WA - Collecting Firewood?

**Studio54** · 26th April 2007, 07:27 PM

If I can get away from work at a decent time we normally go Friday nights but setting up a tent in the dark is no fun for anyone.

Tent peg and gympie vs wifes foot.

**p38arover** · 26th April 2007, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Frenchie

I grow my own.

Tony, they are talking of wood, not grass!

Ron

**Ken** · 26th April 2007, 08:09 PM

Saturday morning would be better nice and fresh and no bruised feet

**Frenchie** · 27th April 2007, 06:59 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

Tony, they are talking of wood, not grass!

Ron

I know!

I have about three years supply in the wood shed, three large dead trees (long term storage) which would be about another three years worth and several trees earmarked for lopping. By the time I get through that lot some of the smaller trees will be large enough to "harvest".

**Taz** · 2nd May 2007, 07:14 PM

For info,

There are also fee paying area's 20mins up Brookton hwy. Fee's are normally $7 in summer and $15 in winter. They specify that you cannot collect if it's been raining the 3days prior. You normally get 30days to use the permit.

They also like you to stick to the "designated tracks". I got caught out last year when creeping up a well used track with a trailer - I got jumped by two guys in orange outfits clicking away on digital camers! Luckily I got just a warning.

Cheers,
Taz

mcrover · 2nd May 2007, 08:39 PM

Hey guys,

Working on a golf course over here in vic, we have a crap load of cut wood that is from fallen tree's/branches from the course.

I dont know for sure but if your driving past a golf course and they have trees then they will have wood.

We sell fire wood for $25 per 6x4 trailer load which is dirt cheap for around here and people drive from the other side of town to get it.

Just a thought for if you dont have the time or equipment to get your own, some courses even deliver and stack but prices vary from course to course.

By the way a well stacked 6x4 is close to 1 square metre and you can normaly pick what you want out of the stack and we dont bother with pine or the soft woods we just chip it up so you could get your mulch at most courses as well.

If anyone in Melbourne wants wood, PM me and we can organise something.

**Tank** · 2nd May 2007, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by Tyrepower

Everytime I burnt wood I felt like a criminal. however you are only allowed to take dead stuff or wind fall. If they catch you cutting green timber the fines are huge. Best timber in the world to burn though, hot coles and burns all night with very little ash.
Cheers Tyrepower

So should everyone that burns wood to heat their house, the World is in Crisis over Climate change and you people are burning wood, I suppose you all think that wood heating is using a renewable resource, WRONG!!!, how many of you that just pinched, borrowed or bought a load of wood went out and planted a tree to replace what you are going to burn.
A woodheater emits more pollution in a 24 hour period than a modern car does in it's entire lifetime, woodsmoke has the same toxic and cancer causing chemicals as Tobacco smoke, only 12 times more toxic, so next time you breathe in a breath of woodsmoke it is the equivalent of 12 puffs on a cigarette, in NSW the State Government is offering to buy back woodheaters by offering a $500 subsidy to change over to Gas or R/C air con, before you light up think about how many people in your neighbourhood are going to enjoy your smoke, Regards Frank.

**953** · 2nd May 2007, 09:42 PM

Geez Frank, bet you`re not real keen on camping.
It must be pretty hard taking your r/c air con into the bush

Cheers Dean.

**RobHay** · 2nd May 2007, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by Tank

So should everyone that burns wood to heat their house, the World is in Crisis over Climate change and you people are burning wood, I suppose you all think that wood heating is using a renewable resource, WRONG!!!, how many of you that just pinched, borrowed or bought a load of wood went out and planted a tree to replace what you are going to burn.
A woodheater emits more pollution in a 24 hour period than a modern car does in it's entire lifetime, woodsmoke has the same toxic and cancer causing chemicals as Tobacco smoke, only 12 times more toxic, so next time you breathe in a breath of woodsmoke it is the equivalent of 12 puffs on a cigarette, in NSW the State Government is offering to buy back woodheaters by offering a $500 subsidy to change over to Gas or R/C air con, before you light up think about how many people in your neighbourhood are going to enjoy your smoke, Regards Frank.

**nornalup** · 2nd May 2007, 10:12 PM

"A woodheater emits more pollution in a 24 hour period than a modern car does in it's entire lifetime"

Really

Mabye we should look at the use of the word sustianable Frank, and get some perspective on the this.

A renewable resource means that the resource, in this case wood, can generate itself as fast as we use it. Given the time oil takes for mother nature to produce, and the rate we use it I think it's fair to say this became unsustainable soon after those texans tapped that first well. Using our forects for dunny paper aint sustianable, but collecting fallen timbber in selected areas I believe is a different story. Infact in WA it's used to actually controll the fuel load in areas, that otherwise would suffer more controlled burns by land managers.

For those of us, like frenchie, that live on large rural bush blocks we burn wood at a slower rate that that amount of bush produces and drops the stuff. As far as pollution from burning that wood I look at the burnt out trunks of 200 year old trees around our place and can only imagine my contribution a small part of what natural bushfires emit.

Living on the south coast of NSW how do you heat your place. Plug in the electric heater, or the gas bayonet. If so following your logic, do you make some coal or natural gas on the weekends in the back shed to make up for your sins.

Bottom line is going and chopping done a forest for woodchips is unsustainable. Having that forest intact and using it as a renewable resource makes sense. After all you don't cut done the lemon tree when a few are ripe do you?

Hopefully the blokes on this forum will chose to take wood in a responsible way and takes as much as they personally need. There are several areas around here that this has been going on for over a decade. They look in far better nick than the logged state forests and frequently burnt land surrounding.

Thats my rant for the night.

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