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21st April 2009, 09:51 PM #16Senior Member
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Tell me how you know whats going to be felled. I rang my council and they are the most useless bunch I have ever dealt with. All they can do is refer to their brochures but know bugger all about whats happening in the community wrt tree fellings. It's like it happens by some magical fairy to them. Perhaps I'm not talking to the right department. I range the recycling site and main office. Just curious how you managed to find out about your tree...
Perhaps I should give NS council (is it Willoughby (sp?)) a call... Don't worry I won't steal the tree from under you ..:lol:
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21st April 2009, 11:41 PM #17Senior Member
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We received a notice from the council about three months ago that the tree was going to be removed (i forget what the reason was...). Then nothing happened for about two months and all of a sudden the top half of the tree (the canopy) was gone when I got home. I think because of the rain we've been having over the past few weeks, nothing more has happened since. So I've got my neighbours on tree contractor watch and they know to beg/steel/ borrow the trunk sections on my behalf when it's being cut down. good bunch a neighbours!! cheers
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22nd April 2009, 12:31 AM #18
The trouble with getting a tree just cut is waiting for it to dry. It will be no good for burning this year. If you split it small it will be ok next winter but you need the space to store it in the meantime plus space for this winters dry wood. I used to get offers from people in the nabourhood when they had a tree for the chop and for years on end the bottom of the back yard was a mess of log piles. After a while I found it less hastle just getting good quality dryish wood in the first place. When word gets around you burn wood it is amazeing how many offers of free wood you get.
Regards
John
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22nd April 2009, 12:38 AM #19Senior Member
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I've got a massive yard and I have an rectangular area the size of a garage where the grapes grow which just has a tendency to shoot up weeds and nothing else. Might as well pave it out and use it to store wood in. The area isn't good for much more. It's a royal pain trying to get in there with a mower anyway. We'll see how it goes..
Paying for firewood seems like a waste. I could easily heat the house for the winter without any mess with the money I probably would spend on shipping in wood. Sydney doesn't get that cold, just a couple of weeks were it can get cold so I don't need a massive stockpile.
When word gets around you burn wood it is amazeing how many offers of free wood you get.
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22nd April 2009, 02:34 PM #20Senior Member
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Hi John This particular tree is for practicing my skills on a newly aquired wood lathe . I reckon I could practice turning quite a few bowls or plates from this one.
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Hi montiee, for the past six or seven years I've been collecting/scavaging waste wood for heating purposes in our open fire place and as stated above for the relatively short period of "freezing conditions " in North Sydney I have not yet ever needed to buy any fire wood. I do receive many tip-offs and offers for wood from my neighbours, but if I see a small pile stacked ready for collection I save the collection people the effort of mulching it. Cheers
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23rd April 2009, 01:19 PM #21
I'm on the Nth Beaches and have an old dead Swamp mahogany in the yard, I had the main laterals lopped and stacked but the trunk is still standing. The timber has been dead for at least 2 years so is ready for the fire if anyone wants it. you can mill the trunk too. The timber is a beautiful dark red.
It all free but you have to carry it fron the back to the front yard. about 20 metres PM me if anyone wants it...I have had a change of plans and no longer want it.
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23rd April 2009, 02:28 PM #22Senior Member
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Hi BT.
I sent you a PM.
Cheers
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24th April 2009, 08:54 AM #23
Pallet depots often have a pile of free split pallet bits for collection outside the deopt. Think Chep etc
"We must never become callous. When we experience the conflicts ever more deeply we are living in truth. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." - Albert Schweizer
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28th April 2009, 09:02 AM #24Senior Member
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Hi Tony
Thanks mate, I have responded to your reply.
Guys, the fire wood is still there and available.
Cheers
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28th April 2009, 12:16 PM #25Senior Member
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firewood
I have a large outdoor woodfired oven,internal its 1.2mx1m.Ive been running it on old fence for the last 8 years.The palings are good starter timber & posts cut into 300mm bits go really well.I normally only lose the bottom end thats been in or on the ground to rot.I built the oven myself it was a steep learning curve but it turned out really well, the Italian pizza guys swear by ironbark.
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29th July 2009, 01:19 PM #26Member
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Hi,
Just bump this old thread back to top
I recently chopped down a tree and kept all the manageable size trunk for wood fire BBQ.
I now still have about 10 pieces of hugh trunk, they are about 40cm diameter, 40 - 50 cm length. I don't have the energy/tools to split them, if anyone have the right tool to handle them and want them, feel free to come and take them, I'm in West Sydney area. Be warned though, they are heavy.
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30th July 2009, 06:34 AM #27
Pallet depots used to have a pile out the front of broken planks, hard stuff. I know there were depots in Chullora, Flemington etc. Haaarrd wood, particularly if its been in circulation for a while.
"We must never become callous. When we experience the conflicts ever more deeply we are living in truth. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." - Albert Schweizer
My blog. http://theupanddownblog.blogspot.com
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30th July 2009, 06:35 AM #28
Which part of West Sydney?
"We must never become callous. When we experience the conflicts ever more deeply we are living in truth. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." - Albert Schweizer
My blog. http://theupanddownblog.blogspot.com
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30th July 2009, 08:50 AM #29Member
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5th October 2016, 04:14 PM #30New Member
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Free firewood in Ermington.