Ideas to dispose of land clearing waste

[future_vision]

I've been clearing some land for awhile. As a result I've accumulated a lot of organic waste. Hiring someone to haul it off is going to be too expensive. What I can burn, no larger than 5" diameter, I have been. What I need to figure out is what to do with the rest of it. As you can see in the attached images I have a lot of waste logs which I don't think are worth trying to process for firewood. Besides, I've got a ton of good wood to process and just don't have room for this other stuff. I also have piles of roots, grass, small rocks, twigs, etc that also need to go. I was thinking of renting a 12" chipper to handle a lot of the wood but if anyone has better ideas I am open.

 

[4570Man]

I’d burn all of it. It looks like you have plenty of room and apparently fires are legal there.

 

[future_vision]

I’d burn all of it. It looks like you have plenty of room and apparently fires are legal there.

We can burn but nothing larger than 5" radius. A lot of those logs are bigger then that. As for the other materials there is a lot of dirt mixed in and it tends not to burn.

 

[bmaverick]

I've been clearing some land for awhile. As a result I've accumulated a lot of organic waste. Hiring someone to haul it off is going to be too expensive. What I can burn, no larger than 4" diameter, I have been. What I need to figure out is what to do with the rest of it. As you can see in the attached images I have a lot of waste logs which I don't think are worth trying to process for firewood. Besides, I've got a ton of good wood to process and just don't have room for this other stuff. I also have piles of roots, grass, small rocks, twigs, etc that also need to go. I was thinking of renting a 12" chipper to handle a lot of the wood but if anyone has better ideas I am open.

Rent a Forestry wood chipper.

 

[Hay Dude]

I've been clearing some land for awhile. As a result I've accumulated a lot of organic waste. Hiring someone to haul it off is going to be too expensive. What I can burn, no larger than 4" diameter, I have been. What I need to figure out is what to do with the rest of it. As you can see in the attached images I have a lot of waste logs which I don't think are worth trying to process for firewood. Besides, I've got a ton of good wood to process and just don't have room for this other stuff. I also have piles of roots, grass, small rocks, twigs, etc that also need to go. I was thinking of renting a 12" chipper to handle a lot of the wood but if anyone has better ideas I am open.

2 years ago, I had a long term customer that got hit with a straight line 110MPH wind. In 10 seconds, it toppled 200 huge trees in difficult to get-to areas. This is just one area.

They asked me to do the clean-up with NO burning whatsoever.
What I did to get rid of the logs was use my 4WD 42,000GVWR dump truck and haul them to a wood recycler. Most of it was junk pine-really only good as wood chips.

I used my tractor with a grapple to load probably close to 1000 10’-12’ logs (my dump body is only 12’ long). I sawed them all to length myself over the cold winter months mostly with a Stihl 500i and a 24” bar.

I paid about $75/load to the recycler. I took about 100 loads of logs out.

I also hired a buddy of mine that had a tri-axle log truck to haul out the easy access hardwood logs. He was able to discount those since they would be processed into firewood. I was able to cut those 20’ long.

The process went very well.


I bet theres a log processor somewhere in your area that takes logs.

 

[future_vision]

Rent a Forestry wood chipper.

Yeah. I am looking at renting this for a day. 12" chipper

 

[jyoutz]

I've been clearing some land for awhile. As a result I've accumulated a lot of organic waste. Hiring someone to haul it off is going to be too expensive. What I can burn, no larger than 5" diameter, I have been. What I need to figure out is what to do with the rest of it. As you can see in the attached images I have a lot of waste logs which I don't think are worth trying to process for firewood. Besides, I've got a ton of good wood to process and just don't have room for this other stuff. I also have piles of roots, grass, small rocks, twigs, etc that also need to go. I was thinking of renting a 12" chipper to handle a lot of the wood but if anyone has better ideas I am open.

Call your local state forestry office and ask them to come look at it and give you ideas. They know all the local contractors and the types of equipment and work they do. If there’s a local biomass plant or wood pellet manufacturer, they pay $20-30/ton for clean chips, so this could offset the contractor’s costs.

 

[future_vision]

2 years ago, I had a long term customer that got hit with a straight line 110MPH wind. In 10 seconds, it toppled 200 huge trees in difficult to get-to areas. This is just one area.
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They asked me to do the clean-up with NO burning whatsoever.
What I did to get rid of the logs was use a 4WD dump truck and haul them to a wood recycler.

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I paid about $75/load to the recycler. I took about 100 loads of logs out.
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I also hired a buddy of mine that had a tri-axle log truck to haul out the easy access hardwood logs. He was able to discount those since they would be processed into firewood.
The process went very well.


I bet theres a log processor somewhere in your area that takes logs.

Hmm. Maybe. These are kind of crappy wood logs but worth a try I guess.

 

[bmaverick]

Hmm. Maybe. These are kind of crappy wood logs but worth a try I guess.

A tree service has Forestry wood chippers too. And they offer the wood chips for $20 to fill a truck bed.

 

[Hay Dude]

Hmm. Maybe. These are kind of crappy wood logs but worth a try I guess.

You can buy a dump truck cheap, then sell it when you are done. Or hire a local to haul logs to processor.

Even a 26,000 GVWR dump truck (no CDL required) can haul 6 tons of logs at a time.
Non-CDL dump trucks are easy to sell since anyone can drive them.

Logs are lighter than stone, dirt or sand. A dump truck loaded with logs has lots of air space, so the loads don’t weigh all that much.