LAND CLEARING LAND CLEARING OPERATIONS • Trench Burners or Fire Boxes can be used for burning land clearing debris. • Air Burners invented and patented these machines decades ago. • High through-put means less time on the job. • Low capital investment. • Green trees are fine, no drying time is required. • Most root balls can go in whole no splitting required. ECONOMICS For a quick reference, click here No landfill fees At a rate of 10 tons per hour of clearing the average landfill tipping fee is $450 per hour (10 tons at $45 per ton) an 8-hour day would generate 800 tons with a disposal cost $3,600 plus the cost of trucking 5 to 7 truckloads some distance to a landfill. At the same rate of 10 tons per hour Air Burners FireBox Model S-220 would generate an average of 800-900 lbs. of ash.  If the ash had to go to a landfill (which actually is the exception, as the ash would most often be land applied on site) an 8-hour day would generate about 3.5 tons of ash at tipping fees of $158 and one truckload.  The Air Burner delivers a savings of more than $3,400 per day.   S-217 Transported by Dump Truck & Tilt Trailer to Land Clearing Site in South Florida (2002) Less time (labor) than open burning At a rate of 10 tons (41 cu yds) per hour of land clearing per day (approx. 480 lbs. per cubic yard) you would generate an open burn pile that would be approximately 14 feet long by 12 feet wide by 8 feet high every hour, or in one day the pile would be 40 feet by 20 feet by 7 feet high.  An Air Burner model S-321 could burn this pile of 64 tons down to 1.3 tons of ash in approximately 9 hours.  Open burning would take approximately 24 hours and would require constant managing. ENVIRONMENTAL Air Quality S-217 at Land Clearing Site in Florida (2002) Open burning averages 60% to 80% opacity (smoke plume); Air Burners average 10% or less opacity.  Air Burners can be used in closer proximity to existing structures. High mass reduction decreasing the load on local landfills. S-Series machines have a 95 to 98 percent reduction rate so 20,000 lbs. of wood waste will reduce to between 400 and 1,000 lbs. of ash. Reduced transportation, less dust and engine emissions Our machines have thru-put rates of between 2 and 12+ tons per hour depending on machine size.  As an example, if you clear at a rate of 8 tons per hour, using a chipper you would make approximately 7 trips to the landfill each “day,” using the Air Burner you might make 1 or 2 trips a “week” to the landfill. Top of Page Previous Page