- Discrimination - Leave Desirable Trees and Vegetation
- Get Under the Canopy
- Smaller Footprint
- Pavement Ready - No Damage
- Smaller Chips
- Faster Biodegrading of Organic Matter
Why Use Mastication?
For a variety of reasons some landscapes require mastication. There is always an appropriate tool for the job, and mastication has its place. The problem is that mastication can be very brutal and insensitive.
Thickets are a good example of an application for mastication, as well as overgrown old growth white thorn and other species of brush that simply are not practical to approach by hand with the off road chipping set up, or not practical for a different piece of equipment.
But traditional mastication is too big in some cases.
Too Big
Mastication is massive, usually a huge excavator with a massive mastication head that lays waste to huge swaths of landscape.
There is no way to control what gets laid down with any amount of finesse, and the "chips" aren't really chips but torn strips of woody matter. In a word, it's far from elegant.
Just Right
Joe didn't want to use this approach. He observed the need for a smaller mastication set up that would do less damage to the landscape and allow for discrimination and sensitivity when performing mastication.
This would be especially useful for smaller applications on private property with smaller parcels and paved roads.
But there were no mastication setups of this type available. Joe had a custom mastication head built for a "mini" excavator to fill this need.
To our knowledge, Joe has the only mini-mastication set up in the world.
Selectivity Pays
The ability to selectively leave various species of trees and other vegetation is one of the great advantages of mini mastication. The ability to get under the canopy is another, maneuver where no other piece of equipment can go.
Leaving behind desired natively adapted trees gives the landscape a jump start to get ahead of the game in bringing about the desired result.
For example, in his Edison Company work, Joe is able to leave hundred of trees per acre behind, native self seeded healthy young trees.
By releasing these young trees from the brush, they can thrive, saving Edison Company from having to purchase, plant and maintain seedlings.
This saves Edison Company more than enough to cover the cost of mastication in the long run.
So by choosing mini-mastication, they actually profit.
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