Ideas to dispose of land clearing waste

[Hay Dude]

Log chipping is back breaking work.

 

[BlueKnife]

Log chipping is back breaking work.

Indeed it is. Even when I owned a significantly larger chipper than the OP is talking about renting, I wouldn't have tried to chip that stuff. Way too hard on the body and the equipment.

 

[bdhsfz6]

A few years back, I lost a couple of dozen trees to a downburst. Around here, we call it a blow down, which can occur during an intense thunderstorm. Mostly White Pine and Hemlock with 5" to 8" trunks which were no good for firewood. I limbed them and piled the slash, which I later burned after our first snowfall.

I piled the trunks at the edge of one of my fields where I occasionally do some target practice. The ground is sloped and I had been planning on leveling it to make a proper shooting range. I dug it out and used the spoils to bury the logs to make a backstop.

 

[airbiscuit]

Not relevant for the OP, but I had a friend who was a road contractor. What to do with all those green trees? He would put them in a large pile, and then he had a wagon with an engine and an airplane propeller that he would aim at the pile. Everything burned!

 

[etpm]

Mostly White Pine and Hemlock with 5" to 8" trunks which were no good for firewood.

I'm curious about that wood being no good for firewood. I would burn it in my wood stove. I would split the 8" into quarters and the 5" in half. I burn mostly alder and hemlock. About 90 percent alder.
Eric

 

[bdhsfz6]

I'm curious about that wood being no good for firewood. I would burn it in my wood stove. I would split the 8" into quarters and the 5" in half. I burn mostly alder and hemlock. About 90 percent alder.
Eric

A lot of rot and insect damage. Likely why they came down in the wind.

 

[BlueKnife]

I'm curious about that wood being no good for firewood. I would burn it in my wood stove. I would split the 8" into quarters and the 5" in half. I burn mostly alder and hemlock. About 90 percent alder.
Eric

In the eastern US, for the most part, softwoods aren't considered worth bothering with for firewood, except for, occasionally, outdoor boiler use. Part of that is the fact that they don't have the "good" types of softwoods (Western larch, Doug fir, Lodgepole pine, Western white pine) that we have in the west. Part of it is they have a lot more variety of higher quality hardwoods to choose from, so there's no reason to settle for the low quality softwoods (hemlock, Eastern white pine, Scotch pine, red pine) available

 

[Hay Dude]

A lot of rot and insect damage. Likely why they came down in the wind.

Sometimes the wind is so strong, it can take healthy trees down, too.

Fortunately there’s guys out there like me to clean up such messes.

 

[Hay Dude]

In the eastern US, for the most part, softwoods aren't considered worth bothering with for firewood, except for, occasionally, outdoor boiler use. Part of that is the fact that they don't have the "good" types of softwoods (Western larch, Doug fir, Lodgepole pine, Western white pine) that we have in the west. Part of it is they have a lot more variety of higher quality hardwoods to choose from, so there's no reason to settle for the low quality softwoods (hemlock, Eastern white pine, Scotch pine, red pine) available

Yes, we have an abundance of hardwoods to burn-especially Ash.
Poplar is also kinda frowned on for wood burning fireplaces.

We have recently made some mountains of mostly softwood chips and the outdoor boiler guys come and get ‘em like they’re gold plated or something.