Simplest answer=no. Appropriate responses can include: Do you like being warm in the winter? You must really enjoy writing the 2-3-$400 monthly check to the oil, gas, propain Co. Well, I guess you're right dear, we can always just pop over to the mall when we need some more firewood. It's not my own personal firewood if it's keeping both of us warm, so no, WE don't have enough firewood.
I'll keep saying this.......the Power Co. may not own that property, so if you go there to cut wood, you'll be trespassing and stealing. Just an FYI Not trying to be a downer, but somebody owns every piece of land on the planet.
She doesn't believe that heating the house with just the heat pump and electric back-up would make that much of a difference in indoor temps and the electricity bill. I'm tempted every now and then to go without a fire for a couple months and let her see the difference, but I just can't bring myself to.
I only look when I'm in the truck. If I see something good I stop, try to determine whose it is, ask if I need to, then grab it before it is gone. If I'm in the car I would just frustrate myself see wood that I know would be gone by time I got back with the truck. KaptJaq
I'd do it in a heartbeat. However, I luckily don't need to. My wife loves the fire and heat. I did however, turn off the wall heater in the living room a few years ago. It's still off.
I even take pics of stacks while on vacation. That's a stack belonging to one of the many summer cottages that line the archipelago channel going into/out of Stockholm, Sweden.
I'm constantly staring off at the woods and fence-lines on my route too and from work wondering; who owns that, what are they doing with that pile of logs/brush, and is that a big down'd cottonwood or an OAK???
I've done this pretty much all my life. And I'm still amazed at how much wood just goes to waste. Such a shame. I do remember during the 70's when the oil embargo was on there were lots and lots of folks putting in wood burners. I thought it was really good and figured at least some of the fence rows would get cleaned up and some of the downed trees. Ha! It barely made a dent in the countryside. We usually go to a country store once per week and it is 7 miles to the store. If I were able and could get all the dead trees, even just the standing dead trees, I think there would be enough to heat at least 500 homes and still have plenty left over for next year. We were there just yesterday and as we were passing this one area again I commented that it is such a shame nobody is getting all this dead wood. In addition, there is about an acre of standing dead ash right next to the road. They are now beginning to tip over and it appears nobody will get it. Such a shame.
Oh, I've got it real bad!!! I can't even think straight driving around anymore. I'm not even sure I can call it "driving" anymore. I should call it "High Speed Wood Scanning", cause that's what it ends up being except I just happened to get places sometimes. I say "sometimes" because I have been known to occasionally not make it all the way to the original destination. I lost track of where I was going, did a U turn to scope out, then returned home for truck and tools. That's usually when the sarcastic questions from you know who start: "You didn't make it to xyz store?" "What? We have know where left to store anymore firewood!" and of course the obligatory "Don't you have enough wood?"... All you have to do is ask. Most of the time you can get permission, or they will tell you they can't give you permission but, they really don't care. Unless it is state property, then it gets complicated cause they are worried about injuries/lawsuits.... LOL! It's only going to get worse! Buy any new saws yet? Oh, you will, mays well start shopping!! I think we need to invent a new word for this. Woodnecking? Or an acronym: HSWS (High Speed Wood Scanning).... ?? ideas? I can already see the new word in Webster's dictionary: Woodnecking (pronounced: "Wood - necking"): adverb, The act of slowing down traffic on a crowded roadway due to a drivers inability to resist swiveling ones neck to scan wooded areas for downed tree's. These unforced downed tree observations are often symptoms of an individual infected with some level of the FHC virus (see "Firewood Hoarders Club" for reference). "Woodnecking" often results in a cascade of events following the traffic slowdown including but not limited to: bucking, splitting, and seasoning. Afterward the only sign that the event had occurred are some 4x4 truck tire tracks, some leftover sawdust and the sweet smell of a freshly burning woodstove in the area. I think of that ALL the time! I live in a wooded area, and it amazes me how much wood is just laying around rotting...
Yep, well aware of that. Just trying to make aware that just going on a power line to do much of anything (including cutting wood, snowmobiling) is trespassing unless you've gotten permission. Happens all the time around here, and yes, I worry about a lawsuit if someone were to get injured even while trespassing.
Near me, on the way to Manchester, there is a little place called Rossendale. Lovely little village area. In Rossendale there is a very very steep bank next to a little river with so much downed and dead standing that it would last me a lifetime. Almost impossible to cear without excellent machines. Two of my sisters live along the road of this beautiful view. They have both now refused to give me a lift if I even dare to mention once more all the wood I could get from that little place. Oops!
