Chipping Decking Boards for Garden Mulch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, I show you how I chip up old decking boards to use in the garden and also use my Hansa chipper mulcher to chip/mulch fruit trees on our homestead property.
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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)
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We replaced our roof a few years ago - and to save the nearly $1000 dumping fee, I put the old cedar shakes that were removed from the roof through the chipper. Then I used them in the back garden area - it was a lot of work to sift through the material and take out nails and any other garbage, but it was worth it to me.
Thats awesome! Hard work is rewarding in many ways.
Could have helped people in need with those but you chose to help yourself instead. Selfish.
Angry CentrelinkRecipient you sorta sound like an ass hole it was his wood to do with whatever he wanted and like he said he kept most of the good boards but the ones that were past saving why not use you paid for it
@@looksirdroids9134 those people can help themselves. Just like this person did.
Angry CentrelinkRecipient you could give someone the device you're accessing TH-cam with, yet here YOU are...being a selfish hypocrite.
Hahah. I was about to get mad at you for chipping up good reusable hardwood boards. I decided to watch the video instead :) Great job at reusing and recycling what wasn't reusable!
As a truck driver from the US during these dark times, you sir always seem to cheer me up! I genuinely respect everything you do and how you are so connected with nature, so much so that my goal in life is buying some acres of land and do what it is you do. I've had you running on my phone in 39 or so states passing around the channel. Take care and ty for putting my mind at least at ease (early 30s recently suffering from high levels of anxiety) which has been difficult otherwise.
You’re a very hard working, ethical man Mark. You deserve all of your successes, respect 👍🇦🇺🇬🇧
Gr8 idea to reuse decking boards that are too far gone to use for other projects. We bought a hansa chipper after watching your previous video trialing it. We couldn't be happier and much better making mulch than numerous trips to rubbish dump!
Wow. Look at the heat/ smoke coming off the big compost piles. Can you imagine what the temperature would be inside while it's doing its job? It's awesome! 👍
that turkey is a fantastic garden guest, how lucky you are. Please do more videos about your adorable ducks. The one about purchasing "Mum and Dad" is one of my favourite videos, not just because of the ducks, but I loved seeing the countryside during your trip to get them and I also like the videos with lots of rain, when it rains heavily here (not often the last three years), we really like it, it is very relaxing in a funny way, but mainly we are just pleased for the parched fields and forests around us.
It's going to rot in a landfill and concentrate any chemicals. I think it's better to break down right on the property. I agree with the idea of using it only on the trees for the reasons you mentioned. Good job!
You are such an inspiration. From Australia to Ireland it’s truly amazing the diversity in our climate but your advice knows no such boundaries. Thank you so much for taking the time and dedication to help us all . ☺️
Thank you Louise! :)
Want to see some true inspiration? checkout Gardening Australia's channel - and look for Hannah Moloney's permaculture videos. She lives in Tasmania and knows a thing or two about sustainable, organic agriculture.
I've found feeding very hard materials and very soft materials into the shredder simultaneously gets very good results. The soft stuff bulks out the hard stuff, taking a bit of pressure of the motor, and the hard stuff provides a solid cutting surface against which the shredder blades can get a better chop for the soft, stringy stuff.
I'll have to give that a try! Cheers :)
Same rules for a food processor or juicer if you’re into that sort of thing with all those fresh vegetables you have :)
After years of wanting to own a Hansa Chipper a look at your video convinced me to buy one. I purchased the Hansa 13 and reckon it's the bee's knees. (So does the neighbour who borrowed it.)
BTW, we now have 20 Birdies 1.2 x 2.5 metre raised garden beds - 12 are the high sided models and 8 are the low sided - and plan to add 4 more highs.
You're the kind of content creator that makes me feel good after watch your videos, you have a great way that brightens my day! - it could do with a little brightening during lock down here in New Zealand.
Thanks for all of your content. Your an inspiration. I'm so glad you're doing such a good job making a living out of something you love to do.
Looking at the comments below, this seems to be a very hot topic. I'm glad you recycled . I'm sure that there are more things more dangerous than "possible" pollution on old boards. The moisture that the tree gets to use from the mulch structure will prove to be the most benefit to the environment all around. Mother Nature has done a fine job of adapting from man's onslaught of gardening.
The name of the chipper (Hansa) is the name of a beer here in South Africa. Thank goodness you only uploaded this today, as our bottle stores only opened up yesterday after 5 months of alcohol and tobacco bans XD. Cheers to you and the family :)
I'm always on the look out for tree surgeons working close by, they're always happy to dump off their wood chips for free, saves them time and expense.
I love everything you do. You're an inspiration to my girlfriend and myself. We have totally changed our way of thinking and living based on the knowledge you instill. Thank you and please keep up the good work.
Happy to see your back. Always like to see you made another video. No matter what it's about, you always make me smile. Great sense of humor!
Decking oil often contains pesticide and anti-rot additives.
If that chipper is based on a blade design those nails are really shortening its useful life. At the old pallet factory we used a heavy low speed toothed augur crusher, followed by a high speed hammer mill. (and a magnetic tipped conveyor at the end to remove nails.) The system produced large splinters rather than cut chips. Most of it went to either hog fuel at a power plant or used as filler in strand board. That hammer mill had an electric motor that must have weighted close to a ton, it took about a minute to come up to speed and then 5 minutes after cutting the power to slow down.
he said he made his kids take all the nails out... lol
I remember when my dad would give me shit makework jobs like that...
Wearing a T-shirt and shorts in the winter. That's the dream...
You're the best. Love all of your videos, a wealth of information. Thank you for all that you do.
I don’t remember ever seeing the food forest corner of your garden before. I know we’ve seen your orchard area plenty of times but I don’t recognize the area where you show your sons helping to spread mulch. I definitely want to see more of it!
And I only have a small garden but now I really want a wood chipper lol
Love the respect in finding ways to continue to make use of the hardwood, whether it's in new construction or in being returned to the soil.
We garden and love your videos mate! Cheers from North Carolina USA.
Thanks mate! All the best with your garden! Cheers :)
Schmick-- glad to learn another Australian word-- but I think your gardens and lawns always do look schmick. And that takes lots of work ...g'day from North Carolina.
A derivative also being Schmicko -
of course.
(I have a brother-in-law in Asheville who I’m teaching Aussie sayings - get him ready for his move - post COVID - to Australia) All the best
@@GeneLake001 just in time for the mandatory vaccine as per your morrisons edict.
And a second g'day from the NC triad!
G'day from South Carolina!
Our version of “Schmick” in NC and the rest of the Southern US is “slick”
I love seeing your place. My favorite videos are you, walking through and showing what you're growing. Love it. Thanks!
I honestly can't wait to see the progression of the duck pen!
Good video and another good look at your shredder. Did a great job on the property
I wish mine looked half as good. But through your videos I am learning more and more.
Cool seeing that turkey. I read once that the Australian Brush Turkey builds a compost pile out of brush, leaves, moss, etc, so that it is 3' high and 5' across. Then the female digs a hole in the middle of the pile and lays her eggs in that hole. The decomposing compost then takes over the job of incubating the eggs, and the hen can be off doing other things.
Forget whingers, Mark. Stay chipper! Great video.
It's winter here he say's
Walking around in shorts ....
🤣
lol ya... come to canada mark!
Jimmy McTavish That’s because they don’t experience cold 😋
@fourteenlizard LOL speak for yourself!
@fourteenlizard LOL it's definitely not that, you should see my legs...
We do this during winter in Florida too
I bought a chinese made chipper advertise to be able to chip up to 120mm branches. I discovered that it would do that with some shock to the machine when the big and heavy end of the branch makes contact with the blades. However I also learnt that feeding the larger branches in with the small diameter end in first is self regulating. The branch will have less weight as the larger end hits the blades and bounces back a little to give the machine a breather. These machines are great to have. As important to me as the lawn mower.
