It was painful to watch

[Blowndiffuser]

I was at a country show today and there was a demonstration on biofuel which involved tons of wood being sent to the chipper. Great bit of machinery, just painful to watch[emoji31]

 

[D8Chumley]

I see a lot of that on jobs if the clearing guys are still there. Sometimes they will leave me a few logs to buck up, but they usually chip everything except the saw logs

 

[RusselB]

I find this funny because I use chippers and shredders for a living to make topsoil. Now that I have a home with wood stoves I am trying to buck up more wood on a daily basis whenever I can.

 

[kennyp2339]

That wood give me nightmares

 

[AmbDrvr253]

Thanks for ruining my day........LOL

 

[ihookem]

After you figure in the cost of the chipper, the chainsaws, trucks, diesel fuel, and everything else, they will realize a loss unless they charge double for the electricity. There is only one way to make money or break even and that is to burn something that has no value at all. Garbage comes to mind, in line is the tops from a logging job after the logging is done. Still better than wind power. At least you can burn 24/7, and keep an even amount of power going . Not to mention you could also sell some of those logs for a little bit of money anyway.

 

[blades]

last year a clearing crew came in and had a huge chipper- Vemeer . They would fell a tree, the big cat would grab it and feed it butt end first to the chipper and 2 second later no tree- Kinda like that planet eating machine from an old Star Trek episode. I couldn't watch all that firewood going to waste, ash elm norway maple and locust. Almost as bad as at the landfill and the big shredder big logs in the hopper- hash browns out the chute.