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Hey you know you are an old sweat when you start to look at, inspect, and even *covet* other people's wood piles. My wife is going to be very impressed this year as I've had time to neatly stack ours criss-cross fashion. Now there's a first.

And, am always on the scrounge for council taking down trees. I see them from the rainway line on a nature strip near Oakleigh and make a mental note to take the ute and chainsaw.

Always forget though.

ozzieeagle

LOL, we do that with the local parks, sometimes it's pretty tricky working out which is the closest entrance. I'll keep grabbing the odd wheelbarrow load, until I get stopped. Fallen trees in parks is one of the good by products of a decent storm

quoll

It's a few years since we got any but DH reckons our last lot of top quality was $200/tonne so expect it to be up around the $250 mark now. DH is a scavenger and we currently have about 4 tonnes out the back which he has found - we had fence palings a few years back but now we have some gum and various other trees which have been felled/fallen and which he has spotted. He says he enjoys sawing it up and splitting it but, then, he is a bit mad. He has a chain saw for the big bits otherwise he has a clamp thingie and a big saw for doing it manually. He also stacks it really neatly and keeps the bulk of it under a tarp. We use about 2 tonnes a winter but I must say that if anything ever happened to him, I would be installing central heating of some description!!!

bridie

i thought if you phone CALM they give you a map of where you can help yourself

ozzieeagle

Heh, I get the wife to split the bits that I cant.

eddie007

We are using Hotrox woodlogs... Burns well, good heat, little ash but VERY expensive..

ukecadet

I'm renovating in Williamstown,have the old hardwood studs and pine offcuts from new framing.If anybody want's some your welcome to pick up.PM me.I've got red gum stumps over 100 year old but they'll cost ya.
Warning.
Dont go burning paling fence, more often than not it contains arsenic.

mr mover

$197 a tonne here at Angle vale 35 km north of Adelaide, Red gum from the Riverina...........mm

ozzieeagle

Blimey next time your going to move someone interstate, if the truck is empty, on the out route, maybe there could be a quid in it for you ?

mysnix

$245 a tonne plus $15 delivery.

eddie007

I'm nervous about firewood in much the same way I am nervous about leaving clothing on the floor... I still check my shoes for wildlife...

Woodpiles scare me witless... the idea of snakes cosying up, spiders making their homes and bringing up babies, scropians etc.... URRRRGH...

How many people die of wood piles here in australia? I can't locate published figures on the internet so I reckon it's HIGH... REALLY HIGH... major australian govt cover up going on IMHO

quoll

LOL, I think more people actually die of chain saws than woodpiles per se!

eddie007

even more worrying than woodpiles.... Australia is full of chainsaw serial killers and we don't know about it!

Do you reckon that when people become suspicisous they blame the sharks?

quoll

Gosh no, not serial killers, just nongs playing in the back yard with their new toys - more like suicide.

sasbear

Sound like my old fella - he manages to get all the local trees that are felled - we haven't bought any wood for over a year - still burning the tree we had chopped last year.