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Originally Posted by Acre, Also, there's money in "slash": I once asked for a handy 6' length of hardwood rather than his having to drag it uphill to the chipper.
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No shortage of 48' trailers loaded with tons of woodchips exiting Rt 93-Exit 24-Ashland enroute to the nearby Bridgewater Power Plant where woodchips get converted into kilowatts and loaded into the electric power grid.
Aproximately July 11, 1949 was when New Hampshire switched from an annual timber tax on standing living trees to a 10% local tax due when trees were cut for timber. Used to be, woodlots were cut a little bit, every year, to raise money to pay the local timber tax which was thought to be a bad practice by sitting Governor Sherman Adams who had a background working in Lincoln, NH, for timber companies.
There's this magical monster big machine in Bridgewater where woodchips go in one side, and electricity comes out the other side!