I DEFINITELY know tree guys that would do this. Especially if it’s oak, walnut, or some other decent wood.
Hell, even my neighbor (who is a retired tree guy) will regularly take down trees for me that he then uses for firewood. I just have to do clean up.
Pssh, amateur.
I know four guys
Pffft, imagine only knowing four guys.
Can confirm guy has great loads
I mean technically, if they aren’t getting paid I think that makes them (and me) amateurs.
People just are unwilling to take free stuff. Im always trying to give away free semen and I do most of the work to boot.
The boot may be your problem.
In the US it’s called a “trunk”.
Yeah, most people use a sock
You are spilling your semen into a boot and nobody wants it?
I am confused on why this cant work.
Surely cutting down trees for wood can be profitable, otherwise capitalism wouldn’t be doing it.
Is it so hard for a professional firm to also source their wood from urban areas to save a tree elsewhere?
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Makes a lot less noise too.
Only if no one is near in the forest right?
There’s no economy of scale in suburbia
Most companies in my neck of the woods (greater Seattle area) charge for cutting down the tree(s) AND keep the wood, unless you pay them more to keep it yourself or the wood is fairly worthless.
Also Greater Seattle Area. Friend had someone come out and verify a tree up the hill from his house was at high risk of falling onto the house. Some kind of maple.
Got immediate approval to take it down from the city without all the usual permitting process.
Quotes he got all included **paying extra **to haul the tree to the dump. He opted to keep it on his land so they left a bunch of rounds in piles around his house / driveway, and it took four of us a weekend to use a wood splitter and axes to chop into firewood (and even then we didn’t finish it all).
I guess they just dump it because land is too expensive in the area to store it stacked to dry to be usable firewood. Not to mention the labor costs.
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I am not sure how this is “for free”. He is paying in wood. If nobody bites, I guess he will have to switch to money. Good chance somebody takes him up on the offer though making it win / win.
What is the problem here?
Because kids sitting behind a computer don’t know how to value wood or other resources, so they think because it’s not “monies” it must be BS.
I know two guys that would take this down, cut it up, and have it stacked at their sheds for seasoning and eventual sale in half day. That’s a mature tree, so it’s not a bad deal at all. And I don’t see anything about stump removal, so they would get to skip the hard part.
And if the owner then wanted stump grinding, they would definitely be given a separate estimate for that.
But I wouldn’t be shocked if someone took them up on this. Usually you’d pay some small amount to bring them out and sign away the resources, but depending on height and the take-down options, I could definitely see someone taking this offer.
Depends on the type of tree of course. But if you had, say, a mature walnut tree, you’re gonna have people offer to pay you for the tree and the wood.
This is not worth doing for firewood lol
It’s legitimate though. There’s good money in wood
Not at all. The money is in the work and time it takes to produce a quality wood product.
I build custom furniture and have had many people offer me a downed tree. It has cut to rough length, slabbed, prepared for drying, properly dried and stored for at least 1 year per inch of thickness before you start working with it. I can cut into a board and know when someone has rushed it, and it can be downright dangerous. Improperly dried wood has a lot of internal stress that makes it pop violently when cut. Then it curves and warps and you might not even be left with much good material at all by the time you joint and plane it to be straight and flat.
I met with a local forester hired by the district I live in (a city in Denmark ) on friday to discuss some options for a local forest area that had been unattented for many years.
He suggested we thin it out and although maybe 50 to 100 trees needed removing we would not have to pay for it but would make money on it.
He said that the craziest thing he had experienced was that they had been able to sell poplar tree to India!!! Because of COVID, a lot of empty containers were in Europe. Instead og shipping them back empty, they’re filled it with poplar tree to make matches.
The point is that we wouldn’t have to pay to have a week’s work of tree cutting but would be making money (mostly beech wood). I am sure that the value is increased manyfold during processing and woodworking but raw wood is worth good money too, and there’s a lot of wood in large trees
Good for you! Genuinely. The difference here is the market and volume. Europe vs US, and 50-100 large trees vs one right next to a house. I’m not saying raw wood is worthless, but people in the US get an overinflated sense of what they’re one 30-40 yr old tree in their yard is worth. You got a forest? That’s a whole different ballpark. In the US, that’s not a scenario where you pay, that’s when you take bids to buy.
Poplar is useful wood. I don’t know much about the Asian market, but it’s your go-to soft but still considered hardwood, often paint grade wood. Excellent for plywood, great for furniture (usually with veneer) and trim, and apparently matches haha. It grows straight, tall, and with minimal limbs and large knots. I love working with it.
$2000 seems like alot of money to cut a tree, i got multiple trees cut down for £600
It depends on how close it is to the house. I’m in a low cost of living area in the US and my neighbor has a tree that’s going to be over $3k to bring down. If it can’t be felled they have to bring in a crane and take it apart one piece at a time. Lots of equipment costs and very skilled and dangerous work
We have huge oaks that sit between the house and the road. And a neighbor’s fence on a third side. If we ever wanted those taken down it would be a costly nightmare as they’d basically have to crane it out in pieces. And an oak has a lot of pieces.
Or just be very lucky. I cut a tree down when I was 15 between my mom’s garage and fence. No idea why she trusted me, maybe because we were on food stamps and couldn’t afford to have it cut down. I spent a day on the Internet looking at videos and guides. Thankfully after I had it down my neighbor helped me chop it up and wasn’t made I had it fall in part of his yard.
There are a ton of variables involved in pricing. Every case is different.
Different country, different costs I’d imagine.
Are you insured or free time gigs?
Why do people have to fuck around with trees? Screw your deck, bro.
Entire forests are being razed and no one bats an eye. People want to free up space on their property and likely plant another tree elsewhere and everyone loses their minds.
I think it’s not so bad. That’s quite a lot of wood.
If they lived like a block away from a Lumbermill willing to buy Aspen then I would consider it.
