Willow harvest

[SolarAndWood]

I live down the road from some of SUNY ESFs experimental willow fields. It looked like they were out with the combine yesterday morning harvesting. It will be interesting to see if they can make some of the no longer used fields around here productive and viable.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

So what would they use this willow for? Maybe transplant for windbreaks?

 

[SolarAndWood]

I believe they harvest it with the combine and truck it to the pellet plant.

 

[Slow1]

I believe they harvest it with the combine and truck it to the pellet plant.

Seems that would make some hight bark:wood ratio pellets if they did given how thing those sticks look in the picture. Interesting.

 

[LLigetfa]

Willow may be OK for biomass fuel but low grade for pellets.

 

[Larrys land]

When I worked at Church and Dwight they were talking about oil and then bio-mas. They were talking about growing them on the old Alkali beds to somehow clean them up?That was a long time ago, I could be wrong.

 

[savageactor7]

^I've been on the beds before ...poplar trees grow on them OK. I'm also thinking willow would make a better bio-mass than a pellet. Pretty sure our FFA cuts the willows 3 times before harvesting to insure a more 'bushy' product.