Free for the taking if you can find anything worthwhile. We don't really have many trees here. The tree guys dump prunings and that's about it.
There's a good bit of it around here but I've only been able to score maybe 1/3 cord. I haven't split or burned it yet because once I use it, it'll be all gone! My latest disappointment, a little over a year ago....a guy cleared a portion of a field that was next to a long gravel drive. I knew there was a Bodark "hedge row" on the adjoining property, along the same line, so I drove back there and looked at the wood. About 20 trees or so, half Hedge, 1/4 Black Cherry, the rest miscellaneous. I texted and left voicemail but got no reply. Later, I saw all the wood pushed into a couple piles, then saw it burning. It burned a loooooong time.
I am against any type of brush pile burning; it just pollutes the air without benefit; If they are not going to let firewood hoarders have the wood, it should just rot naturally into soil. There needs to be a nationwide ban on brush pile burning.
We release enough CO2 into the atmosphere for necessary things such as heating our house. Burning a brush pile is not necessary; the wood can be ground for mulch; a useful product, or just allowed to rot and become soil.
It has been said that wood will give off the same amount of CO2 whether it is burnt or rotted. And here we go with the global warming.
It is also approaching the time when leaves will be falling. There should be a nationwide ban on burning leaves; they tend to just smolder for hours. I have seen an entire neighbourhood full of smoke, impossible to breath, heaven help anyone with asthma when people start burning leaves.
Here is 3 of our 4 city brush sites. Everything gets pushed into the pile every week or so then the city come along and chips most of it into mulch for use in local parks or free to whomever wants to load some. Leaves,shrubs, and general debris are prohibited and carry a fine if caught. With our streak of drought and wind (2nd in the nation) burn bans are almost always in effect so burning the pile wood be out of the question.
Thanks, hoarding anything besides elm or cottonwood around here is lucky at best. I'll keep sawing away till about 4 cord. That is a 3 year plan for me with margin for error.
Well, at least you don't have to drive all over the place to pick it up, they bring all the to one place for you.
For sure! The nearest "wood lot" is 8.2mi round trip. The furthest is 20-25 mi round trip. I do make plenty of trips to the wood lot/s without finding anything so fuel does add up. Driving a gas pig has pros and cons
