Moved into a new house and am now the proud user of a fire place.

My mate has been helping out with stacks of timbers from his job but I will be running out real quick.

Anyone can recommend where I can buy a couple of trailers of decent timber at an appealing price?

Let me know.
Cheers,

Even if you have to hire a trailer and chainsaw for the day you would be hundreds in front.

There should be a greenwaste collection coming up soon in my area (Hills), and usually there are piles and piles of cut logs (Jarrah and Marri) piled in peoples front yard.
Also, you can get a permit from the DEC (about $25 I think) and go into specified areas of the parks and collect wood, but I would think all the good stuff would be gone now. There are heaps of people that do it 'less legally', but due to Dieback, it would be cheaper by ten fold to buy it if you were to get caught.

www.truelocal.com.au/business/all-value-firewood/oakford

give this mob a ring if your SOR

Sebol, where do you live?

One of my suppliers does firewood in bulk. All legit wood with the right moisture content. I'll get a price when im back at work on Friday if you like? Comes loaded in big bags that fit utes , trailers via forklift or delivered to your door.

Yeah GreenPat most the collection areas are off the Brookton Hwy. My best guess is that the areas have been treated for Dieback allowing for access without spreading it any further.

If you have a wood mill near to you they often sell the offcuts as firewood. I got one of the local tipper truck drivers to get me a 9 tonne load last winter from the local mill for around $300 still got heaps left over for this winter.

Thank you all, very helpful indeed, I live in Scarborough but will definitely use your suggestions.
Just found out that my mate Elroy Jetson has another stack for me through his job so I may not run out after all.

Yep the argument about open fire polluting is a strange one, most dead timber uncollected for burning purpose will end up burning in a control burn out so it makes sense to use it as a source of heating rather than letting it burn in the bush in my book.
Cheers all,

Gorgo said..

Sailhack said..



... Burning wood is a carbon-neutral source of energy (as long as it is from a sustainable source & regrowth etc...etc...) ...

Burning wood is indeed carbon-neutral (if you ignore the energy expended in harvest and transport). It unfortunately produces lots of particulate emissions so it is very polluting when used in high population density areas (and crappy fireplaces, and crap quality firewood, and people lighting fires when they could easily put on a jumper).

I love the smell of a nice wood fire. who cares about the emissions. If you are using dead growth from the forrest, if you or someone else don't burn it, this will be burnt off at some stage anyway by the government so that the fuel levels are reduced and eliminates the risk of out of control fires.

billykiter said..

....who cares about the emissions. ...

Particle emissions are not a problem when there's a wind to blow them away, and not too many fires, and when the fires are working well.

It only becomes a problem when there's a heap of fires in a dense urban environment and the fires are done badly. Then you get smogs, and respiratory problems and toxic air quality issues.

The legendary fogs in London during the nineteenth century came from too many home fireplaces burning wood and coal in a dense urban environment.

billykiter said..

... If you are using dead growth from the forrest, if you or someone else don't burn it, this will be burnt off at some stage anyway by the government so that the fuel levels are reduced and eliminates the risk of out of control fires.

In carbon terms the burning is irrelevant. If you leave the wood in the forest it rots down and releases the CO2. There are some issues about dead trees as habitat and nutrients into the soil etc, but overall burning the wood is not such a bad thing.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^You can say that again!

I am down in Esperance, doing a home build, anyhow I will be coming up a few times this winter to pickup building products with my truck, 6 wheeler 8 meter long tipping tray, I have been considering taking up loads of fire wood to help cover some fuel costs, I can deliver as have a vehicle in Perth i can bring up my box trailer on the truck, can deliver a whole load on the truck for about $500 if anyone wants and has a place for tipping the load on their property , would be about 5 box trailers worth as no side boards on the truck to stack too high.

looks like going from sporto prices its usually considered cheap for anything less than $50c a kg , so could weight and sell at a rate of 40c a kilo for pickup or 50c/kg for delivery. Or $110 a box trailer load delivered around Perth.

its not jarrah , its a gum - can find out exact what it is and post later, use it myself for heating and when reduced the flue overnight it usually lasts into the morning.

hope to be heading up late may to pickup some sheet piles so can deliver around then.

cwamit said..

I am down in Esperance, doing a home build, anyhow I will be coming up a few times this winter to pickup building products with my truck, 6 wheeler 8 meter long tipping tray, I have been considering taking up loads of fire wood to help cover some fuel costs, I can deliver as have a vehicle in Perth i can bring up my box trailer on the truck, can deliver a whole load on the truck for about $500 if anyone wants and has a place for tipping the load on their property , would be about 5 box trailers worth as no side boards on the truck to stack too high.

looks like going from sporto prices its usually considered cheap for anything less than $50c a kg , so could weight and sell at a rate of 40c a kilo for pickup or 50c/kg for delivery. Or $110 a box trailer load delivered around Perth.

its not jarrah , its a gum - can find out exact what it is and post later, use it myself for heating and when reduced the flue overnight it usually lasts into the morning.

hope to be heading up late may to pickup some sheet piles so can deliver around then.

just make sure you have all your relevant permits and licences handy and up to date, and your wood has been inspected and ok'd.
had a few people locally doing a roaring trade in cash firewood , often for years , until they get pulled over. they usually confiscate the vehicles too.
plus a fine.
if its from private property and your notselling it , thats fine, youll just need to have the proof handy