Ideas to dispose of land clearing waste

[Tinhack]

Have you talked with them about a controlled burn? They start and watch over it.

The VFD does that here. They did it for me, years back, for a small donation to the department. I called them because I had some huge piles of trees and brush. They came out with a fire truck and stayed for about three hours.

I'm in the county and they have "no burn" rules during dry spells but controlled burns are ok. If I'm burning brush, I call them to let them know in case someone reports smoke. I've been doing that way since I lived here--1999.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

We don't call anyone ...

I sometimes burn early in the morning, not to hide it, but I'm awake, and the wind is cut down ... 3-4 am when the nearest neighbors 1/4 mile away are sleeping anyways ...

A foggy day usually has high moisture content on the ground, and would hide the smoke and flames from any distance ...

 

[paulsharvey]

We don't call anyone ...

I sometimes burn early in the morning, not to hide it, but I'm awake, and the wind is cut down ... 3-4 am when the nearest neighbors 1/4 mile away are sleeping anyways ...

A foggy day usually has high moisture content on the ground, and would hide the smoke and flames from any distance ...

Man, you mix fog and smoke, and visibly goes to Zero. We had a peat bog fire burning about 11 years ago, and it burned underground for about 5 months. On foggy mornings it was a guessing game that road was shut down that morning based on wind. One time, it was so bad I pulled over, and from the White line, I couldn't see the yellow line, 12 ft away...

 

[Yander]

If you have any local campgrounds nearby, they might take some of it for campers to burn. It doesn't need to be a hardwood for those purposes.

 

[Mulemamma]

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.

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