Had to dispose of some hemlock from a job today. Spied this pile of silver maple. Helped myself to the nicer pieces. Unloaded at storage and bucked to size. Lots of wood mcnuggets, common by product of scrounging precut logs. Those got split and added to the current bin for them.
Your first picture had me thinking you found honey locust and I wondered why you would say silver maple. But then I saw the rest of the pictures.
Im allowed to scrounge. He has actually loaded cedar logs into my PU with the payloader. He is the boss and only one there. Been told i could cut too, but dont go often enough to do so. They are only open three days a week and shut down from Mid January to mid March. I had a little chat with him and the other day only four vehicles showed up in an eight hour day. maybe ill go back before they close. I didnt check around back where the commercial guys dump. Only other wood was a mess of assorted softwoods.
Its nice to have places to check. We have a couple here. When I need something to cut, even ss wood, I know where to look.
Maybe I’m all alone on this, but I would have kept most of that hemmy too. It has all died off on my property and I miss it this time of year especially.
I have burned some , it burns fine. A little on the quick side but good shoulder season or fire starter wood. Still have a few pieces in the piles .
Hemlock SUX to split . . . dozens of little branches. The splitter just makes a twisted mess outta that stuff. If it was noodled or smaller diameter branches that would work. I'd take a load of Spruce over Hemlock any day.
I dont normally hoard softwoods and dont have room to store it. Wasnt my cutting either. My customers BF had bucked it and they moved the brush. Im sure there's a few PNW members yelling at me too!
Lots of non burners dumping there as well as landscapers and tree services. From the way it was dumped id say a landscaper with a dump bed.
I’ve noticed that too! That’s a great score! Last time I was there, it was just some really big rounds and some were pretty buried in there. I’m kinda surprised that they didn’t have a lot of people there after all the wind we had last week. And I’ve even seen some landscape crews around CT last week with blowers on their trailers driving around. Late fall cleanups I suppose.
