Local tree company is looking for someone to take the wood they clear. Sounds like they will drop the wood off to someone who will take the wood on a steady basis. No affiliation but wanted to pass this on to others. I am outside of their area so I am out. Free Wood!!!
They are 40 minutes from me. I’m going to save the contact info and reach out to them in the spring. See if I can pickup logs with my truck and trailer to replenish what I burn this winter. Hope someone can get in on this. Would be a great score.
Certainly it is hard to beat free but the ad is a little scary: "Preferably someone with a wood furnace that can take all sizes and types, we're not looking to deliver anything specific to your door. Call XXX if you're interested and not too picky. We will bring the wood to you and dump it on site." The 'not too picky' makes me think this very well may be best for a wood furnace or wood boiler that can chuck just about anything (size / shape) into the cavernous hole at the end. Might not be suitable for being cut / split and used in a more normal sized wood stove. Just sayin', and just a though, not knocking you or them in any way Dan. Brian
Yep, that may well be the case. Everyone will read those same words differently and there is no way to really know.... until one o' youse guize takes a load and lets the rest of us know. The ad looks to me like it will be a lot of brush, lots of dead and rotten branches, etc. I am in the middle of a major house renovation and trust me, you would absolutely NOT want a load of free wood from here. I already have it and I do not want it.... Brian
My town takes anything that is chipped for free. They compost it, add sewer sludge to it and it becomes pricey Name Brand potting soil at Home Depot and Lowes. So the tree work guys pretty much all have huge chippers and chip as much as possible. Although they do prefer chipping green wood. They pay to dump stumps and logs as that "waste" goes to another facility, to be turned into chips and (usually) sent to the composting facility on the other side of town. There is a wood processor in town that takes (no pine !! ) logs that are straight enough to go thru his processor to stand seasoning in huge piles.
No offense taken Brian. Was just passing the word incase it suited someone here. I have a great source for free tri-axle loads of ‘big hardwood’ but was told I could only start the next round of free deliveries at the start of winter. Last load they dropped had logs from 24-36 inches in diameter so it took some time to process as 18-20” long rounds at that diameter weigh a ton. Once the free wood starts arriving and we are processing you are welcome here to help and take as much as you want or need. Can load my truck and trailer and deliver as Long as you help as you only live a few miles from me.
Glad to hear my post was taken as meant- no offense intended. I am still chewing on the idea of free wood, but the other shoe is that some of it is Sequoia sized I have a 24" bar saw, and a 27 ton splitter but the splitter does not have a lift on it. It looks like log- length, straight and reasonably sized oak is about $100 / cord or maybe a little less (they guarantee 7 cord but claim a load is between 7 and 9 cord). Put another way, there is no such think as a free lunch so we all have to decide how much we are willing to tolerate in order to get the 'free' part. Also, I am pretty well set up for a log truck with a grapple but poorly set up for any kind of dump, rear or side, so the purchased log- length wood has that advantage too. Thanks for your generous offer, and it might be interesting to cooperatively work a load of 'ridiculously too large' firewood; my splitter is towable and of course the saws travel. What would make something like that more reasonable would be a mechanical lift mounted on a three legged stand which could be positioned over the logs; once they were cut, they could be lifted onto the splitter with mechanical advantage. Easy enough to drive a lag into the round with a collar and then pick it up with a hook. I do have a utility trailer but it is only a single axle and rated at something like 2,200 lbs. although I load it to well over 3,000 lbs. for on- site use only. I would consder getting close to that amount of weight on it for road use if the distance were short and low speeds were all that are needed, and I believe that is the case between your house and mine. At any rate, I would certainly be interested in seeing what a load of that free wood looked like in person. OK, off to look for my saw sharpening file refills. And of course I am still in the middle of this ridiculous house project, and my wife would not be too appreciative of me off "playing" with firewood while NOT making progress on the house. Unless she were cold for a few days of course. Brian
I’ll let you know when we start getting the wood dropped and you can come over for a beer or two and check out what we get. My splitter goes vertical so we move the splitter to the big pieces. LOL and we roll the others. The bucking is easy as it is all stacked. And honestly with three guys, each rotating running the splitter it’s not too bad. Toughest part is coordinating so three guys are here at the same time.
Great- that works for me and I look forward to meeting you! Coordinating- yeah, I have had trouble coordinating a splitter and my hand even all by myself. :-( My splitter swings vertical as well but honestly, I have not found it to work very well that way. A couple of problems: one is that the round tends to tip away from the splitter at the top so the wedge does not get a solid bite in the round and just pushes it out. Another problem is man- handling a too- heavy round under and onto the buck block of the splitter and keeping it there. So every time I have tried to use it vertically, I always end up going back to horizontal and just deal with the rounds as needed, noodling the ones just too large to pick up. So I would be more than interested in watching others who have better luck using a splitter vertically- I almost could not get worse at using one that way and might find out what I am doing wrong. I also leave my splitter attached to the front hitch of my SUV while using it as it really steadies the splitter but also makes it impossible to move the splitter anywhere while using it. Brian
I'm wondering along the same lines. Probably end up with the whole tree....tops, branches, etc. But, don't know and doesn't matter.
