I think the Permaculture principle of "small and slow solutions" definitely applies here! It's taken quite a while to gather the resources (mostly what others consider waste and just throw away in the forest) and the chips themselves are quite small! The machine is large and guzzles gasoline, but I have been developing a plan for a couple years now on how to move forward...
This reminds me of another principle, and I'm paraphrasing here: utilize the marginal. We are turning other people's discarded stuff into something useful and beneficial: wood into wood chips for our walking path (with stacked functions of tidying up, fertilizing the area around the path, water retention, microorganism haven, etc, etc), tires into a foundation wall for the compost toilet, fishing buoys washed up on shore turned into water tanks for hand washing and irrigation...the list goes on and on.
I am also reminded of my favorite song about there not really being anything such as waste, or something or other like that. This song is totally my mantra, and it runs through my head whenever I happen upon some junk. I sing the chorus once or twice, and voilà: I get an idea or two on how to repurpose it. To the creator of this song, I thank you, and Ajishima Park thanks you!!!