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Now that there is all this downed wood, how is it going to be disposed of? Are dump fees waived on wood disposal? Has the mayor considered asking lumber manufacturing companies to buy the wood for process into chip board plywood (OSB) or some use? Barging to another buyer of chip wood?
Just curious as to where it is all going to go.
If there was a place to chip and store, it would make a great mulch soil source, but I think there is more wood than one can handle.
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Lets make SURFBOARDS (actually had read in the Trib. Herald that Young albizia boards are superior...Lets make it a REQUIREMENT for shapers here to use it up!
OK. the above is mostly tongue n check...but it is being hauled & chipped right now - some of the downed papaya fields have already been bulldozed & getting a chipped mulch cover (the fields cannot be immediately replanted as are now ripe for diseases, so the bulldoze & mulch helps get them back into production
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Ohia, once it has dried, could be used as planks for flooring, other hardwood applications, and the Albizia for surfboards, canoes, and other moderate to soft density use. Mulch is definitely more topsoil, which all could use, and could use the scrap, or wood too small to mill to create it. Good the process has started.
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TinK, I am prenty sure all is heading to the chipper, it is all so tangled up that to sort would be another major undertaking...and it is getting mulchhed & spread right now...with soo many tree farm acres that will need to get plowed & restarted, that is probably the best use in place for most of the downed wood
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according to the Civil Defense spots on the radio, dump fees are waived for debris from the hurricane (household waste is always free)
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Was just thinking of landfill alternatives for all the wood debris generated by the storm. Seem to have quite bit of it. Should have bought land with a lava cone and fill it full of chip and soil and fertilizers and let it cook, then dig it up and sell the stuff.
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Apparently albezia seeds survive the chipping process, so if used as mulch....
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Great. The gift that keeps on giving...
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All this wood and no woodstove or fireplace... Volcano peeps could come down and load up!!
