Laurel - Cut & Chip or Cut & Burn ???

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Got a few hectares to clear; personally hate burning but interested in other opinions and thoughts. On a mild to moderate gradient, all 4" wood plus brash, might keep the bigger wood... (another thread on that!).

 

1) Tracked 10" chipper, can squirt the chip anywhere, working behind cutters, or

 

2) Swing shovel with grab - burn piles within exisiting canopy (so have to be small fires)

Edited July 25, 2011 by TimberCutterDartmoor

[sean]

look and leave:001_smile:

[Steve Bullman]

hate chipping laurel, it give me a headache. Whats the site like you're planning to burn on...beware if you havent burned laurel before, it sends up thick white clouds of smoke

[RobArb]

lovely smell of almonds though:001_rolleyes:

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

hate chipping laurel, it give me a headache. Whats the site like you're planning to burn on...beware if you havent burned laurel before, it sends up thick white clouds of smoke

 

Yep not crazy about the smell but doesn't seem to cause me any physiological problems like headaches. Just cleared 400 ton of the stuff and they were so impressed they've offered me another shed-load of it on another site! Typical.

[David Goss]

lovely smell of almonds though:001_rolleyes:

 

that lovely smell is actually cyanide, nasty stuff laurel:thumbdown:

I would say chip it.

[RobArb]

i know, hence the rolling of the eyes:lol:

 

sorry david, couldn't resist:blush:

[David Goss]

i know, hence the rolling of the eyes:lol:

 

sorry david, couldn't resist:blush:

 

Doh! i should have spotted that:blushing:

[Steve Bullman]

always reminds me more of marzipan(which i hate)

[RobArb]

thought marzipan and almonds smelled the same myself

 

i'll go see whats in the cupboard!