It was a pile of trees that were waiting to be chopped up.
It takes a lot of work getting a pile of trees going, so as they got progressively more fucked up they just kept throwing shit into the fire for fuel.
On Wednesday, a bulldozer pushed the piles of tree debris to the air curtain burner, where a crane outfitted with a hydraulic bucket attachment picked up whole tree trunks and dropped them in, adding scoops of wood chips before the burner was turned on.
When morning came, piles of tree branches lined the sidewalks like bags of trash on garbage day.
To inoculate the sample with microbes, composted material taken from a mixed, already-established natural compost pile of trimmed tree branches and twigs was added.
A forester working for New York City's parks department made a horrifying discovery last week, beside a huge pile of fallen trees destined for the wood chipper.
Undeterred, Mr. Soldner fired another bowl, but this time he accidentally dropped it in a pile of pepper-tree leaves, which burst into flame.
By the end of the week the land is clear and a monumental pile of felled trees and bushes heaped in its place, rendering my poky little cellar immediately less impressive.
Construction machinery is pushing debris into piles of metal, tree limbs and wood by the school.
