PCTREE
Treehouser
Ive been relaxing here at my house, all alone which is rare for me. Just started thinking about how I miss tinkering with projects to make them work. For me I became disenfranchised with the retail industry. I for one cannot afford the time nor money to do all the R&D on more products which would be doomed to fail because I can't market them. So heres my idea, have no idea how it would work, how about if we do an open source collaborative among many innovators and business owners who have a common goal which would be developing a tool to improve WORKERS lives in the tree world.
Since this would be an open venue it is public info. so no patents issues. We could all float ideas and see which would garner more interest then select one participant to undertake the project. Others could help in any way they feel, monetary, knowledge, labor or whatever. EVERYBODY gets to watch the progress and the frig ups and learn from it.
I have 2 main projects right now in mind, well 3 but one isn't tree related.
1 an industrial sized wood waste incinerator that turns wood chips into biochar with some of the released heat. The incinerator would be of a design as to be clean burning enough to meet current EPA standards and be capable of processing 20' logs . I have absolutely no idea how much char it could produce but the fact that it is disposing of wood waste "ONSITE" with minimal fuel (estimate 10 gallons diesel for 80 tons wood). Compared to what our area does which is grind it and make mulch which will release all its heat and CO2 in about 2 years plus the copious amount of diesel used to move it to dump, grind it then deliver mulch. So far we are ahead by a lot of diesel but then you add in that you can sequester a measurable % of the carbon from the tree. We might even be able to get tree removal a positive in the fight against global warming. We wouldn't get stink eye from the prius drivers.
Wild estimate to get a prototype running would be $20k but thats only allowing about $8k for the refractory lining.
2 wood processor that could be fed up to a 36" log and would split it by the time the worker cut the next round with a husky 395 and loaded it in top with a branch manager grapple. Very sparse design trying to keep cost to below $10k
To be clear these prices will only be attainable by being a cheap bastard and re-using many components that will be selected with time tested proof of durability. Basic redneck ingenuity that hopefully the suits cant steal.
We have a lot of good brains in our industry so lets put em together to make a positive effect
Since this would be an open venue it is public info. so no patents issues. We could all float ideas and see which would garner more interest then select one participant to undertake the project. Others could help in any way they feel, monetary, knowledge, labor or whatever. EVERYBODY gets to watch the progress and the frig ups and learn from it.
I have 2 main projects right now in mind, well 3 but one isn't tree related.
1 an industrial sized wood waste incinerator that turns wood chips into biochar with some of the released heat. The incinerator would be of a design as to be clean burning enough to meet current EPA standards and be capable of processing 20' logs . I have absolutely no idea how much char it could produce but the fact that it is disposing of wood waste "ONSITE" with minimal fuel (estimate 10 gallons diesel for 80 tons wood). Compared to what our area does which is grind it and make mulch which will release all its heat and CO2 in about 2 years plus the copious amount of diesel used to move it to dump, grind it then deliver mulch. So far we are ahead by a lot of diesel but then you add in that you can sequester a measurable % of the carbon from the tree. We might even be able to get tree removal a positive in the fight against global warming. We wouldn't get stink eye from the prius drivers.
Wild estimate to get a prototype running would be $20k but thats only allowing about $8k for the refractory lining.
2 wood processor that could be fed up to a 36" log and would split it by the time the worker cut the next round with a husky 395 and loaded it in top with a branch manager grapple. Very sparse design trying to keep cost to below $10k
To be clear these prices will only be attainable by being a cheap bastard and re-using many components that will be selected with time tested proof of durability. Basic redneck ingenuity that hopefully the suits cant steal.
We have a lot of good brains in our industry so lets put em together to make a positive effect
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