The Trees and That Wind!

[Smart Red]

I just edited my last post to clearify 'FREE downed trees', making the verb sound more in agreement. See Steve, that sort of thing happens.

 

[Nyboy]

wow I always have many replies to down tree you cut and haul free

 

[Smart Red]

Perhaps, being in the City, their other option is the furniture, but here we have trees everywhere and no lack of downed ones from whatever was the last storm. I really don't know why no one wants the wood 'free' for a little work. My nephew heats with wood and still wouldn't stop by for some of the already cut free stuff.

 

[thistlebloom]

People around here will go for downed free wood very quickly. Unless it's cottonwood. But even our most common pine will get used for heat to somebody who needs it.

 

[Nyboy]

Red it is for heating, fire wood is not cheap here. I once had a man driving passed stop and ask if he could have some trees he noticed where down for awhiile

 

[digitS']

I burned lodgepole pine when I lived with an abundance of it. Other choices were preferred.

Has anyone burned spruce?

Unless I'm mistaken, spruce is the source of some of the most expensive softwood boards. I don't know that the lumber industry feels it must be accurate in its id's - witness what was recently said about wood from cork trees on TEG. Anyway, if spruce is a valuable wood, maybe so many of them being carried away after the November windstorm wasn't entirely tragic.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

I guess this just demonstrates what a financially depressed area I live in: When a tree falls, there is someone there to offer to cut it up and haul it away for free, practically the next day.
Any unwanted item I have, I can put out near the road with a "free" sign and it is gone within an hour or so.
Yet, outright theft is rare. I never worry about locking my car at night, at home, and outdoor decorations, lawnmowers, etc., are not in danger. So far, anyway. I have an uncanny knack for jinxing myself by making a statement like this. So if my yoga mat is missing from my car tomorrow, I have only myself to blame.

 

[Carol Dee]

Ditto what @so lucky said.

 

[Nyboy]

I changed my front door because of style. There was nothing wrong with old door, so I put it at curb with free sign. A few days later I got a SIGNED note in my mailbox. Any chance I still had keys to dead bolt, I called the number that I had keys to all locks on door. A young couple down the road, stopped by, the only house they could afford was " handyman special" They thought they won the jackpot finding a exterior door for free.