Chainsaw chipping?

LordFarkwad

LordFarkwad

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Can I turn a pile of deadwood, brush, and random small limbs that have ended up in my yard into mulch-quality chips with a chainsaw? I heard second of people doing this by tying the sticks into tight bundles and going to it with a saw, but I've never seen that done, and don't know exactly how that would work out.

Yea/nay?
 
LordFarkwad said:
Can I turn a pile of deadwood, brush, and random small limbs that have ended up in my yard into mulch-quality chips with a chainsaw? I heard second of people doing this by tying the sticks into tight bundles and going to it with a saw, but I've never seen that done, and don't know exactly how that would work out.
Yea/nay?
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I'd say NO !
The amount of bar oil that would be in that small quantity of chips would be unacceptable for plants.
 
Wait till they are dry and brittle, stomp on them a bunch, drive over it with a truck or tractor, turn with a pitchfork, throw your dogs ball into it and have him jump in it over and over, wait a month and repeat one or more times. These are the kinds of things we will be doing more of in quarantine with too much time and not enough money.

Last weekend for the first time in my life, I asked a client if I could haul long skinny limbs from a maple removal so I could add to a long waddle fence I’m working on (branches woven in between posts).
 
LordFarkwad said:
Can I turn a pile of deadwood, brush, and random small limbs that have ended up in my yard into mulch-quality chips with a chainsaw? I heard second of people doing this by tying the sticks into tight bundles and going to it with a saw, but I've never seen that done, and don't know exactly how that would work out.

Yea/nay?
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I’d say no for all the reasons mentioned. You’d most likely be ahead if you rented a small chipper for the day. In my neck of the woods a 6” Vermeer is 175 for 24 hours. Of course 175 will buy you 6 large scoops of mulch. You just want to get rid of the brush or do you need the mulch?
 
B_Strange said:
I’d say no for all the reasons mentioned. You’d most likely be ahead if you rented a small chipper for the day. In my neck of the woods a 6” Vermeer is 175 for 24 hours. Of course 175 will buy you 6 large scoops of mulch. You just want to get rid of the brush or do you need the mulch?
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Need to find a place to rent a small chipper. Wanted to mulch around a small tree up front with grass around it at the moment. I just have a big pile of brush that could become mulch or kindling.

Chipping would be fun for my son (5yrs) and I, too xD
 
LordFarkwad said:
Need to find a place to rent a small chipper. Wanted to mulch around a small tree up front with grass around it at the moment. I just have a big pile of brush that could become mulch or kindling.
Chipping would be fun for my son (5yrs) and I, too xD
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Just FYI
Small home owner chippers are surprising useless.
A 2" branch will take a surprisingly long time to chip.
Chippers are dangerous; and very loud. (you & son should be wearing ear muffs, or properly inserted ear plugs)

Buy some chips.
Use composed chips for the first application, if you can find them.
They don't take up as much Nitrogen as green chips as they decompose.
 
It would be more fun to pay someone to kick you in the balls. I bet if you ask around you'll have a friend or relative who has a little cheapie TroyBilt or Craftsman chipper that would do most of the work for free or a 12-pack in return. The smaller the chipper the better if you're going to have a 5-year old involved too.
 
Chainsaw chip away! Just have to go at it a few times. roll it along and condense like your rollin up a big fat joint.
Cut cut cut, roll and condense and turn over and cut cut cut and again and again.
Just need a good heavy duty tarp and friend to get high with errr get the pile down to manageable
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Wow I'd just burn the brush and take a couple 5 gal buckets or a small trashcan to a guy chippin ask him to give ya a couple buckets full when they are done for the day and just leave em somewhere you can pick it up the next day. Most everybody I know wouldn't mind and would even be happy helpin ya out, just don't ask em when they're chippin. I always hated it when people came walkin up to a machine that was absolutely screamin and tried to talk to ya.
 
The moment I hear 5 year old and chipper I am drawn to the tree biz owner that lost his kid one easter school holidays about 6 years back. I would have my wife hold my child while running that chipper. He can watch at a safe distance. I repeat no one under 18 years should be near a chipper. It makes a chainsaw look like a toothbrush. Seen to many pictures of humans dying in chippers. Stark reality. Had to bring it up.
 
GregManning said:
Just FYI
Small home owner chippers are surprising useless.
A 2" branch will take a surprisingly long time to chip.
Chippers are dangerous; and very loud. (you & son should be wearing ear muffs, or properly inserted ear plugs)

Buy some chips.
Use composed chips for the first application, if you can find them.
They don't take up as much Nitrogen as green chips as they decompose.
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Ha! I don't mow without earmuffs - already lost enough hearing to guns and drums! We covered (y)
 
swingdude said:
Did not think so. The kid that died was not either. He was dragging brush. His dad got distracted. He mimmicked the father and got grabbed.
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Nah man, that's the kind of thing that I imagine (getting distracted, realizing something's gone wrong, hearing the chipper choke down, hearing his little screams, seeing the terrified and helpless look on his face, etc., etc.), and I gotta snap myself out of it - helps me be a little more conservative on the safety.

Nothing like wishing you could take a quarter second back for the rest of your life.
 
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