Creamer
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You can burn it but why not let it decompose? I like CalG's idea of making a raspberry row. Mcfarmall is right - let nature do it's thing. It is amazing what nature will do and the organic matter is good for the soil.
Getting rid of logging slash
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Creamer
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The other thing is around here I can rent a large shredder that will take 8" for a few hundred a day. It has it's own power but you would have to fuel it. Tows behind a pickup.
Still it is much easier to let mother nature take care of it. A little nitrogen fertilizer will speed the process some.
Still it is much easier to let mother nature take care of it. A little nitrogen fertilizer will speed the process some.
clemsonfor
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You can rent a bobcat with that head up front for like $400 a day. Many places deliver. If I had to drive 2 hours to get one I'd drive it before I paid that kind of money.
clemsonfor
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They had belt drives on them that ran the big belts. They moved the Mills cause they were small and moving the whole logs was more difficult than moving the mill to the wood.
clemsonfor
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Times change. Equipment is totally different than 30 or 40 years ago.
Plus so many think they can handle their own timber sale and don't know how to hade a buyer or logger. This is where us foresters pay off ;-)
Plus so many think they can handle their own timber sale and don't know how to hade a buyer or logger. This is where us foresters pay off ;-)
clemsonfor
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I agree to, it will burn. Bring a full wheel barrow fulls of dry firewood and 5 to 10 gallons of diesel.
Once the wood has saturated and the soil biome moves in , it will quickly break down. I made three "hugulkultur" beds a couple years back that I haven't put berries in yet. In one spot a root ball/8" stump was not buried deep enough (3" out of ground)--this spring I can see the center beginning to break down. Until the first winter/soil saturation things will go slowly, but once the wood saturates completely the process will ramp up. Underground is where the decomposers do their work--wood can sit out in the sun soaking and drying for a long time before it weathers away. That said, you can burn anything with enough fuel, if you aren't into gardening.
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Have you thought about making a stump/slash fence out of it? Just shove it over to the property line and leave it to rot on its' own. It will make a nice haven for small critters.
Would be nice if nature would hurry up and decompose my "slash pile" from the tornado about 5 years ago. It's only about 3/4 mile long and 50 yds wide. I had loggers cull out a bit of it, but the 40 deg slope where most of it is was a deterrent. That plus the tangles of widow-makers. Fortunately, it is mostly out of sight.
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I stopped a girl that worked for the local resources dept and asked her to come over and look at our dying pine forest. We had a pre-commercial thinning done a few years back and the place looks like a war zone. She thought it looked GREAT!
The biggest problem is that the slash piles are always on top of stumps making it difficult to grab with a grapple. Stumps make it difficult to get around, plus uneven (dangerous) terrain.
The biggest problem is that the slash piles are always on top of stumps making it difficult to grab with a grapple. Stumps make it difficult to get around, plus uneven (dangerous) terrain.
