Getting rid of hardwood trees most economically

antco · Aug 31, 2019

I’ve been removing trees from my property for the last six months, and I have zero need for any of this wood. Outside of craigslist or illegal dumping, what is the most economical or maybe even profitable way to get rid of entire trees of oak, hickory, and maple? The Calvert Co landfill wants $72/ton which has me wondering what the pro tree companies do with the logs, branches and sticks they’re producing. I’m sure someone is willing to buy this wood I’m generating and turn it into firewood.

I’ve found a few places that appear to be recyclers in the manner that they take wood and turn it into firewood, wood chips for bio-mass boilers, or potentially into wood pellets. I have yet to call any of these folks though. I wanted to check the information database here first.

So MDS: What’s our there that will take my hardwood for free, or pay me for it? Or charge me less than $72/ton?

Bertfish · Aug 31, 2019

The landfill doesn't have some kind of process to allow you to bring it in for free? Baltimore County does.

rseymorejr · Aug 31, 2019

I'd check Craigslist and contact people selling firewood and see if they'd like a free source

Buster Brown · Aug 31, 2019

Im definitely in need for some firewood. Im sure theres other members on here that would be willing to take some as well. Hardwoods are easy to get rid of, especially this time of year.

antco · Aug 31, 2019

Bertfish said:
The landfill doesn't have some kind of process to allow you to bring it in for free? Baltimore County does.

Not Calvert. From what i can tell, WM runs the Calvert Co landfill, and they are not funded by the tax payers.

antco · Aug 31, 2019

Buster Brown said:
Im definitely in need for some firewood. Im sure theres other members on here that would be willing to take some as well. Hardwoods are easy to get rid of, especially this time of year.

Unfortunately this wood has been cut for less than two months, and was very much alive and healthy right up to that point. It’s no good for this winters heating season.

antco · Aug 31, 2019

Buster Brown said:
Im definitely in need for some firewood. Im sure theres other members on here that would be willing to take some as well. Hardwoods are easy to get rid of, especially this time of year.

What about the sticks and brush and small parts less than a wrist in diameter? The “junk” adds up and the time (and beer!) it has taken me to process it all through a burn barrel just isn’t sustainable going forward.

PJDiesel · Aug 31, 2019

I was giving away hardwoods until my regular guy flaked (weeks worth of excuses, no shows, etc).

I got tired of looking at it so I put and ad on Craigslist, about a week in I got a call from a guy in PA who said he'd take it all. I had about 8 full trees left that shad been limbed out and cut down, some of them I began cutting up myself. He paid me $300 bucks and agreed to take it ALL.

Took him four trips and I offered help towards the end with loading.

PJDiesel · Aug 31, 2019

No one (that I have ever heard of) is going to take limbs and brush, it's big time labor intensive unless you've got access to a big chipper and chip truck.

I had already paid an average of $375 per tree to have them properly felled and limbed out (chipped and hauled away). Mind you, some of this was ~100 foot poplar thats was within 20 feet of my house.

I've had 16 trees cut down in the past two springs, essentially I moved into the woods then realized I hate leaves and trees...... at least right up against my home anyway.

Inigoes · Aug 31, 2019

Pile them up in a neat stack on a wooded corner of your property. Termites, gotta eat too..

If you have brush, have a bon fire, and enjoy a few beers and hotdogs.

PapiBarcelona · Aug 31, 2019

I'd say 95-99% of all the "free wood" ads Facebook marketplace/Craigslist have always been difficult either by location as in not applicable to even park a truck within feet of it, bunch of overgrown sticker bushes and/or someone wants you to also clear out a bunch of shit/cut others trees up. I really don't mind paying for "free wood"

It sometimes works out if you help peeps, I've had some random call backs months/years later on another decent fallen tree that some guy saved my number

rseymorejr · Aug 31, 2019

PJDiesel said:
I've had 16 trees cut down in the past two springs, essentially I moved into the woods then realized I hate leaves and trees...... at least right up against my home anyway.

LOL! I know that feeling!
When we moved to Alabama, on the gulf coast, we had a shit ton of huge pine trees all around the house. While waiting out our first hurricane my wife and I watched a pine tree right at the corner of our deck sway back and forth in the wind. We just knew any second it was going to snap in half and come through the roof. My wife looked at me and said as soon as this storm passes I want you to get your chainsaw and cut the Mother F'r down! I ended up cutting down about 50 pine trees out of our yard.

PJDiesel · Aug 31, 2019

Funny thing about our house was that I really just assumed it was the leaves themselves I loathed...... then I learned all the nasty shit trees drop during spring time also!

What a mess. I've got gutter guards on 100% of the house......STILL somehow end up needing to clean leaves and tree "debris" off about once a month.

Matlack · Aug 31, 2019

With winter around the corner, people with wood burning stoves will be looking for free wood. I would post it around to see who will come pick it up for free or you can chop it and sell it.

dist1646 · Aug 31, 2019

Maybe one of the "free wood for vets" places would take it.

jtb81100 · Aug 31, 2019

For limbs it may be worth looking into renting a chipper. If you have or want a garden load down the beds with the chips. I think its called back to eden gardening or something like that.

inkd · Aug 31, 2019

Call one of the local tree service businesses that sell firewood and see if they will come take it?

Where are you at in Calvert? My land lord is friends with a guy in St. Mary's who has a tree service company and they sell firewood.

Depending on location, he may take it?

on_the_rox · Aug 31, 2019

I'd definitely post to Facebook marketplace and or Craigslist.

I posted and had a guy from PA come down and cut up and haul away 4 poplar trees that I cut down. He even drug the brush into the edge of my woods. Sometimes you get really lucky.

IX-3 · Aug 31, 2019

You could try reaching out to some lumber dealers to see if they are interested in buying them.

traveller · Sep 1, 2019

'Calvert Wood Recycling' shreds whole trees into mulch. That's where the folks clearing land dump the 99% of trees that are not suitable for the sawmill.

Most confusingly, they are in Chuck Co on Ripley Rd. not anywhere close to Calvert....

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