Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[DianneInVA]

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[PhysAssist]

Hi Bullitt,

Thanks for the info and link.

Have you [or anyone else here] ever done business with anyone from that Ali Baba website?

I'm always kind of leery of buying from there- it kind of strikes me as like buying from Harbor Freight without any safeguards or local store presence to return things to.

 

[PhysAssist]

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Hi Diane in VA,

Your links were dead end-s when I tried them.

 

[DieselBound]

Hi Bullitt,

Thanks for the info and link.

Have you [or anyone else here] ever done business with anyone from that Ali Baba website?

I'm always kind of leery of buying from there- it kind of strikes me as like buying from Harbor Freight without any safeguards or local store presence to return things to.

Alibaba is just an Amazon/Ebay. The merchant/vendor/manufacturer of the products are separate. The Alibaba ratings are kind of superficial. I transacted for my collapsible wire crates (which I use for storing my firewood) through Alibaba. Managing the shipping was the difficult part (big learning curve), but the manufacturer was great to deal with.

 

[PhysAssist]

Alibaba is just an Amazon/Ebay. The merchant/vendor/manufacturer of the products are separate. The Alibaba ratings are kind of superficial. I transacted for my collapsible wire crates (which I use for storing my firewood) through Alibaba. Managing the shipping was the difficult part (big learning curve), but the manufacturer was great to deal with.

Hi DB,

Thanks for the info, does the site manage/mediate the payments too, or did you/can you use PayPal or something like it to keep your CC info separate from the vendors

Thanks again,
Thomas?

 

[DieselBound]

Hi DB,

Thanks for the info, does the site manage/mediate the payments too, or did you/can you use PayPal or something like it to keep your CC info separate from the vendors

Thanks again,
Thomas?

Supposedly they have an arbitration, though I am sure there's still risk. There's a time limit and that limit gets a big chunk eaten out of it due to shipping. I paid via wire transfer; I believe that the clearing bank was a US [major] bank (and that's how it should always be if you're wiring from a US bank?).

Do lots of research on any company you're looking to deal with. I was skeptical pretty much up to the point that I knew my goods landed: at one point I was so frustrated that I'd have been fine to just write it all off as an "experience"- and, really, like anything with a gamble to it you have to figure whether you can absorb a total loss.

If I had further business with the company I dealt with I'd just do it direct: I have established trust with them (one contact- I keep in touch with). I wouldn't mind doing some importing from them if I could establish a market for their product: once I'm all set up with my operations it should help.

Being in the PNW shipping costs are decent. No idea what you'd be looking at to get something all the way over to NY: you really need to understand your costs (shipping costs for me were more than the goods themselves- heavy metal stuff).

PM me if you have any further questions (don't want to derail this thread more that what's already been done).

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My helper came over today, and after taking care of several "other" jobs I needed to get done, we cut this load of "mostly" oak,

I'm working my way to a HUGE blown over red oak, and we will be to it S N! lol

SR

 

[andy1981]

Cut a few firewood logs for the "hunting cabin"

 

[escavader]

Sawing up wood I dragged out last winter with the farmi.hoe makes it much quicker and cleaner sawing up the rounds 5 cord one day by myself!

 

[motownbrowne]

Sawing up wood I dragged out last winter with the farmi.hoe makes it much quicker and cleaner sawing up the rounds 5 cord one day by myself!

Very nice!