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Chipper program chops up risky brush around homes.
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San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
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August 4, 2007
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Byline: Joe Nelson
Aug. 4--BIG BEAR LAKE -- A city worker clad in a fluorescent yellow vest and orange helmet grabbed logs and branches stacked 4-feet high outside a home on Starvation Flats Road and fed them into a roaring Vermeer wood chipper.
The chipper spat ground mulch into the cavernous green bin of a chipper truck.
Resident Dave Horn stood in his driveway and watched the work in progress on, then ambled into his backyard and started hauling cut branches to the curb.
"I think it's a great deal," said Horn, 66, of the city's new curbside chipper program that gathers people's tree waste, grounds it to mulch and then hauls it away.
He said the ...