Chip volume.

[colwoodlandcare]

Is there a website I can use for working out the approx volume of wood chip, if I enter the length and diameter at the base of the tree will it work out roughly the taper on the trunk?

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

I doubt it, so many variables, although you never know. Chip size can dictate volume, big chip=more space (or maybe the other way round)

[Mygalomorph]

I normally use a booklet with either mid- or chest diameter and length and then just read out the volume of mass in the trunk, if it's supposed to be chippen, i then multiply it with 2.6.

So 1000 cubicmeters solid wood turns into 2600 m3 chips

I also use Aktuelles von forst-rast.de • Informationen aus der Forst- und Jagdwirtschaft but it's only in German but I read it

[Mick Dempsey]

Well there you go!

 

Learn something everyday.

 

Multiply by 2.6

Edited December 22, 2016 by Mick Dempsey

[openspaceman]

Is there a website I can use for working out the approx volume of wood chip, if I enter the length and diameter at the base of the tree will it work out roughly the taper on the trunk?

 

 

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I don't know about a website but it would depend on whether open or forest grown. There are tables for single forest tree volumes.

 

For a forest tree as a rough Idea you could estimate the height of the main stem and half it.

 

Take the diameter at 1.5 metres and then allow a 1 in 100 taper to the half height, calculate the volume of stem using the half height and diameter you have calculated at this height. Add 25% for branch wood. Allow about 2.75m3 of chip for every m3 of solid timber.

[Ilnumero]

There is a timber volume calculator here:-

 

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiX0LWpw4jRAhVrKsAKHZ2EAqsQFggjMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forestry.gov.uk%2Fpdf%2Ftimbervolume.pdf%2F%24FILE%2Ftimbervolume.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEQ3hNhQ7q2eqJ4239qk6syHEjEiQ

 

Sorry, can't seem to get this as a link, just copy and paste.

 

You could use this to come up with a fairly accurate estimation of the tree volume, then multiply by 2.6 as mentioned earlier.

[colwoodlandcare]

Thanks guys. That gives me a good enough estimate of volume.

 

 

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