Behind a power substation on the edge of town there's a giant pile where Baltimore dumps of every tree that's been felled in city limits for the last hundred years or so. Show up at the right time and you can strike a deal with the Log Man, who will carve up an entire cherry tree and sell it to you for a couple bucks a board foot.
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they don't chip them or split up for firewood??? Times I've worked for tree-company doing tree removals/pruning for the city we are either chipping it as we go or sometimes ringing it up for firewood . But to leave them there as a massive fire hazard? Bizarre
They mulch or split about 90% of what comes in but there's. A lot. First time I visited i couldn't browse half the yard because their four-story mulch mountain had spontaneously combusted and the fire trucks were getting stuck on the drive in lol
most companies here don't even bother bring it there and just dump their stuff in a nearby ravine. There's a giant pile of 3' diameter oak logs at the end of my block that's too big for me to handle, before I found out about this place i filled a quarter of my garage with wood contractors just dumped around the neighborhood but it's definitely worth a few bucks to not have to mill it myself
Is it just due to how big of an area Baltimore covers or is there just a lot of trees growing and getting cut down?
Little bit of both, it's a big city that's slowly turning back into a forest. Really anywhere in the Mid-Atlantic is swimming in hardwoods tho, the trick is there's no money in processing and drying whatever random fuckin trees came down in a storm or whatever.
Camp Small here mostly runs off a bunch of grants, they employ two people and there's a four-month lead time on getting anything you buy actually processed into green lumber (and then it's your problem to kiln it or store it for the six months it takes to dry)
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