Customer had a couple bunch of old silver maple rounds he wanted to get rid of. I had bucked the big ones the first time back in November so he could split them with his hydro. Three peat customer for me. Worked my Ash Off Today! & The Buck $tops Here! the first two jobs. He burned some of this in his woodstove and complained how he didnt like it. I didnt ask if it was dry enough but did explain how its a lower btu wood. Old stove with low burn times on full load from what i learned. Tried the Isocore on the big rounds and wasnt going to work. Had 460 to noodle the big logs and made three trips to the dump. We were waiting for ground to freeze up so i could back into the yard and wood dump closes next week for two months. Always hate to see wood go to waste like this but being poor silver maple and of poor quality i didnt feel too bad. Probably from last Spring. I didnt want it. The wood dump had the huge chipper/grinder running. Stopped and watched it for a bit. Lots of logs being ground. Snapped a couple pics while there.
As far as compost... I know a logging contractor who stacked a bunch of logs many years ago, probably pine but I really don't know. It totally rotted over the years and it was a big pile! He brought it to my brother for his garden, just dumped a big pile for free. Looked like great compost.
the chipped stuff wasnt all old and crappy. Lots of good rounds including primo hardwood mixed in. Some of the nice wood ive seen destined for the chipper is enough to make a hoarder cry!
three truck fulls took there and nothing came home with me. I havent taken any wood from there since Summer and its usually only a few logs/rounds. Had a nice conversation with the new guy there. It is put out to bid by the town and new company started up Nov. 1. Met him once before and he remembered me as the guy who hand splits. Showed him the X27 and Isocore. He was impressed. Told him to check out FHC too.
I remember you also saying that the dump had really primo stuff but the loaders told you it’s not up for grabs.
This is where these would really come in handy, I hear that lawn brush, broken up stumps, anything that you could be potentially trimming down goes well in those. We don’t see them where I live, but I’m not saying nobody uses them. Seems like it would be a very convenient way to keep a house warm with scrap wood if one is able to generate it like you do. Although If that thing were to run all winter, I doubt of having enough myself unless I had acreage deadfall to accommodate having it. Otherwise a stove inside works or even the wood furnaces like Kuuma where loading small piles of that kinda stuff and no need to send it out to the dump lot. Too many stories on here where wood went to waste with neighbors or those who just wanted a share of their wood cut on the property only to let it sit for years becoming worm food. Just can’t always make someone put it to use...
There has been some really nice wood there at times...enough to make any FHCer cry! Dunno if you've seen any of my prior pics from there. New company has arranged it different. A brush pile where mostly homeowners dump and a log pile where landscapers/tree guys dump.
That was the prior company. New one said i could. They are shutting down next week until March. I dont go there that often.
Our town makes potting soil components . Tub grinder for composting chips from logs/stumps/branches. Lawn clippings and leaves from yard cleanups left out on the curb. At some point they also add sewer sludge for fertilizer. Great for flower pots, edible vegetables - not so much. I'm guessing silver maple is like red maple and you can't keep it around long especially in bad conditions. One of those truckloads looked like good stuff but all the others looked pretty bad. Even ground up to become dirt is still a use and a lot better than burying it in a landfill like they used to do years ago. Some place may still do. I think it's a methane producer though buried and highly frowned upon.
Wood in the second and third loads was 90%+ still good and burnable IMO. Not sure if the "general grind" is used as saleable mulch or mixed with leaves to make their compost. They bring in the other mulches they sell.
anything from pine to hedge, I have heard of ppl burning their garbage, but its not recommended. one guy, had a dog that would kill everything it found. possums, skunks, ground squirrels, rats etc. he couldn't bury them cause the dog would dig them up. so he would throw them into the boiler, after the dog killed them... seems like ppl get creative on how to put in bigger and bigger pieces.
