This is pretty much how scrounging has worked for me for a long while. This isn't my supplier but he operates the same way, just without the craigslist ads. You make a call and wait for a log load. In the summer you might get it within a few days. I prefer to call in October when it is cooler out. It can run 4-8 weeks as business gets slower for him. It isn't hard to find guys to drop rounds in your yard. I once had a guy knock on my door and offer to make my pile bigger. The only problem is the rounds are of somewhat random length when you get them that way. Free unsplit firewood and woodchips (NORTHERN NJ) Free rounds and lengths of hardwood various locations. Free woodchips delivered. We keep a running list of customers who want free material. Chips are delivered, firewood rounds can be picked up, and log truck lengths are delivered. Call mark from Tylan Tree Service show contact info Thanks do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers post id: 4564053791 posted: a month ago updated: 12 days ago
Nah, it's not a grand worth of wood. Odd-length rounds of yard trees, in a populous area where land is relatively expensive, there are lots of trees and few woodburners, aren't worth much at all in cash terms. This is s a cheap and easy way for a tree service to dispose of material they'd otherwise have to process and sell as firewood (requiring space and more labor) or pay to dump somewhere.
That's interesting. I don't get down to that part of jersey that often but on one of my trips I noticed OWB being more prevalent there than say where I live. My brother bought an old farmhouse that had one and through talking with him it seems a lot of the farms down his way like to run them, it seems like there would be a demand for the firewood.
Ooops, I see that I accidentally deleted the part of my post where I said that I was speculating based on experience in my area. I don't really know much about NJ.
That pretty much sums it up. I live in the most densely populated county in the most densely populated state. There are few people burning wood and lots of yards full of trees. It all comes down to supply and demand and the supply far exceeds the demand to the extent that wood has no value (or even negative value). The guy I get logs from can drive six miles and unload his truck for free in backyard. Or he can drive further and pay a dump/mulch operation/processor to take it. And on the labor side, I'm open for deliveries on Saturday and in the evening when his crew isn't working.
got a tree cutting buddy in union county. when the firewood processor he ussualy gives to cant accept, he has to PAY $200 per truckload to dump. BTW, that processor is $150-200 (depending on time of year) per HALF-cord for people to burn in thier fireplaces when company comes over. not much for woodburners out that way. i am on the other side of the state and very little if any wood is given away. a lot of it comes down to whether or not natural gas is available in the locale.
That's nuts. Here loggers can't even leave wood on a deck for long because it gets stolen. "well it was just sitting there"
I guess that very much depends on the area and if they can get rid of it. I've had free wood delivered here but it isn't the norm. Most of the tree guys process and sell splits.
Don't forget fellas that the state of NJ has been leveled by 3 significant storms over the last 2 falls. There is more wood on the ground in need of removal than can be dealt with. Over-supply and steady demand. 3 years ago if a tree fell in a field you had to be prompt or be second in line to take it. No more, no more.
Hello all, I gotta chime in on this…. MWN, this is true about a lot of the state. It was like Heaven for me when Sandy hit in a "sence" of people wanting trees removed etc… My heart went out to the people who had damage. Now lets talk about the norm "here" for me. Everyone in NJ is north of me, only fish are south! "Here" getting fire wood can be a B!TC#!!!! lucky for me I'm friends with a tree surgeon and can get wood "mostly" anytime I need. With that said, Firewood sells like hotcakes down here, big sales go to the camp grounds. What "few" friends I have only three are burners, and one just heats his work shop with some tractor supply monster from years back. My friend would rather give wood away than sell it because the tipping fees in the landfills are "insane" NJ isn't getting any bigger and they are not making any more land! Now, Smokinpiney is maybe 40 miles north of me and he has a good supply of trees to go after… CR, you and Paul are at the other end of the state so I'm assuming as you said not a lot of burners up there. I have a friend on the NJ side of of Strougsburg, rt 80, and he has about 4 acres, Sadly he can't burn due to health issues but he tells me wood is plentyful there. Paul, as you summed it up, supply and demand but to piggyback along with that is getting permission to cut at places and beating the voltures at their game down here because firewood is a "hot" commodity (Ha Ha Ha…. that was funny) down here.
I grew up in union county. Scarce burners there, lots of yardbird wood. Now live in warren county overlooking the deleware. OWB smoke fills the valley! I get all my wood off my own property. Easy splitting forest trees.
WOW!!!! I didn't see the vedolux install thread, thats awesome! Warren county has so many nice places up there!
A sample of what's come through my yard since the coming of digital cameras. The full loads are usually 30 pieces and run up to about 6 cords. No qualms if they are short though. It is actually easier to do to two lesser loads than one big load as you don't get buried. I have no loaded truck pictures as I haven't been home when a delivery was made for a very long time. I seem to see beech, honey locust, cherry, soft maple and oak in this one. Hard maple, oak and some others. Oak, cherry, ash, norway maple, black birch and beech as I recall on this one. Short load of black locust with some soft maple to back it up. He called me on this, said he didn't want to put it in his chipper and would I please take it. The iron that I now stack on is on the right. It was pallet shelving uprights that were cut apart. Why, I don't know but they are great for stacking wood. Keep your eye out for some. At first I used the iron as stringers, on the left. Then I realized I could support pallets with them and use 1/2 the amount of stringers as I did on the right. That gets the wood good and off the ground. Makes me want to order up another load but I'll hold off another 6 or 8 weeks until the fall.
Nice stuff Paul!! I had a saw dust pile in my driveway like that... I had a neighbor come by and she wanted it all to put in her gardens around her plants, I even helped the old girl sweep it up!!!
Exit 0, eh? Been there a few times....as in, a few thousand as we have a house in the Crest. Going over that bridge, tackle store on the right, marina on the left, hated the Lobster House, loved Morrow's on the boardwalk. When I was a kid, they had not pumped sand on the beaches and I saw a guy dive off the pier behind Convention Hall into 10 feet of water. It's all sand now....catching weakies at Higbees, blues at Second Street. Back to wood.....I wants to get in on this deal. Northwest NJ is indeed a totally different world wood-wise as we have a ton of people burning out here.
Yea, sounds like you know the place down here! I'm well vrsed on the crest!!! do you go back as far as "Art Stocks" play pen and the Penelty box? Some real big name bands played there in the 60's and 70's. I too used to dive off of convention hall! and there still putting sand back on the beach, they just re did Poverty beach all the way down to the CG base.
Johnny Winter at the Playpen. That whole area was a big grassy stretch and now it's disgustingly overdeveloped. That huge tower that went up in Diamond Beach....what the flip? When I was a kid, the Regis had not been built. It's now a decrepit old hulk. Wait, does that mean I'm a decrepit old hulk?
