Composte sites???

[brookpederson]

This is kinda a response to " wood delivery problems". But every time i read threads about how hard it is for most of you guys to dispose of wood and chips. I realize how lucky we are in my area to have a city compost site> Any one HO or commercial, during business hours can bring as much wood, branches, lawn clippings, chips (no stumps)and dump for free! Any city resident can then come and cut firewood or take chipper chips for landscaping if they so desire. All of the cities and towns within traveling distance have one.
The pile is then ran through a tub grinder, mixed with turkey manure and burned to make electricity.
Are we behind the times or ahead of the times??
Any one else able to dump at compost sites, and any treasure found
(ex-32"DBH clear black walnut logs)

 

[pdqdl]

Burned for the energy? Ahead of the times. Definitely.

 

[arborpros]

I have one municipality that does this but you either have to live in the municipality or you have to have the home owner with you when dumping. If you get caught dumping illegally, it is a $800 fine. It definately helps in dumping costs.

 

[pdqdl]

If there were such a location in Kansas City, all the tree companies could probably power half of the town with all of the wood that gets thrown away.

 

[brookpederson]

HUH__ there should be a way that this could work any where....

Maybe someday we all will be dumping loads for free or geting paid
( even better )

 

[sgreanbeans]

We have several sites like this, the main one is the old IH factory, they heat the whole place with wood, they will take anything, even stump grindings, run it through a tub grinder, wheel loader grabs a scoop every 30 min, dumps in boiler! We also have several mulch plants, they will take about anything as-well.

 

[RAG66]

Please tell the idiots out here on the left coast that there is a need for wood waste. We have so much wood waste the recyclers charge near $100.00 or more for a load of chips, more if there is wood or stumps in it. I have tried to make contact with many people to talk about ways to make use of it and they all seem to be of no interest. "We are so green out here we can not find a good way to use low grade wood waste." In other words no boilers or power plants that use it.

 

[brookpederson]

The guy who has the tub grinder contracts with all the cities around the area,
he grindes and removes their wood waste piles, at no cost. I don't know if he gets paid by the ton or the semi load? He seems to be doing really good, biger grinder last year and a fleat of semi-trucks. Aother company doing the samething just started up About 100 miles north of us last year too.

Maybe i'm in the wrong biz- or i need a big grinder:monkey: