Mountain of wood chips accumulates at Sussex sawmill

By Mia Urquhart
CBC News
March 10, 2021
Category: Business & Politics
Region: Canada, Canada East

As passersby ponder the question of how much wood could a sawmill mill, the answer may be found in an enormous pile of wood chips that’s been drawing attention in the Sussex area.   Ronnie Davis, who lives in Berwick Corner, passes the sawmill regularly and has never seen the wood chips piled so high.   Others in the area are saying the same thing in response to pictures he posted on Facebook this week.   The pictures show a large bulldozer absolutely dwarfed by the pile of chips.   J.D. Irving spokesperson Mary Keith wasn’t able to estimate the size of the pile, but the Caterpillar bulldozer shown in the photo is listed as being more than 3.5 metres (almost 12 feet) high and 6 metres (19 feet) long.   Sussex Mayor Marc Thorne said a representative of J.D. Irving told him there are 1,600 truckloads of wood chips there. 

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