I've seen several members stating a 2'dbh tree yields a cord of wood. My question is on height? We aren't blessed with a lot of straight tall trees. Curious if that figure is just based of the trunk or an average of trunk plus limbs?
Its based on harvesting down to 4" diameter according to this chart. Ive CSS certain sized trees and its pretty accurate, but as you state there are variables. Estimating Firewood from Standing Trees - UC ANR
Is he the one cutting the trees down and bucking? If not, and it’s you that does that labor I would charge HIM only $10 a tree. That way it’s a wash. Deals I have done with property owners around here wanting trees cleared is I cut their trees and remove and I get the wood. (They clean up the slash) No money involved. Barter type deal. I scratch their back, they scratch mine. But if it’s extra nice wood and/or large trees and you feel it’s worth it then go for it. If you were to pass it up and then feel regret you’ll know it’s a good deal.
When we were hooked on oil, Miss July would just send the oil company regular payments (in advance) and then we didn't get a huge bill all at once. They never complained...
My buddy delivers our oil. When i put the wood stove in i told him i hoped I'd never see him again...lol I'm using less than a quarter tank a year. That $10 per tree deal is really lookin good right now!
It will be me doing all the labor. He didn't want the trees down neccesarily. Everything will be dozed and burnt anyways. I think he was trying to be a nice guy and offer a stranger an opportunity to get a bunch of primo firewood and make a little cash in the process. I do wonder why he hasn't listed it for a real firewood company. Unless they wouldn't pay to do it. I'm heading there this morning and plan on taking some pictures for y'all to see.
You may wanna make friends outta this guy. You wanna be his first call next time & he'll have buddies that may have similar properties. Can't wait to see the pics. Make sure you ask about stump height etc. The more pertinent questions you ask the better the odds of more scores.
We have discussed stump height. 18" and 48". The shorter height for the area getting grubbed. 48"for fish cover in the main pool area.
Well, i went today. I think i may need to fall back and punt. Most of the accessible large hedge are in a row. An overgrown, barbed wire backed row. The plan of dropping trees, cutting them at 12' then loading them is more than likely not gonna work for 80% of the timber. I spent a good half hour cutting the overgrown thorny limbs away just to get to the trunk. There may be 6' of straight wood. The rest in twisted and knotted up. I'll include some pictures so y'all can maybe see what I'm working with. Still had a good day though. There is a picture of a cottonwood in there too for fun. The one i did manage to get cut up was 22" dbh. It was actually technical a branch.
I fixed your pics Gavorosalini … I can help more if needed. Yep- unless you want to do a whole lot of untangling, I’d have to take a hard pass on that too.
I usually post them as thumbnails and most peoples come up as thumbnails. I am on a phone though. Ive noticed when I turn my phone sideways all y'alls signatures show up. But not when holding it portrait style.
Yep working a hedge row is work. Good wood, but quite a bit of work involved and time involved. Still worth getting a few out of there IMO.
Cutting Osage isn’t for the faint of heart that’s for sure, I found it best to use a pole saw to prune away the stickers & low hangers so you aren’t getting your self scratched up & disrobed while working on them, do about 4-5 at a time. Then fell them and use your polesaw to top them out. Also I would cut some of them into fence posts if you are so inclined. An 8’ line should yield you $15 & a 10’ corner should get you $25 - $35 each then firewood everything else.
I've gotten (mostly) red maple from a ditch next to a cranberry bog. It was "free", but it was a PITA. It was fairly cold, but not every place in the ditch was frozen, which was nice as all the trees had been cut a year or two prior to stop shading the bog, but they were all also in the ditch where they fell. Some frozen in, some not. Got about two cords out of it plus it was delivered to the house for free, but I don't think I would volunteer to do it again. It was sort of a favor to someone that had also let us cut some dead standing oak near the bogs. If we hadn't also gotten the oak (we were clearing trails for them as well) I would never spend time in bog ditches again. It was for a lady that had inherited her father's cranberry bogs, which had not been maintained for a few years and she was trying to grow cranberries to pay the taxes on the property.
Great wood. But, I can "get" the trouble of harvesting hedge. We never have osage orange as "nice" as those. Ours are shorter and more gnarly.
