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Had some oak and hickory left from last year, but very little. Earlier this spring I found a guy that had 3 big oaks cut. Had a sign free wood. Got 2 cords of white oak already cut to length. All I had to do was haul, and split what needed splitting. Gotta replace stove pipe this month though


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All kinds of ash for free on craigslist all over the east coast. Damn beetles.

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Originally Posted by FishinHank
All kinds of ash for free on craigslist all over the east coast. Damn beetles.

Last winter/spring I was getting about one a week, across my damned driveway!
Never realized how many I had[all on the upper side of drive of course!]


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A couple years ago I had taken a couple of big 100’+ Doug Firs down and bucked them into 16” rounds. We don’t heat with wood since we have a heat pump and propane furnace. Our UPS driver was a nice guy that was local not living far from us. He asked me how much I wanted for the pile of wood and was surprised when I told him that he could have it all as long as he cleaned the area up after he got it all loaded. He loaded up what was easily 2+ cords in several pickup truck loads and cleaned the area where the wood was. A few days later he stopped by on his day off with a thank you card and some of his wife’s fresh preserves. He told me that they have 5 kids and money can be tight but having a couple months of heating wood on hand would loosen the pressure on them a little.

His appreciation and the card of thanks was more than I expected and in many ways it was better than whatever money I could’ve got if I’d sold the wood. I was happy that I gave it to someone who would appreciate it.

I took down a couple of big alders last year and bucked them up and split it all earlier this spring. It gave us around 3+ cords of campfire wood which the kids have made a serious dent in with their nightly summertime campfires. I split that by hand, it felt good to split wood by hand again.


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