Can't give it away....

[TonyF]

Called several forestry services and wood movers, don't want it for pulp wood, its too short, sweet gum logs are 6" too short to be used for rr ties. Can't burn it either. The pulp wood pile is as large as a small house. I have about 30 pine logs as well that I don't need. Not sure what I'm going to do with it.

 

[Ken]

After a tornado took about 30 acres of oak and pine splintered to point even fire wood burners quit trying to cut . So hired a dozer to push into a winrow and lit one end and drove 1/4 mile and lit the other end let it burn. for a month had smoke from the smoldering of pile of stumps. Now have lots of mulch and grass is growing well.
This is a winter type of burning.
ken

 

[ultrarunner]

Folks have to pay to have wood hauled away... even Oak.

Ever since the fireplace burn restrictions went into effect, the market for firewood all but evaporated in my Bay Area city.

 

[chopped]

Id love to have that or even be close to get it..
Theres a shortage her for wood at my place..

 

[slowzuki]

Get on the forestry forum, there may be some portable millers that would like to have it. A forester might be able to help out finding a market.

 

[Uncle Doug]

Sweet gum and pine both make poor firewood. Best bet other than burning it might be to mulch it.

 

[kenmac]

Don't know if you have the same service,but If I pile i trees / limbs , etc, at the RD. in front of my house they will haul it off

 

[TonyF]

Id love to have that or even be close to get it..
Theres a shortage her for wood at my place..

You or anyone else who wants to come and get it are welcome to it, seriously!

 

[Taylortractornut]

Wished I was closer. I pile up brush piles all year long then light in the winter and til lthe ashes and char in the ground. Make a good garden spot. I also lake logs t like that and make raised flower and vegggie beads all over the place. When they rot they leave a nice fertile mound.

 

[TonyF]

Don't know if you have the same service,but If I pile i trees / limbs , etc, at the RD. in front of my house they will haul it off

We do, but some of this is from the April storms, and some from land clearing. There is so much that the county won't touch it, and there is no assistance for undeveloped land owners who suffered storm damage. It has to be a residence or business before FEMA or others will help. I guess I can put out 3 or 4 logs a month for the next few years.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Put an ad in the paper, I know I burn a little gum in the heater. A few folks that heat with wood will grab it yp for heating a shop or barn. I like to save my good wood for the house and burn crap in the shop heater. Here I let folks pile up several loads of brush and in the winter have a big 4 alarm beer drinking bonfire.

I have a couple of friends that go to logging landings and pic up the end drops that look like your pile. THey stack them crossed ofe each other and pile a few tops in the center and then cross stack a few more. They will pile up several piles and tarp some of them. They have a hunting club and thats what their meeting camp fires are made from.

 

[TonyF]

Put an ad in the paper, I know I burn a little gum in the heater. A few folks that heat with wood will grab it yp for heating a shop or barn. I like to save my good wood for the house and burn crap in the shop heater. Here I let folks pile up several loads of brush and in the winter have a big 4 alarm beer drinking bonfire.

I have a couple of friends that go to logging landings and pic up the end drops that look like your pile. THey stack them crossed ofe each other and pile a few tops in the center and then cross stack a few more. They will pile up several piles and tarp some of them. They have a hunting club and thats what their meeting camp fires are made from.

I've looked at the local Craigslist and there are more ads in there for free wood than one would think. I'll give it a try though, its worth a shot.

 

[forgeblast]

what about making a fence from it,
Cedar Stack Rail Fence, Battlefield Fence, Worm Fence, Zig-Zag Fence - Cedar Split Rail Fence - HOOVER FENCE CO. Split rail fences are a low-cost style of wood fence often used to contain livestock and horses, define boundaries, and landscape a yard.

 

[TonyF]

We gave up and called in a forestry mulcher.

The log piles after the mulcher finished with them. Now I will have compost in a few months.

 

[bp fick]

Same story up here in forestry-wood products country of the far north. Zero market for saw logs. Not clear pine, not oak, nothing. The sawmills all say they are over stuffed with unsold product. Won't take anymore logs at any price. Everyone blames it on the crashed construction economy.

 

[creekbend]

Just a thought. Do you have a Boy Scout Campground in your locale? If so, try contacting them. Maybe one of the Leaders would be willing to pick up most of it. The Scouts might use the logs as projects to earn Badges, perhaps carving totem poles or making a lean to, or using the wood for a bonfire. I wouldn't recommend burning pine in a stove or fireplace except in small quantities. Too much creosote. You get "Fat Lighter" from pine tree stumps. Good Luck.:tractor:

 

[TonyF]

Just a thought. Do you have a Boy Scout Campground in your locale? If so, try contacting them. Maybe one of the Leaders would be willing to pick up most of it. The Scouts might use the logs as projects to earn Badges, perhaps carving totem poles or making a lean to, or using the wood for a bonfire. I wouldn't recommend burning pine in a stove or fireplace except in small quantities. Too much creosote. You get "Fat Lighter" from pine tree stumps. Good Luck.:tractor:

Too late its shredded, see two posts up. Good idea though.

 

[hawkeye08]

I thought we were at the low point, but another sawmill is shutting down in a few weeks. About 70 jobs will be lost. Some of the mills are shipping overseas to China and Japan I heard.

 

[creekbend]

I thought we were at the low point, but another sawmill is shutting down in a few weeks. About 70 jobs will be lost. Some of the mills are shipping overseas to China and Japan I heard.

You heard right. I sold some timber 8 months ago, and the majority of it was being shipped to China. Here in NC, the mills are shipping yellow popular timber to China for the sole purpose of making "Chop Sticks"out of it. In my latest issue of NC Farm Bureau Magazine, the latest figures for the last two years lists China as our biggest importer of pork from NC.It definitely helps the Farmers here in NC. I remember in the 60's and 70's when the USA shipped millions of metric tons of wheat to the USSR. It seems that our agricultural products are the only commodities that China is mainly interested in. No political inclusions meant, just stating the facts from the Dept. Of Agriculture.