Never see stuff like that around me. More like they want you to pay them to cut their trees and clean up the brush. Sometimes I feel like calling and when they pick up just laugh non stop and hang up.
That's exactly how I met my Tree Service Guy. Answered his ad and that day, 16' dump trailer load. He has them loaded width way, so I always end up with a bunch of shorties.
That's still close to 100 miles away from me. Someone will get a good amount of firewood logs for free.
I think it can be kind of a catch-22. Tree cutting companies like this that will deliver wood for free are typically in cities. People in cities a lot of the time don't use wood for heating. Thus drives companies to give this kind of wood out for free. Tree companies more out in the country won't deliver wood like this for free. In the country areas is where you have more of the wood burners and especially those that will cut and split the wood themselves. Even some of these tree companies located in these areas will use this to make and sell firewood. Just a theory. ;-)
Around here it's suburban, or country. The real country folk cut their own trees down, or keep the wood if it's beyond their skill/ equipment level and hire it out. I'll see ads for free wood in the big city, Milwaukee. But in the big city of Milwaukee, the tree service don't have to haul it away. They just set it on the curb and people take it. That's the way it appears at least. Maybe it depends on the individual municipality whether the wood can be left, or had to be disposed of?
I’ve noticed the exact same thing. All the good free scores are sitting on asphalt In a urban area. I’m surrounded by woods, but you couldn’t get a stick dropped off at your house to save your life. Tree guys here would just laugh. You can make your own firewood from trees like I do, or buy it in logs or presplits.
Very shortly (like a few nights) after buying my truck I went for one of those just-bought-a-new-vehicle-so-I-need-to-go-for-a-drive-after-dinner-to-test-absolutely-nothing-just-want-to-drive-the-damm-thing drives......and almost crashed when I saw this. It took like 10 truckloads and those were some giant rounds of spruce but I took almost all of it. It was the motherload just sitting right there on the side of the roads. Yee haw!
In the small city I live in the tree debris dumps charge by weight. Some guys that have land around the city charge $25-60 for a wood dump. Some tree companies/guys have land to dump some don’t. A big area tree service takes all their wood to a guy outside the city. Don’t know if he charges, but I hope he has a mill and commercial splitter, because they make a bunch of wood everyday. For whatever reason a lot of tree guys have substance abuse issues and I can see one of them asking for money to dump wood at your house.
I made the mistake of splitting one round by hand on site and thinking it was going to be ez street. Boy was I wrong. I ended up getting 2 wedges, 2 mauls stuck in that pic I posted, and broke two mauls (neither of which were mine) when my buddy came to "help"...and instead got both his mauls stuck. It was hilarious because I told him "Pick an ez piece, don't pick a knotty one" and he ended picking the knottiest, nastiest, dirtiest round in the entire pile!!! I had to use the log splitter to process the spruce. That was actually one of the reasons why I got the splitter. That and pin oak......impossible by hand. The spruce was green.
Don't you love it when everything you hit it with just sinks in and gets swallowed! I got some pitch pine last winter, split a little, but let most of it dry out a bit this summer. It's still tough.
I burned some blue spruce for the first time a couple weeks ago in my stove. Be careful if you're burning that in your open fireplace as I noticed that stuff pops and throws embers violently sometimes.
Horrible! But yes, I did spruce her up pretty good with all new gear oils. Tranny oil, engine oil. U-joint grease, android auto stereo, dash cam and radar detectors hardwired...and some side bar steps. 9nce I learn how to weld a little bit better I'm going to build a headache rack.
I had a spruce taken down in my yard. The maul would hit the round and sink in like a wet sponge, not even a whimper from the round. Only wood I ever needed a splitter on.
I don't know what's worse, wood that is like spruce and won't split after the maul gets stuck in it, or wood like elm that will have the maul bounce off of it. Spruce would be easy to split if it didn't have 8 bazillion branches off of the trunk
I had an axe head break off and bounce back into my forehead. I don’t remember what I was trying to split, but it was the last time I used an axe for splitting.
