I no longer discuss wood

[blacktail]

Anyone else keep their mouth shut about their wood supply? I used to talk firewood with a few coworkers, but not anymore. I take the initiative to get firewood on my own. Usually it's via some kind of permits but recently it's also been from keeping my ears open and talking to tree services. Seems like bringing the subject up to some people leads to...
"Can I cut up there?"
"Call me if you don't have room for it all."
Or
"Think I can get a pickup load from you for campfires?"
I even offered to take the one guy along so he could get a load for camp fires. He doesn't have a saw but I told him that he could bring his truck and help out to fill both our rigs. When I told him he'd have to buy a permit that was the deal breaker.
Like hunting locations, firewood is now a restricted topic I'll only discuss with family and a couple of close friends.

 

[Kool_hand_Looke]

Anyone else keep their mouth shut about their wood supply? I used to talk firewood with a few coworkers, but not anymore. I take the initiative to get firewood on my own. Usually it's via some kind of permits but recently it's also been from keeping my ears open and talking to tree services. Seems like bringing the subject up to some people leads to...
"Can I cut up there?"
"Call me if you don't have room for it all."
Or
"Think I can get a pickup load from you for campfires?"
I even offered to take the one guy along so he could get a load for camp fires. He doesn't have a saw but I told him that he could bring his truck and help out to fill both our rigs. When I told him he'd have to buy a permit that was the deal breaker.
Like hunting locations, firewood is now a restricted topic I'll only discuss with family and a couple of close friends.

You aren't kidding. I let ONE buddy come on my property and cut and he could take half of what we processed. Well...I've had to remind him a 100 times to keep his mouth shut. Long story short, his neighbor had asked to cut here once and got all butthurt when he was told no. Now his neighbor is all nosey any time my buddy leaves with his truck and trailer.

Wth is the big deal? I don't understand why people have to act like that. I've got more than one body of water ony property and I refuse to let anyone fish it.

My brother in law has some property too. No wood stove either. He's got trees down on his trails. Well him and his wife were like "well since you like splitting wood you can come do ours". I'm assuming for their bonfires which they have like 2 a year. No need for a mountain of firewood. I told them Ill do it...but not for free and I'm getting loads for me IF its even worth splitting. I haven't heard a word since. Of ALL people, I'd think they would expect me to actually take some for myself knowing how much wood I burn. My next suggestion is for them to buy their own splitter.

The gall of most people is amazing.

 

[Kool_hand_Looke]

The campfire and bonfire needs blows me away.

My father in law burns also and burns enough to understand the process even though I wouldn't adopt some of his habits. But his neighbor asked to take a few pieces once...the guy loaded his truck bed and left a case of beer.

 

[blacktail]

It's strange that people think wood is so easy to come by, and so easy to process, that it's no big deal for you to give up a pickup load. But apparently it's too much work for them to do.
One of the guys that's hit me up for wood multiple times lives 15 minutes from a USFS ranger station. I've told him multiple times to go get a permit and cut. He still hasn't done it.

 

[Kool_hand_Looke]

Another night owl burning the midnight oil I see. Except I burn mine off and on. It really sucks.

 

[Kool_hand_Looke]

People are idiots. That's what it comes down too.

 

[Wood Duck]

I don't discuss wood that much because only a few people I know seem to be interested. Not many people have asked for wood. The boy scout sometimes ask, but nobody else has asked.

 

[Hickorynut]

I am proud of my firewood hobby and am not shy about talking about chainsaws, woodstoves, and my stacks. It seems though less and less peeps in my area are burning or at least going to the trouble of burning full time as there is so much natural gas distribution around here. The only ones that hit me up are some cousins that barbecue once a year and come fill their truck up for that. That's okay as they are good guys. I do feel bad about this past winter where another cousin that burns had a tumor on his leg and didn't get enough or maybe any firewood. There again this leg problem was mid summer and he had plenty of time to get wood in the spring or get years ahead earlier. He didn't ask per se but some other cousins said he was needing firewood and they would come get it if I would give. My answer was for me the firewood is so hard for me to get, I would give money but just couldn't part with any wood right now. I feel bad but I have human failings like everybody else. When and if I no longer burn I am going to give it away to him and any other close friends I know before I would sell it........

 

[fossil]

People are idiots.

Actually, I know quite a few people who most definitely are not idiots.

 

[Jags]

I just look at them and say - "Yeah, when propane is free..."

