As shown previously we have stumbled across a sweet deal to get firewood. I actually offered to pay the owners something but they say they are just are happy to get it gone. A mile from home on paved roads is even better than the deal we had with the state last year which was about 5 miles up in the hills. What amazes me is the owners spoke with several people who expressed interest in cutting some wood there but nobody showed up to do it. Even before they stacked the logs, clearing a path to get to the bigger stuff (albeit a little more work) would have produced some small wood plenty good enough to burn. Perhaps they would have more interest in cutting now that some of the work has been done to ease the process but I don’t know. Not really complaining because it just means more for us but I don’t think it could get any better wood hoarding than this unless somebody did it for you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I scrounged a silver maple in 2018, 15 minutes from home. Access was great, Craigslist ad. I told the guy I couldn't believe nobody else came out to get it. People called but nobody showed. He said "people are lazy." To some degree I agree with him. If wood isn't oak or hickory and goldilocks size and back the truck right up to it, it might as well be on the moon. Their loss is your gain.
We don't have a ton of people burning wood around here, but the last stuff I hauled in,the landowner said the same thing. 2, or 3, people said they wanted to get some and literally cut 1 branch of 1 tree,till it got to about 10" diameter and then they quit. We could literally drive right to it, within 3 feet if a guy wanted. Ultimately, I think a lot of folks like the idea of firewood, till it's time to get firewood, cut firewood, or split firewood, then, they have zero interest.
I say don’t focus on others shortcomings and seize opportunity to hoard the heck out of the wood you have access to. There’s always going to be people like that, don’t let them occupy your mind long enough to be a blip on your radar. Kill these home owners with kindness and they will want you back, exclusively.
There are lots of lazy firewood burners out there, they snooze and loose. Unfortunately there is also always some gogetter out there who beats me to the scores about half the time! Dang his hide!
I have a better one. I once let a relative of my wife's cut some ash on our place. They liked to skid the logs into the open before bucking it. I even let them use my dray. Once they left some logs and I figured they left them for me so I bucked them up. By the time I was done I was in no shape to do more but the very next day they came back to cut again. Saw the logs bucked up and then loaded them and went home. Strange thing though. They never understood why they could not cut here any more.
I am very fortunate to have half a dozen land owners around me that call me for cleaning up their fallen trees. They appreciate that I put all the small limbs into a burn pile and take most of the tree. And I'll carry out rounds from deep in the woods if necessary. I notice most firewood cutters only take the nice stuff that they can back their truck right up to. I have been CSS like crazy the last two months trying to get my 80 cord inventory built up for the coming winter. Have about 50 cords at the moment and doing about 10 a month. With all the downed trees from big wind storms, I'll have plenty of hoarding to do for the rest of the year.
Must be the magic wood fairy came and bucked those logs up for em. That's some kinda special there. Least they could've done was ask if you just wanted to run a saw the night before or planned on keeping those rounds.
This couldn't be more accurate. The novel thought of a fire roaring while they sit back and enjoy a cold one is all they see. Then reality comes and clunks them on the head with a piece of Oak.
A tree blew over right next to the road in the last windstorm. The other day I drove past and a guy was assembling a new poulan saw on the ground. On my way home I laughed at seeing the mess, cuts part way in the trunk on a angle and brush everywhere! Only the small stuff was gone.
My BIL (wife's sisters "husband") saw me splitting one time with my SuperSplitter and jokingly said "You bringing that to my house?" I laughed....and said no He thought burning wood was an easy and cheap way to heat your house. His parents burned wood on the lake during his childhood. Obviously he never helped them gather or harvest any, because he burned wood for half a season at his house and gave up. Told me it was way too much work.
Sounds like my cousin, sorta. He's not the most ambitious person around. He's a bachelor and a tightwad, and runs his house heater as low as it will go, then complains about the cold. I sold him my MS 390, Fiskars axe, True Temper maul, and a good wood stove for the house and gave him an older wood stove for his garage, because he's talked about burning wood for as long as I've had a stove. 3 months in and he doesn't even have half a cord of wood cut and split. He also hasn't installed either stove yet.
Making it is the best part! My least favorite part of the process has always been stacking. This thread makes me extra thankful for not having to scrounge wood from outside sources. I feel like a lot of landowners do not really appreciate what they have sometimes.
People in general are definitely lazier than ever before. The pandemic made it even worse. I was talking to a co-worker today, and he said his friend (I assume around his age, mid-late 20's) threatened to quit his job if they made him go back into the office one day a week. Been working from home he said since Covid started. It created a bunch of spoiled cry babies. Most of the members here are the exception, not the norm in todays world.
