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DonNC

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Jan 3, 2011
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Fayetteville, NC
From craigslist

Due to the tornado, there is a lot of wood for pickup by the curb in Cottonade and Summerhill. Trash by the curb is NOT looting. This wood is getting grinded into large industrial trucks. People keep putting more cut up trees by the curb. We are talking dogwood, oak, cedar. Not just pine! We saw large pieces of oak that could be used to make furniture. Bring your splitter. Bring your trucks and keep this from getting dumped in a landfill.

Ive been too busy to go there since the tornado day...but I will be there this weekend. There are places like this all over the state since that 66 tornado day... dont let the wood go to waste
 
We had a freak October snowstorm here a couple years ago, while leaves were still on many of the trees, and trees were down everywhere in some neighborhoods (the snow was very local hit some areas missed others not far away). The supply of wood at the curb went on for many weeks.
 
Its in fayetteville

I went scouting today and most of the curb hardwood is gone. There is still plenty on the deserted streets on top of houses and cars up in yards but there are no people around to ask.
There is lots of pine still cut and stacked at the curb but loggers are starting to take that too. I found a nice pile off the devastated path that the first waves missed. (ive been out of town and missed alot)

Here is my catch. It kicked my poulons ass and so I went and got a huskvarna 454 55cc 20" and went back.... and then it kicked my ass. Tearing down the pile so I could get to the logs took alot. I got one truck load and am going back until i got it all or someone jumps my claim.
 

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Hey Don. That looks like Summerhill to me. Could you send the street address to save me some time. No. No. Just kidding. That's almost an hour away for me. Little too far. Great score for you though. My school bus used to run through Summerhill and Cottonade. I lived in Devonwood.
 
Summerhill and Cottenade both got tore up by the tornado. The pic is a house from summerhill and is typical of the several block (big blocks) wide path . Summerhill has alot of hardwood but it is still on the houses/ cars etc.... No one around cept a few abandoned dogs. The pic is near the corner of Bromley and Fraiser.
 

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Dern. Not good. I saw pictures online of the school outside Summerhill after the tornadoes. It looked destroyed beyond repair. Not sure what it is called now (was) but it was called Reilly Rd. School when I was growing up.
 
I've got so many trees down on my property from snow storms this Winter, I'll probably won't live here long enough to burn it. There's still Oak just lying alongside the road in my neighborhood from the storms, as well as a pipeline project that no one has picked up. It's like passing by money laying by the road but I just have to look the other way because I only have so much time to cut wood.
 
Unfortunately this will probably be the case down in the Joplin, MO area as well. Unbelievable destruction.
 
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