re: Economical ways to dispose of lots of yard debris?

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but there have got to be 1,000 tools better for cutting down saplings than a hacksaw.

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Yeah I wish I would have researched this before. I’m dead right now.

And there are still a shitload of stumps to dig up.

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This may never come up again, but there have got to be 1,000 tools better for cutting down saplings than a hacksaw.

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Yeah, I didn't get this, either.

A hacksaw technically is a fine-toothed tool for cutting metal, not wood:


I hope he's referring to a bow saw / tree saw, with much larger teeth?



Either way -- yeah, get a small chain saw; even an 8 inch pruning pole will work.

That’s pretty much exactly what I used.

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Get a pocket chain saw and cut everything into small logs and burn it in a fire pit. I cleared a similar amount, and cut the saplings up with a pocket chain saw. I burned it all in a small fire pit over a few weekends.

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This is what I do, with an electric black and decker saw that makes quick work of small stuff like OP is talking about. You'll need to stack and season it for a few months before it will burn good. I have an unfinished basement where I can keep my scraps dry, but I'm about to build a small decorative woodshed by my fire ring. A tarp would also work but isn't decorative.

For the pile I had going, I never thought I'd burn through it all but I just did last week.

Gas and a match.

You are an idiot.

Get a real saw - go to a pawn shop

Yeah but if he has enough for a dumpster rental a $400 chipper will take a weak to do all that.

Op really needs to call his trash service. If he can’t burn, they almost definitely will pick it up.

No need to over think this. What about hauling several loads to the road in a pickup truck. I would even be willing to use my old van even if it took several trips, but you get to save that $400 for a dumpster. Most jobs like this are really not as bad as they seem to be especially doing when the weather is not hot and humid. If you're reasonably near an electrical outlet, buy you a $40 electric chain saw to cut up the bigger stuff or borrow a gas chain saw if electricity not available. People pay big money at a gym to get this sort of workout.

Y'all overthinking this. He's got like 50 5foot saplings. With another dozen twice as long. So little he cut them down with a metal toothed hack saw. If he'd of waited 2 weeks before piling therm up they'd be half as big a pile. Did the same thing in a month ago with an electric chain saw in like 3 hours. One to cut and then two to pick up once they wilted.

Only reason they are a big pile is he put them on top of each other. And if he'd spread them 3 times as wide a 5th of a mile from the road no one would even see them. And then if he just had to, in two months they'd of burn in little of no time at all. ...eta: or a third as much to haul off.