Imaginary Brushwood harvester/ bundler?

[cessna]

Is there a large machine which bundles up brushwood or collects it by a very strong slowly rotating rake say 3mtr wide, with very stong tines/teeth,feeding brushwood and short 3" to 4" diameter branches, in to a chipper which blows the chips /mulch in to a container,which when full would tip sideways onto the ground on a reasonably level site. Chips/ mulch would then be loaded up in to a trailer to be carted to customer that requires the chips/ mulch after drying out,for there biomass boiler. I wonder if the economics would ever stack up if such a machine existed. I ask the question after seeing brushwood just going to rot after large trees have been extracted. Of course as many woods are on steep hillsides my idea would be curtailed in many instances because of the steepness of the ground making it inacsessible for my imaginary machine.

[Arborist]

There was a machine that bailed all the brash after felling.

[Agi-Smash]

I like youre thinking.

However i think practically a gallon of cherry and a pack of swan vestas would be infinitely cheaper and less maintenance

[oldwoodcutter]

I saw a brushwood baler on forestry commission compartments last year,each big bundle was wrapped up with miles of blue string. It was all being stacked rideside,but where it went from there no-one seemed to know.

[hedgesparrow]

depends what wood and how big brash. but could be used for bank restoration eg faggots. all the rage at moment. due to floods.

[ben_inthewoods]

Tilhill are brash bailing for biomass.

[cessna]

Tilhill are brash bailing for biomass.

 

 

 

What machine/how are they baling it? Very interesting concept irrespective of the economics of the concept.

Sadly idealogy and business economics are a distant apart, "UNTIL ENERGY BECOMES SHORT".At the moment we have freedom of choice of energy.

[difflock]

Idea as posted ud be a non-starter due to stumps fouling the pick-up and stones being fed into the chipper.

However at the last APF J Deere had a brash Baler, working on the demo circuit.

An ungainly cumbersome looking machine, from my recall, and fed with a standard grapple on a forestry crane(again from recall)

Marcus

[renewablejohn]

This is the most useful one I have seen

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4dRwZcWjDY

 

Personally I would just stick the brash through my heizohack chipper using my excavator to feed chipper

[cornish wood burner]

This is the most useful one I have seen

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4dRwZcWjDY

 

Personally I would just stick the brash through my heizohack chipper using my excavator to feed chipper

Quality any good for biomass?

I know its a good chipper on normal sized wood but the reason I ask we have received a lot of rubbish chip from brash so wondered what the heizo was like chipping it.