Well you guys have done it to me again. I have never scrounged firewood in my life and have always cut my wood off of our place. For a few months now every time I go to town I pass a neighbor's house where a sixty foot White Oak and a fifty or so foot Beech blew down side by side parallel with the road just off the shoulder during a storm this year. Today he was out cutting the grass when I passed by and I pulled in and asked him what he was going to do with the trees. He almost did a back flip asking if I wanted them. Seems the best quote he has gotten was four hundred apiece to cut'em up and haul'em off. I told him the stump and the slash was his problem but when the record breaking heat goes away Thursday I would put on my RoboCop garb and come and make the trunks disappear. It immediately broke into a tour of his yard and pointing out dead trees. One eighty foot plus Oak is in striking distance of the power lines. I will call the power company right of way supervisor and get them to do the honors on that one. I know the guy well because nine hundred feet of his power lines run through my woods to our house. He didn't charge me when I dropped a pine on the lines and knocked the power out for a few blocks one Sunday this summer.
The good thing is that I just pull the Suburban and the 4X8 trailer off the road right beside the neighbor's trees and have at them. I am tempted to use the twenty foot trailer but that would be a real load coming up the hill to the house, 454 or no 454.
Now at the next meeting of Woodburner's Anonymous I will have to stand up and say "My name is BroBart. I am a wood scrounger.".
The good thing is that I just pull the Suburban and the 4X8 trailer off the road right beside the neighbor's trees and have at them. I am tempted to use the twenty foot trailer but that would be a real load coming up the hill to the house, 454 or no 454.
Now at the next meeting of Woodburner's Anonymous I will have to stand up and say "My name is BroBart. I am a wood scrounger.".
