Ideas to dispose of land clearing waste

[Hay Dude]

Log chipping is back breaking work.

 

[BlueKnife]

Log chipping is back breaking work.

Indeed it is. Even when I owned a significantly larger chipper than the OP is talking about renting, I wouldn't have tried to chip that stuff. Way too hard on the body and the equipment.

 

[bdhsfz6]

A few years back, I lost a couple of dozen trees to a downburst. Around here, we call it a blow down, which can occur during an intense thunderstorm. Mostly White Pine and Hemlock with 5" to 8" trunks which were no good for firewood. I limbed them and piled the slash, which I later burned after our first snowfall.

I piled the trunks at the edge of one of my fields where I occasionally do some target practice. The ground is sloped and I had been planning on leveling it to make a proper shooting range. I dug it out and used the spoils to bury the logs to make a backstop.

 

[airbiscuit]

Not relevant for the OP, but I had a friend who was a road contractor. What to do with all those green trees? He would put them in a large pile, and then he had a wagon with an engine and an airplane propeller that he would aim at the pile. Everything burned!

 

[etpm]

Mostly White Pine and Hemlock with 5" to 8" trunks which were no good for firewood.

I'm curious about that wood being no good for firewood. I would burn it in my wood stove. I would split the 8" into quarters and the 5" in half. I burn mostly alder and hemlock. About 90 percent alder.
Eric

 

[bdhsfz6]

I'm curious about that wood being no good for firewood. I would burn it in my wood stove. I would split the 8" into quarters and the 5" in half. I burn mostly alder and hemlock. About 90 percent alder.
Eric

A lot of rot and insect damage. Likely why they came down in the wind.