Admittedly, whenever I see someone on here scoring something from their local dump I get a little envious. The way my town transfer station works, all brush and/or wood gets tossed over a Jersey barrier and falls 15 feet down to a collection point below. NO SALVAGING signs posted everywhere. I was there this morning dumping a load of brush from a spice bush I cut down yesterday and saw these nice rounds below. Friggin’ MULBERRY! Bucked to length and the perfect size to work with Oh well, can’t get them all I suppose. For those of you who can score from their dump, hoard on. I’ll live vicariously through you
Kinda makes ya wanna cry...especially as its mulberry. I would cry. Havent been to my dump in a while and he now charges me to dump brush as he figured out im a business. Have to make a recycling run by months end. Maybe ill bring a saw.
I'm guessing town workers get their firewood that way. I see piles of splits here, on town property, not far from the metal transfer station.
I live along the blue ridge parkway. I see all kinds of great firewood go to waste every year became the US government has a ban on the use of chain saws on parkway property. Beautiful straight grained oak maple and locust just rot where they fall. If a tree blocks the road they saw it and drag it out of the way. The parkway would look better and be easier to mow if the would issue permits to wood hoarders like me. I’ve asked and was told no. A rules a rule. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Have you ever just asked? Wouldn’t surprise me if the people that run the place think it’s a waste too. Of course Bristol May be a little busier than smaller towns and that would come into play. I see a looong pickaroon in your future
I haven't asked anyone yet. Usually the only worker I interact with there is the guy running the scale every time I come in or leave. He seems reasonable enough but I don't think he has a say in making exceptions to the rules. I think I'd have better luck parking just outside the entrance and flagging down truck drivers hauling wood, offering to take it off their hands before they go in, saving them dumping fees. BUT.. if one of the city worker union thugs catches me encroaching on his business, I might end up in the East River with a pair of cement shoes
Yeah I second the notion to ask. If that operator doesn't seem like the guy to make the decisions, ask for the foreman's phone number and/or call the town directly. Every time I go to the dump I make sure to text the foreman and let him know. He knows I don't go there everyday and that I'm not running a business. Every time I scrounge - whether residential, industrial, or commercial - I always get permission and in writing (text or email) for CYA purposes.
Can't like that post. What a waste. If this was a regular occurrence, I'd come up with some sort of grapple to winch those logs on a trailer. The BRP is an awesome road! Wife and I rode it on 2 wheels a few years ago. EPIC!
Maybe my Mulberry fetish can be satiated after all: Free hardwood firewood - free stuff I'll check this out on my way home later today. Hopefully it's still there.
Wasn't me That's alright, there will be other scores. I'm not exactly going into panic mode over here when I look at my stacks
HAHA the Locust Baron better not have snuck in and high tailed it back down to the shoreline... I better go check his stacks tonight
It's a shame the wood that gets wasted everywhere. Down here they are clearing the median on the interstate. Bigger logs are cut for timber, everything else is chipped and spread... Other places clearing lots, pile up a big burn pile. Then you have the logging crews that cut logs, pulpwood and another crew comes in and chips everything left. Almost eat off the ground. Migbt find a few butt cut offs laying around....
