Wood By-products

[bwolfe1]

I am interested in what wood by products are available, that would normally not be used for any other purpose, which could be burned for commercial or residential heating?

[beenthere]

Welcome to the forum.

By-products are all available...but at a price. If left in the woods from logging, then they decay and return to the ground. If removed, there is a cost associated that must be offset by some return.

Tell us more about what you are thinking?  By-products left in the woods, in the processing plants, or at final use (building scraps, etc.).  You have pulp and chip and flake and lumber products coming from N. MN. How do you see working within those markets?

[Ron Wenrich]

I can't think of anything that isn't already being used.  It may vary from area to area.  Bark is used for mulch, sawdust for bedding and pellets, and chips can be made into mulch, bedding, paper, flakeboard and boiler fuel.  And, you can make anything into chips, so you have nearly nothing go to waste.