idiot government (long rant)
Used to be you just piled it and lit a match, using a
chipper is a noisy pain in the you know what. Especially those ones that you have to feed the branches in to. (can you say carpel tunnel syndrome?)
My state (WA) just moved the "no burn" line down to include me. I think it's time to move to eastern Montana and wait for the FBI.
The idiots in my state feel that because of the fact that some morons burn leaves in their yard and gas everybody out in their neighborhood, that people that have acreage that can't bother anyone with smoke should just eat their debris./w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif
I've been told I have a viable alternative!!!! I can haul it to the dump for $80 ton? plus hauling charges. Wow that sounds like a cost effective method compared to 1 match.
The idiots want people to leave forest land as it is, if I knew this beforehand I would have cleared a lot of acreage. Great incentive to us damn fools that did.
My understanding is that the fire departments are on the outside of this, they get called to enforce it and end up having people hate THEM. Hmm, which makes more sense...small controlled fires with water and a tractor? Or just leave the slash in piles for kids to light or when their is a fire you've got lots of fuel sitting around to help the fire stay UNCONTROLLABLE.
Reminds me of the do gooders that have made it so difficult to get rid of old auto hulks that you see them routinely dumped on backroads. They do this to "help" with the car stealing problem. Washington outranks almost all (maybe all) states in car theft records. Anybody stealing cars doesn't worry about disposition, only the poor slob with an old parts car or hobbyist. State pencil pushers don't understand that parts cars get passed around regardless of "title".
Hmmm, let's see, make a dump trailer, load a stump or two, drive farther out into the boonies and put the stumps next to an abandoned car!
At least my dumping is biodegradeable! (eventually!)
I guess I can pile the brush and after it dries out drive into it now and then munching it until it is just short sticks.
Those tractor chippers seem more expensive then the ones with the engine! I think I'd probably rent a nice one rather then own a lesser one. The idea of using a brush cutter seems like a lot of work, unless you could get one of those big tractor mounted brush-hogs-on-a-stick units the county uses to "mow" the right-of-way!
And the stumps? When you bury them they come back to haunt you as you inevitably need to put a water line etc where they are! Or on a small piece of property like this, two 5-acre pieces, you'd probably have to disclose what you've done to a prospective buyer.
Has anyone near a city had to resort to having someone bring one of those trailer mounted stump grinders out like the developers do?
My property in the boondocks in another part of the state is fortunate to be under the care of a county who hired a bunch of people to make sure no one sticks a shovel in the ground without calling them. It's on the water and we have to be careful to not do anything to lessen the salmon, so the Indians can net fish them all out so they can build more fireworks stands and have more upside down cars in all the yards around the casinos.
I see the government doing it's best to make criminals out of people, I know that's where I'm headed. After reading the Draconian burning regulations that have been inacted, I'm ready to give those worthless toads a run for their money./w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif I think I'll start tomorrow, with about a 15 x 30 foot sign up on the road. "The Only Good Government Employee is an Unemployed One!"
Good News Though!!!! The rabbits that have been scaring my cats (WOW THAT'S A BIG RAT!) are looking forward to some new stump piles (condominiums)/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif