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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 7199062" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>I came to exactly the opposite conclusion, that getting rid of significant amounts of brushwood is far easier by pushing it up and burning it, than trying to chip it. I had large amounts of brushwood to dispose of from lowering overgrown hedges, and bought a chipper as I thought that would be the best way. One winter of that soon disabused me of it - you burn far more diesel running a chipper than you ever do lighting even a series of bonfires, especially if you leave the brushwood until the spring to burn it, so it lights easily. Which has the added advantage of the ground being drier then too. Thats also an issue for chipping - driving back and forward to the same spots day after day ends up making a right mess if you have a wet winter. Obviously if you have lovely dry Cotswold ground thats not so much of an issue, but on my place all I did was make muddy tracks. </p><p></p><p>If you have a telehandler I'd buy a big hardox tined muck grab with a top grapple and use that to collect up all the brushwood in one fell swoop in the spring and with the help of a few litres of cherry dispose of the lot neatly. Its also far quicker - I can clear hundreds of metres of hedge toppings with the telehandler and grab in a morning that would take days of the tractor running the chipper. The top grapple is crucial though, a muck fork without one can only shift a fraction of what one with can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 7199062, member: 818"] I came to exactly the opposite conclusion, that getting rid of significant amounts of brushwood is far easier by pushing it up and burning it, than trying to chip it. I had large amounts of brushwood to dispose of from lowering overgrown hedges, and bought a chipper as I thought that would be the best way. One winter of that soon disabused me of it - you burn far more diesel running a chipper than you ever do lighting even a series of bonfires, especially if you leave the brushwood until the spring to burn it, so it lights easily. Which has the added advantage of the ground being drier then too. Thats also an issue for chipping - driving back and forward to the same spots day after day ends up making a right mess if you have a wet winter. Obviously if you have lovely dry Cotswold ground thats not so much of an issue, but on my place all I did was make muddy tracks. If you have a telehandler I'd buy a big hardox tined muck grab with a top grapple and use that to collect up all the brushwood in one fell swoop in the spring and with the help of a few litres of cherry dispose of the lot neatly. Its also far quicker - I can clear hundreds of metres of hedge toppings with the telehandler and grab in a morning that would take days of the tractor running the chipper. The top grapple is crucial though, a muck fork without one can only shift a fraction of what one with can. [/QUOTE]
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