Why is all the free wood just out of range?

[Bad Wolf]

This is killing me. I'm constantly checking craigslist for free wood but everything I find is just too far away to make it profitable, or has strings attached.
This one is an hour each way and I can only haul a half cord at a time. With my truck I'd be looking at $75/cord which is better than buying it but not so much that I want to spend half a day driving all over the state.

Maybe someone else is closer

(broken link removed to http://hartford.craigslist.org/zip/1772919865.html)

 

[Skier76]

Bristol...not that far from where I work. But that would just be too much work to haul it...then haul it up to VT.

 

[SolarAndWood]

Rent a UHaul 6x12 open trailer and make a few trips. Figure it takes an hour and a half or so to split a cord and that has a head start on drying.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I scrounge at the local brush dump. All the counties around here have one where people drop trees and brush off for composting. Maybe your county has one also?

Matt

 

[Skier76]

I need to hit the local brush dump/recycle center next week. My wife is gonna go nuts if I leave with a full trailer and come back with another full trailer. :lol:

 

[burntime]

I have done that with the ranger once or twice. I even left with a pile of brush and someone followed me home with a trailer of ash for 10 bucks once.