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Started by Holmes, May 19, 2012, 07:25:49 PM

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Holmes

 The forester marked and tallied trees on a 75 acre lot totaling 154MBF of mixed saw logs, 400 cords of wood and 300 tons of volume. They are 2/3 thru the job of whole tree chipping and harvesting and the totals are 106 MBF harvested and 4,440 tons of chips delivered to the electric plant. The totals show that for every 1,000 bf harvested there is 41.9 tons of wood chips generated.   I know this applies only for this area and this piece of land but it gives an idea of how many tons of chips are generated by a harvest on land that was last harvested 75 years ago.
Think like a farmer.

lumberjack48

So for about every 2.5 cords of saw bolts, theres 17.5 cords of pulpwood. If i have it right thats pretty poor stand of timber.

I know if there chipping the tops to this would be way off.
Third generation logger, owner operator, 30 yrs felling experience with pole skidder. I got my neck broke back in 89, left me a quad. The wife kept the job going up to 96.

Holmes

  It is whole tree chipping
Think like a farmer.

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