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Chipping Program

Hartsel Fire Chipping Program
Hartsel Fire Protection District is actively supporting residents and property owners in creating defensible space by offering chipping services for branches, logs, and small trees. If you clear woody vegetation from around your home and stack it in a slash pile, we'd be happy to chip it for you (Donation appreciated). Simply pile the material along the road beside your residence, and HFPD will bring the chipper to you. Chipping is usually scheduled for September and October. Please be aware that wood chips will be spread on the residential property.
 
Materials Guidelines
Accepted materials include trees, logs, and branches up to 12 inches in diameter, free of nails and wire. The following restrictions apply:

  • No willows or cottonwood: Willows and cottonwood have high moisture content, so they help to slow the spread of fire.  They also clog chipping equipment, because they are very fibrous. 
  • No construction or building materials, treated lumber, fence posts or signs.
  • No shrubs, root wads, stumps, dirt, or rocks. These items clog and damage chipping equipment.
  • No grass clippings, trash, weeds, or bags of leaves.

 
Pile Guidelines
Chipping will take place on during the weekdays.  Please contact Hartsel Fire with your address for materials to be chipped.  Improperly stacked piles may not be identified or chipped.

  • Stack piles neatly (no bags), with the large ends of branches facing the same direction.
  • After crews have removed your pile, clear away any remaining branches, needles and debris.
  • Do not combine piles with neighbors’ piles.
May contain: lumber and wood
Example of a "good pile"
May contain: soil, plant, vegetation, and root
Example of a "bad pile"

 

Contact/Chipping List 
Chipping takes place every year between September and October based on availabitly of the department. For more information on the HFPD chipping program, call or email Hartsel Fire at 719.836.3500  or  admin@hartselfire.org. To be added to the chipping list please send an email to admin@hartselfire.org The chipping list closes every year on September 1st. You must be added before September 1st to be included for the chipping each year.