The craziest thing happened...

[warno]

This is my first year burning and since I have started people have been coming out of the wood work with trees down or wanting trees down or know somewhere trees have been down.

My dad has been burning wood for more then 30 years now and the wood pile hasn't been this good in years. Just this winter we pulled in hedge row trimming, a huge mulberry, dad just told me tonight there's another huge mulberry and 2 apple trees on the same property. My boss at work told me to take down the 3 poplar trees along the parking lot and there's about 6 decent pine trees that need brought down at work. I know where there's a 1/4 mile long hedge row that was ripped down with an excavator and pushed back. I guess I'm just saying is good to have options for wood now. Hope everyone else is so lucky.

 

[Knots]

It's always been feast or famine in the past for me. One day you get a call and there's piles of oak and hickory and you're set up for years. Then I moved and started from scratch again. I was burning stuff that was more like twigs than firewood and struggling to get it set-up in time to dry.

 

[Wickets]

This is my first year burning

Mine too! About a week ago, a storm passing through brought down a rather large tree into my backyard. Prior to 2016, I would have seen the felled tree, cursed a few times and then promptly call a 'tree guy' to come take care of it. Now, Im looking at the tree and going...."woohooo, free wood" Its amazing what a wood burning stove can do to you sometimes

 

[heavy hammer]

Two years ago I couldn't get wood if I paid for it. Now I'm about three years ahead. As said earlier once the word gets out and if you have the right equipment to do it. The flood gates are open, I love taking on the real big stuff and have the saws to do it so works out great for me because most people don't want to deal with the heavy stuff. I have a coworker who wants a dozen or so very large black locust trees removed because they block the sunlight to his garden, and he doesn't want any of the big stuff just the small easy stuff. Wants my larger saw and me to get ride of all the big stuff. Amazing from just a couple years ago of seeming to have nothing to being able to cut three to four years wood now. I never turn it down just for the fact I never know when it will dry up.

 

[brenndatomu]

When it rains, it pours! I have been almost over run with wood to cut the last few years...and then the "1/4 mile long hedgerow that was ripped down with an excavator and pushed back" got a match dropped on it for no other reason than the landowner was bored and tired of waiting on me to make the (large) barn sized pile disappear. Probably enough BTUs there to heat the whole neighborhood for 10 years!
He would have has much less of a mess to clean up if he would have let me finish!

 

[warno]

What's left of the hedge row I'll be getting is a drop in the bucket from what they took out on that project. Like you said a barn sized pile of wood. The land owner was clearing an old railroad bed to gain more ground and pulled out a 1/2 mile of random trees and sizes. They pushed them into a massive pile with a bulldozer and burned them.

 

[MarylandGuy]

It's karma. You must have done something right this year.

Find a little old widow lady who lives alone and burns her wood cook stove for heat. Stock her up. The wood that has been appearing for you will change to all hardwoods. And some of it will be split and stacked for a few years. Like one of those Craigslist ads where someone is moving and the real estate agent asked that the wood pile be removed before the house is listed. Karma baby!