pay you a portion of the 500 and charge you for fuel costs. In the end, you and the logger will have paid the mill fifty cents a board foot to take the log off your hands. Just kidding. but my father in law had a logging company and my uncle ran a sawmill. The father-in-law claimed the uncle cheated him on the scale. The uncle claimed the father in law was always trying to dump crap wood. The log seller thought both were conspiring to cheat him! At any family gathering, I liked to ask leading questions to stir them up. GD
