Law & permits
Moving wood: firewood, chip and quarantine rules
Cut wood, logs, brush and chip can carry pests.
Firewood, milling and forestry
Moving and selling firewood, wood weights and volumes, milling, chips and mulch, and woodland rules.
132 pages in this topic. Each guide names its sources and the date they were read.
Burning wood safely and moving wood
Open
Selling firewood
Running a business
Selling firewood: cords, legal units, labels and heat treatment
How official sources describe the legal units for selling firewood, the delivery ticket and package label, heat treatment claims, and the England Ready to Burn scheme.
Firewood species and seasoning
Trees & tree care
Tree species: what the forestry agencies record
One page per species of the most planted and most worked North American trees, built from the Silvics of North America, the Wood Handbook, the NRS-38 weight table and the USDA PLANTS Database, with a comparison table of names, range and green weight.
Wood chips and mulch
Tool
Mulch volume calculator
Type an area and a depth to see the volume of a mulch layer in cubic yards and cubic metres.
Tool
Chip volume calculator
Type the inside length, width and height of a body or box to see its volume in cubic yards and cubic metres.
Free wood and log value
Trees & tree care
Public land firewood permits: Forest Service, BLM, Canadian provinces and UK and Irish forestry bodies
How official pages describe personal-use firewood permits on public land in the United States, Canada, Scotland, Wales and Ireland: who issues them, what they cost in each page's own currency, and what limits they set.
Tool
Log weight estimate
Type a log's diameter and length and pick a species to see an estimated green weight of the wood, using the Forest Service table.
Tool
Tools: unit converter and wood weights
Cords, board feet, cubic metres and green wood weights, with the published sources.
Biochar and waste
Law & permits
Tree waste and chip rules: burning, chipping and carrying brush, place by place
How official sources describe the rules for disposing of limbs, brush, stumps and chips from tree work: open burning limits, exemptions for land clearing, and the paperwork for carrying waste.