WBOct21pgs_cs.qxp_Wood Bioenergy Magazine 9/13/21 10:49 AM Page 22
■ in-woods chipper
Learning
To Modify By Patrick Dunning ZIRCONIA, NC t was only a matter of time before 35-year logger Noble Capps Jr., 55, came back to what first distinguished his family’s reputation: whole tree chipping.
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He remembers sitting perched on a pine stump hearing stories from his father, Noble Capps Sr., who would hoist 5 ft. logs over his shoulder and tote them out of the woods one by one. Business was slow moving at first for Capps Sr., hauling logs when he wasn’t farming or working at a cotton mill. He joined forces with his
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