[Forestry 101] How To Produce Wood Chips

Welcome to the next lesson in the Farming Simulator Academy. In this tutorial, we explain the production of wood chips.

What Are Wood Chips?

Wood chips are shredded wood that is usually used as a heating fuel. But since you don't need to heat in the game, you sell wood chips either to the biomass energy plant or to the Farmers Market for profit.

The extraction of wood chips is profitable, especially in the case of deciduous trees, as their odd-shaped trunks yield less when sold. Theoretically, however, the processing of other tree species is also possible to produce wood chips. Want to learn more about different tree types?

Wood chips are also a by-product of wood processing, and you will receive a small batch of wood chips when you process wood or boards in the carpenter's workshop, for example.

What You Need For Wood Chips

• Tractor: To use the wood chipper and to transport the wood chips later in the trailer.
• Wood chipper: To process tree trunks into wood chips.
• Trailer: To transport the wood chips to the point of sale.

Let's Get To Work!

Step 1: Prepare wood and machines

First, you need the raw material in the form of felled tree trunks. Deciduous trees are best suited for processing into wood chips, preferably cut them into smaller pieces first.

Once you have done this, you can continue with the above-mentioned machine selection for wood chip production: Place the tractor in front of the wood chip machine. Connect the machine and go to the logs or deliver them to a collection point beforehand.

Need help with felling deciduous trees?

Step 2: Insert logs into the wood chipper

Unfold the wood chip machine and turn it on. You must now use the crane to pick up the pieces of wood on the ground and lift them onto the conveyor belt. When the wood is properly placed on the conveyor belt, it will be pulled into the machine and turned into chips.

If you have cut logs into smaller pieces, you can also place them on the conveyor belt by hand – but this can take a little longer.

Step 3: Selling wood chips

When you have loaded the wood chips, open the prices overview in the menu. Find the most advantageous selling point for you and drive to the respective dealer. 

Well Done!

Congratulations, you have successfully finished another lesson and now know how to produce wood chips! Keep at it, and you'll be a top-notch virtual farmer in no time with Farming Simulator Academy!