You know you're a country boy stuck in the burbs when...

[hazmat]

You're dissapointed that the neighbor's tree service returned to pick up the log length wood they dropped before you could offer your "assistance" in it's removal. Had to be a good couple cords - Oh well.

If I were truly in the country, the neighbor would have a means to use the wood himself.

 

[Ductape]

Tell me about it ! I live near a private school, and watch a tree service come in and chip trees so big..... they actually feed them into the chipper with a crane ! Its enough to make a grown man (who burns wood for heat) cry ! I've tried offering "help" by taking all that troublesome wood away so they wouldn't need to burn all that fuel in their chipper....... no luck, but you can't blame a guy for trying !

 

[scott_vt]

Tell me about it ! I live near a private school, and watch a tree service come in and chip trees so big..... they actually feed them into the chipper with a crane ! Its enough to make a grown man (who burns wood for heat) cry ! I've tried offering "help" by taking all that troublesome wood away so they wouldn't need to burn all that fuel in their chipper....... no luck, but you can't blame a guy for trying !

Mornin Ductape,
Boy that is ashame Cant blame you for tryin

 

[arthr31]

I've supplied my last 3 years of wood by following utility trucks cutting to clear lines... not actually following them, but watching where they've been and then returning 12 to 24 hours later...

Others are catching up with this... wood is disappearing road side, whether by chipper or else.... It's tremendous what gets thrown away...

gosh, i promised myself i wasn't going to give away where i get my nice firewood anymore...

 

[dancer]

A little twist on that theme... We had a cataclysmic ice storm a few years back. I watched the cleanup crews, mostly Asplundh, chip felled trees into their trucks for months. When a truck was full the crew had to quit to go dump it at the designated spot. I had a few acres of rough, otherwise-unused pasture and invited the trucks to dump their chip loads. Eventually I accumulated more than 50 truck loads of wood chips. It took several years but now the piles have become the finest kind of mulch. I go get a FEL bucket load almost daily to improve the soil condition somewhere on my place.

 

[EastTexFrank]

You guys need to move closer to East Texas. A couple of years ago I lost a "big" oak tree at the bottom of the yard. I couldn't cut through that thing with an 18" bar chain saw. It was about 4' diameter at the base. It took me 2 weeks to cut that thing up. I didn't split it but I cut it into roughly 18" to 2' lenghts and quartered the bigger pieces. You know what? .... I couldn't give that wood away. In the end I toted it to the burning pit and had a huge bonfire going for 3 days straight. I delivered a trailer load to a friend in Dallas and still have a few pieces stacked down back that I use in the smoker. It sure did hurt to see that beautiful tree go up in useless smoke.

 

[MLinOleMiss]

Talk about making you sick, I was living in Gulfport MS when Katrina hit and had to watch millions of cubic yards of trees and limbs being hauled away. I asked one of the guys hauling about getting some of the wood and they said that it all had to be accounted for because the government was paying for it to be removed and didn't want people to get things for free. I asked if this was the same government that was giving out $2000 debit cards without verifying ID's and he got a very strange look on his face and said that he hadn't thought of it that way.

 

[meledward23]

Yes,

You know you're a country boy...

when the city has to send out a backhoe to haul off your yard debris. Per my city if I can get it to the street and dont use a contractor they will take anything. Boy a TC-55 (55 Horse New Holland) can sure move some big stumps to the curb (after the backhoe on it digs them out).

It was funny. The garbage man told me there was no way in BEEP hewas hualing my stumps. I pointed at the city reg's he said so. I called the city. They got the garbage man out there with his truck and they loaded it for him with there backhoe. I walkedout and said if all you needed was help loading, should have let me know, tractor is out back.

Yup, living on 1.3 acres with a TC-55 is overkill. But what am I going to sell it?

(oh and there is of course the 30 acre farm 20 minutes away)....

 

[Jstpssng]

What makes me even sicker... years ago I worked for a tree service down in NH; we were felling saw log quality oak, then bucking them up in random lengths then leaving them to rot.
The Credit Union I belonged to back then needed a new parking lot, so a half acre pine grove became a parking lot.... with several thousand feet of white pine logs used for fill.
Then there was the 200 acre golf course we put in. Every stick of wood on it; including softwood and hardwood logs; went through the chipper.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

What makes me even sicker... years ago I worked for a tree service down in NH; we were felling saw log quality oak, then bucking them up in random lengths then leaving them to rot.
The Credit Union I belonged to back then needed a new parking lot, so a half acre pine grove became a parking lot.... with several thousand feet of white pine logs used for fill.
Then there was the 200 acre golf course we put in. Every stick of wood on it; including softwood and hardwood logs; went through the chipper.

The tree service clearing National Grids high tension lines pulls any good logs out and takes them to the lumber mills. Everything else just gets dropped and cut into small lengths. But each company is different and it is up to them to decide what is worth their time to do.