Good video Mark; big chippy dippy do thumbs up as always! Great idea for old wood that isn't treated with harsh chemicals. Happy belated birthday to your son! One of my grandson's will be 17 next year.🎂🎈🎉Fun times with the family! Love it. Your place looks great! Thanks for sharing.👵😊🌱🌱🌱🍃🍃
I'm excited to see the place get the mentioned upgrades. Cheers!
Well done. We have redone our fences (treated pine) but all the posts and rails were hardwood. They were in fairly good nick after a sand so they have been repurposed into rails for our beds (and the palings were given away). Any upcycling and re-use of old materials is a very responsible approach. By all means, wood chip away!
Called recycling. Turned into another use. Awsome.
Beautiful video gardening work and home stead , thanks for sharing to us such an amazing informative and educational looking forward to see more posting
You’ve inspired me to move up to QLD so I can grow more! But I have a video idea for you! You could do a monthly update like “what I’m growing in August” video every month and show what you’ve planted and what’s already growing and what your able to pick off and eat and what your still waiting for! Like a tour around your garden!
I love your videos Mark!
Hi Mark, Here in the USA they say You Rock! Well Mate You Rock! I also say if you can use it, then use it. On old saying: Use it up, Wear it out, make it do or do without. Jessie USA
Your vids are every bit as great as ALWAYS the best to you and yours and happy happy birthday to your son 🎈🎈🎈
I checked with the csiro on treated pine and apparently the leaching of arsenic/copper etc is in such low quantities it's not considered a hazard, even when used for veggie patches such as yours. Probably not good spread on your cornflakes every day but hey. There's far worse sprayed on the stuff you get in the supermarkets.
Isn't this the very stuff that Vegemite is made from? ...tastes like it!
@@forhinotant7228 errr yeah I was quite aware of that. That's not what I was getting at.
I'm all for reusing what we've got so I see no problem as long as your wood isn't pressure treated :) I actually love this because people redo their decks fairly frequently and I'm sure at least some of them haven't considered using the scraps for garden mulch :) So thanks for the suggestion! Happy trails
Hey Mark. I heard after mulching palm fronds, its always better to mulch a few hard branches off a fruit tree or any tree to clean the blades back up.
Great video
I must say, I'm getting closer and closer to buying one of the small Hansa chippers.
You are looking good! Chip away! Your garden is also looking great!
The chipper sure is a handy deal for making mulch !!
I don't think there will be a problem with just around the fruit trees, but totally agree with not putting around the veggies..
Great idea with the mulcher!!
Happy Birthday to your son!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a gang of 15-20 turkeys living in my woods; usually two or three strutting toms in the spring. A couple of years ago I had chipped up a pile of cedar four or five feet high. Went back about a month later to get a bucket load and the turkeys had spread it out all over to a depth of three or four inches! And to think, Ben Franklin wanted them to be our national bird.
Happy belated Birthday to your son!
I can't wait to see the duck enclosure build, I'm building my first one at the moment for my 5 ducks. Love your videos, so fun and informative
your videos always make me smile
Chipping green palm fronds first on the soil then the hardwood gives the tree plenty of nutrients and helps feed the microbes to break down the mulch.
Here, have my chippy dippy doo thumbs up! Thanks for all you do.
LOL... Thank you! :)
Hi. Glad you even recycle building materials. Maybe test soil around tree in a year n report back to us.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES !! Peace to you and yours
Wow Mark the property looks amazing!
I love to watch your videos, Mark. As a student who's renting a single room in a house I've got a small urban compost going in my front garden, but that's the extent of my gardening ventures so far. I can't wait to take what I've learned from your videos and apply them to my own garden when I get my own property. From someone in the UK it's so peculiar to hear you say that Spring begins in September! I'm hoping lots of videos on this channel will get me through the wind and rain we'll have here over the next few months.
Good work, you could also turn it into biochar too. Even treated timber can make up 10% of a biochar batch with no issue allegedly.
I just got a small load of free chip from the council who were trimming branches on my street, pretty happy with that.
I got an anti garden beds ad before the video !!
