Storing branch logger nuggets

[Steven P]

Likewise, depends what I get on the drive, I'll cut the thinner bits down (generally 1") to 3 or 4" lengths, great firewood, burns quick and hot s you'd expect for the cold days, have to fill the fire more often as you'd expect but it does go well.... reminds me, when I get the barrow fixed, got most of a tree to do that to.

 

(I don't have a branch logger, tend to use the biggest Fiskars loppers, far quicker than the axe I was using before)

[green heart]

19 hours ago, spandit said:

My branch logger can discharge into plastic nets but they tend to disintegrate and leave plastic everywhere so looking for better storage ideas. Managed to acquire a load of coffee sacks so filled them with the hope they'll let the nuggets dry. Any other ideas? They're pretty heavy to handle but my hope is that by the time they dry, the weight should be far more manageable. Can't wait to burn the damn things 🤪

 

How about something like this, from the Forest Master stand at the last APF show ?

Seemed like they were made from a more durable nylon-type weave, but perhaps check with the agents ?

At £2/100 No. bags, up to £5- per net bag, not as cheap a solution as the old carrot bags..

 

Also, have you experimented to see if there's some easy and simple way to bag/collect just the 'woody' part of the output, leaving most of the twigs for er, 'habitat piles ' ?

 

Edited February 23 by green heart
Corrected bag costs..

[Stere]

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The bits I'd had in a builder's bag were mouldy. I'm trying to refrain from chopping any more and letting the sticks dry before putting them through after the summer.

 

 

Suppose ideally you want stuff like this to chop with most leaves removed so doesn't get to  mouldy.

 

 

 

Hazel would be  a goood material as, esp if from a dense coppice stand  tops are a minimal % to begin with...

 

 

Id think dry wood is bad/harder on blades V green.

 

Stuff in video looks like it might be coppiced hornbeam?

Edited February 23 by Stere

[AHPP]

It doesn't flow from a scuttle, it doesn't shovel, it doesn't come out of net bags.

[spandit]

8 hours ago, green heart said:

,have you experimented to see if there's some easy and simple way to bag/collect just the 'woody' part of the output, leaving most of the twigs for er, 'habitat piles ' ?

 

Separate it beforehand and put the brash and the good stuff through separately.

 

 

[david lawrence]

I use a plastic grain shovel works fine

 

[AHPP]

2 minutes ago, david lawrence said:

I use a plastic grain shovel works fine

 

Does it get it through the door of a Rayburn?

[spandit]

8 hours ago, Stere said:

 

 

Suppose ideally you want stuff like this to chop with most leaves removed so doesn't get to  mouldy.

 

Hazel would be  a goood material as, esp if from a dense coppice stand  tops are a minimal % to begin with...

 

All of mine was missing leaves but a lot of it is willow so fairly wet. I've put a bit of hazel through

[david lawrence]

Obvs not. It’s for stoking our gasify boiler or filling up buckets for the house 

[AHPP]

Yeah. That’s what I was getting at. They work with rougher, bulkier, more agricultural systems. Otherwise fiddly.