Most annoying waste of firewood...

Reading through some of these responses makes me realize how good I have it. Two doors down from me is one of the town's maintenance men. He tells me when something new is at the tree pile. If he has time, he sets wood to the side so I don't have to drag it out. His GF also runs the liquor store, but that's for another thread.

Last weekend the county cut down trees by the road and left them by the sand pit. I made a couple of calls and was told I could cut as long as I clean up my area. Took my nephew and buddy out and scored 1.5 truckloads. Hope to get back out there this weekend to scrounge.
Forgot to add a county deputy swung by as we were working. I explained I called the head maintenance shed and he was totally cool with it. Glad the wood was getting put to use and not wasted. I think he was bored, just wanted to talk and shoot the chit.

 

I'd have to say the ash bore around here. Dead trees standing everywhere that will just rot up as most are too lazy or too greedy to make use of it. The scenerio is always the same. Try to be neighborly and tell them you'll cut it up and haul for free to get it out of their yard and they then think it's a goldmine. Either they leave it sit and mow around it a few years till it's junk or have it cut and try to sell. By then (a few years) it starts getting doady and they say you "can have it now". Such a massive waste as we are talking millions of trees.

 

Let's not bash other members here, please.

 

Leaveing any burnable wood 4 inches in dia down is a waste. there is plenty for the ticks and other freaking bugs to nest and reproduce in with out leaving good wood. Like leafs for example.

Who is bashing members here? Is the super rich Morgan guy a member?
As for the other slugs I didn't name names so if you feel guilty you post a warning?


Al

 

I don't feel guilty for asking you to be respectful of members.

 

THIS..............In my township we have a few scattered patches of woods and as we all know being a wood hoarder your eyes are constantly scanning and looking for potential scores. I drive by some really good scores but they are on township land and while I don't the rules nor took the time to learn them I assume I just can't go wondering in there and start bucking up that nice oak tree that fell during the last wind storm.

 

I looked into getting a permit a couple years ago in CT. Apparently they stopped the program several years ago. I was disappointed. Scrounging yard trees can be a pain. All those branches are a headache; and you never know what unseen cut-off branches are buried in the trunk. It can be exciting when the kinetic splitter hits those.


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Here wood chips go to electrical generation plant so they pay 200 a tractor trailer load. So a lot gets chipped.. Town has an OWB at town garage.. Residents feel if we pay them to remove trees we are not paying to heat garage.. All dump take brush for compost ship it to burlington dump and sell it back to you as organic moo-dirt..

 

For years we picked up every scrap. The women still do. Trying to get them to stop that. I’m inundated with wood. Not sure I’ll live long enough to process everything I boarded this year LOL

The waste that irks me is the state of Ct. in several sections they’re clearcutting the highways. Whole tree goes in a chipper and gets spit back into what used to be woods. It’s a beautification project partially funded by the feds.

IMO all those woodchips are going to breed ants which will eventually kill off everything they didn’t cut.

 

An awful lot of trees and shrubs get turned into wood chips as the Town has a huge tub grinder for stumps that are mandated to it and they take trees to grind for "free" from landscapers, arborists and homeowners. It gets mixed with compost and sewer sludge for potting soil. The potting soil proceeds pay for the tub grinder and tractors. Not for sale to Town residents. ( If I were King ! ... LOL )
Many larger Private contractors clearing larger lots chip it all with portable grinders. Must be the easiest way to turn it into a few bucks.

 

I guess I'm a wood snob.
I leave some knotty crotchy stuff in the woods.
If I feel I can't split it with one hit of the kinetic splitter I leave it.
Same with large stuff, I don't mess with it, I give it away to a guy with a saw mill.
In return I get free lumber from him.
Some of us have access to lots of wood so that we can be choosy about what we spend our time/work on.

If you were local to me you'd be welcome to pick up the 1/2 dozen crotchy/knotty chunks I leave in the woods.
Probably not worth the time and effort for 1/2 dozen pcs tho.

 

Glad to see there is one honest kinetic owner.

 

Burn piles. Someone took the effort to cut them down or push them over and then push them in a pile. A horse farm less than 5 miles away had an excavator come in and do this with about 5 acres of nice tall and straight mostly oak trees. Made such a mess that it wasn't worth trying to save.

 

I was curious what happened to all of that wood but kinda figured that was the case.

 

Probably my biggest problem with wood waste are the payloader playtime people. I understand that if you are hired to do that as part of a tree row removal job, fine. Our city guys are always looking for a way to "get away" and go out for a spin to the dump to burn time and see who can build the biggest pile. I am going to try and talk to the new city works coordinator and see if we can get a designated area that is outside the gate for after hours cutting with even just 10 trees and not heaped into a tangled tower of timber.