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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2016, 07:36:23 AM »

I've been told that ash is one of the only woods that needs almost no seasoning time to be ready to burn. I have found this to be true with the ash we have cut around here.
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2016, 10:02:34 AM »

I've been told that ash is one of the only woods that needs almost no seasoning time to be ready to burn. I have found this to be true with the ash we have cut around here.

Used to have a chart at one of the local hay auctions, it said ash was one of the best woods to burn green if you had to burn unseasoned wood.
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2016, 06:25:08 PM »

The power company up here is cutting down trees all up and down the side of the road like they are a logging company on a clearing job. They leave all the wood and chip the tops. It's usually like the wild west with people out there trying to grab what they can , but there is a lot of bigger logs and it's been cold last couple days. Good for me I have a loader and I don't mind the cold. I could have most of my wood for next year in a couple days if I wanted to work at it. :thumbup:
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2016, 07:59:08 PM »

This is how I got my wood boiler, I saw all that free wood on the side of the road! I went and got a pick up load in about five minutes for our fire pit  and said to my wife we should switch to wood !  I never herd of a wood boiler before I came across one on the internet and here we are about 7 years later I still haven't paid for wood yet  I have tree guys bringing it to me for free all cut to about 20 in or so  it's not the best wood but it's free wood and free is for me!
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2016, 07:42:28 PM »

I found out that they are going to keep cutting from all the roads around here so I went and looked at a dump trailer today. a little rough , but I could fix it if the price came down. I figured this would make it really easy to collect all that wood. Fill the trailer with the loader and only handle it once :)
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2016, 01:52:25 AM »

I always thought wood cutting was getting one with nature . and fresh smell of 2 stoke oil and fresh cut oak ..
and the echo of a screaming husqavarna .. wood slave naaaaaaaaa LOL

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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2017, 02:42:36 PM »

Wood slave, is that when you drool  over trees you see the town cutting down? They are clearing near the highway out our way, just over the guard rails. Bad news is they chip it all. I was getting lots of free wood via craigslist but now I am too late if it's over a few hours old. I think someone gets it and sells it. I still have a few good leads and I am expanding my path out back. Kind of rough out there but I think it's doable.
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2017, 04:08:20 PM »

Power company was cutting again today on my street. I couldn't get the saw and the tractor started fast enough when I saw them cutting white oak next door to my house. I grabbed one load with the wood vultures hanging nearby waiting to see what I left em. I got a good cord and left some scraps. Another pile down the road , bet someone is on it by morning if they aren't out there tonight. I'll let someone else have some I have a wood lot to cut off of and I got my share.
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2017, 02:54:55 PM »

Got in trouble today. I was cutting up trees the power company had cut down and the land owner showed up. I told him I didn't know anyone wanted the wood , it's been there a while and it just off the side of the road. Turns out he knew my father and he let me have what I had cut up. He left and I went up the road to get some on the other side of the road and the tree company that cut the trees came by and they were picking up the wood. I got a couple cords in a couple days before I got shut down. :thumbup:
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #24 on: January 29, 2017, 02:58:40 AM »

It's like that around by me as well.  Don't touch it unless you have permission.  I found about a cord of red oak near my inlaws that was laying in the road ditch for months and months so I decided to cut it up and load up a few truck bed loads.  I was reading in the paper a few days later and saw an article about people stealing firewood and this would be  prosecuted.  Guess what one of the addresses was.  Lol oops.
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #25 on: January 29, 2017, 06:05:52 AM »

Many times utilitys dont actually own the land they run across. Theres usually an easement placed on the deed to the land that gives them access to it, but the land owner still owns the property and everything on it.

If they happen to be cutting within the the road right of way it might be fair game, but if its beyond that, it probably belongs to the land owner. Either way, it wouldn't hurt to knock on some doors and ask permission.  If they don't burn wood, they'll more than likely be happy to get rid of it.
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #26 on: January 29, 2017, 08:39:58 PM »

It's like that around by me as well.  Don't touch it unless you have permission.  I found about a cord of red oak near my inlaws that was laying in the road ditch for months and months so I decided to cut it up and load up a few truck bed loads.  I was reading in the paper a few days later and saw an article about people stealing firewood and this would be  prosecuted.  Guess what one of the addresses was.  Lol oops.

Yeah, the shame is they probably had no intention of cutting it until it was missing.  My power supplier had a Jihad against the trees that might affect sevice. Seems to be working.   Power outage in Winter was a common occurrance. Last three years, hardly an issue.    They cut four along my property and since I didnt make an issue over it, they took down a maple in the front yard that needed to go.
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« Reply #27 on: January 29, 2017, 09:48:57 PM »

I work for an electric and gas utility. Virtually never do we own the land our lines are on. Even when they are at the edge of road right of way, the trees still belong to the land owner. Unless it is a limited access highway (fenced) the land owner owns to the middle of the highway so any trees in road right of way belong to the land owner.

A friend and I unknowingly cut some trees we thought were on the land we had permission to cut on. The owners were from a long ways away but we found their contact info and called them to apologize. They were thankful we contacted them and gave us permission to cut all the dead red oak we wanted as this parcel is land locked by a railroad track. They were glad is wasn't going to waste and appreciated us making rabbit brush piles for them.

Just like we tell our hunter education students, ask permission first and you may be surprised by the answer.
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #28 on: January 29, 2017, 10:23:14 PM »

I work for an electric and gas utility. Virtually never do we own the land our lines are on. Even when they are at the edge of road right of way, the trees still belong to the land owner. Unless it is a limited access highway (fenced) the land owner owns to the middle of the highway so any trees in road right of way belong to the land owner.

A friend and I unknowingly cut some trees we thought were on the land we had permission to cut on. The owners were from a long ways away but we found their contact info and called them to apologize. They were thankful we contacted them and gave us permission to cut all the dead red oak we wanted as this parcel is land locked by a railroad track. They were glad is wasn't going to waste and appreciated us making rabbit brush piles for them.

Just like we tell our hunter education students, ask permission first and you may be surprised by the answer.

That's like hitting the lottery.  I wish :)
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Re: Anyone become a "wood slave"?
« Reply #29 on: January 29, 2017, 10:24:59 PM »

I work for an electric and gas utility. Virtually never do we own the land our lines are on. Even when they are at the edge of road right of way, the trees still belong to the land owner. Unless it is a limited access highway (fenced) the land owner owns to the middle of the highway so any trees in road right of way belong to the land owner.

A friend and I unknowingly cut some trees we thought were on the land we had permission to cut on. The owners were from a long ways away but we found their contact info and called them to apologize. They were thankful we contacted them and gave us permission to cut all the dead red oak we wanted as this parcel is land locked by a railroad track. They were glad is wasn't going to waste and appreciated us making rabbit brush piles for them.

Just like we tell our hunter education students, ask permission first and you may be surprised by the answer.

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You don’t even want to guess how many asshats I run off our property that are “just out mushroom hunting” etc. Used to be really bad with poachers, we only allow a few people to hunt our property, the game wardens know who they are and know we will gladly press charges, it’s not near the problem it used to be.
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