How do you get yours?

Lots from government permits, and lots from family, friends, or friends of friends that want trees removed from their property.

I'm a scrounger mostly. I've bought some wood over the years when the price was right. But I'm a blessed dude. I have gotten wood from a myriad of sources. A couple of years ago we took some trees down on my small property. I'm looking forward to burning that this winter (that hickory was a bastard of a tree). This fall has probably been my best season for scrounging and I'm super grateful for it. I'm a property manger/project management for a high end builder, so I have multiple sources from work. Often when we clear a yard I get the wood. we have landscapers who we give a lot of work to so they hook me up with wood. I burn a lot of scraps from my carpenters, etc. I've also been picking away at a small wood lot next to my buddy's house about a half a mile from me. The place is loaded with locust- old dead, dry locust. I'm in disbelief of this most recent scrounge.

I'm a scrounger mostly. I've bought some wood over the years when the price was right. But I'm a blessed dude. I have gotten wood from a myriad of sources. A couple of years ago we took some trees down on my small property. I'm looking forward to burning that this winter (that hickory was a bastard of a tree). This fall has probably been my best season for scrounging and I'm super grateful for it. I'm a property manger/project management for a high end builder, so I have multiple sources from work. Often when we clear a yard I get the wood. we have landscapers who we give a lot of work to so they hook me up with wood. I burn a lot of scraps from my carpenters, etc. I've also been picking away at a small wood lot next to my buddy's house about a half a mile from me. The place is loaded with locust- old dead, dry locust. I'm in disbelief of this most recent scrounge.

Scroungin with the ford explorer here. Take it any time I can. Also burn ALOT of pallets as I have a seemingly endless access to em. Mostly oak. I pass on the pine pallets for now.

I am a runner as well as a wood burner. I put in about 40+ miles /week. Whenever I spot wood on the side of the road, I take note, and when I get home take the truck and fill it up! Haven't bought wood in 25 years.

Move it from the backyard woodlot and log length pile with my little 16HP Massey Ferguson tractor.

Wood lot stuff is bucked/split and stacked for 6+ months and moved by the bucket load in the fall.

Log Lengths are bucked/split and put in the bucket for the short trip to the shed

Utility rightaways and knowing a few forestry bosses has given me wood for the last three years plus put me two to three ahead. Plus the area I live in many of my neighbors have had large growth oak and maple removed. This past summer my next door neighbor gave me four cords red oak the rounds were over 36 inch diameter. Seems where I live no one wants to deal with the real big stuff so that has worked out in my favor for some time now.

I pull/carry logs out of my woods using below. I love the grapple! Unfortunately, the only action shot on my computer was a swarm retrieval from this summer (somewhat visible above my OSHA approved swarm removal system.) sadly, the swarm flew the coop on its new home.