we are grinding more trees at oran park, will be around 3000 cubic metres of mulch. the clearing was done by the civil contractor, around 50 or 60 triaxle loads of logs went to a sawmill and for firewood, we sheared and ground the rest.
trees how many trees did you take down in all? Did you burn any of the scraps, or how did you get it all out of there? When they trucked it out, did they recycle the wood or did it go to the dumps? did the greenies give you guys a hard time about this at all?
can we see the shear?!?!
we did not do the clearing, the company doing the earthworks/subdivision knocked over the trees and hauled it all to an area away from the earthworks, there were a lot of trees, after the logs went to the sawmill the rest of it covered an area of around 5 acres, no burning allowed here,huge fines for burning. the only stuff trucked out were the logs to a sawmill and the rest of the logs trucked out were taken by a firewood guy. the mulch left will be used on site. no trouble with greenies, the subdivision is approved and the clearing approved with the subdivision.
Hay Pete it funny that Tony the owner of Oran Park does not take the mulch as he does or did own a company that made organic soil's
the first lot we ground they used all the mulch for landscaping in the upgrade of cobbity rd which runs past the subdivision and i guess they will use all the much from the last job in landscaping for the subdivision, you are a little off with organic soils, the company you are thinking of is organic fertilizers which cleans out the litter/fowl manure from chook sheds after the chicken farmer has raised a batch of chooks, they then spread this on farmland as fertilizer.
Good job Pete im a tree contractor in Vic ive bookmarked your site!Hope to get a job to use you on. Jason
thanks jason, where in Vic are you ?
Drouin http://www.drouintreeservices.com.au/
had a look at your website, looks good, read the post on the tree site about the guy who got sucked in to a chipper, a gruesome way to go, i see you are near korumburra, i have a mate who lives there, terry wyhoon. i like the countryside there.
Ok thanks for info,
Hey Aus Pete is that your rig in the ad for Gulf Western Oil with Ray Hadley in it I saw on the idiot box the other day?
it is mate, the ad was taped at a dairy farm at luddenham. NSW..
Cool, thought it might've been. The dairy farm location might explain all the flies hanging around the JD tractor too! . I wonder what the correlation is between radio folk and oil, it seems to be in the same vein as John Laws and 'You know what I mean' in getting a radio bloke as a spokesperson...always reckoned Lawsy might've had a nip of XLD every so often to keep the vocal chords nice and smooth!!:bouncegri
i guess no real connection other than ray hadley has a high profile and he is an honest straight talking guy, much kike lawsy.
Hey Australian pete do you do contracting around the canberra area and if you do could you tell me next time when your in the area so i could have a look at your operations Diggerdude
did a job there about 18 months ago, mostly clear suddivisions in sydney metro area.
Thanks for the information
well pete the time has come, the last of the trees can go the gates are now closed sad to see Oran park go,