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I don't own a tractor shredder. I can tell you that lots of people that buy the smaller chipper/shredders use them a lot the first year or two and then it tapers off dramatically. It sounds great to recycle all that waste material, but after a while it seems like a lot of time for a pile of wood chips. Real chips take forever to compost and tie up the nitrogen in the soil if applied fresh and more than an inch or two.
Neighbor with 3 acres bought a nice (stand alone) and used it big time the first year. Now he burns the piles and hauls in (free) wood chips from a local lumber processor.
It's really slow tedious work for what you get out of it.
That said I salute you that do it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Neighbor with 3 acres bought a nice (stand alone) and used it big time the first year. Now he burns the piles and hauls in (free) wood chips from a local lumber processor.
It's really slow tedious work for what you get out of it.
That said I salute you that do it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif