Free Firewood

[BCMA]

Here is an idea on how to get rid of firewood from off a job. It will save your crew from having to haul it off. I don't know about you, but dealing with firewood costs our company money in lost time. Feel free to copy the program or change it to fit your needs.

http://spokane.craigslist.org/for/1047586268.html

 

[treevet]

I would be concerned with liability from back injuries, etc. on YOUR job site.

Might be better to have them pick it up when job is done and HO has agreed to it because they benefit from a price reduction.

 

[epicklein22]

I like it. Seems about as none BS as it can get. I agree that a liability paper should be signed. Hopefully you can find a few good guys and everything will work out. Please report back about your findings.

 

[treevet]

Yeah the signing off ....good idea.

wish you was in my 'hood. Hundred cord....$25,000 after it goes thru my tw5 and conveyor.

 

[Rftreeman]

From another thread with a similar topic:::

I'll tell you all something I have done several times and it has worked good most times with wood and chips. I'll post an ad on craigslist a few days before for free wood and chips with the street I'll be on and most of the time I'll get several replys that are very close for chips and even had some people come get wood instead of me hauling it, sure makes it easy on the gas bill.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

The other week when we removed two 60 foot trees from our yard - a Doug fir and a spruce, just as the trunks were 70% on the ground, I posted in the FREE section of Craigslist. As expected, 3 phone calls came in within 15 minutes and I deleted the ad.

I just took the wood to the curbside.

Gave away concrete pier blocks, and other stuff that way.

Have never had the ad run longer than 1/2 hour for anything we have needed to give away. Too many calls otherwise.

Instead of taking the black pots back to the nursery in the future, I'm just going to list them for free and save the loading, drive and unloading time. There's people that want and can use this stuff.

 

[BCMA]

The other week when we removed two 60 foot trees from our yard - a Doug fir and a spruce, just as the trunks were 70% on the ground, I posted in the FREE section of Craigslist. As expected, 3 phone calls came in within 15 minutes and I deleted the ad.

I just took the wood to the curbside.

Gave away concrete pier blocks, and other stuff that way.

Have never had the ad run longer than 1/2 hour for anything we have needed to give away. Too many calls otherwise.

Instead of taking the black pots back to the nursery in the future, I'm just going to list them for free and save the loading, drive and unloading time. There's people that want and can use this stuff.

We have a recycle program with our local landfill where we pick up nursery pots and turn around a resell them to nurseries.

 

[treevet]

We have a recycle program with our local landfill where we pick up nursery pots and turn around a resell them to nurseries.

I hope you are planting some of the plants that come in those pots to replace the 100 cords of wood you are taking out of the landscape yearly.

We plant a lot of trees so I feel I can say that.

 

[carvinmark]

Wish they would do that around me, I'd be there for sure.

 

[thejdman04]

Wish they were near me.

 

[Raymond]

I'm way ahead of you. I've been doing this for a couple years now. When I have a job that's a good drive away from me and my wood drops, I'll post an ad like that one but I usually take it to them even. http://istanbul.craigslist.com.tr/zip/1048139973.html

I don't want to have to count on people to show up. I only give away the junk wood keeping the good wood for myself.
I get swamped with e-mails I save for the future. I put a location down and get tons of e-mails from people that isn't even near the location I am posting. But it's worked great 100% of the time the one who gets it is just around the corner.

I posted a phony ad in Turkey just to show you what I do. http://istanbul.craigslist.com.tr/zip/1048139973.html

 

[BCMA]

I hope you are planting some of the plants that come in those pots to replace the 100 cords of wood you are taking out of the landscape yearly.

We plant a lot of trees so I feel I can say that.

Along with our tree service, we are also a grower and we have a retail nursery. With our down economy, we have been giving away free trees to those who call for a estimate. We take some of the pots, and pot up Colorado spruce and grow them out for a couple of years, and then sell them or give them away for promotions. We also have five acres of trees in our retail nursery.

Most of our wood gets sold to the mills. Logs that do not go to the mill, get sawn into lumber. Chips get used in our nursery or sold as landscape mulch or hog fuel. At the end of the year we grind everything that is left over and send it to a local school to be burnt in a co-generation plant. Everything gets used or recycled.

This last year we sent over 400 tons of chips to the school for the co-gen plant. There was about 50 cord of firewood that was ground up with the brush and chips.

This next year I have a program set up with United Way for charities to particapate in a community day called "elder help." The firewood we have left over will be given to charity to help the elderly in our community. We will get a tax break and some good-will by helping our community.

Picture #1 Potted spruce
Picture #2 Nursery trees
Picture #3 Logs that will get milled on our portable mill
Picture #4 Stacks of lumber milled from our mill.

 

[BCMA]

Picture #3 Logs that will get milled on our portable mill
Picture #4 Stacks of lumber milled from our mill.

 

[Ductape]

I sure wish a couple of the tree services around here would do that. I'd be thrilled to show up at jobsites and haul away any hardwood. Unfortunately..... from what i can see, tree services around here chip some really beautiful firewood to satisfy contracts with the woodchip-to-energy plants.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Around here, there used to be - and may still be - a group called something like Washington County Woodcutters.

They would come and get wood, cut it and split it, and give it to people who needed it. Like low fixed income old folks who heat with wood to reduce expenses.

Sort of a charity in a way.

 

[jmack]

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