Fire wood logs.

[Gill Britton]

Was wondering how long people wait to have wood tipped .not had any since I joined.there is some else close by they have had 2 tips recently.im willing to pay if need but a few trees have been felled locally recently.but no joy.am I not doing things right or missing something.

[Rob_the_Sparky]

Contact your local companies.  The tip site is aimed at people operating outside their normal areas so they do not have to drive all the way back to base to dump the load.  Local companies are likely to have local contacts so best to contact them directly.

[GarethM]

And they are not ready to burn.

[Steven P]

Not every tree surgeon is on the tip sites of course, the local ones might never have looked, they might have been locals with local arrangements or the tree owner might have asked to keep the wood. Note some felled trees might look abandoned but in reality are left for the wildlife. All belong to someone and it is there prerogative as what they do with them.

 

So for the tip site.... If a local tree surgeon is doing the work there is a good chance they will have a local yard or arrangements in place - I have a few contacts locally and with my road being where it is some pass every now and then, if I am low on logs I get more delivered, else they go elsewhere. The tip site is unlikely to produce results from a local. For those working outside the area then they might look - if it saves them an hour or more round trip to their usual tip it is worth the effort, and then you are competing against everyone else in the area. Might be there is someone more local to the tree than you, might be that the local sandwich shop passes another tip site - further away from you but on the way to lunch. Hundreds of reasons. Might also be worth looking at the tip sites to see how many are local to you - what are you competing with?

 

You will get more luck if you are less specific as what you can take, if you have a drive they can reverse onto, the offer of petrol money, cake or beer can help, 

 

Third option, after local and other looking at tip sites is to have a quiet word if you notice them working - that is usually a good option and with chainsaws tricky to keep quiet you might hear them. Don't go demanding, but introduce yourself and ask if they have anywhere for the wood. If they are busy then an e-mail or voice mail saying ' I noticed you working just down the road, if you need somewhere to tip....' 

 

Last thing - a few trees - might be that they didn't want the hassle of organising several tip sites over the job, easier to just pay for the transport and get them all taken away at the end of the job rather than 'this load goes here, that load goes there'

 

Whatever the reason though some get 'lucky' and several loads, some wait a while for the tip stes to work.

[spandit]

I've been very fortunate with my tip site over the last few years but haven't been offered anything in quite some time - I wonder if it's because homeowners are opting to keep the logs instead, or whether it's worth tree surgeons keeping the wood to process and sell on themselves? Thing is, I haven't had any requests to dump chip either and most of the logs I had dumped were not the kind that lent themselves to efficient processing (not that I'm complaining - kept me fit)

 

Will keep hoping for future deliveries although I have a lot of willow and birch that needs to come down which will keep me warm as well as my branch loggings

[rapalaman]

It does seem that more customers are keeping logs - perhaps 25% as opposed to 5% in previous years. Also they can be worth more chipped for biomass maybe? 

Whereabouts are you located?

[Mick Dempsey]

As I understand it even arb waste is worth money in the UK if you have enough of it and it’s accessible.

 

Might be wrong though.

[rapalaman]

Yeah the tip site I use sells arb waste and chip to Jenkinsons - seen them loading up with a bucket on a tractor. All the stuff we don’t want goes there and can tip almost anytime day or night. Saves trying to organise getting allotments gates open etc. Handy to have a mix of places across the areas we cover

Edited January 27 by rapalaman

[Dan Maynard]

I find people are appreciative of a load of logs and have a few that offer me money for tipping the odd load of decent stuff. 

 

Here in the village I live more like 50% of people keep the wood, and if they don't want it there'll be a neighbour who does. This is a shift from even 5 years ago when I'd be glad to find somewhere to give it away.

 

It's not always rational either, working by the road I've had people in a BMW put logs in the passenger seat and back seat because they were so excited to get free wood and worried someone else would get it. We cut 8m of beech stem 1m in diameter into chunks, it was disappearing as i was cutting so by the end of the day less than a load for me to take home for my own fire.