Now that I'm more than 3 years ahead, I have the luxury of being selective. No more stuff that's downhill from the road, punky or under 4 in. diameter.
A branch in someone's yard isn't worth talking to the property owner. But if the wood is on the curb, I'm taking it.
I'm sure you have a typo there but I see your point. I really think I would burn wood even if oil were free. It's just better quality warming heat. Good exercise too.I can't figure out why scrounging is still so competitive with oil near $50 gallon.
The Town drops a few Oaks roadside and within minutes scroungers are lining up with trailers and chainsaws like it's the last tree on earth. I expected the competition to drop when Oil dropped.
Yesterday The Town dropped a bunch of trees. I was lucky enough to be the only one there and only cut what I could load. I drove my load 15 minutes to my house and by the time I returned to the uncut trees they were already GONE! . It could not have been the Town with grapple hooks because this was 6pm on Friday evening.