HD21B PUSHING WOOD WASTE COMPOST
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Topic: HD21B PUSHING WOOD WASTE COMPOST
Posted By: AC Mel
Subject: HD21B PUSHING WOOD WASTE COMPOST
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2022 at 12:07pm
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Ok...over the last 5 years we've accumulated pretty large pile of chippings from PG&E utility contractors doing post wildfire cleanup. As many of you know all of our property and everything around us for many miles burned. Our original thought was to help our friends and neighbors with a central location to dispose of the chips.....we had the room...and thought it wouldn't be much of a problem. Well enter year 5 and we haven't done anything but continue to grow the pile.....so now we've taken on the "composting attitude" noticing that some of the oldest stuff has begin to break down pretty well.  So a little research on composting indicates it needs to be stirred up occasionally...needs water. Last summer was a drought...we had no extra water to use for this.....was hoping it wouldn't catch on fire too. We feel we can use all of this material on our own property...for our gravel plant reclamation plan...converting back into cow pasture. So along those lines we've had right at 20'' of rain this year so far.(normal for the year should be 40")....last year we had a total of 14"...So we've been trying to stir it around every time we can after some rain  So...our theory is "big compost piles need big tractors" LOL This should be the you tube link for more https://youtu.be/mil2BvXVhFg" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/mil2BvXVhFg
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2022 at 2:43pm
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I take all the wood chips I can get to mulch my flower beds. I like the looks better than fine ground mulch and I don't have to remulch near as often. My son got me 5 loads this past year about 20 yards to a load so it should last a while.
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Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2022 at 6:33pm
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If you can get some manure to mix up in it, the composting rate will pick up a lot. I really think you need a bigger dozer though...LOL Is that HD 41 still available in the SF area? |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2022 at 8:02am
I love it!  In the mid-1970's my Dad leased some property to an unscrupulous sawmill operator who left a LARGE pile of cedar waste, mostly sawdust with lots of trim ends mixed in. The pile was about 40' tall and covered several acres. In the spring of 1980 I came home when my four year hitch in the Marines was over; shortly after that the sawdust pile caught fire. The Idaho State Fire Marshal paid us a visit and politely informed us that if we couldn't put out the fire, they would, and we would be billed for the expenses. The economy was really down in 1980 and we were unemployed, so we set to work. I ran my Dad's old D2 Cat and started pushing burning sawdust out while my Dad sprayed it down with a firehose. The sawmill owner had drilled a pretty good well, and thankfully he couldn't take it with him when he fled the country. That little D2 had an 8' blade on it, and sawdust being pretty light I could push a pretty big load out after I established a trench to push through. We spent the better part of that summer getting that fire put out, but we eventually won the battle. An HD 21 would have been mighty handy on that job! |