My Pot of Gold

[jlow]

Every Saturday I go to a friends storage lot which he shares with a tree service. I take whatever I want. Lately a lot of maple and ash. I will be taking spruce and pine for the shoulder months. Every week he has new wood already cut to length. If not then I bring my saw and cut up what I like. I usually have 2 face cords per week. Makes scrounging a lot easier.

 

[begreen]

Nice score. You are one lucky fellow. Buy that friend a case of Michigan's finest.

 

[ChrisNJ]

That is awesome, I could use a spot like that

 

[doubledip]

Do you need any help cleaning up that lot? I haven't had much luck scrounging lately.

 

[kbrown]

Every Saturday I go to a friends storage lot which he shares with a tree service. I take whatever I want. Lately a lot of maple and ash. I will be taking spruce and pine for the shoulder months. Every week he has new wood already cut to length. If not then I bring my saw and cut up what I like. I usually have 2 face cords per week. Makes scrounging a lot easier.

Hell, I'd pull my splitter over there and split it all on site; no mess at home. You are one very lucky guy to have easy pickin's like that. That area looks familiar, grew up in Fraser.

 

[wood spliter]

Thats a great score. You can cut and pick what you want.

 

[savageactor7]

You have a good thing going on there jlow.

 

[jlow]

This month I am taking my splitter over there and some of us are going to help split and stack some of the wood for their warehouse.( they are heating with a woodburner). My friend has a dump truck and I will throw in what I can use at home.

 

[mayhem]

The idea of a place like that is utterly foreign to me. Around here ALL the woodcutting places keep every little bit of wood. They haul the logs back and split the for firewood, sell them for lumber of chip them for composst. I get zero from the locals and there appears to be no such thing as a wood dump.

 

[Flatbedford]

Lots gets dumped near me too. I hooked up with a tree service a few months ago. The foreman told me I could take whatever I wanted from their pile. He said what ever i don't take, he will pay to have removed. I got one load from them and then we had the big storm in February. There was and still is so much road side stuff close to me that I haven't had the time, nor do I have the room at the house to go back to my tree guy.

 

[Gunks]

Jealous. Jealous. Jealous. Wish I can find something like this in Ulster County NY.

 

[smokinj]

SweeeeeTT!

 

[mayhem]

All this time I've been on the wrong end of the damn rainbow!

 

[Battenkiller]

All this time I've been on the wrong end of the damn rainbow!

ROFLMAO!

 

[Wood Duck]

That looks so much better than the scrounging I do, I hesitate to call it scrounging. More like shopping.

 

[SolarAndWood]

More like shopping.

with a gift card with no limit

 

[zzr7ky]

Hi -

You folks in the North East - Hang in thre. You might talk to some of the local golf course managers, an any churches with larger grounds. Get something going now so when there's a storm of the Emerald Ash Bore gets there you'll have things lined up ahead of time.

I'm near 2 years ahead, but when the Ash is gone (last trees going to be cut this coming winter) it will be a lot harder.

I also toured one of my local 'honey holes' and found that with the woods canopy opened up by the EAB, the road I cut in is like a green carpet of Pioson Ivy I got permision to hit it with broad leaf killer. Some of the vines on the standing trees are as big as my wrist. Makes me itchy just thinking about it.

Good luck & stay safe!

 

[Cluttermagnet]

All this time I've been on the wrong end of the damn rainbow!

Uh- wait a minute! You mean my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is an overly full porta john? :lol:

 

[mayhem]

Hand that man a cigar!

 

[par0thead151]

Thats a great score. You can cut and pick what you want.

I AM VERY JEALOUS.
my arrangement is not terrible though. i get to cut as much wood as i like but i need to also dispose of the limbs and brush as well.
if i could pick through rounds for what i wanted, oooh man i would be a happy camper! and have many years of wood pre cut/split.

 

[Hiram Maxim]

The idea of a place like that is utterly foreign to me. Around here ALL the woodcutting places keep every little bit of wood. They haul the logs back and split the for firewood, sell them for lumber of chip them for composst. I get zero from the locals and there appears to be no such thing as a wood dump.

Here in South Eastern Michigan (Suburban Detroit) people would rather have tree companies haul wood off. %-P

Its so easy to get free wood around here. I have a tree service that keeps dumping cut to length Oak,Cherry & ash in my driveway. Wood Burners around here are far and few between. I have ended up with close to 30 full cords over the last 2 to 3 years for basically free(beer). I gave close to half it away to a couple of close family friends who heat their homes with wood.

In fact a lot of the trees around here sadly end up in landfills. There is just no market for firewood.....demand is low!

Now drive a couple hours North and that demand changes.

 

[andybaker]

Lots gets dumped near me too. I hooked up with a tree service a few months ago. The foreman told me I could take whatever I wanted from their pile. He said what ever i don't take, he will pay to have removed. I got one load from them and then we had the big storm in February. There was and still is so much road side stuff close to me that I haven't had the time, nor do I have the room at the house to go back to my tree guy.

Same things happened to me. I've found so much wood that I'm losing contacts with my tree guys. I might just stop with the finds and work on preserving my contacts with the tree guys. I did see one of them not too long ago and he has a load for me. I better take care of it.