On 10/22/2017 10:04 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:26:53 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/22/2017 9:17 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 07:12:25 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:45:33 -0400, wrote:

The ficus tree is on the curb.
The biggest of those logs is about 1000 pounds. I hope the claw truck
is working well. Not bad work for an old guy tho.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/fichus%20killer.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Tree%20on%20the%20curb.jpg

I am guessing 3 18 wheelers
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Hort%20pile%2010-21.jpg

Up here most of that would be run through a chipper (diesel operated of course). Then you'd probably
be down to a couple deuce-and-a-halfs.

I haven't seen a chipper with a 3 foot throat. The county says they
are planning on 2.5 to 3 million yards of stuff so the chipper method
might be to slow. They are here with a gradall and 10 yard dump
trucks. It is going to be a while for that too. Last time (Charley)
they had 18 wheelers.
That was a contractor, this is county DOT.



Some of those chippers are pretty amazing though. I was watching a crew
remove a large tree from a congested, developed area. They use a huge
crane to lift the tree in sections after being cut by a nut with a
chainsaw, hanging halfway up the tree on a rope. They then cut the
limbs off and fed a chipper with long sections up to a foot in diameter.
They bogged the diesel engine down a bit but chewed them up. The
larger tree trunk sections were hauled away uncut to be processed into
firewood or other usages.


They are not sure what they are going to do with all of this stuff.
Most of this ends up being horrible mulch. There is too much "exotic"
content that might actually sprout and grow. There will be enough pine
in the mix to make it unattractive as firewood. I suppose the easy
answer would just be to make big burn piles but that comes with it's
own ecological problems.



Up here they would probably make pellets out of it for burning in pellet
stoves.