FREE Firewood everywhere!

I posted this locally and got some bad feedback, but it is true. Seven years ago I bought a trailer with two 7500lb axels, built 30"" walls, bought a hydro splitter, Husky chain saw and was ready to go! Where to get the wood? ARBORISTS! The tree crews are more than happy to get rid of it then shred 24"30" rounds. Was hauling enough wood for three cords on my trailer! Got so much of it that I knew I couldn't use all of it......Sooo... Placed an ad in Craig's list: free firewood, take all you want, use my tools to split it, leave me half Ended up with twenty cords of Elm, Mulberry, Ash . In one season it dried (in the SW sun) and ready to use late October. Now, 7 years later, I still go get it, but that's all. They unload off my trailer, split wet wood, leave me half and good to go! All summer it dries out and this works for me. Anyone can do this, but you got to have a trailer big enough that you actually help out the crews by hauling it away. They frown on one wheel trailers or just pickups. (Just what they tell me). If you need wood, this beats going to the mountains or wherever you get it-and-they cut it into 18 & 20" lengths. Try it! Surprised more users don't do or comment on this. Sometimes their whole families come! One hauls the rounds to the splitter, one unloads off the trailer, the others stack a pile for me, then stack a load on their trailer Works!!

Albuquerque! We have only pine, pinion ( pinyon) scrub cedar locally. Mulberry burns as hot as whit oak, clean the flue once a season it gets that hot!!

See that you live in Edgewood!! Have many people come in from Edgewood and cedar crest to get it.

For every cord of Elm I may get one of Mulberry.

For those of you who live in, say, East Tennessee where oak grows like weeds this is not for you. Unless of course you have a splitter, chainsaw and tools they might not have. We are not as fortunate to have the trees you do. (Sigh...) but we try to do the best we can with what we got!

As far as liability goes, I'm not quite sure how this would affect you. You pull pull up in your truck with your trailer behind and wait for them to load it (on the street), when it's full you drive off. Never step on someone's property, unless invited. Explain how you would do this any other way?? (You are not talking about ME loading it are you? Shame, shame they are lucky you are there!! lol

@Is:Are you wanting to get in on some of this or do you have enough? If you have a 3/4 ton , I've got the trailer. B

@Is: are you wanting in on some of this action? If you have a 3/4 ton or larger I have the trailer!

Thanks Savage! I did scour the site before I posted for this exact reason. It seems with so much wood to burn, it eludes me as to why more people don't burn. Took my father in law from Reading, PA to St Saint Marie a decade ago and marveled at just exactly what you are saying. PLENTY of wood was available as we drove north! I was salivating! So I asked my brother in law why he didn't burn, since wood was so plentiful. Turns out there were several reasons. #1 was to add a stove is not cheap, you and I can get around that, but for those who never burned before seeing a stove for a couple grand is pricey for them. No truck, no trailer, no splitter, no chainsaw, no imagination, no experience, no creativity. He just shrugged his shoulders as if to say "I have no idea!" Being 67 I find bending, lifting 80 lb rounds, unloading same takes a toll on me. So my plan creates little work on my part~ more marketing, on my part, for those afraid to ask. Actually the people around here have to get permits ($5.00 each cord) and go to the mountains to get PINE? That, my friend, is work. Side of a mountain type work. 8000 feet elevation where you have nothing over 500 feet except the bridge ( the Mackinaw?) which is one high bridge. (But no trees). Lastly, we found Michigan to be overall a very poor state. Lot of people moving out. Still, all the more reason to burn. Beats me. Getting rid of a gas/oil/coal fired burner seems like a no brainier to me. To each his own I suppose. Many people out here. LOVE to burn, but wood, hard wood is hard to get. Kind of like our weather! No humidity, and you have plenty! Plenty of sunshine here, little snow, you have plenty! No thanks...
To each his own I suppose!!

Tsquini, we don't go on private property, thus no liability. The tree crews do and are happy we are on the street to haul it off. We bring to wood back to our place, unload it, split it and stack it. We get the wood from residents who have tree crews cut it down for them.
Yes, split wet, as we have already done for this season will be dry by October! Most on here seem to have plenty of land and plenty of trees, not so here. Do the best we can.........!