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Top & Main Reasons To Buy Wood From Local Suppliers

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Top & Main Reasons To Buy Wood From Local Suppliers

Buying sawdust mulch & firewood from local suppliers comes with a lot of advantages. As you stock up firewood and sawdust for chilly winter days, it is important to pay attention to where the firewood comes from. Some people go out into the woods and cut firewood from trees that have fallen and started to cure. Others purchase from roadside stands or grocery stores. It is possible you might have no clear idea if the wood you are chucking into your stove or fireplace came from a few kilometers away or from a location far away from you. Firewood and sawdust can be an easy pathway for invasive diseases and insects. If it is transported far away from where the tree once grew, it will spread those pathogens and pests to new locations.

The importance of staying local when buying firewood


Do not move firewood or buy firewood from a distance of over 10 miles away. Fifty miles should be the overall limit. If you are camping and are allowed to collect firewood locally, that is an ideal situation since you know the source of firewood. On the other hand, if you are purchasing wood for home use, you should ask the seller if he is the one who collected it and where the wood came from.

You might just purchase a packaged stack of treated firewood from a store or firewood suppliers. In those cases, the firewood should have a label that clearly shows where the wood was collected. If the label on the firewood shows that it was kiln dried then it does not guarantee the wood was heated hot enough or long enough to kill all the potential pests. If a tree falls on your property, it is great to use it in your fireplace or fire pit or even give it to your neighbor. The point here is to keep it local. Do not haul firewood with you on vacation. Do not give it to someone who is going to bring it to their cabin over 50 miles away.

 

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You should never assume you will be able to spot issues in firewood. A tree that was killed 3 years ago may look dead but it is teeming with life on the inside. Even an expert might not see a few small insect eggs or fungus spores hidden in the wood. Some of these things are too small to see while others are just clever and good at hiding.

There is no realistic way of visually inspecting or knowing that your firewood is free of diseases or harmful insects. Do not think that burning all the wood will prevent the spread of fungi or insects. Even small chips of bark containing invasive larvae of insects can go unnoticed to the ground. A sudden rainstorm can wash spores of fungus off firewood or out of your pickup. This means that the danger is real.

 

So, the next time you buy sawdust mulch & firewood, do not just think about how much money you are saving but also think about the environment.

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