Wood Chipper

[Mags]

I have the same problem and have considered a chipper, but what do y'all do with all the chips once you're done?

Right now, I'm just cutting the limbs good enough to stack flat in the woods.

Garden ground cover for weed control.

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

I have the same problem and have considered a chipper, but what do y'all do with all the chips once you're done?

Right now, I'm just cutting the limbs good enough to stack flat in the woods.

Garden ground cover for weed control.

Would that be for a Vegetable Garden?

[Mags]

I have the same problem and have considered a chipper, but what do y'all do with all the chips once you're done?

Right now, I'm just cutting the limbs good enough to stack flat in the woods.

Garden ground cover for weed control.

Would that be for a Vegetable Garden?

Landscape and vegetable. I use drip line everywhere for watering including the vegetable garden. So chips go between the rows and around individual plants without blocking water flow. If you water by open trench then wood chips just dam up the trench. In the Fall the chips get rototilled into the ground and become mulchy soil by Spring.

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

Interesting. Around here we still have but used to have many saw mills, with plenty of sawdust and chips available, but no one ever used them in gardens. About the only people wanting some were the horse owners. The bulk of the chips went to industries in tractor trailers.

[dave77]

I have a 'Bearcat' with blower attachment. 3pt hitch PTO driven, requires a tractor with a minimum 25hp. I used it for a couple of seasons. Found it was better use of my time to just burn the piles I had staged for the chipper.

My property is just inside the "Growth Management Boundary" so no outdoor burning allowed and the county has just put on the annual county wide burn ban due to fire hazard (which is a good thing) that will be in affect until at least October. We burn after the ban ends and we've had some rain. Keep the fire small and burn at night.

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

We have burn bans here too at certain times of the year as well in extreme droughts, but I don't burn at all here where we are at. As time goes on, there are more and more cases of people getting charged for any fires getting out of hand, even if it is just woods.

I won't press my luck, like a friend of mine did. He set a big piles of slabs on fire on a nice quiet wet day once and didn't a big wind kick up soon after. He had to sweat it out, but got lucky and learned to never do that again, lol.

[Sir Henry]

Here are some of the limbs although overall this is just 5% of what needs chipping.
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Those are some pretty hefty limbs. I'd drag them to a burn pile location off the grass and burn them.

I’ll burn the biggger stuff in a fire pit. We can’t burn most of the summer. Most burning occurs when there is a foot of snow on the ground.

[Mags]

I have a 'Bearcat' with blower attachment. 3pt hitch PTO driven, requires a tractor with a minimum 25hp. I used it for a couple of seasons. Found it was better use of my time to just burn the piles I had staged for the chipper.

My property is just inside the "Growth Management Boundary" so no outdoor burning allowed and the county has just put on the annual county wide burn ban due to fire hazard (which is a good thing) that will be in affect until at least October. We burn after the ban ends and we've had some rain. Keep the fire small and burn at night.

We're still outside the Urban Growth Boundary. So we can burn during the two burn seasons, except when the fire danger is high or when DEQ calls an air quality alert.
1. October 1 to Dec 15.
2. March 1 to June 15.

[Mags]

Interesting. Around here we still have but used to have many saw mills, with plenty of sawdust and chips available, but no one ever used them in gardens. About the only people wanting some were the horse owners. The bulk of the chips went to industries in tractor trailers.

Big business here in landscape supplies.
Here are some of the local offerings.
https://www.bestbuyintown.biz/products- ... lch-chips/

We usually buy a 1/2 n 1/2 mix of bark nuggets and cedar chips.

I've also from time to time had the power company unload shreds/chips at our place when they are in our area trimming back limbs from the power lines.

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

We do have Mulch! I just hauled in a pick-up load for my wife's flower garden.

Don't know if she would like misc species of chips though, especially yellow pine. No one uses them around here. I have heard of people using Cedar chips though. Brick chips too.

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

I wish there was a market for wood chips around here. That would probably justify me buying a chipper, lol. But it's just not in our culture.

I'm just going to keep stacking the limbs in the woods. It's amazing how quick they can disappear. Ground cover for some small wild animals in the meantime. Hopefully the ones I like, lol.

[Mags]

.. It's amazing how quick they can disappear. Ground cover for some small wild animals in the meantime. Hopefully the ones I like, lol.

On bank below the house going down to the creek, I drag the branches to the water. "It's amazing how quick they can disappear." Beavers haul them off in short order.

[The Happy Kaboomer]

I lay a20 ft sling across the bed of my trailer...........I fill it with limbs and go to the woods..........I choke the sling back on itself on top on the load......I back the trailer up to a tree and tie the sling to the tree........Pulling forward slowly drags the whole load off the trailer......Hook one end of the sling to the trailer and pull out from under the pile......Creating instant wildlife habitat.

[BrokenolMarine]

We do the same, pile the debris in a big pile in a wooded area in the middle of the north west section of the acreage. Habitat for the wildlife. Bunnies, foxes, bobcats. Circle of life.

[Sir Henry]

I had the tree guy make some huge stacks in the upper field behind the house which is out of sight. The lower plantation is what everyone sees as they drive by and the entire reason I’m doing this is to make the place look nice. I’ll burn the piles this fall when there is at least six inches of snow on t he e ground.