Firewood wanted Wakefield West Yorkshire - 2 much to ask?

[Chrisy B]

I was just wondering if it too much/cheeky to ask for arborists/tree surgeons to drop off unwanted wood at our farm in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

 

I am willing to take wood chips as part of the deal as we can spread these on the land in the summer to help with our heavy clay soils but obviously mainly after the logs to burn on the wood stove!!

 

Am I just being crazy/out of head thinking anyone will be willing to do this or reasonable?? Info please.

 

Newbie Chris

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

 

Am I just being crazy/out of head thinking anyone will be willing to do this or reasonable?? Info please.

 

Probably. No such thing as unwanted logs / wood... Unless you want masses of ugly conifer and euc lumps!

[Kev Stephenson]

It is not necessarily a no.

 

I used to have a deal with a local farmer whereby he would deal with all my chip, rakings, stuff that needed burning etc in exchange for logs that he used for his own wood burner. He did take the softwood first and for me it was a damn good deal. I got a decent sized yard where I could make plenty of noise without complaint, use of a tractor and no financial outlay. It was however 4x4 only for 6 months of the year.

 

Keep asking, especially if you are willing to take some of the more awkward/time consuming bits of wood. I still have someone come and take a trailer load a month of the knotty/bent/rotting/etc stuff that I can't be bothered to process for free.

[renewablejohn]

You may have more success if you offer a free collection service. I do this within a 25 mile radius of my farm and it works very well. The tree surgeon does not need to worry about overloading his vehicle plus he can take down in larger sections as I collect with timber forwarder. Also comes in handy if you need a tree pulling over having a MB Trac on site.

[Chrisy B]

Thanks all for your reply's, tried a number of tree surgeons local to me but they either split and sell the logs themselves or already have people that are taking the wood/chips off there hands.

 

Not in a great rush so will try more in the summer when demand isn't quite as high maybe have more luck then?

 

Many again

Chris

[DN22 Gardening]

hi chris,

 

a farmer local to us takes all of our woodchip, has for years, as you say, it improves heavy clay soils no end.

 

in return, we do the odd tree job for nowt, and he gets as many split logs as he needs during the winter (about 6 cube this year)

 

if you keep posting on here you may get the odd nationwide contractor needing somewhere close to drop logs off, also keep your eyes out for any of the lads on the powerlines, they're always looking to drop logs.

 

we save ALL our logs for splitting, but just before christmas we did a large site clearance in Hull and gave about 60% of the wood away (about 30 ton), ok it was mainly pop, but it was ringed up to 10" bits.