[TheForge] cutting wood

[wmullett at bright.net]

Chips are very wet and they will compost on their own.  In order to use these, you would need to dry them.  Not an easy process and maybe more energy required then what you would get.

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>Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:55:55 -0600
>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of CGRAF <adveniam at att.net>)
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] cutting wood  
>To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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>One other thought on burning chips.
>Two summers ago one of my customers had a large pile of chips delivered 
>on a Monday morning for mulch .
>Thursday about noon I started to smell smoke up on the scaffold.
>By 3 o'clock I was raking a part a very hot pile of chips trying to 
>disperse the heat, and debating calling the fire department.
>
>Mike Graf
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