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[sequoia20]

So, tree fellars. What have you done to dispose of the trees over the years? Hardwood is not tuff to get rid of but the pine ,willow, and junk adds up(u still need a place to store the hardwood). How many run the bizz from home and have a mountain of debis somewhere. Anyone sell to a wood pellet maker? Bio-guel is starting to catch on. I'm thinking about getting some land and about 50 goats to eat it up Anyhow a feedback is appreciated:msp_confused:

 

[deevo]

So, tree fellars. What have you done to dispose of the trees over the years? Hardwood is not tuff to get rid of but the pine ,willow, and junk adds up(u still need a place to store the hardwood). How many run the bizz from home and have a mountain of debis somewhere. Anyone sell to a wood pellet maker? Bio-guel is starting to catch on. I'm thinking about getting some land and about 50 goats to eat it up Anyhow a feedback is appreciated:msp_confused:

I have several different farms that run big outdoor furnaces that heat their barns and buildings that take all the crappy stuff you mentioned! Look and ask around your area, see if anybody knows people with these.

 

[gorman]

Put an ad on your local Craigslist for free wood. You'll get some calls. Disclose in the ad the caliber of wood. Then just set up the dump sites according to where you're working.

 

[KenJax Tree]

Everything hardwood and all goes back to our yard and put through a tub grinder and made into mulch. Other companies dump in our yard also $20 for logs,limbs,and brush and $15 for chips.

 

[treeman82]

Chips are not terrible to get rid of, same goes for hardwood. For some softwoods I will take it to mills; tulip, hemlock, pine, etc. At least it cuts down on dumping fees, also take larger volumes of hardwoods there... like that the hardwood dump spots dont fill up as fast. Whatever is left goes to a tub grinder.

 

[treecutterjr]

We run out of a home office and we basically bring all of our stuff back to our place. All the wood gets split and sold for firewood every winter and fall. We usually sell about 200 ricks (face cords) a year. The chips just get dumped and piled up. I wish I had a grinder to regrind the wood chips. I've probably got 20 years worth of wood chips just piled up and spread out everywhere. Some people buy a truck load here and there for a dog pen or something. And the really composted stuff sells as dirt/compost, but for the most part it all just sits.

 

[sequoia20]

what kind of cost is the tub grinder rental and does selling mulch offset cost?
last time i ran a craiglist ad I found a few people wanting free firewood and not much room for much else. outside of town too

 

[isaaccarlson]

I have been looking at pellet mills. I bring home enough brush and crap to heat the whole pole shed. I hate burning piles of wood and brush just to heat the outdoors. There is a LOT of heat in a brush pile. I use all the hardwood and dense softwood for firewood.

 

[isaacvent]

I have been looking at pellet mills. I bring home enough brush and crap to heat the whole pole shed. I hate burning piles of wood and brush just to heat the outdoors. There is a LOT of heat in a brush pile. I use all the hardwood and dense softwood for firewood.

My father owns a business that generates a lot of basswood scrap and sawdust. We were trying to come up with a way to reuse all the waste so he purchased a pellet mill. Its a 10 or 12 inch die with 20hp electric motor. It works pretty well, but it doesn't make enough pellets in an hour to make money on. He still uses oil heat and never made the switch to a pellet boiler, because it would have to be a big one to heat his whole facility. I'm the one who is in charge of running the mill, and I need to make more money per hour. I could make about 100-120 lbs per hour with it. He wants to sell it now because the business is for sale, he is retiring. I'm trying to keep it for my own shop/house someday (holding breath)

 

[Tree Pig]

My father owns a business that generates a lot of basswood scrap and sawdust. We were trying to come up with a way to reuse all the waste so he purchased a pellet mill. Its a 10 or 12 inch die with 20hp electric motor. It works pretty well, but it doesn't make enough pellets in an hour to make money on. He still uses oil heat and never made the switch to a pellet boiler, because it would have to be a big one to heat his whole facility. I'm the one who is in charge of running the mill, and I need to make more money per hour. I could make about 100-120 lbs per hour with it. He wants to sell it now because the business is for sale, he is retiring. I'm trying to keep it for my own shop/house someday (holding breath)

Basswood makes crappy firewood and would be even worse for pellets.

 

[isaacvent]

Basswood makes crappy firewood and would be even worse for pellets.

Actually, your wrong. At least about the pellets. Pellets are graded by the ash content after they are burned. My pellets were of premium quality when we had them tested. Now I grant you, basswood doesn't make the absolute best pellets, or super premium but the difference in ash content is about %.7 if I recall. A piece of basswood will float in water, a basswood pellet will not. Its far more dense when pelletized. That said, an industrial pellet boiler uses utility grade pellets. Much higher ash content, I want to say around %5. I made pellets with all kinds of biomass. Grass clippings, sawdust of almost every type hard and soft even switchgrass. Its actually fun, but with a small mill its hard to be consistent.

 

[beastmaster]

Finding good green dumps is getting harder and harder. Lot of the county dumps will take green waste at a reduced price, any where from 35 to 50 a ton.
I recently talked to this old employer of mine. He runs a decent size outfit, with like 17 employees. When I worked there we did a lot of grove removals. Mostly citrus. He has a Vermeer HG4000 Horizontal Grinder(the beast)It has a big metal convener belt. and you can load it with a cat and put whole trees in that sucker.
Well not many groves left of any kind these day, but he says he doing real well selling chips. He has a big yard, and he charges for others to dump there. He uses his beast to grind everything up. Every month or so he trucks the chips to some power plant(s) up north who buys them to burn for fuel. He also lets a big fence company dump there for free. He grind's up all that cedar and redwood and sells the chips for top dollar. Said he's doing better on the dumping and chip part of the operation then the tree work.

PS; he's getting like 75 to a 150.00 a load to dump there.

 

[capetrees]

Hardwoods come home for firewood resale, chips go to a friend landscaper for him to sell ( I borrow machinery on occasion) and the pine logs and other none firewood logs that are too big to chip (and stumps) go to the stump dump to be buried , composted over time and excavated 5 years later to create a great organic "wood loam". What doesn't compost is sifted out and re-buried. Dumping fee is $50 for a one ton load regardless of how high it's piled in the truck.

 

[Single_Shooter]

We run a Craigslist ad when we cut down a larger tree. We have guys with trucks and trailers lined up the street wanting oak, ash and the like. We cut it to length and sizes that can be handled by a person and they will carry it out and load their own trucks and trailers....saves us paying an extra guy for the day!!!

We now have a list of people we send out a text message to give them a time and an address and it is a first come basis after that. We even have a couple guys who take the smaller branches of an inch or larger so we even have a LOT less to chip or to dump at the county composting site.

The less desired woods are even taken by a few guys who want it for bonfires and such and who just want campfire wood. In all actuality CL is great to find cheep people who want anything they can get for free.

But we do get the guys who call up and ask us if we cut it, split it and deliver it for free also....because they only have a small car, ya know...LOL