LOL. I could probably build a fun trials course on my property with all the terrain afforded by Canadian Shield grant and the newly downed trees providing a nearly unlimited source of free lumber. Neighbours probably wouldn't be thrilled though.
building a ramp for a shipping container?
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Driving through some parts of Ontario that were recently hit by the ice storm, I obviously noticed the large amounts of trees that were down.
Some cut down and left behind.
It was wondering if all of the trees (including decent diameter size branches and trunks) will be put thought a wood chipper or if they will be chopped up into firewood or other uses?
Any one know?
Seems like it would be a waste to put it all through a wood chipper. Unless that is the more ecological thing to do.
Most of it is crap firewood. Lots of wet pine and poplar. It needs to season for a year or two and even then, it is better as firepit wood than something you burn in your house.
Municipality was cleaning up some roadside branches yesterday. They were using a normal garbage truck and packing it almost constantly. They didn't clean up everything. Time limit per house? Seemed to be slower than a chipper by a bunch.
Most people don't have the space to let the branches decompose naturally. Chipping branches probably takes less fuel than driving them whole to a yard waste drop off location as you can fit 10x(or maybe even more) in each truck load.
For the smaller chippers being used, they are throwing larger wood into bins and taking it away somewhere.
I would love it if they put a smaller version of that system on the back of trucks. Then you could see the traffic lights and other obstructions ahead.
I normally cheat
Stay far enough back and over that I am driving based on what I can see in front of the truck. It doesn't always work depending on traffic and truck position in the lane.
sburns
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Probably both, chip and burned.
Most of the small towns the city will dispose of the wood, which is why you might have seen them bundled at the side of the road.
Around here, there is a lot of crap trees, probably why so much fell. These son of birch or birch trees (not the white wrapped ones) they are garbage trees that grow badly, and sprawl weirdly. Maples would be a whole lot better they seem to grow normally.
Then take your existing ramp and cut up the boards to between 3 ft to 4 ft wide pieces and remake it so that the boards go perpendicular to the slope rather than parallel to it.
In our neck of the woods, most of it is hardwood. We have very little softwood on our property. The logs stacked here is just a fraction of the wood I have to cut. There is no shortage of hardwood. Sometimes I pull a few wagon loads of wood to an elderly neighbour who burns firewood. Our neighbour's daughter lives with a guy whose parents have a wood-burning stove. He's a sweet kid who will cut big trees that fall on our property when we're away and not ask for anything. I told him to take whatever he wants. I know I can't burn it.
Burning or chipping wood is considered worse for the environment then leaving the logs downed somewhere. It releases the carbon into the atmosphere faster, whereas if whole logs are left on the ground to decompose naturally, the carbon is sequestered for much longer as well as providing shelter and environment for biota.
Of course, not everyone has the space or inclination to just leave wood on their property to rot. My wife certainly doesn't like the idea. She wants to burn everything. I prefer to give it to someone who can at least benefit.
This was about a half day of cutting and stacking. A fallen tree destroyed the shelter a month or so ago.
I helped a friend clean up some fallen trees at his cottage. Those pieces are heavy
I was hobbled for about 36-h. Seriously, could barely walk after rolling, cutting, and stacking logs, and bending over to do so. That's just with a mid-range saw with just a 20" bar weighing only about 14 lbs. And what was I did was comparatively nothing to what a pro could accomplish.
I have so much respect for people who work with these saws day in, day out, and that's not even considering the people who run those Stihl 088s and Husky 3120s with 36" and 48" bars in big wood.
Not sure how big this bar is, but I may be in love. She is bad-ass.
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