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[hoardac]

Free wood that's awesome!  I think I used that much while I was posting this.

That is sad but funny.

[mlappin]

seeing others' piles of wood and comparing to our own would be interesting. I think that pile last three weeks for me, at best, in 32F days and 10-20 nights, heating about 7k sq. ft. If I had a pile, I'd post a  photo, but I'm scavenging this year!

Same here, was near impossible to get to the woods for awhile, now my skid steer is down. No grapple, no mounted splitter makes me a sad camper.

Bought a few cheap loads at the hay auctions the last couple of weeks to get me by.

[MD20/20]

I wonder what percentage of OWB users have their own patch to harvest wood from vs. buying/getting for free etc..? I harvest (at least for the next 5-10yrs) from my lot, but ponder if I'd be better off getting some, perhaps 50%, from another source, such as a tree service. I could still justify most of the tools I use to gather wood!

[mlappin]

I wonder what percentage of OWB users have their own patch to harvest wood from vs. buying/getting for free etc..? I harvest (at least for the next 5-10yrs) from my lot, but ponder if I'd be better off getting some, perhaps 50%, from another source, such as a tree service. I could still justify most of the tools I use to gather wood!

I'm going to start calling around and see if any tree services still give it away if they are in the area of if the demand is high enough these days that they are charging for a load.

I have about 40 acres of woods. The 5 across the road is all good lumber quality stuff. 18 at the back of the farm is decent and I can get to it anytime, the other 17 needs cleaned up yet but is for the most part inaccessible 8 months out of the year. I really need to have a forester come in and take a good look. I think I have most of the junk, damaged or dead tree out of all of it. Just hate to start accidently cutting on the good stuff.

[CentralBoiler3200User]

Nice...though a year's worth?

I burn 3 cords a month in deep winter....

[mlappin]

Think I just came up with all the wood I could want.

Guy that buys a round bale a week from me for his horse's works for an excavating company as a mechanic/jack of all trades. They just got done clear cutting a two acre lot and they chipped it all, then paid the tipping fee to haul it to the landfill. Said if I show up when their dropping trees and don't mind topping them they'll load up all the logs I want. I get free wood and they'll have less to chip and pay to dispose of.