Good idea, on the duck pool👍🏼 I have 7 ducks. Spencer, Oklahoma USA, good day🤗
Mark I enjoy all your video content so I think your done right thing for you your family and property
Cheers for putting in the hard yards editing and the video and getting it ready
"You know what it is like when the family visits"......Here in Victoria that is a distant and dim memory LOL
LOL... Hopefully, this covid nightmare will all be over by Xmas! We need the tourist industry back here in QLD... Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme I hear you mate, and Wifey and I would love to getaway up to QLD but I honestly don't see non-essential travel restrictions really easing until Jan/Feb/March. Until then I can watch in envy as you potter in your awesome sub-tropical paradise. Be well mate and bloody well done on your content and presentation. I'm really enjoying your back catalogue and admiring how much you have grown as a communicator.
Excellent stuff love your videos. Just starting out on our self sufficient Journey and been thinking about getting a chipper.
Another great informative video ! 👏👏👏 Thanx for the fantastic content 👍😍😘
“Far.....too.....buggered!” Love Australians!
Sounds like you've got you head around the issues that would concern someone about using old decking for mulch. Good plan (avoiding the vegetables, just in case) and I hope works well for you.
Just stay safe, I care about your health but I trust your judgment as far as the garden is concerned. May all your days be G’days!!! God bless you and your family. By the way I always enjoy your video’s, you always get my big thumbs up 👍/ 🇺🇸❤️’s 🇦🇺
A BIG woody thumbs up. I think by now, if you don't know, the rest of us have noooo chance 👍👍👍
Hi. The only issue I could think about is any chemical treatment the timber could have had before going back into the animal areas ect. But am sure it's fine anyway. Another good video sir 👌
That is why I only buy heat treated wood
@@abyssal_phoenix Would that work in northern climates with winters and snow or freezing rain?
Happy Birthday James!! Hope it was great.
Your property is looking amazing! Congrats!
I see you have a Brinsea Maxi EX. I have 14 duck eggs in mine as we speak. It will handle your hot summers Mark. My Mini Advance hummed along unperturbed by the hot days here in Monto, while the previous incubator did a nasty slow-cook on my developing eggs. Usually 80-100% hatch rate. Brilliant piece of gear.
i like that the turkeys are helping. 😊
wow u have 900k now congrats:)♡♥♡♥
Thank you! Yes, I have to pinch myself sometimes... Cheers :)
cheers to you to mate :) ily
Can’t wait till you hit a million! Keep up the good work
Were almost at 1 million! Lets go!
Id love to raise quail. They are adorable. Thanks for the content!
They taste good too🤠
why raise half a bird when you can have the whole bird?
Chipping is definitely best! Get into it!! :) from Missouri in USA
Recycling timber great idea, too many people just order a skip and chuck it, but as for the remaining timber I guess the only thing I would have say is I would of done the same but instead we just left the timber lying around in heaps, because we had no time to deal with it. Purphaps not so surprisingly this has attracted so much wildlife, e.g. we now have a home for hedgehogs, frogs, and mice living of the insects and grubs, which are all helping to breakdown the timber. I've seen birds hopping into and out like the little Wren. Even wasps like wood to build for their nest, and wood boring insect do their job too no dout. Our log pile is the remains of 18 Leylandii Trees and their root stumps, which I dug out. We stuck them on top of what was once, we think, a site of fruit cage. Which has now become over grown with Bramble and over prickly fruits like Raspberry, Yes it looks unsightly, and yes one of our neighbours has made a comment. But this has saved on buying such an expensive mulching machine, and all the servicing you spoke about! and saved a heap of money! But I guess some people just don't like unsightly piles of timber!
I'd buy a 70" 8K OLED TV just to watch this man.
No need for the 8K lol
@@helixlacoste6945 my bad. As long as I got my point across
@@McChickenLick hehe well as long as we're here.
If that’s your winter, I’m moving there! Sure does bet our winter in Canada.🥶
Lol winter is great their, summer on the other hand 🤮
Tim Woodward what to damn hot in Australia well winter here in Canada I live close to Niagara Falls the last two years it’s been cold but not like other winters and hardly any snow
Volcano Mulching -- to do or not to do??
