First you need an empty place then you continuously add fallen tree limbs and trimmed branches and such from other trees and shrubs ... after a while you get a really large amount of stuff.
Next you rent a 6" wood chipper and then two people work together for five hours...
And you get a really big pile of wood chips!
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That is a great pile of chips. We do the same process here at the Manor. It makes wonderful mulching material.
I like your beautiful firewood stack, too.
Ah, there's a story attached to that firewood stack - me thinks a soon-to be-written blog!
Also, this was the third time in the past 6-7 years we've rented a chipper - that's after we wore out a purchased smaller one.
That reminds me that I have two HUGE brush piles in need of chipping. It will have to be a big, commercial sized chipper...not so much due to size of limbage but to the fact that its mostly olive and hard as nails. I just need a chipper and a crew. Come on down!
Olive wood is a fine wood for carving - it has especially nice color and grain.
Set the limbs and pieces aside, call a local carver's club and I bet they will be more than happy to cart it away. Same goes for most fruit woods.
AG likes green. AG can be green. Will it get me a date, though?
AG: Well, yes it can - especially in the Seattle area - Portland too. Vancouver BC also likes green - very hip, ya know.
But you gotta dress Green - image is very important - hemp clothes and natural cotton count big time.
Yes, do tell us the story of the firewood! We have a large stack, too, but it definitely isn't as aesthetically pleasing as yours.
Your firewood stack is reminding me of a friend who arranges his by diameter... I realize some order is necessary, but I also wondered if his world would explode if a 2-inch limb were mixed in with a 3-inch limb.
AG is moving to Seattle then. Can she stay with you until she gets herself one of those job things?
Job things ... well, that's a deal, isn't it? Seattle still has some 1980s-80s boom left. Microsoftees aren't raking in the rewards of yore but they're still a huge biz. Most local companies seem OK - and our mortgage downturn is less than the rest of the country.
But we still have cool and hip - tho Portland has become a very hip and young city... and they might be taking the lead in the Green thing.
For Green fashion, check out
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/08/09/clothes/
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