i put new brake pads and rotors on the front seat of the crown vic today. does that count as being almost the same thing??

 

Tom if you were trying to get permits for a decent wood grinding operation how many yards raw/finished material would you say is reasonable to have?

There's different permits here for different amounts. I believe the lowest is 2,000 yards raw material and 1,000 yards finished product. I'd think 5,000 yards raw and 2,000 finished would be more appropriate, but I don't know for sure.

We are in the process of acquiring the lot I mentioned previously. It's 14 acres in total with probably 7-10 useable acres. The other 4-7 would be wetlands. Our biggest challenge will be getting a permit to put in a driveway because the good land is in back and the frontage is all wetlands. The old service road it's on was built in the middle of wetlands.

The site in itself isn't ideal, but the location of the site is incredible. It's in the middle of nowhere, but in the middle of everything.

The road it is on is basically abandoned, but it's a 30' wide road. Municipality neither mows the roadsides nor plows the snow. When you get off that road, however, it is maybe 50 feet to the ramps to get on and off the interstate and maybe a half mile to the middle of town. So it's easy to find from the interstate, but not visible unless you go WAY down an abandoned road.

 

5 and 2 is a good start Pete. can you upgrade the permits once you get going??

figure that is 250 tandem loads or 200 tri-axles of raw,
and 100 tandem or 80 tri-axles of processed.
if you can not upgrade once you get going, i would just bite the bullet and apply for permits for 10,000 raw and 5,000 processed.
it is better to be permitted for more than you can handle and not have inspection problems, than it is to be permitted for less than you have on site.

 

Yes we can upgrade as we go.

It is a major PITA, but it would allow us to get our foot in the door so to speak.

We're not going by triaxles here though. We're going by walking floor trailer. That's 100 yards at a time. So we could only have 10 truckloads of finished material on-site at any given point then.

I don't foresee any major issues with going over permitted amounts as long as it's not by a lot. Ie: If we were permitted for 1k yards go to 1.5k yards. Just so long as you're not going to 5k yards on a 1k yard permit. They don't really do a ton of inspections around here.

Our plan is this: There is a lot of wood waste coming from the southwest corner of the state. Currently it gets hauled all the way to the northeast corner of the state. That's probably 2-3 hours one way. We figure if the companies in the northeast part of the state are charging 500$ a load for disposal (dunno what it costs just throwing out numbers) we can probably get $600 a load due to the closer proximity to the source of the material. We are probably 1-2 hours from the material's source of origin. Figure the driver's time has got to be costing a company upwards of $50 an hour plus fuel and they're not making anything hauling further so bring it to us.

Then we grind it all up and color it and resell it as mulch. We take in a lot of pallet wood so we figure we'd just end up with 2 or 3 grades of mulch. Low grade being pallet wood. A mid-grade being recycled wood and a premium grade being virgin wood off clearing projects and such.

We visited an operation in upstate NY and he was selling mulch wholesale for like $32/yard and buying chips for $5/yard. In his yard he had 2 tub grinders and a few coloring units. They took the chips that came in and put them through the grinder then the coloring units.

Seems to me that getting and holding permits is the biggest hassle/cost of the entire operation.

 

Heya all. Im actually heading to a bbq in teh area, they have lamb that has been marinated for 3 days, dunno how that is gonna be but I figure ill give it a shot!

 

Howdy yall!

Just got off work jumping in the shower and then going to get my hairs cut.

Then tomorrow its off to the Rodeo VIP status!

 

hey y'all. Next week is gonna be fun, there is a farm show in my county and I am helping out at it on wednesday and seeing it all on thursday.

 

Sounds like fun, Jake. I'm spending my week trying to figure out why my truck wants me to spend all my money on it.

Although I think part of that problem could be that my truck may be female. Not sure though.

 

Yup i will try to get pics for you all.

hahahaha lmao at you and your truck.

 

This is the truth right here.
I pay more, MUCH more in taxes than I do in shop rent.

 

Got the brakes and bearings done on the trailer, more of an ordeal than I needed for a Saturday.

How is everyone else? It is pretty quiet here.

 

headed out to the dog park and just as I got there a nasty dust storm hit...we sat in the truck for 15 minutes waiting for it to pass.then just at sunset there was a rainbow!

lots of lightning to the east but no rain again tonite!

hey all!!

 

i don't think that Pete, i know it for a fact!!

 

Morning everyone, slow in here lately!

So I went to a BBQ last night, and what do ya know, but just about got in a fight with some guy I dont know!
Story is I seen him and his buddy driving through someone elses field chasing game awhile ago, went and chased them down, found out they werent technically doing anything wrong, and someone called the conservation officers on them, and the guy thought it was me.
I was trying to keep my cool because it was a community event, and there were lots of people around that I didnt know, and the last thing I wanted to be known as is the guy trying to get a excavating business going, that goes and beats the hell outta the locals haha.

 

Only 6 posts since my last one? Where'd everyone go?