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Had a guys say his white ash tree over his house had to have value because of how big it was and that they make bats out of it.... I explained we are on the edge of an epidemic, ash here currently is most valuable as firewood! Want me to leave it for you, there is probably 2 cords worth $440 after you cut, split and season it. It’s been a while since I have gotten an offer declined that fast! “No please take it, I don’t want to slow the building project down”.
 
I love those cartoons. I watch a variety of those at different times to cheer me up.

I did some highly valuable black walnut today. Only the customer just wanted them gone. They are so valuable that I might not toss them in the fire pit tonight. I’ll let them sit for a week or so. Actually I might have one of them dawn so I can have a set of highly valuable steps on my patio because the treated lumber ones are giving up
 
A few weeks ago I was talking with a client about his trees and he started talking about removing some firs and how valuable they must be. I told him that breaking even was a long shot at best.

The longer I’m in the tree business the less valuable any byproducts that come from removing a tree are. People look at me with incredulity when I tell them that wood is a liability not an asset. Our property is starting to look like one of those mortuaries where the people running the place take the money and never cremate the bodies or put them in the ground.
 
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RyanCafferky said:
A few weeks ago I was talking with a client about his trees and he started talking about removing some firs and how valuable they must be. I told him that even breaking even was a long shot at best.

The longer I’m in the tree business the less valuable any byproducts that come from removing a tree are. People look at me with incredulity when I tell them that wood is a liability not an asset. Our property is starting to look like one of those mortuaries where the people running the place take the money and never cremate the bodies or put them in the ground.
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That's every tree guy I know around here. I got the wood bug real bad, but I have a neighbor who bought a mill before asking anyone if the grey pines were worth milling- they are worse than worthless for wood products- so he's excited about my collection of massive redwood pieces, and I am helping him gather up a few nice oak logs from trees of his that he has loved to death with the irrigation. I have to uncover my previously milled wood to get a good look at it, and I'll post some pictures.
 
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What are the local green waste recycling rates like?
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I don't dump big wood. They bumped my trailer load of brush from $10 for a long time, $15 in 2023, $25 last year to $40 this year.

Talked to another company that does a lot of removals...they bring everything to their yard. Let people sign a waiver and cut firewood. That gets rid of a lot of stuff, but leaves the big nasty cottonwood forks and the like. They have periodically brought in someone with a tub grinder to take care of those when the pile gets too big...but their source for that seems less willing to bring the grinder in the road. They talked to the compost site where I bring brush and they said $400 for a load of logs...they don't want them either.

I've wondered if an air curtain burner could deal with that big stuff???
 
southsoundtree said:
What are the local green waste recycling rates like?
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For me I’d rather just bring it home and make it disappear in the woods or lately I’ve just been digging huge holes and burying it and making planting mounds. The local green waste place just piles it and burns it which to me just doesn’t seem very environmentally friendly. Especially since they are in a valley where air quality is already an issue. Our community really needs a wood bank for helping folks in need get free firewood. Another thing that would be nice is a grinding site or an air curtain burner.
 
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I've wondered if an air curtain burner could deal with that big stuff???
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They will but you have to have a lot of smaller stuff burning to get rid of the big stuff. On the North Complex Fire in 2020 we had an ACB that was brought in that ran 24/7 for a while. It was run in two shifts. Grapple trucks brought in debris all day and the loader would feed it all day and night. You would drive by and just see heat waves coming off. They would just have to let it die down every now and then to remove the ash.
 
RyanCafferky said:
For me I’d rather just bring it home and make it disappear in the woods or lately I’ve just been digging huge holes and burying it and making planting mounds. The local green waste place just piles it and burns it which to me just doesn’t seem very environmentally friendly. Especially since they are in a valley where air quality is already an issue. Our community really needs a wood bank for helping folks in need get free firewood. Another thing that would be nice is a grinding site or an air curtain burner.
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Search out church groups and the like.

I turn customers onto the local firewood charity run through a church.

Kiwanis has one, maybe, locally.

How about community gardens with hugelculture projects?
 
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