A tree service rep contracting for the power company stopped by a couple weeks ago and said they'd be dropping some of the dead ash trees near power lines on my property. She said when they do the actual cutting someone would stop by again. I had hoped my wife would catch them and let them know I wanted them to leave everything in full lengths, but she wasn't around. So of course now I'm left with logs lengths ranging from 12" all the way up to 20" and it's all cut at crazy angles! But at least they dragged all the brush out of the yard and even raked up some of the mess. Seems to be about a cord as it sits right now, I just need to move it away from the road very soon before some redneck driving by decides that it's his for the taking! My outdoor fire pit is only about 40 feet from these pics, so I guess any of the longer logs I'll just move to that stack. So hey, I got some free wood!
The power company has a contract with Asplundh and they've been doing a ton of trimming and removals around here lately. I had hoped they'd help me with a few I've got tangled up with the phone lines, but all the power lines are across the street, so they didn't touch any of my trees. I made out good last year though - I'm heating my house right now with the ash tree that took out my internet last summer.
Even though it Is not all the same length it will still burn. That will make some good burning wood once dried.
Hard to complain much when someone else did the hard work and you didn't have to pay for it. Nice ash load of BTU's no matter the length.
Nice score on the ash it's one of my favorites. Asplundh has been trimming here too and there's a 120' sugar maple that's coming down at a neighbors as we speak that a certain someone has to go cut up and haul to the splitting pile this weekend
It is a shame of the various lengths and angles but still, overall it is not too bad of a problem to be dealing with. Good firewood.
Yes sir that beats a sharp a stick in the eye any day, now get you ash in gear and get to movin your ash
I just need to move it away from the road very soon before some redneck driving by decides that it's his for the taking! Rednecks won't take something thats not theirs. That's a thief. And trust me, rednecks don't take kindly to a firewood thief.
Nice score. Can't complain about free. A few years ago Lewis tree contracted by the power company took down 4 Norway maples at my parents house, we got those all c/s/s and came away with around 2 cord. All the wood was like what you got, crazy range of sizes and angle cuts. We thought were done splitting and stacking but they had 2 more miles of lines to clear, turns out there's no other burners on their street so the tree guys were basically begging us to take wood. We agreed but asked them if they could cut it to 16 and straight(seeing we were doing them a favor and all). Not only did they cut it better they delivered all of it, all 9 cords. Dropped off a couple 30 racks to them and everyone was happy.
So I cut out of work pretty early yesterday, and as I'm driving by my place I see one of my neighbors standing next to all of the wood talking to the fore(wo)man of the tree crew. So I walk over to see what's up, and as soon as he recognized me he exclaims "Why aren't you at work still?!!" Then the latino woman running the crew in broken english tells me that "this guy want's all of this wood. I tell him I don't know what landowner wants to do". So even my freaking neighbor is trying to steal this! He said that a friend of his down the road is out of work and needs firewood and he figured he could have all of the wood by the road. I reminded my neighbor (who can see all my stacks from his house) that I heat with wood and plan on moving it all back to my stacks. But if his friend REALLY needs help heating his house, and is not just flipping wood for cash, he can come talk to me and I'll gladly help him out. My neighbor changed the subject, so I suspect it's not like his buddy is freezing or anything.
Some folks are honestly confused or misinformed. The misnomer is out there that wood cut along the edge of the road actually is on public property so first come first serve. Others know it's the landowners and just try to get away with it.
The power company is supposed to do that here as I have a pole in my woods that I deeded over to the power company decades ago. The reason I gave them the pole is they have to maintain and are responsible in the event a storm takes down my power lines. Now I only own from the service weatherhead down to my service panel\meter.. The way they take so much down I prefer to leave as-is as my front woods will look bare in that area..
I think the folks around here know. Last summer my other neighbor had left some wood close to the road for me. I came outside one day to find a truck parked half in the ditch, half in the road and 2 guys tossing wood in the truck as fast as they could. As soon as they saw me they jumped in the truck and sped off! And the neighbor on the other side of me I've had issues with since I moved in 3 years ago. The first time I met him I was having a bonfire in my yard with some friends and he stormed over and told me I was going to "burn down his F-ing woods". The property line is marked, and it clearly shows that the entire woods is mine, yet he still continues to think that the woods up near the road is shared between us. If course he "lets" me claim all of the woods back by his house, but that's because a lot of my ash trees back there are dead and hanging over his property, so he won't dare claim responsibility of taking them down. I've done the neighborly thing and paid to take down the worst offenders, but he want's all of them that could possibly fall near his driveway taken down by me. Yet he wants to steal what's up by the road on my property! I come to realize he's just a grumpy old man who thinks he can bully folks around.
So I got out and cut everything that was 10" diameter and larger down to an 18" length and stacked it all next to my shed. There's a LOT more wood than I expected, now that it's stacked I can tell that I already have well over a cord of the big stuff and there's probably another 1/2 cord or more left of smaller stuff that I'll get to later. While I was hauling a load across the yard, I saw my neighbor pull out of his driveway. All he did was turn down the road that goes perpendicular to my place, turn around at the first house and came back and sat at the stop sign for a full minute looking at what I had already cleaned up. Then he pulled back into his driveway. If he had just come to me and asked about the firewood I probably would have given some, if not all of it, away. But going behind my back like that just irritated me.
