When I burn the brush pile The Norwegian always insists I roll out the garden hose, just in case. Two times already I am glad I had it ready to go. The wind picked up. Of course, it was blowing right toward my wood pile. Now where is live, can't have a fire "uncontained" so no more brush pile burns. So, everything gets chipped. Good mulch.
Denny, the way I see it is you are left with two options. 1. Sell it as homemade lump charcoal. 2. Sell it to Jack Daniels Distillery WIN, WIN!
I have never burned brush the whole time I have been living at this property. All limbs, brush, etc is discarded on a brush pile to decay. It decays fast and there is just no reason to risk burning bush; I can not afford to catch what little woods are here on fire, or have it spread to my neghbour's property. The end result of my brush pile will be some really nice composted soil. I wish I could afford a chipper so I could turn that brush into nice mulch; you have to wait a year or so because green mulch will pull the nitrogen out of the soil as it decays.
Hey, what the heck? You wished you had a wood stove and look how that turned out?? Wouldn't surprise me at all if someone had an old one laying around!
I have a chipper in the garage and after running that thing for hours on end....I now just pile the brush and wait for a good rain - I burn directly next to the National forest The homeowner models aren't what they advertise or worth the cost. If you have a good 3-pt hitch with a tractor PTO to chip a much different story
They still allow burning of brush here, every once in a while there is a story about someone catching a field or woods on fire. I just think it is too much of risk when I can just pile it and let it rot into soil. Plus, it is home to rabbits or birds at first.
I rented a 6" chipper up here for $175/day. You can shred a lot of branches in one day if your piles are prepared nice. In one day of shredding, I made about 4 cubic yards of mulch.
Yah, but that can vary from state to state (province to province), county to county and person to person. Best to stick to a full cord, or portion of a full cord.
Face cords can vary, it is one row 4 foot tall and 8 foot wide. The variance comes from how long you cut-- 12", 16", 18", etc.
This post makes me wonder what would happen if one of my round stacks caught fire. Would the others catch fire? I think maybe one would light the next and they'd all go up. I should spread them out or at least stack the next one farther away. I don't burn brush, I make piles for the birds. The piles aren't pretty, but the birds appreciate them.
