CristaMeyer
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I am volunteer with the Houston Dog Park Association. We need to further chip some ground cover that the city put down in one of the parks. What was laid are primarily shards, up to 3" approximately in width and up to several feet long. Thankfully there are some smaller pieces too!
The problem with this "mulch" is that it is sharp. Dog's are getting injured as well as sick when they chew on the wood. We have an offer of some $$ and volunteer labor from Nutro to improve the park and would like to use the offer in part to fix our mulch issue. What we have been hearing so far is that the wood cannot be chipped down further. In researching wood chippers, it certainly appears that it can be done and that we should be able to rent something for a day to do this. We would be raking up the mulch, running through the chipper and re-spreading it.
I guess what I need is confirmation that yes, this is not a problem, as well as recommendations on the appropriate chipper type and where to rent it from. I have an email out to Donald's Chipper Rentals who says he rents Liberty equip here in Houston and those machines certainly look like they could handle it. I've also seen a DEK 14 hp that looks like it could do it but don't know where I could rent one. Sunbelt Rentals has a Rayco and 2 Vermeer models (all disk) that look like they could do the job. I've not been by HD or Lowe's yet.
Thanks for any input ya'll can give me!
The problem with this "mulch" is that it is sharp. Dog's are getting injured as well as sick when they chew on the wood. We have an offer of some $$ and volunteer labor from Nutro to improve the park and would like to use the offer in part to fix our mulch issue. What we have been hearing so far is that the wood cannot be chipped down further. In researching wood chippers, it certainly appears that it can be done and that we should be able to rent something for a day to do this. We would be raking up the mulch, running through the chipper and re-spreading it.
I guess what I need is confirmation that yes, this is not a problem, as well as recommendations on the appropriate chipper type and where to rent it from. I have an email out to Donald's Chipper Rentals who says he rents Liberty equip here in Houston and those machines certainly look like they could handle it. I've also seen a DEK 14 hp that looks like it could do it but don't know where I could rent one. Sunbelt Rentals has a Rayco and 2 Vermeer models (all disk) that look like they could do the job. I've not been by HD or Lowe's yet.
Thanks for any input ya'll can give me!