 

[Bigg_Redd]

Anyone else keep their mouth shut about their wood supply? I used to talk firewood with a few coworkers, but not anymore. I take the initiative to get firewood on my own. Usually it's via some kind of permits but recently it's also been from keeping my ears open and talking to tree services. Seems like bringing the subject up to some people leads to...
"Can I cut up there?"
"Call me if you don't have room for it all."
Or
"Think I can get a pickup load from you for campfires?"
I even offered to take the one guy along so he could get a load for camp fires. He doesn't have a saw but I told him that he could bring his truck and help out to fill both our rigs. When I told him he'd have to buy a permit that was the deal breaker.
Like hunting locations, firewood is now a restricted topic I'll only discuss with family and a couple of close friends.

I hear ya, but, I've found that you can give most people directions, a map, and GPS co-ordinates and be safe as most people are simply too lazy to be bothered.

 

[PapaDave]

Next door neighbor just moved into her new hubby's house. She plans to rent her place.
She knows where my stacks are, and I can only hope that my request to keep quiet about them is still in her memory banks.
I have a feeling the new neighbor will also know soon enough.
Google Earth already has 'em scoped out.

 

[splitoak]

People just dont know or care how much sweat equity you have in it...processing firewood is hard work.....but i like it..

 

[Razo]

I like to talk about the specifics of wood and the different species and every time I do I mostly get the "deer in the headlights" look. Seems a lot of people think hardwoods are mostly the same.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

Nothing puts a damper on freeloading like "WORK"

 

[Kool_hand_Looke]

Actually, I know quite a few people who most definitely are not idiots.

This is a self fulfilling prophecy. What I declare and issue as idiotic may be the complete opposite of your generalities of the same nomenclature.

But it's good to know you know plenty of people who aren't idiots.

 

[BrotherBart]

Like after all of the hours on this site I want to go talk about firewood with other people.

 

[yooperdave]

I keep my mouth shut about my scrounge sites, and only tell of the loggers that are selling wood a full price. There is one guy around here that just about follows you into the woods to find your scrounge site! Like a starving coyote on the blood trail of a gut shot deer, he is.

 

[Paulywalnut]

Like a pickup truck, people that don't have one think of ways to use yours. Friends ask if you can spare a stack because you have 30 stacks. Free of course. I gladly give people firewood that need but don't ask.

 

[Charlie2]

I only talk firewood when I want a little time to myself and if I really want to be alone I fire up the splitter.

 

[kennyp2339]

I hear what your saying, my mom and dad burn wood for 75% of there heating needs (I always help them out, and don't mind), a hand full of my friends burn also, but they keep to themselves as far as wood needs, but I have one buddy that burns, and when he comes over to my place, he always makes a comment on the amount of wood I have, almost three years worth, at least a good solid 13 cord or so, anyway he says "man I need to get my a&& in shape and start cutting and splitting like you..lololol, or if I'm by his house he always seems to show me where the future split pieces are going to go; but come good weather (spring, summer, fall) he always manages to be going out somewhere, (bar, bbq, other friends house) or like last summer he got a new girlfriend, I called him up because I found a nice easy tree, (would have shared) instead he said I'm hanging out with my new girl friend, my reply was " your new girlfriends hugs and kisses aren't going to keep your house warm in the winter pal."

 

[WiscWoody]

In this very small town of 324 people the gathering place for loggers and many wood burners is the old Phillips 66 station in town. We often talk about wood heating and where the woods at. There has been times I've asked if I can get in on some but I'm not pushy about it and if they say it's just for them or whatever I don't push it but I have gotten some nice scrounge from word of mouth there. And where I'm getting it from there is plenty of it. Maple and Black Ash mostly. That's just one of many sources.

 

[blazincajun]

I'm passionate about running and firewood - I lose track of time talking to others who feel the same; but on the other hand, I do enjoy coaching others to help them to feel passionate about things that matter.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

Every time the subject comes up i hear "thats too much work" even from those that have no job(especially from those that have no job). Only know 2 other people in my town (of 17000) who burn wood and one of them is my son. So no fear of wood shortage around here.

 

[WiscWoody]

Every time the subject comes up i hear "thats too much work" even from those that have no job(especially from those that have no job). Only know 2 other people in my town (of 17000) who burn wood and one of them is my son. So no fear of wood shortage around here.

I'd say in this county of Sawyer, WI, pop. 17,000... A good 1/3 to 1/2 of the homes heat with wood. I know on the stretch of road that I live on there's 14 homes of which 10 burn wood primarily and 1 burns pellets. Only 1 of the wood burners buys his wood and he gets it 10 logger cord at a time in pole form for $800. The rest of us scrounge or own enough land to cut from.