Hi Mark. Around marker 5:25 it looks like the mulch is stacked up against the trunk.👎 Then, at 8:23, it looks like the mulch was pulled back from the trunk a bit. 👍 Two great examples from which to learn.
I encourage everyone to learn about the concept of volcano mulching and how it damages roots by depriving them of oxygen and forcing girdling which can bind them.
Lol. I had this same argument with hubby last week. Still good mulch I reckon.
Well if you consider what’s in the stuff we buy at the store, I would say your mulch is going to work great to top dress. The chemicals would break down over time but being it’s a hard wood it will take a nice long time to decompose. I wouldn’t use treated lumber and I even try not to use too much pine and saw dust in my compost but hard wood I really like.
Where I live most decks are salt treated 5/4 boards and they have arsenic in them , so not a good idea. But we have a chipper also and all the small trees and all the brush and leaves go in the garden.
So awesome! If everything was built to be able to one day break down...well, look at the problems we’d solve.
Some countries have banned CCA treated wood for people complaining in comment section. Wood preserving products containing arsenic and chromium were banned from sale from 1 September 2006 in the UK.
In Australia 2004, "the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Chemical Authority (APVMA) advised that CCA must not to be used in Australia for high-contact structures such as
garden furniture, picnic tables, exterior seating, children's play equipment, patio and domestic decking, and handrails."
"from July 2012, CCA was declared a restricted chemical product, from APVMA - "It cannot be used on high-contact timber structures: this includes garden furniture, picnic tables, exterior seating, children's play equipment, patio and domestic decking, and handrails."
So from 2004 in AUS it was advised not to use CCA on domestic decking, from 2012 it was banned. Just check what your governments laws are if you're worried.
Do you happen to know if that applies to the US also?
CCA copper chrome arsenate will only penetrate sapwood not heartwood. Most Aussie hardwoods will only have superficial chemical residues that will leach out in conditions exposed to water. Treated pine should never be recycled due to the high penetration of CCA into the sapwood
That wood looks older than 2006, so it was from before the ban, right.
You could make some great looking furniture ie Book Case,coffee table etc.For inside with those boards. Sanded and oiled that timber would look schmick and wouldn't rot outside in the rain.
Sensible approach. Reuse what you can and find a new use for whats beyond salvage. Noone should give you crap about it.
The turkey made me like the video lmao :D
In New Zealand hardwood isn't treated so I would have thought it was untreated in Australia so I would be happy to put it on my garden.
Your the best!!! Chip away mate, chip away!!!
Beautiful deck!
Hey the dried fruit at the supermarket and rice and other things have been found to have arsenic in them: What you do on your property is your business: google it !
No way. Where'd you hear that?
Nope, need to spend less time on facebook, mate. Go for a walk, it's nice this time of year.
Nancy Fahey what I should have said was arsenic can be found in foods we eat: Google it
Make sure you don't pile the mulch up against the tree bark. Pull the mulch away from tree bark or you may get more boring pest pressure.
Good tip! Thank you :)
Nice video. Waiting for the 1st of September,already have some seedlings started indoors.
Lol@fastest summary of intelligent gardening ever from 0:01 to 0:08 :D
I want your attitude. And your Garden.
Always a pleasure to watch.
I’m having great “set it and forget it” success with eggplants here in Florida zone 10b… as a perennial I guess.
That turkey was volunteering to be included in your next eat only what you grow or forage experiment.
I must admit to wondering what they taste like... Probably really tough and gamey :)
@@Selfsufficientme Yes, not to everyones taste
Mark I'm like you, if it looks like it fit through the chipper then give it a go. Have had a couple of fails, but overall have done well 👍
Yep Andrew, I like to test it out and it's surprising the amount it will get through if done with a bit of thought. Anytime I have overdone it (which is rare) and those belts stop I quickly disengage the machine clear it and she's fine! Cheers :)