Load of logs in MN

Logging companies would be the logical place to start. Get some names off any log trucks running around your area.

No, but keep trying, you'll get a load.....

Finding local sawmills will be easier, they advertise to the public more. They should know of local loggers that sell firewood logs. Or foresters, they should know, its part of their job. NYS has quite a system in place for that and I dont imagine NY is really big in the scope of the whole logging industry. If you are talking about free, it doesnt happen in my area. Like tree service freebies, they all sell around me.

Where in are you at in Minnesota?

Look for lands clearing companies. I find that tree service companies are not as reliable or already have a place to get rid of wood.

I live in SE Minnesota. My best source other than my own is subdivision clearing sites. At your own risk. Usually no one cares if wood disappears over the weekend or nights, but no one has actually ever given me permission (liability). I have gotten a lot of nice oak. If the excavator is nice they will drag and line it up with the excavator. Cut and load the best stuff.

Seems excavators just tip and burn trees to do it the fastest and cheapest way. Scroungers have to be fast or it is burned up..sad. The closer you get to the metro they will pay for chips at the St. Paul biomass plant. That gets a lot of chips from up to 100 miles away. Other good hardwood is made into mulch here. Color mulch is big business.

You live to far away for my wood guy. But have you looked at craigs list lots of wood for sale in your area.

I live in Austin, mn and park and rec will deliver logs free here. Worth a shot...

Drive around and look at farms. Plenty of farmers have tons of dead trees they'd like to have cut down or fence lines they want cleared out. I have so much scrounging on my uncles farm I don't call park and rec anymore.