[TheForge] cutting wood

[Larry Brown]

The tree services around me have a hard time disposing of chips, having to 
pay to dump them. If it could be used for fuel you could get a lot for free 
here
L Brown

At 12:50 PM 1/20/2010 -0800, you wrote:
>Can pellet stoves burn (dried) chipped wood?  Municipalities around here 
>chip wood (wet) for disposal of prunings, etc., and some make it available 
>free as mulch.  Come up with a way to dry the "mulch" and you might have 
>cheap fuel. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Bob Ehrenberger 
><eforge at centurytel.net> wrote: > Mark, > > I'm kind of a do it myself sort 
>of guy and have been cutting wood since I > was in Jr High, some 45 years 
>now. I have always enjoyed the wood cutting > process, it makes a nice 
>change from blacksmithing. > > The gas to cut wood runs about 1/2 gal for 
>a 2 or 3 week supply. Â I cut wood > on my own farm so it is just a couple 
>hundred yards from the house, not much > truck gas there. Â The splitter 
>uses less gas than the chain saw. When > growing up we did all the 
>splitting by hand, dad didn't get a splitter until > my brother and I 
>moved away. Actually my brother and I got the splitter for > him, we were 
>concerned that it was too much work for him. > > Some of the pellet stoves 
>can also burn corn, which would solve some of the > supply problem. Though 
>I don't like the idea of using food for fuel, Â the > ethanol thing has 
>really driven up the cost of corn for annimal feed. >