So you have ordered a new Colorbond or Timber fence. The date has arrived and the fencer is pulling down your old eyesore. It's served you well and a pang of regret runs through your heart as the barrier that has protected your family for the past twenty years gets cut up and loaded on a truck. As you watch the fencer pushes it over easily and the palings fall off. You wonder why you weren't robbed. Maybe it's because thieves are actually stupid! Or is it that we allow bad news stories to make us think that the world is worse than it is.
The fence is cut into full or half panels depending upon the strength or tenacity of the fencer or removalist. The posts are often redgum and the clients can request to keep them for firewood. If not, they end up as firewood at the tip and the money goes into the pockets of the tip owner.
Modern Treated pine fences usually have the less useable Cypress or Hardwood posts which will be used as firewood in the future I am sure.
The fence is then loaded on to a trailer and taken to a Waste management station where the timber fence is piled up and eventually run through a mulcher. A little larger than the one pictured below, and able to handle the nails and old and hard redgum timber.
The timber chips are then sold as mulch to anyone who needs it. The need for this type of mulch waxes and wanes depending on projects running. During the final stages of building Peninsula link in Melbourne, Victoria. A lot was needed to cover the ground each side of the full length of the new road. As there are no really big infrastructure projects it is getting harder and more expensive to dump old fence panels at a lot of suburban tips.
The peninsula link project showing the use of mulch.
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So your fence becomes a water retaining and heat stopping barrier to encourage the growth of vegetation along a major highway. Or ends up on other people gardens.
Contact your local tip if you want mulch.
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