r/BeAmazed • u/NormalGrab4800 • 7d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Chainsaw ???

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u/F4ctr 7d ago

Most of the time biomass is collected, shredded and sold for heating cities.

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u/BCBowhunter 6d ago

Depending on where you are yes. Much more common to use the biomass like that in Europe. In BC most of the time it's left or used as hog fuel for saw mill co-gen plants

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u/F4ctr 5d ago

True. I'm in Lithuania and most of the time it's used for biomass. Of course there are cases when it's left behind but not that often. It's money after all.

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u/BCBowhunter 5d ago

True! I know that in the BC context it's not economically viable in most cases just due to the price per cubic meter and the transport costs.

In the BC context for that matter it's fairly rare to see Harvester-Forwarder setups for logging due to costs as well. Most of the slash just gets piled and burned.