Ideas to dispose of land clearing waste

[future_vision]

I agree on the BioMass Energy plants - there are several in New England. When we had 4 acres cleared they chipped everything except the logs and sold the rest to Shiller Station in Newington NH for 30$ ton - took 6 tractor trailer loads of chips. Shiller stopped taking wood waste in 2024, but depending your location there are plants in ME MA and CT that still burn wood waste.

It's a matter of getting it chipped. I would rent a large chipper - 12-14" and feed it with an excavator - probably get a lot chipped in a few days. For the rest of the dirt/roots/rocks burning is best - just get a few piles going and keep feeding it for a few days.

Then dig a hole and bury the remaining bits that dont burn. It's a lot of work clearing ground - what are you doing with the stumps? That was my biggest cost - $1750 a tractor trailer load 4 loads.

Stumps, the large ones, were all stacked into a wall. Gives us a little privacy from the neighbors. At some point I want to cover them with dirt and speed up the decay process. But maybe, one day, we'll just have them hauled off instead.

 

[future_vision]

Are the cops going to come if you start a fire with pieces over 5”? If you piled up a pile as big as a truck, let it burn down some and repeated the process you would be done in a couple days. It’s going to take much longer to chip that with anything less than a belt feed behemoth chipper.

We've had the fire department visit us before. Granted it was early on in the land clearing and we think a neighbor called cause they saw smoke in the woods. I recall them showing up one other time too. The fines are pretty hefty so I prefer not to risk it.....much.

 

[Hay Dude]

It's the cost of disposal that can add up.

I only paid $8 bucks per yard.
Also realize your recycler may be more.

Fuel cost me more than disposal fees.

Hertz and other companies rent non-CDL dump trucks with automatics.

 

[airbiscuit]

About 40% of that you could make available as cut your own (crappy) firewood if you are okay with people on your land. Or stack it up by the side of the road with a free sign

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

About 40% of that you could make available as cut your own (crappy) firewood if you are okay with people on your land. Or stack it up by the side of the road with a free sign

Wood boiler guys would love that for free.

When we built in 2016 I know a few guys with wood boilers, they cut and limbed every tree I need cut and took the wood. It was in the GC contract to haul the stumps off of my property also, I think they had 6 huge dump truck loads of stumps.

 

[hslogger]

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

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