Brushwood chipping - minimum amount?

Goweresque · Feb 13, 2016

How much brushwood would you have to have before someone would be prepared to come in, chip it and take it away without payment? I'm generating some serious amount of wood at the moment topping out hedges with my tree shear, I've done about 1000m worth already, and hope to have another 500m+ by the end of the month. If I managed to get it all into one location with the telehandler and muckfork would someone be prepared to bring a chipper in and clear the lot? Later in the spring obviously when the ground is drier. Or is it @Thick Farmer and his swan vestas?

rob1 · Feb 13, 2016

try this chap, he has a chipper and is in trowbridge, he is looking for some to make fuel out of. Jason 07889618879.

Goweresque · Feb 13, 2016

rob1 said:
try this chap, he has a chipper and is in trowbridge, he is looking for some to make fuel out of. Jason 07889618879.

Ah, thanks. When I've got to the end of the month and know what I've got I give him a ring.

kill · Feb 13, 2016

If you're chipping for a burner you would be best leaving it till the autumn and then the very small twigs will probably break up to save to much poor quality chip and it may well be better seasoned

Chuckie · Feb 14, 2016

Goweresque said:
How much brushwood would you have to have before someone would be prepared to come in, chip it and take it away without payment? I'm generating some serious amount of wood at the moment topping out hedges with my tree shear, I've done about 1000m worth already, and hope to have another 500m+ by the end of the month. If I managed to get it all into one location with the telehandler and muckfork would someone be prepared to bring a chipper in and clear the lot? Later in the spring obviously when the ground is drier. Or is it @Thick Farmer and his swan vestas?

Can't help with your question, but was just wondering what height you cut the hedges down to? Fence height or below?

Goweresque · Feb 14, 2016

Chuckie said:
Can't help with your question, but was just wondering what height you cut the hedges down to? Fence height or below?

About head height I guess, sometimes a bit lower. I'm aiming for a hedge about 8' tall eventually, so cutting a bit lower to start with gives it some room to bush out a bit before coming back to tidy it up with the flail in 2-3 years time. This is only the 2nd winter I've had the shear, so only got what I did last year to go by, but on that evidence the method seems to be working well. The shear makes a cleaner cut than a flail and the plants seem to grow back quicker and bushier.

DGC1 · Feb 14, 2016

Goweresque said:
How much brushwood would you have to have before someone would be prepared to come in, chip it and take it away without payment? I'm generating some serious amount of wood at the moment topping out hedges with my tree shear, I've done about 1000m worth already, and hope to have another 500m+ by the end of the month. If I managed to get it all into one location with the telehandler and muckfork would someone be prepared to bring a chipper in and clear the lot? Later in the spring obviously when the ground is drier. Or is it @Thick Farmer and his swan vestas?

if you are near to a plant that takes g80 chip then it would be fairly easy to get someone in that would contract chip it and take it away
should return some cash to you.
the further away you get from the right buyer then it becomes a waste of time
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impossible to make good g30 chip from this sort of stuff and it would need to go over a drying floor so my advice would be stick to the bulk g80 market or as you say match

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