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This is near you. How much beautiful furniture do you think one hour of electricity would make?


By Candace Cooksey Fulton-Brownwood Bulletin | 0 comments

Huge stacks of bundled mesquite wood just south of Brownwood have caused quite a bit of conversation from passers by. The stacked wood is visible from Gordon Wood Stadium and the Corinne T. Smith Animal Center on Milam Drive, or from the Camp Bowie Access Road.

It’s a whole lot of mesquite and hard not to notice. Bundles are stacked about 10 feet high. One pile of the bundles would measure at least as long as a football field. A second stack is half that long.
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“We’ve cleared a lot of mesquite and got a lot of questions about what we’re doing or going to do with all this mesquite,” said Kevin Very, who has headed up the project for John Deere.

A John Deere 1490D Energy Wood Harvester was used for the project, and, said Very, what the machine is “is a brush hay baler.”

The clearing of the mesquite is a special and experimental project on several levels, and was conducted as a sort of partnership between John Deere and the City of Brownwood. Of course the city needed the mesquite cleared, but John Deere has hopes the mesquite wood can be used as a fuel source for industry work.

According to a Web site describing how the 1490D works, the harvested logs can be transported and used as biomass fuel, stating, “Each log provides about one megawatt hour of energy, equal to the electricity produced by 21 to 28 gallons of oil.”

Very said the group had cleared a similar track near Goldthwaite of Juniper. Work shut down at the Brownwood site a week ago.


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I may have to take a look at this. Mesquite is my favorite wood for looks, probably close to last for workability, but makes great firewood when all else fails. Awful in a pasture. Brownwood is also the home of the pecan tree research facility. Worth a visit if you are considering planting pecan trees.

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It makes FANTASTIC charcoal too. some short ribs or a fowl or two cannot be beat cooked over that savory smoke.

It is still h-e-double Q on chainsaw blades

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