Sounds wonderful. No rain here for months so the wood isn't wet enough to rot and there's no grass to cut so it would probably take far too long to work here but I will be keeping a wood pile for critters so it won't all just get burned.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I have exactly the same problem as the OP and I have not come to a good solution. stacking it to rot doesn't work when you have two overgrown acres, the stack quickly becomes the size of the house.
I end up burning mine. Woodchips here are used as fuel for the town heating so no getting them free, infact they are horrifically expensive to buy at all!
Now if someone could recommend a chipper that does up to 5cm that would be great, anything larger gets cut for firewood anyway.
Doesn't 'importing' woodchip bring a risk of things like honey fungus with it? I'd go with the wildlife log pile option or use the logs for firewood and add the ash to the compost. Woodchip will slow your compost right down and mean you have to have more heaps/bins to deal with the minimum 2 year compost time to deal with it.
@ZeroZero1 ,Mine comes from local tree surgeons who would otherwise have to pay to dump it as "waste" . @wild edges ,At this time of year there's enough foliage in the mix to break down very quickly, very quickly. It's steaming when it's dumped from the van if it's been on there overnight! ( the perfect mix of brown and green ) In winter when it's more likely to be just "wood" chippings I layer it up in "dumpy sacks" with grass clippings and they take less than a year to break down. I've already got honey fungus in the garden so no problem with the risk of introducing more.
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@wild edges ,At this time of year there's enough foliage in the mix to break down very quickly, very quickly. It's steaming when it's dumped from the van if it's been on there overnight! ( the perfect mix of brown and green )
In winter when it's more likely to be just "wood" chippings I layer it up in "dumpy sacks" with grass clippings and they take less than a year to break down. I've already got honey fungus in the garden so no problem with the risk of introducing more.