What do you do with the wood?

[Newfie]

"I've had chip trucks come 45 miles to dump a load 'cause i was taking it without charging, have heard some get charged $45-$50 a load to dump."

How does that make any economic sense? I'd rather pay to dump locally than drive 90 miles round trip to dump for free. By the time you account for driver's time, fuel, vehicle wear and tear, down time of chip truck, lost wages on the job, you end up losing big time. Probably one of those guys who didn't think math was important in school.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

overhere 50 % of our residential work revolves around felling lawsons cypress..and beleive me nobody wants that stuff either as mulch or fire wood..

 

[SteveBullman]

i saw a chipper once that the bloke had attached a log splitter(thor if i recall) to the side and rigged it into the chipper hydraulics so he could split big stuff on site and chip it

oh and as for the cypress that rolla mentioned...i sell firewood, not a hug ammount, maby 100ton a year, i reckon if i could sell conifer wood too i would triple my outgoings. crap stuff

 

[YUKON 659]

I'm only a part-timer so a lot of my wood gets used to heat my house. I give some of it away and some of it I just pile and burn in the back yard.

Jeff