Today's Scrounge--post the free btu's

[Dobish]

the neighbor took down a big dead aspen and has the wood all piled up on the street. I drove by, but am going to give someone else a chance to take it. If it is still there in a few days, I might grab it, but I don't want to be greedy!

 

[Medic21]

Coworker wanted it down and power company dropped it for me.

 

[Medic21]

Work 24hr shift tomorrow, homeowner has a lift coming Saturday. Toys loaded and ready. Free for me and only lift rental for him.

 

[AlbergSteve]

Neighbour keeps bringing down dead or dying trees on his property. Seven more dropped or topped this week. At this rate I should have free firewood from him for the next 10 years! Arbutus, d-fir, cedar and alder.

 

[SawdustSA]

2 Eucalyptus trees blew over during a recent wind storm. On municipal land and I helped myself to it since they tend to only cut it until it is safe and only the brush gets taken away.
Some had already been cut to odd lengths and have to be resized. The rest I had to cut myself. Started splitting yesterday. 8 trips with my trailer in total.

 

[yinpin]

My parents had a very large and dying Ash cut down on Friday. I don’t need anymore wood right now (you guys would probably argue that) but I could not turn it down. He had the company leave a bunch that was bucked for me, my brother and my dad.

Picked it up last night and got a full truck load of the biggest rounds since I have a splitter and they took the smaller ones.

Pretty good haul.

Unfortunately my dad slipped up loading a round and he put a dent in my new truck (less than 10k miles). I was not happy but I couldn’t stay angry about it. I would like to get this fixed but not sure of the cost. You can see the small dent above the tailight

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[Jay106n]

Buddy had a stack of ash that’s been in a barn for a few years that he no longer wanted. He helped load it up for free. I brought the beer of course. Fresh split tested 15% on mm.

 

[robj80]

How far is too far to go for wood? I have two cousins in the landscaping business and they always have wood. They live about a half hour from me one way. I also often see free wood posted online. I only have a small pickup with a 5' bed and max payload of about 1300lb payload. So I'm not getting a whole lot of wood per trip.

 

[Dobish]

How far is too far to go for wood? I have two cousins in the landscaping business and they always have wood. They live about a half hour from me one way. I also often see free wood posted online. I only have a small pickup with a 5' bed and max payload of about 1300lb payload. So I'm not getting a whole lot of wood per trip.

1/2 hour to visit family and get wood? that sounds like no big deal to me. They probably have a trailer, so maybe you can borrow that?

 

[Dima1973]

I would say it's not far at all, plus you can cherry pick the wood looking for straight premium grade stuff.

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

This one is very tempting: 2mi from my work and appears to be white oak, [bitternut?] hickory and black birch, good cuts close to 16". Only downside is that the rounds are dirty and a little on the old side. They are just starting to grow shrooms. Look to be from last winter or spring. I just hauled a bed load of rounds. Deciding whether to grab another one. I'm pretty sure this first one is hickory, likely bitternut based on the bark. It smells a little sweet like maple, but has very straight stringy fibers which seems just like hickory.

 

[Jay106n]

Paid the favor forward today. My brother needed some wood and has nothing dry. I had a standing dead black cherry tree that I’ve been putting off taking down for a while. Took it down today, a bit punky on the outside, but the sapwood was solid. Top half MM tested at 15%, the lowers were 25%. Delivered to my brother for some free btu’s. He was very happy.

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

1/2 hour to visit family and get wood? that sounds like no big deal to me. They probably have a trailer, so maybe you can borrow that?

You can also rent a Uhaul trailer for about $35. Worth it if you can make a few trips

 

[Zack R]

How far is too far to go for wood? I have two cousins in the landscaping business and they always have wood. They live about a half hour from me one way. I also often see free wood posted online. I only have a small pickup with a 5' bed and max payload of about 1300lb payload. So I'm not getting a whole lot of wood per trip.

Sounds like a pretty good gig to me. I drive around a lot longer than that on forest service roads looking for standing dead trees to cut, then have to cut, limb, load and transport them back home. Out here there's almost never free wood since a lot of people use wood heat and the climate is cold (20F this morning).

 

[robj80]

Thanks for all the comments. I have no issue visiting family. Just curious how far everyone was driving. Turns out I have a buddy a half hour the other direction too with some oak rounds .I need to get off this site and get scrounging!

 

[kennyp2339]

Thanks for all the comments. I have no issue visiting family. Just curious how far everyone was driving. Turns out I have a buddy a half hour the other direction too with some oak rounds .I need to get off this site and get scrounging!

I've kept it local for myself, especially with the trailer, quite frankly a loaded trailer with a blown tire scare's me when I'm not in town or 30 min radius from my place

 

[Jay106n]

Another truckload today. Little bit smaller than usual, but btus are btus. I already unloaded the front load, which was apple that I am setting aside for the smoker.

 

[robj80]

Grabbing this from my buddy on Saturday. Was told it's oak and been cut for a couple of years. I don't know how good it is but it's free.

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

Finally got a lucky break! Nothing amazing but a tree company is clearing about 0.5cord r. maple and 1 cord red oak only half a mile from my work. Caught them 3hrs after posting on FB. They loaded me up in 10min, bed plus ridgeline trunk about 1min off my commute. Perfect because I need a little more for next year and a start on 2020. Nice to see some clean rounds!

Edit: 1 cord R Maple, 2+cords of R oak! Two loads of maple and there is still a lot left!

 

[shortys7777]

Picking up some dead ash and walnut today. Would you split and burn the ash in this picture? Near the base of the tree all the logs are hollow with dirt of some sort . If I split it and stack it will it dry ok or just rot?

 

[StihlKicking]

Chestnut oak down!

 

[robj80]

I had one hour to gather this while my son was at soccer practice. They were logs I had to cut. This pic is my son checking moisture after I split most of it. Plenty more to get but I need a buddy and more time than an hour.

 

[EPS]

Got some dogwood today. There were some huge logs I couldn't take, but did pretty well still

 

[Medic21]

If I won the lottery this is the loader I’d buy. Load number 4 and it’s not even a dent into this property.

 

[HisTreeNut]

Neighbor had 2 trees cut down today. An oak and a pine tree. Saved the wood for me...

Went up to their house with my mighty, mighty Fiskars. They thought I was crazy for not using a splitter. I think I did quite well with it.