What to do with all the splitter dribilings?

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Burn barrel/slash pile doesn't work out that great. The last pile we burned, ended up using close to $40 of diesel to get it all burned.

A burn barrel would be about $6450 cheaper.;lol

I've had a few customers that wanted me to come back to pick up the bit of "crumbs" that came off the wood during transport. Want the wood on a sliver platter I guess? ;hm

I'm gonna keep my eyes out for a decent prices wood chipper/shredded and use it for chicken/duck bedding.
 
Burn barrel/slash pile doesn't work out that great. The last pile we burned, ended up using close to $40 of diesel to get it all burned.



I've had a few customers that wanted me to come back to pick up the bit of "crumbs" that came off the wood during transport. Want the wood on a sliver platter I guess? ;hm

I'm gonna keep my eyes out for a decent prices wood chipper/shredded and use it for chicken/duck bedding.

I bought a half a cord, the guy dumped in trailer with a bucket, had a bunch of trash in the bottom, saved some but just scooped out the rest n burned it .
But thats just the way it is , and he was scooping it up in a barn off a cement floor, so all the little tid bits got scooped up to
 
Bag it into recycled pellet bags and sell it cheap as yuppie chiminea green biomass
 
Haha. No idea where I'd get pellet bags from, very few, if any, pellet stove users around here.
 
Uh... yeah, I did mention customers in the first post for a reason ;) I put a down payment on a $35,000 processor on friday.

Cool , where is the pictures :)
 
I'm gonna keep my eyes out for a decent prices wood chipper/shredded and use it for chicken/duck bedding.

Oh, you must have meant a DECENTLY PRICED...no? :rolleyes:
 
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I am with you, I just shovel it in and
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Have been putting it in big piles and burning it, but was thinking maybe there would be a way to make some sort of compressed logs out of them???

Enough pressure, and you'll get diamonds!

"She'll never know"
 
I have been studing the pellet / log stuff for quite awhile, dollar wise it just doesn't work out. First the up front expense is a killer 4 grand for the pellet press that really can handle hard and soft wood and then you will still need a chipper/grinder to reduce the material to a max size of 1/4" particulate another $2grand or so. Moisture content of the input material has to be controlled to the about the 12% range. Log presses are even more costly. Add in energy costs ect long long time for payback based on the current prices for a ton of pellets or pallet of compressed bricks.
I just hate seeing all that possible btu going for ground mulch also, just haven't found or come up with a economically feasible system for conversion yet.
The cost of production exceeds the return value for almost all of us at this time. I haven't given up on it just can't spend a lot of time messing with it.
 
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I do the same thing with the larger stuff
 
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Smaller stuff gets fed to my chipper
 

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Yup, can do up to 3" branches. Anything bigger than that is turned into firewood.
 
Yup, can do up to 3" branches. Anything bigger than that is turned into firewood.
I can tell you 3" will be a challenge. <> and it's only 3" if it's a 3" broomstick. ;)

Will also be relatively slow, I understand you are going to be processing a bit more wood than the average homeowner. Even in Alaska. ;)
 
Used it today and it sucked down several 2.5-3" branches quicker than a fattie with a cupcake.
 
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