The Picnic Bench
Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 2:21 am
This is a true story, just happening now.
About 10 or more years ago i bought a real good picnic bench made by 'Sylvan' who lives about 29 miles away at the north end of Kootenay Lake. It is 8 feet long and 6 feet wide to outside edge of the benches. At the time he asked me if i wanted cedar or fir. I said cedar because to move a fir table of that size would require forks on a machine, neither of which i have. So Sylvan delivered this fine heavy large cedar picnic bench in a trailer behind some very old 4x4 pickup. That is 20 miles of driving a mostly single track road with drop offs in most places of 100 feet or more. There were 4 guys to help unload it. I asked Sylvan how much i owed him and he said "well would $125 be o.k. ?" Now i could not see $125 as even paying for the cedar lumber and he was delivering it as well ! Anyway, i paid him a fair bit more than he was asking.
All that was at least 10 years ago. I have planted quite a few deciduous trees on this piece of mountainside in the last 40 years and many are now large enough to have a picnic bench underneath. I called Sylvan about 2 weeks ago and asked if he was still making picnic benches. "Ya, sure" was his reply and i asked for 2: one big one like i have and one smaller so that i can move it for siting in 22 or crossbow. And again he asked "You want cedar or fir". Again i picked the cedar.
I will be going past Sylvan's place on Saturday so i gave him a call to say i would drop by. My intention being to pay him if the picnic tables are made.
I asked him how it was coming with the picnic benches. He said "Oh, fine. Ya, it's all good". then he went on: "You know Roger ?" to which i replied "no". "Sure" he said,"you know, the tall skinny guy, logger, been her about 20 years" Oh " so i talked to Roger. he's going to get me 2 nice big cedar trees and bring them here tomorrow. Then i'm going to make your picnic benches".
This is livin' on the edge.
kj
About 10 or more years ago i bought a real good picnic bench made by 'Sylvan' who lives about 29 miles away at the north end of Kootenay Lake. It is 8 feet long and 6 feet wide to outside edge of the benches. At the time he asked me if i wanted cedar or fir. I said cedar because to move a fir table of that size would require forks on a machine, neither of which i have. So Sylvan delivered this fine heavy large cedar picnic bench in a trailer behind some very old 4x4 pickup. That is 20 miles of driving a mostly single track road with drop offs in most places of 100 feet or more. There were 4 guys to help unload it. I asked Sylvan how much i owed him and he said "well would $125 be o.k. ?" Now i could not see $125 as even paying for the cedar lumber and he was delivering it as well ! Anyway, i paid him a fair bit more than he was asking.
All that was at least 10 years ago. I have planted quite a few deciduous trees on this piece of mountainside in the last 40 years and many are now large enough to have a picnic bench underneath. I called Sylvan about 2 weeks ago and asked if he was still making picnic benches. "Ya, sure" was his reply and i asked for 2: one big one like i have and one smaller so that i can move it for siting in 22 or crossbow. And again he asked "You want cedar or fir". Again i picked the cedar.
I will be going past Sylvan's place on Saturday so i gave him a call to say i would drop by. My intention being to pay him if the picnic tables are made.
I asked him how it was coming with the picnic benches. He said "Oh, fine. Ya, it's all good". then he went on: "You know Roger ?" to which i replied "no". "Sure" he said,"you know, the tall skinny guy, logger, been her about 20 years" Oh " so i talked to Roger. he's going to get me 2 nice big cedar trees and bring them here tomorrow. Then i'm going to make your picnic benches".
This is livin' on the edge.
kj
