got some free wood yesterday

[Rftreeman]

friend of mine called me and said he was taking down a large dead white oak and a red oak so I went over there and got this load for the price of gas.

it is mostly white oak and there are a few pieces of green red oak, got my work cut out for me now.

 

[spike60]

Nice load there. Free wood is always good, but white oak is top shelf, so that's an extra bonus.

Here's another free wood story. Guy came in today to buy a 372. Lives down near NYC and has a tree service that drops off loads of wood for free. They are more than happy to do this because down there it COSTS them $300 a load if they have to dump it.

 

[DG2244]

Hope you're not splitting that by hand!

 

[MATTYB11]

nice score! I love white oak.

 

[Rftreeman]

Hope you're not splitting that by hand!

nope, the splitter is in the background of the first picture or you can see it here that white oak had a 30 foot tall trunk that was about 30 to 40 DBH but I had no where to put it so it went to someone else.

 

[wdchuck]

nope, the splitter is in the background of the first picture or you can see it here that white oak had a 30 foot tall trunk that was about 30 to 40 DBH but I had no where to put it so it went to someone else.

Nice pile of heat there, maybe that nice stem will become lumber via chainsaw mill.

 

[Rftreeman]

Nice pile of heat there, maybe that nice stem will become lumber via chainsaw mill.

they cut it up and rolled it up a ladder on to the truck piece by piece and dumped it at a guys house on the street where they were working.

 

[njtuna]

nice get!

 

[sredlin]

love that free stuff or better yet if they pay me to get it off their property

 

[Rftreeman]

better yet if they pay me to get it off their property

hauled some once and it was 3 logs (willow oak) 20 to 30 diameter 14 ft long, got paid $60 per log to haul it away, was pretty simple with my trailer and winch so I made $180 to haul it and then sold some of the wood and made another $100 so that worked out pretty good, I probably could have made more off of the firewood but I gave the rest to my disabled uncle.