All kinds of factors influence choices about Christmas trees, from fresh trees’ scent to family traditions, travel plans and the desire to support farmers or buy locally. Regardless of your choice, the key to relieving environmental angst is planning to reuse or recycle your tree. Then you can focus on gifts to put under it.

Key features include a 196cc Kohler SH265 Horizontal engine, two-second cycle time, 32-inch heavy-duty work table that allows rounds and re-splits to be staged on both sides, flush-mounted beam that doesn’t snag when pulling logs back for re-split, and a patent-pending handle that is designed to absorb energy in the event of a stall.

It says a real opportunity exists to reduce the territory’s carbon footprint while keeping the money spent on heat in the local economy.

On the positive side, Christmas trees absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, which helps to offset emissions from operations. Carbon represents about 50 percent of the dry weight of the wood in a tree at harvest. According to recent estimates, Christmas tree-sized conifers store roughly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide in their above-ground tissue and likely store similar amounts below ground in their roots.

                In 2012, Gordon started his mulch business under the name Gordon Johncock Landscape Supply. In 2018, he decided to combine both his businesses (Quigley Lumber and Gordon Johncock Landscape Supply) under a single name: Johncock Forestry Products, Inc.

                In his own words, “hard work and horsepower” are the two passions that have propelled Gordon since he was a boy. Horses and powered equipment – from horses to tractors to Indy cars – have very much been a part of his life. He suggests it’s not unusual that the 4680 would get his attention, given it is a powerful machine – and one that has lived up to his expectations.

Since this is the first Morbark Demo Days after the company acquired Rayco in November 2017, participants were able to see a demonstration of Rayco forestry mulchers and aerial trimmer, and even try their hand at using the equipment. The event culminated today with demonstrations of equipment for the forestry, biomass, recycling and tree care markets. The equipment models demonstrated were:

Obviously, both Malcolm and Hammond live to reprise their roles in the sequel, which was a particular surprise to anyone who had read Michael Crichton’s novel, in which both Malcolm and Hammond die very emphatic deaths. The casting of Goldblum so shook heaven and earth that Crichton brought Malcolm back to life in his sequel novel.

To estimate the total impact of something like a Christmas tree, researchers use a method called life cycle assessment to develop a “cradle to grave” accounting of inputs and outputs required to produce, use and dispose of it. For natural Christmas trees, this covers everything from planting seedlings to harvesting the trees and disposing of them, including equipment use, fertilizer and pesticide applications, and water consumption for irrigation.

A young man was seriously injured Friday morning when he became trapped in a wood chipper while working in a South Yarmouth yard, losing part of his leg, police said.

The men developed some equipment for their firewood business, although initially they had no intention of marketing and selling the machines to other firewood producers. When it came to tinkering with the firewood production equipment, and modifying machines or developing their own, “Matt had all the technical skills,” noted Dubitzky.

"I heard the noise the machine made when the accident happened and I turned and saw him on the ground," Abraham said.