Where to get wood for firewood for business? Farm paddock or is there an easier way?

[Apples]

Where to get wood for firewood for business? Farm paddock or is there an easier way?

So say I want to start choppin wood as a business to supply firewood. How do you go about finding the stuff? I mean you see it everywhere along the road and in the paddocks but not every farmer is just going to let you hack up there dead wood...are they?

There must be another way? How do the big commercial full time guys source their fire wood?

Peter
Qld

[charlsie]

pay the farmer a royalty for taking the wood off his block

[Woodkid]

Yea but you have to sweet talk them first and leave the place tidy when your done otherwise they wont have you back.

[rogerjenkins]

Suggestion,- Ask your local regional Council Office IF they would issue you with a Roadside Firewood Collection License. Our local District Council of Yorke Peninsula has done this for," yonks," Costs about $20. per year here. Helps keep the roadside verges clear of fallen trees. Also talking to local farmers helps heaps. Another suggestion which I have done myself, out while driving,- Keep a lookout for any farm with an old road side paddock fenceline,- one that is leaning, and, " buried," with overhanging trees, branches, etc., then look for the nearest farmhouse, & sheds etc. Chances are you will find a friendly farmer who plans to replace the old fence, but don't have the time to remove the old wooden posts, dead trees, overhanging branches, etc. Usual result,- everyone wins. You get your truckload of firewood,( or two ), the farmer gets the old fenceline cleared. Also IF you leave everything neatly cleared, you will also receive FREE promo advertising,- and it only takes one happy customer to spread the word.
Roger.

[Apples]

Roger that was a good tip about the farmers fence, thanks.

[ClintO]

Very smart suggestion that one

[bsrlee]

Don't do what a lot of people do - wait till there is no-one around, rock up, cut all the fence wires, take the fence posts, drive the stock out onto the road, then cut up every stick of wood on the property including standing, green trees.

Happened repeatedly to some friends, thousands of $ in pound fees (council rangers wouldn't stop the thieves but just rounded up all the horses strangely enough)

[rogerjenkins]

Firewood thieves. Yep that has happened in this area too, although one culprit got caught on the property next morning as they could'nt get away if they wanted too. Down between Yorketown & Warooka, SYP, there's about 200 hundred Salt Lakes, and Swamps. It's one thing driving round farm paddocks in daylight,- a totally DIFFERENT thing at night, especially when one don't know the lie of the land so to say. This particular, " Firewood collector, " ( from Adelaide as it turned out), in a Hire Truck, & Hired Chainsaw, etc., took a wrong turn in a paddock, only to find the ground disapear, with about a four foot drop into a Salt Lake, and there he did stay with his partner in crime who were both too scared to even jump out of the truck cabin and wade back to terra-firma. Don't know what it cost them, as heard along the local grapevine there was a bit of damage to the truck front end, plus repairing the cut fence, and the value of the stolen timber, plus court, & legal costs,- methinks they would have been better off simply buying wood from a local timberyard :!:!
Roger.