This giant pile of wood chips is 100 percent Locust. I’ve cut probably five or 6 cord of Locust out of that little woodlot a few years ago. I almost went back and cut more but had not got to it yet. Drove by today and the pipeline crew leveled it and chipped at all.
Id pack that pile of chips in my stove with a snow shovel lol. You know its going to take another 75 years or so before those locust chips start to rot anyway, I guess you could let them season a while haha.
Didn't 'like' your post on that one Swags. Couldn't bring myself to thumbs up a crime like that Glad you Got Some Before It Got Chipped
damm. Well the next thing you could try is picking through that. Thing is though, unless you got strong coals going, using that stuff might snuff your fire out. I’m with Dennis on this one, you could just get a giant food can from a school or two...drill holes all over and pack this stuff. Eh.....if this were a desperate call...
It surely happens and for us hoarders it hurts. A couple times the farmer I cut on most has had his track how guy knock nice trees over, into a pile and set em a flame. He gets a bit impatient when clearing ground but I can't cut 24\7
I see that fairly regularly around here. The city just cleared out a couple acres to expand a park, chiped all the wood! They would never think to let anybody cut firewood, I'm sure it's a liability issue. I think they sell it to the local ethanol plant that burns it, so at least it's not going to waste!
I can find more but this was not fun to see. That whole woodlot was locust. I should have made time to go but didn’t know that one was getting chipped.
Thats to bad. I feel for you and have had something similar happen. I was still bucking up primo dry wood when the fire department moved in to set things ablaze. I guess a schedule is a schedule...
Bet those chips would burn. I'd think about filling a cardboard box with em and fire the whole thing into the boiler. That would be a funny looking stack! Sucks that they don't let the residents have it. I'm lucky I guess, our town puts felled trees that the property owners don't want on the website. I am extra lucky though, because the tree guy lives a little ways up the road and let's me know what's coming down before it hits the ground so I often get first dibs. Everybody around here burns though, except the summer homes and some elderly folks - so very little goes unclaimed.
Oh man, that brings back some bad memories...and I think I just barfed in my mouth a little. A couple years ago the neighbor called me to clear a fence row...varied between 5 and 8' wide x IDK...several hundred feet long, at least. He had sold some land to another neighbor and the fencerow needed to be cleared to clarify the properly line, which BTW, was VERY well marked at this point...but I was told there was no hurry whatsoever...even though the new property owner was having his recently acquired parcel logged out and clear cut, "my" fencerow was not part of this property. Anyways, I cut as much as I could by myself, evenings, weekends, you know the drill. Got about a hundred feet cut when we went on vacation. Came back from vacation and the whole fence row was gone...the story I got was the loggers track hoe operator "got confused" about the property line...remember when I said the line was VERY well marked...yeah, the large bright white posts (obviously brand new, not some "old junk") got ripped out "accidently". All my trees were unceremoniously pushed into a pile with the rest of the trees the loggers didn't want, a pile about the size of a football field and 10-15' tall! The word was that the pile was gonna just be burnt...but time went by and nothing happened, so I contacted this other neighbor and got permission to cut off the pile, he said no problem but better get it quick because he was gonna burn it soon. I cut as much as I could between other responsibility's, I kept coming back and it was still there...but so much harder to deal with now as it was just a tangled mess since it was just dozed into a huge pile. But the day came they put a match to it...huge, GIANT! fire it was...(I saw pics) I was told it was really hot clear out on the road just driving by! Bazillions of BTUS...just POOF! I thought I was gonna puke! About 50% of us on our lil country block (1 square mile) heat with wood, and this pile would have easily kept us all in wood for 10 years...all of us!
