While composting isn’t rocket science, there are some pitfalls that can arise along the way. Monitoring your pile from time to time and adding the right mix of things to it can help prevent many of these issues from happening. Make compost pile maintenance a part of your weekend yard work routine.

When Margaret and Andrew finally reveal their hoax, Grandma Annie falls out with a heart attack and has to be flown to the nearest hospital, because Alaska is a wasteland. But she reveals midflight that the whole thing was a trick to get Andrew and his father Joe (Craig T. Nelson) to stop fighting.

A wood chipper manufacturer has launched a campaign to help the industry prepare for the latest round of Government engine emissions legislation.

Because it was a workplace accident, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ranks tree trimming as one of the top 10 most dangerous jobs.

The men decided in 2014 that they wanted to be working for themselves and launched Automated Biomass Systems. They had used numerous brands of firewood equipment — splitters and processors, noted Dubitzky. “We saw the quality in them and said to ourselves, ‘Okay, maybe there’s room for innovation.’ “

                Twenty-four employees work with Gordon to keep the many components of JFP humming. (Vice President of Finance and Marketing at JFP Valerie Sundberg, was very helpful to us in gathering comments for this article – doing so during the exceptionally busy early March period when mulch production and transport were gearing up to full speed.)

The manufacturer asked commercial firewood producers around the country to test the product and used their feedback to improve the design. Photo: Woods

And they have good reason: Of the 48.5 million Christmas trees Americans purchased in 2017, 45 percent were artificial, and that share is growing. Many factors can influence this choice, but the bottom line is that both real and artificial Christmas trees have negligible environmental impacts. Which option “wins” in terms of carbon footprint depends entirely on assumptions about how long consumers would keep an artificial tree versus how far they would drive each year to purchase a real tree.

Branch and Bark pays them for their time, and eventually this collection of discarded hardwoods—which would have otherwise been destined for the landfill or wood chipper—will be cut, kilned and transformed into flooring, cabinets, countertops, mantels, doors, furniture and other goods.

If I were to customize the hydraulic splitter with a 4 or 5 way head, a simple work table, and a regeneration hydraulic control valve, the output will be increased to where the flywheel splitter would lose the race. Flywheel splitters were patented in the 1920s, maybe earlier. Same basic design with more safety features now.

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“Current diesel wood chippers can be used and traded after the implementation of Stage V in the same way they can be today but new machines will be built with new technology so our industry plays its part in reducing engine emissions in the future.