Thread: Where do the fallen trees end up?

"whats the sound of one hand clapping?"

I would think that they would be chopped up .... chipped and dumped.

Perhaps you could stuck a note with your phone number on it so when they come to chop up the tree you could request some of the timber.

The relevant local councils will collect them.

They will sell them back to you if you wish - as mulch!

I've got a couple of large branches down which will chopped up, stacked and burned next year. Not quite large enough anything else. Just as well because if they were they would be sticking out of the shed roof. Another missed the car be a bee's dick.

When I was working in England in 95, I think, there were some huge storms.
One of the consultants I was working with disappeared for a couple of days and it turned out that he made a fortune during this time.

He went and bought a warehouse, hired a large crew and machines and then harvested really old and rare oak and other trees.

His crew went around the entire region, trees down all over the place and people not knowing how to clear them. His crew offered to remove the trees and rubbish for free if they could keep the logs, yes said the people.

Within a couple of weeks he had his superannuation drying in the warehouse.
Suresh

i was walking past a building site where a diodar was being chopped down the other day the diameter was about 1.2m! huge....!!!!

I walked to the office dumpled my bag and after about 2 hrs I went back to ask if I could buy a slab off them. they had chipped the whole thing in those 2 hours. only 2 slabs left that one of the guys took as payment for his work for the day!

the back of the 12 tonne truck was full of chips. bummer

Originally Posted by MarpleMan

Melbourne, Australia has had its wettest 24hrs on record and this morning I have seen many very large trees brought down by the wind last night.

Who gets the job of cutting them up?

>Emergency services or the local council

Where do these end up?

>in the chipper most likely or in their yard waiting to be chipped

Some I saw today were probably elm and cyprus pine.

> good stuff
Surely someone could use them rather then being chipped.

> yes but u gotta get em...in an emergency situation they just clear them..

i have seem em chipping camphor trees in toowoomba and when i pulle dover and asked for alog, the operator said yea sure and i put it in my jeep...

go ask em...take yr chainsaw and trailer...

nice are dried cypress would be cool

Frustrating to see something so impressive go to waste.

I recently scored about 50 kilos of silky oak form the local tip..

yum

Within 1km of my place at Port Sorell there would be 300 trees down - most of the *bastards* on the power wires. Not too exiting though, eucalypts mostly.

A few years ago I saw a video on the making of the (replica) tall ship "The Enterprize", which was the ship that founded Melbourne.
As the doco pointed out, if you want to build a ship you can't just go to Bunnings and start loading up timber... I found the section where they discussed where they got the timber from to be quite informative.
A lot of the timber did come from councils dealing with fallen trees, such as the Highway outside of Ballarat where they have trees commemorating soldiers from the 1st World War. I was glad that there were people aware that timber is a valuable asset and it doesn't all have to be mulched.

I have often toyed with the idea of asking the guys you chip the trees to look out for valuable ones and let me know when they are going to be taken down. I never really looked into it though as I reckon there are 100 other woodworkers with the same idea. The other thing that put me off is if you ever said "no" you may not get a call again. And I just haven't got the space to store that amount of wood.

Around here there's a few guys salvaging timber. I manage to get some occasionaly as one of my cousins is an arborist. Like in any other industry though, time is money. You have to be prepared to drop everything and get to where the tree is, often having to hire a crane truck. There's been a few beauties in peoples back yards that I've had to let go because they would have involved hiring a huge crane to lift the logs over the house. Then you need to have somewhere to stockpile them until you can get someone around to mill them up for you. If you are really interested I suggest you clear a space in your yard, tee up a crane truck operator and go and talk to all your local arborists.

Mick

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