I id trees all the time as I drive or walk around. But on the other hand I don't see 'firewood' till it gets laid out in my backyard by a tree service. What can I say, there is kind of a disjoint between the two.
Where, in the woods?? At a tree service yard? see below.... That's like having an AA meeting at O'Flannigans Pub! You kidding me? I can't help but look at furniture in the store, and wonder how well it will burn! When the wood is stained, I say "that's a shame, I can't burn that table cause I have a CAT stove".
There's 2 large multi-acre stands of black locust on my way into work with tons of large trees down. One is right near an S-curve in the road, and I've almost slid off a couple times trying to inventory them all on my way by.
Some times wind throws if really big. But as a forester I see hundreds of acres of trees cut down a year so seeing down trees to me is no biggie.
Yes, but I have another problem too... A strange compulsion to track down the landowner and ask if I can cut it. Sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's hard but it's a fun "chase!"
I often times see big rigs on the highway with various materials (lumber, angle iron, etc) and think to myself, what could I build with that....
When we are stripping over burden at the mine I will see enough trees bull dozed in one month than I could burn in a, life time. They used to let people come in and cut fire wood but now they won't I even offered to start my own fire wood business, carry liability insurance and bid on a contract. No go...
That's a shame too. I hate seeing something someone could use just go to waste. We had a tornado a couple years back here and trees down everywhere Well the county went along the roads are in a great hurry as if they was afraid someone would get the wood and took it piled it up and burnt it. A huge pile they had police guard against anyone trying to get the wood from the pile I could of had all the wood I could have burnt in five year when that happened but I let my desire to help others clean up their destroyed homes and haul their belongings to a safe place rather than fill my own needs.
What kind of mine do ya work on? What do they end up doing with the wood, sell it to lumber/paper, burn it to get rid of it, pay to have it removed/disposed...? After Sandy on LI, most of the communities opened up their yards to residents to take free firewood from all the tree's they had collected from the streets....
iron ore in northern minnesota. They knock the trees over with a D9, use a 992 to scoop them up along with the top soil and load it all into a 789 then haul it to the top soil dump 195 tons at a time. The wood sits there and rots...
I see firewood everywhere, all the time. I started to worry about my state of mind so I started looking at pretty women too.
