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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Make extra money from fruit trees
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:28:57 -0500

Here is a money-making idea for many of you fruit growers.

I put all of my fruit tree prunings on a pile. I have a chipper/shredder and I shred it all onto a tarp, then bag it up. Yesterday I spent about an hour and a half shredding it. A fellow from a local farmers' market buys it, bags it and sells it as smoker wood for barbecuers, etc. I charge him 50 cents per pound. I did 90 pounds yesterday. If I didn't own a chipper/shredder, I'd rent one from the local rent-all store.
Before I bought a chipper/shredder, I used to load up all of my prunings in my pick-up truck and rent a chipper/shredder right at the rent-all store because that was a whole lot cheaper than renting the machine and bringing it home to do the work.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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