How far do you drive for wood?

[Pat53]

If its free....to the ends of the earth

 

[Flatbedford]

I have to lug my wood 200 miles.

Wow! I think I'd reconsider wood heat with a trip like that. Unless I was doing it once every few years with a big truck.

 

[KindredSpiritzz]

well i spend a lot of time at my 26 acre vacation place in northern wisconsin so every time i go up i bring back a load of wood to central wi.
I have the woods, I have the motivation what would help is a bigger trailer. Unfortunately i dont have the budget for that as of yet. I make do best i can.
I can get about a half a cord back per trip...10-12 trips a year. A lot of work for mainly aspen and pine with a little maple & black ash thrown in here and there. Heres my little s-10 loaded down for a trip home.

 

[ironpony]

I think it is 60 feet to the woods line.

 

[red oak]

If its free....to the ends of the earth

I think somewhere in there it would stop being free....

 

[ironpony]

I think somewhere in there it would stop being free....

all wood is free, it is the incidentals that cost thousands.

 

[Flatbedford]

Yeah. It always a question of how much it costs to burn all that "free" wood.

 

[jillybeansisme]

Well, I guess I'll be going the farthest. I'm getting in my Rav4, doing a 20 minute drive to fly 1000 miles or so, to then drive another 20 minutes to fell 14 fir and oak trees. How am I going to get all that wood home? Oh, it's already home (my next place to live vs. where I currently live)!

 

[STIHLY DAN]

I drove 45 miles for this:

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It's only a 4x8 trailer with B rated tires. I ordered C rated tires so maybe i'll feel a little more comfortable adding more wood when i go. But to drive that far for this amount of wood isn't good. It's unfortunate too, this guy has a whole huge pile of wood cut to length that i'd love to go through, I just have no way to transport.

Rent a truck and trailer.

 

[Halligan]

I've scrounged all my wood within 15 miles of my house and I have yet to spend a penny for wood. Now saw's, splitter, trailer, truck, those cost $$$$$.

 

[tigger]

I am loaded up on my way home from my property I've VT. It's about 180 miles..

 

[tcassavaugh]

some places prohibit bringing back wood into your area over a certain number of miles. trying to keep bug infestation down I guess. 30-40 miles for me.

 

[Hoozie]

I have 100 acres of Juniper about 45 minutes from me. Problem is it's so darn limb-y. Probably doesn't help that I'm mainly taking the smaller junk trees to let the big ones get better for the future

New plan for this year (after a bad trip last year*), is to take the car out with the saws, C/S/S there until I have enough to warrant taking the 10mpg truck out to get it all.

*Worked all day, one saw quit, the other starting having issues, destroyed a tire on the truck, all for.... half a cord

 

[KD0AXS]

some places prohibit bringing back wood into your area over a certain number of miles. trying to keep bug infestation down I guess. 30-40 miles for me.

Here in MN, a few counties are under a quarantine to control the spread of emerald ash borer. It's illegal to transport any wood out of those counties unless it's been heat treated and certified by the Department of Agriculture.

If you're camping on public land, any firewood you bring with you must be purchased from a DNR approved vendor within 50 miles of your campsite.

However, there's no restriction on how far you can haul wood to be used on private property, except that it can't be removed from any of the counties that are under quarantine.

 

[jillybeansisme]

Where I own a lot, you are not allowed to cut down the trees without a building permit and then the City tells you what trees you may cut down to build your house.