What to do with all the splitter dribilings?

[nate379]

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.

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?

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

 

[HDRock]

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?

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

 

[billb3]

Bag it into recycled pellet bags and sell it cheap as yuppie chiminea green biomass

 

[nate379]

Haha. No idea where I'd get pellet bags from, very few, if any, pellet stove users around here.

 

[firecracker_77]

I cut and split about 30 cords at that one area, this year I plan to do 300-400.

What? 300 cord? Who needs that much? Commercial sales?

 

[nate379]

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.

What? 300 cord? Who needs that much? Commercial sales?

 

[HDRock]

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

 

[nate379]

Where ARE the pictures you mean?

The processor is in Iowa.http://www.blockbuster-inc.com/15-20.html

 

[fossil]

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?

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

Burn it.

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I am with you, I just shovel it in and
BURN IT!

 

[Ashful]

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"

 

[nate379]

Oh, you must have meant a DECENTLY PRICED...no?

Nope, meant decent priced but auto correct changed it and I didn't notice before I posted. I can't edit using an iPhone.

 

[HDRock]

Where ARE the pictures you mean?

The processor is in Iowa.http://www.blockbuster-inc.com/15-20.html

I meant I wanna see some pics
Thats cool, I want one

 

[blades]

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.

 

[Salharmonic]

I put it in trash barrels, put it in a tool shed, it dries over the summer and is great kindling all winter

 

[blades]

I do the same thing with the larger stuff

 

[nate379]

Was at Lowe's the other day and they had a chipper in the clearance aisle. Someone bought it and returned it, doesn't look like it ever got used even.

Was $700 new (Alaska pricing), I got it for $480

http://www.troybilt.com/equipment/troybilt/chipper-shredders/cs-4265-chipper-shredder

 

[blades]

Smaller stuff gets fed to my chipper

 

[MasterMech]

Was at Lowe's the other day and they had a chipper in the clearance aisle. Someone bought it and returned it, doesn't look like it ever got used even.

Was $700 new (Alaska pricing), I got it for $480

http://www.troybilt.com/equipment/troybilt/chipper-shredders/cs-4265-chipper-shredder

That's a baby chipper, is it big enough to do what you need?

 

[nate379]

Yup, can do up to 3" branches. Anything bigger than that is turned into firewood.

 

[MasterMech]

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.

 

[nate379]

Used it today and it sucked down several 2.5-3" branches quicker than a fattie with a cupcake.