Getting free firewood

[NovaMan]

I love getting free or almost-free firewood, especially if it's nice like cherry, oak, walnut, hickory, etc. I've just plain lucked out in the past year or so to bump into free wood situations, but I've read some things that make me think one can purchase a permit to cut trees down in state forests or something like that. Can anybody here tell me what's up with that?

 

[RaisedByWolves]

In Pensylvania state game lands, you must hold the deed to a cabin/residence and you can not use any mechanical means to transport the wood from where it lays to where its used.



Thats all I know.

 

[Urbicide]

In Pensylvania state game lands, you must hold the deed to a cabin/residence and you can not use any mechanical means to transport the wood from where it lays to where its used.



Thats all I know.

Sounds like you will need a horse. opcorn:

 

[pbtree]

Contact the local forestry office for either the US or state depts., and ask them about their permit process, if they have one...

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Sounds like you will need a horse. opcorn:

Damn, never thought of that!


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[mattinky]

Is it really that tough to find free wood in your area? I have more free firewood available within a mile of my house than I could burn in three lifetimes and this is the honest truth and I mean one mile. I turn down free wood all the time, the farmers in my "neighborhood" will gladly let you cut all you want anytime you want it and most of them will offer to pull it out with a tractor for you but I usually just use my old Dodge 4X4. I wish you lived closer I could hook you up with free firewood for days.

I have a dirt bike riding buddy that lives up near Cadillac and he told me that you can go to the DNR and get a permit to cut on state & federal land up there in Michigan. I think it has to be deadfall and he told me you can get a platt book for each county that shows where the state & federal lands are located - so you don't get on private property. He talks like it's no big deal to get the permit and I believe it's free, but I don't remember for sure. I know he's been cutting on state land for years. I'd call the DNR and inquire...... and let us know what you find out.

Matt:biggrinbounce2:

 

[manual]

I love getting free or almost-free firewood, especially if it's nice like cherry, oak, walnut, hickory, etc. I've just plain lucked out in the past year or so to bump into free wood situations, but I've read some things that make me think one can purchase a permit to cut trees down in state forests or something like that. Can anybody here tell me what's up with that?

Federal Land in Michigan.
Contact the U.S. Department of Agriculture- Forest service.
They will sell you a permit for five full cords at the cost of $20.00 this year.
for the area you wish to cut in. your permit is good till 12/31/2007
You wil get a map and rules regarding where you can cut, and how you can remove it.
you are allowed to take dead fall and standing dead.

State land,
Don't know, Don't care. Sorry

 

[Wood Hick]

Just a funny note to your thread. I used to wonder how they ever sold those little bundles of firewood near the State parks here in Pa. Probably 6 pcs. of wood for $5.00. Last year we camped at one, and I asked the ranger when we checked in about firewood. He said the rules are:
1) you can only cut deadfall
2) you cannot use a gas powered saw
3) you must carry it out

Then it made sense why the "urbanites" would just buy it on the way in!

 

[TDunk]

Up here in PA we have the Alleghany National Forest. You can cut (with a chainsaw) any dead trees. There can be no live branches, 25% of the bark must be off, and windthrown trees must also meet this criteria. So were alowd to cut dead standing trees too. I think a permit to cut 4 cord is $20.

 

[Haywire Haywood]

I posted on freecycle.org asking for anyone that has seen trees coming down at construction sites in the area to drop me an email. I got a bunch of firewood from that.

Ian

 

[nilzlofgren]

In the state forests of New jersey, you can get permits to cut wood by the cord. Most of the forests are located in the Pine barrens,( about 1 million acres). The pine barrens, is a national preserve, so the states goal, is to preserve the pine trees, and remove the oak.

 

[NovaMan]

I posted on freecycle.org asking for anyone that has seen trees coming down at construction sites in the area to drop me an email. I got a bunch of firewood from that.

Ian

Most of the wood I've gotten in the last year or so has been trees cut down to make way for houses right on my street. I don't like people cutting down trees that don't need to come down, but they're gonna do what they're gonna do, so I might as well get some firewood out of it.

 

[Haywire Haywood]

I don't like people cutting down trees that don't need to come down, but they're gonna do what they're gonna do, so I might as well get some firewood out of it.

Yep, I don't understand why they totally raze an area with nice mature trees to build houses. The new owners usually plant trees within the first year so it seems like a few nice mature trees in the yard would raise the property's value.

Ian

 

[NovaMan]

Yeah, no kidding! When we built our house, we only cut down one mature tree (a shagbark hickory) because there was just no way around it. Next door is a spec house, and the builder just clearcut the trees right up to the property line. WTF, man?! Now if a developer buys the woods behind us, that house is gonna have nothing between it and the house that gets built behind it. Genius!

 

[Timberhauler]

I love getting free or almost-free firewood, especially if it's nice like cherry, oak, walnut, hickory, etc. I've just plain lucked out in the past year or so to bump into free wood situations, but I've read some things that make me think one can purchase a permit to cut trees down in state forests or something like that. Can anybody here tell me what's up with that?

To bad you don't live closer to me....I'd go out there tomorrow and start hauling it to you by the dump truck load...I could even leave it in lengths if you wanted to run your saws.

 

[Jack_Shaft]

I posted on freecycle.org asking for anyone that has seen trees coming down at construction sites in the area to drop me an email. I got a bunch of firewood from that.

Ian

I second the construction site watching/ chatting.

I work on a Military Base and they are going through a bit of an environmental cleanup that requires the construction of access roads through the woods. I just went over and asked the Foreman on the job what he had planned for the felled trees and when he replied with a confused "Dunno", I hauled out my 7900. I hauled about 8 truckloads of beautiful yellow birch out of it last fall and I still have several truckloads of black/white spruce in there to get once all of the Spring runoff water is gone.

To top it all off, when I was finished with the cleanup of the birch the guy gave me four cans of gas, a case of mix oil and a case of bar oil since he had planned to get his men to clean it up at a significant cost.

Talk about a good deal for both of us. Construction sites can be a gold mine for firewood cutters.