Interesting study

[Tuckervill]

re the chipper/shredder. I have a pecan grove (7 trees) and various oaks and pines, etc. We pick up a lot of fallen limbs. We made a cage for them near the fence with old fencing and we just pile them up high for a period of time (1-2 years). While it's building up, it provides a wonderful habitat for birds and furry animals (we've seen bunnies). Every so often we rent a chipper (about $100 for a weekend) and chip it all up and use it for mulch. We get about two years of mulch out of one weekend's worth of chipping.

So if you didn't want to invest in a chipper, this could be the way to go.

Karen

[GLC1968]

re the chipper/shredder. I have a pecan grove (7 trees) and various oaks and pines, etc. We pick up a lot of fallen limbs. We made a cage for them near the fence with old fencing and we just pile them up high for a period of time (1-2 years). While it's building up, it provides a wonderful habitat for birds and furry animals (we've seen bunnies). Every so often we rent a chipper (about $100 for a weekend) and chip it all up and use it for mulch. We get about two years of mulch out of one weekend's worth of chipping.

So if you didn't want to invest in a chipper, this could be the way to go.

Karen

That's a really good idea - particularly if you have space to pile the stuff out of your way. We might have to do this with our next major pruning project. One little house only needs so much kindling!

[tulip]

I have started a kindling collection from the branches that my oak trees shed. I'll use it in my wood stove in the winter, along with logs and perhaps even coal. There's a dead city tree that I pass by on my walks--I wonder if I could get the logs when they cut it down (it as a big orange X on it, so I assume it's on the list). I live in the city, but I do have a nice big compost area in my back yard, and I really enjoy all that work, especially in the crisp, fall weather.

My vegetable garden is pretty small this year, but I hope it will be bigger and more productive next year. I use all that composted leaf mulch on my perennials, too, of which I have many.

[smilingcat]

Hi Oakleaf,

Shipping from Amazon is $0 if you choose super saver shipping.

here it is

shredder/chipper

It also shreds leaves.

Wow.. I didn't realize so many of you were interested in such things. Maybe I'm not so far out there afterall. I feel better.