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
Rookie mistake. Using the sock contaminates the sample with semen from all the other guys in the building.
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.
Depending on the type of wood, the Amish will literally do this.
They don’t tend to respond to many social media ads, though.
You might actually be surprised by that
Well, all the ones that might have were outed by the national alert system test a short while back. So maybe not.
Or the Japanese.
The guy who lived across the street from me when I was a kid lived on a decommissioned farm and was a bit of an arborist, among other things. Apparently he had some kind of ornamental tree that was valuable. One night the fucking Yakuza busted through his back gate, cut down his tree, and stole it.
At least that's how he tells it. Some shady Asian looking dudes had approached him about the tree earlier and he'd told them to get lost. They may not have actually been the Yakuza, but the story sounds much better if they were.
I live near Amish country, and they won't come out for one smallish tree. They will give a discount for quality wood, but they won't do it completely free. Lumber isn't that expensive around here.
Are they insured?
It depends on the community.
what the fuck leave that beautiful tree alone!!
Don't feel sorry for it, that tree committed multible instances of driving under the influence
tt also committed Treeson!
It can be a hazard next to houses. I've seen many health looking trees fall on them after storms/ice storms.
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?
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.
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.
LOL no. I'm getting paid to cut the tree down and haul it off. THEN I'm getting paid for splitting it into firewood.
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
$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
Different country, different costs I'd imagine.
I used to work on a tree crew, 99% sure this was posted by someone ironically. Surprising amount of memes related specifically to arborist related stuff.
I think it's not so bad. That's quite a lot of wood.
Generally, wood within human spaces isn’t usable in construction. The issue is nails and such that the tree grows around and incorporates. The human-made objects lodged within tend to chip the very expensive saws and such used to commercially process large trees. Artisans often don’t mind it and work around the issues if they want a particular piece of wood, but you’d need to advertise harder than a single Craigslist post to find one to take your entire tree.
If they lived like a block away from a Lumbermill willing to buy Aspen then I would consider it.
2000 dollars wtf It's like 15-20 dollars in my country
Why so sarcastic?
You get $2005 worth of wood to sell!
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.
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