Acquiring wood to mill?

[TSRuff]

A couple of posts by Danivan (http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?p=2541697#post2541697) have me wondering about how people acquire the wood that they mill. He finds it on the beach after the city leaves it, I look on Craigslist, others have made friends in the tree service industry. In the spirit of BobL, I have created a poll!

 

[DaltonPaull]

I've found quite a few trees off craigslist, some for free, some cheep, some that seam expensive until you look at the cost of going to the lumberyard.

I have a friend who's an Arborist/climber and we worked together to take out a black walnut for a discount this spring because I wanted to mill it.

I've cut a bunch of cedar at parents property in Idaho - there's enough laying on the ground (some laying there for 70 years and not rotted) to keep me busy for years.

Recently I met the guy who takes care of trees at a local College who let's me mill tree's he has to remove but I have to give him a cut of the slabs.

 

[Daninvan]

I also pick up the occasional tree off CL, from friends and neighbours, and also curbside. But my main supply by far is from the city tree dump.

 

[qbilder]

I get some from my property, family property, friends' property. I get it from tree services and from local brush/tree dump. I get dead stuff from the forests & parks with a firewood permit. I get it anywhere, anyhow. I even knock on doors when I see something I really like.

 

[deeker]

Small contracts with the forest Circus and with the BLM for most of my trees.

As well as private lands. Sometimes I offer to save money for a tree service by removing large logs they would have had to cut up.

I use my LogRite ATV arch behind the grizzly 660 to move most logs.

From yards and public lands.

Kevin