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<br /> 847 full of logs, it wouldn't break, but those things would go around and instead of sending dump trucks
<br /> 848 everywhere, they could pick up logs. They can even pick up brush. So, in some cases, we might even
<br /> 849 eliminate a chipper on site. That's a big thing in some areas of the country where they just get rid of chippers.
<br /> 850 It's not yet been done here, so we know that our streets won't be able to handle the biggest storm chaser
<br /> 851 trucks that you would see in Florida, but we do think that this is the way to go and what people are gonna want
<br /> 852 more and more as they realize your chippers are way too loud.
<br /> 853
<br /> 854 Adam Beeman: So, if you move down to the truck and load your debris, you're bringing it back to your site
<br /> 855 and shredding it, chipping it, at your site with the debris? I just want to make sure beacuse I understand the
<br /> 856 logs. I get you're gonna pull off good logs and stack them to sell them. I get all that. I'm more interested in
<br /> 857 what happens to the pile of wood chips because there's a house up here off of 86, logging company, that
<br /> 858 they've been dumping wood chips in the yard for probably a good 20 years, and they've raised a grade from
<br /> 859 where it was to 7 feet of wood chips. So, I see the pile, and if we give you the reduction in the buffer, I just
<br /> 860 don't want to envision a 60-foot-tall pile of wood chips because there's nowhere to go with them, and you just
<br /> 861 keep stacking them up. So that's why I'm asking. Like you're coming back to the shop. The guy's got a load
<br /> 862 of stuff, and someone's sitting there actually processing material, taking it off and shredding stuff, or you're not
<br /> 863 gonna be shredding on site? You're just more or less sorting?
<br /> 864
<br /> 865 Craig Nishimoto: Sorting is the key. So, you bring this truck back. Now, we can even do it without that
<br /> 866 truck, but let's imagine the big plan is to have these grapple trucks unload the debris. They're rear mounted,
<br /> 867 so you could take your logs over here, your brush over here, your trash wood over here, and then logs get
<br /> 868 sorted by a loader to wherever they belong. And then if you have brush, then you take a big pile of brush back
<br /> 869 in that and take it out to, for example, Coley Road where they have a green waste processing place.
<br /> 870
<br /> 871 Adam Beeman: So, you're not actually processing the material on site, maybe occasionally, but not—
<br /> 872
<br /> 873 Craig Nishimoto: Yeah, that's not the plan. I noticed that the Planning Department's write-up suggested
<br /> 874 that we would be processing. That's not part of our plan, but it might be a good idea to leave it open as a
<br /> 875 possibility rather than close it off because from these tests, if we put just a little berm, you would not be able to
<br /> 876 hear it anywhere from the residential properties, and the County cannot serve tree services right now. They
<br /> 877 can't take anything over 12 inches in diameter, and I asked those guys, "why don't you change this? You guys
<br /> 878 basically only help landscapers with shrubs. What do we do with this wood?" The only places that are
<br /> 879 operating are way out. They're 150 feet from residential place, and they're having these big horizontal grinders
<br /> 880 there. This is a big problem. It might be nice just to leave that open if we do work later and say, "let's set up a
<br /> 881 horizontal grinder in here." They're probably not as loud as the lightweight chippers that we bring and put in
<br /> 882 somebody's driveway, but then we could help, but that's not part of this plan right now. I would love to leave it
<br /> 883 open because I think it makes a lot of sense as a possibility, but these grinders might cost a million dollars too,
<br /> 884 and we're just not ready to do that. We have no plans to start a mulching operation, but we do things with this
<br /> 885 pile of wood chips. This is biofuel, if we can't do anything else with it. One, if we had a pile and a loader, we
<br /> 886 could give it away, but we'll saturate that market of just giving it away to homeowners or little farms and stuff
<br /> 887 like that. But ultimately, the way to get rid of it may be to put them in tractor trailers and take them up to
<br /> 888 Southern Virginia where they use them as an alternative to coal. It's biofuel.
<br /> 889
<br /> 890 Patrick Mallett: So, we just looked it up and that's expressly prohibited in ASE-CD and in the Rural Buffer.
<br /> 891 So, you can have the wood piles, and I understand the brainstorming pioneering thought.
<br /> 892
<br /> 893 Adam Beeman: So there's no processing allowed.
<br /> 894
<br /> 895 Patrick Mallett: It's black and white. You can stock pile wood chips. It's no grinding. And that's chipping.
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