I've been "blessed" with some steep slopes that could use some erosion control and some holes that need filling. I cut my branches as short and flat as practical and then cover the ground evenly with alternating layers of branches and green yard waste.
I got a chipper for free from a previous employer that shut down and pretty much only use it for mulching garden waste at this point. That seems to be about all it can handle
You just triggered my PTSD. We had a leg of our three phase burn out in juuuust the right way where our UPS wouldn't accept the dirty power but it didn't trigger the backup generator. The electrician didn't arrive in time to manually engage the transfer switch, and the batteries ran down on the ups before we could get everything safely shut down. I don't think I've encountered a quiet quite like that since
Yup. My old job had liebert (now vertiv) UPSs for our data center and those suckers were essentially just thousands of pounds of lead acid batteries stacked in a metal chassis
Then what even is the point of all this? At my old job the idiot intern was sorting patch cables in a box