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  • From: Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Brushwood chipping & mulching - Forest products equipment
  • Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:21:52 -0800

I seem to recall that Pain's chipper produces a fine sliver from wood, resulting in more surface area, greater microbial activity, more heat etc... would hog-fuel (as we call the below described material locally) heat up as well? I have gotten some heat off of arborist chips taken in summer (good nitrogen content), and less off delivered hogfuel, but the pile sitting in my driveway hasn't heated up.. perhaps due to inadequate moisture... maybe high conifer content. Given the size of Pain piles, and the fineness of materials... is he going for anaerobic decomposition? What does a Pain pile smell like? Has anyone here made such a monsterous creature?
Paul Cereghino
Olympia, WA

Steve Diver wrote:

The equipment that cuts thru small trees and brushy
undergrowth to create mulch is used in forestry, landscape
clearing, and ecological restoration projects. This equipment
converts overgrown brush and woody lands into open lands,
park lands, fire breaks, power line clearnings, etc.

See:

Forest Products Equipment magazine
http://www.fpemagazine.com

For example, see:

Fecon Bull Hog Brush Cutter/Mulcher
http://www.fecon.com/bullhog/

These can be mounted on a big tractor or
a skid steer and powered by PTO or hydraulics.

There's several equipment manufacturers that
make these kind of brush chippers and mulchers.

The low-cost alternative is to get a few dozen goats and turn
them loose on an overgrown patch of woodland, then collect
their manure and bedding for building a compost pile.
Steve Diver
NW Arkansas







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