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OliverGuy

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It's amazing how tight brush and wood chips will pack. I'm beginning my third layer of debris. Space is a little tight, so I just keep adding brush, make myself a new road over the last layer of brush with wood chips and repeat. This pile will be ground in 4 months, so I might be making level 4 which I've never done. Guess I better strap in good and make sure I paid the life insurance policy. It's really not that bad, just got to make sure you don't back off the edge!
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It goes in a tub grinder and turns into mulch. I hire the crew for the grinding from the company I buy my mulch from. I supposedly get a "deal" since I buy semi loads of theirs throughout the year. It gets ground in early December, cooks during the winter, I turn it all once late winter and then it's ready to sell come spring.
 
(quoted from post at 16:41:59 08/23/11) It goes in a tub grinder and turns into mulch. I hire the crew for the grinding from the company I buy my mulch from. I supposedly get a "deal" since I buy semi loads of theirs throughout the year. It gets ground in early December, cooks during the winter, I turn it all once late winter and then it's ready to sell come spring.
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Bet your place smells good..............

There is small mulch/compost place just out the back of the Kassern I work on. Love to drive by there....
 
You are braver than me. I try to avoid being that close to the edge.

Question for you. Where do you get that much brush to pile up? Assume you're running a yard.

Rick
 
No brush this side. I"m kind of standing on our path we drive around the pile to head back up to our shop. You would think that no one would drop their brush in the drive path, but..... When the foot print is max size, I dump all the brush on the other side near my ramp to start a stackin".
 
My real job is a landscaper, mowing, lawn spraying/fertilizing, etc. I've got 8-10 crews bringing back a little bit to a lot every day. It's amazing how just a few wheelbarrows full per crew times all the crews every day starts to add up. I try to get as much wood chips as I can with local tree service guys also. This picture shows about a quarter of the pile. It will be quite big in 4 more months. There's another pile for compostable materials-grass, leaves, perennials, etc.
 
Sounds like it gets an awful lot of extra handling ?

When they come back every day just toss it in a chipper right then and there and be done with it ?
 
A chipper makes chips while a tub grinder makes what I want-mulch. A grinder shreds more than it chips. It's like a huge hammermill. I do mix chips in it for some filler and that's what I make my path up the pile with--but it's only a fraction of end product. When it gets ground, I can still see some chips in it, but 99% of people don't see them. The chips also don't seem to color down to the dark brown that I want as fast as ground or shredded wood. Shredded mulch is worth 5 times as much as chips around here.
 
I would, but some are $100,000 or $200,000. There's only a day or day and a half of grinding here for a big machine. One less machine I'd have to take care of and they are huge, besides the big money. You wouldn't need a big one for the light brush in the picture, but there's 24-30" logs and stumps hiding in their too. That doesn't go through a small one all the time. The grinding company's tub grinder makes pretty short work of the pile, but it helps it's got 900 hp too! Look up a picture of a Morbark 1200 or something similar. Their machine also gobbles up any kind of metal and spits it off with a magnet system. If I could find more brush I would think about my own grinder. My pile only makes 1000 cubic yards of mulch, but I need 4-5000 a year.
 
Big greenhouse here in mid-Mich (Bordines) has a pile like yours. They take pallets, mulch and brush, run it through a giant grinder and then use it to heat some of the greenhouses on hot water.

Rick
 
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