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Everyone always thinks there sitting on a gold mine.
 
I went to school with a guy whose parents had a commercial landscaper pay them, if I remember right, over $10,000 for a mature palm tree (in California). That's not counting what the company spent on crane, semi-truck, and crew to actually move the tree.

When somebody really wants something, they'll pay the price or do the work to get it.

But that was for a client who was willing to pay a huge premium to have a row of 40 year old trees overnight.

At least in my area, the bigger nurseries have arborvitae the size seen in the picture for sale for $300-400. That's not a lot to cover the costs of moving them.
 
Please take my rotten fence for firewood
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Free to anyone who can come pick it up. We took down a fence and just don't have the time to sit and burn it all. Please come and get it. The fence pieces cannot be fixed. It is 30+ years old. This is strictly firewood.
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I emailed that individual this:

"Is this a joke? I'm sorry but that wood isn't worth $300 let alone the fact that you want the "buyer" to cut the trees down and remove all the junk too.

If you want the trees cut down, may I suggest you offer the wood for free and you take care of the clean up? Anything else is plain insanity... Hope it all works out.

Have a good day!"
 
I emailed that individual this:

"Is this a joke? I'm sorry but that wood isn't worth $300 let alone the fact that you want the "buyer" to cut the trees down and remove all the junk too.

If you want the trees cut down, may I suggest you offer the wood for free and you take care of the clean up? Anything else is plain insanity... Hope it all works out.

Have a good day!"

lol, he's going to email you back prices of figured cherry veneer/ stock.

See? That's a good deal! Only 300... I wish I was closer.
 
I only had several hundred questions, so I thought it would be OK to bother him..


http://albany.craigslist.org/zip/5225971319.html

"I have a large maple tree in my back yard. If you have the tools experience and insurance it's yours free for the taking. You will be held accountable for any damage to any property there are many cords of good burning Hardwood here. It is a suger maple. You could heat all winter with this tree or sell the firewood. Don't bother me with a million questions. If your serious send me an email."
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I don't know much about black walnut, but is it really worth this kind of money?
 
It might cost even more than that to have it removed. It depends on the hazards involved.
 
I wanted to pass this Craigslist deal on to my fellow brothers and sisters before it's gone. I feel sure anyone even a few states away will want to jump on this maple and pine, equaling maybe a half cord. Since the ad will go down soon, here is the gist of the ad:

Swap free wood for grinding 3 stumps (Camp Springs, Maryland)

Wood (firewood lengths) fm large maple 35? feet from driveway.
If you grind up 3 stumps, wood is free.
Stump grinder must fit through 36" gate.
More maple is near the stump in picture above.
In case interested, also have 2 pine trees.
1 was cut up a year ago (the old stump), 1 cut up this past Friday (new stump w blue rope next to it)

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/zip/5231539401.html
 
I wanted to pass this Craigslist deal on to my fellow brothers and sisters before it's gone. I feel sure anyone even a few states away will want to jump on this maple and pine, equaling maybe a half cord. Since the ad will go down soon, here is the gist of the ad:

Swap free wood for grinding 3 stumps (Camp Springs, Maryland)

Wood (firewood lengths) fm large maple 35? feet from driveway.
If you grind up 3 stumps, wood is free.
Stump grinder must fit through 36" gate.
More maple is near the stump in picture above.
In case interested, also have 2 pine trees.
1 was cut up a year ago (the old stump), 1 cut up this past Friday (new stump w blue rope next to it)

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/zip/5231539401.html

$100 worth of firewood for $500 or so of grinding. Doesn't sound like a good deal for anyone but the home owner.
 
You think? I have my doubts it is even worth $100. You still have to wheel the stuff through his yard, haul it away and then split it. And of course the time it will take to season. A lot of work if you were trying to sell it. Especially since it's probably a soft maple. And though I have no issues burning pine which is the other wood he has, there is so much free hardwood given away for free in my area, I doubt anybody would take that away.
 
Those are some pretty crappy walnut trees. Almost entirely branch wood. Mine are much more trunk, much less branch. Even still, they're used for mediocre firewood, not furniture. Mills don't pay enough to make it worth your effort, unless you have a full truck load of the stuff.
 
I wanted to pass this Craigslist deal on to my fellow brothers and sisters before it's gone. I feel sure anyone even a few states away will want to jump on this maple and pine, equaling maybe a half cord. Since the ad will go down soon, here is the gist of the ad:

Swap free wood for grinding 3 stumps (Camp Springs, Maryland)

Wood (firewood lengths) fm large maple 35? feet from driveway.
If you grind up 3 stumps, wood is free.
Stump grinder must fit through 36" gate.
More maple is near the stump in picture above.
In case interested, also have 2 pine trees.
1 was cut up a year ago (the old stump), 1 cut up this past Friday (new stump w blue rope next to it)

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/zip/5231539401.html

This is my neck of the woods. People in this area don't understand the value in firewood is in the labor to process it. I don't even bother knocking on people's doors anymore even if they've had a pile of rounds laying on their lawn for a month. They're never giving it away free.