You Don't Need a Woodchipper!
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- in this video I show how easy it is to source woodchips by calling a tree service, rather than buying or renting a woodchipper.
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I get wood chips delivered for free, but I own a wood chipper too. Sometimes the hundreds of downed trees and branches just need to be chipped.
We also got a truck load of wood chips for our garden, no charge. The driver dumped them on her way home. Different company though. Nice stuff!
one their way it's free - on demand you pay.
A better part of a weekend? It would take me about a week to make that amount of woodchips with a regular 3" woodchipper to make that amount of chips working full time all day. Lol
I still have a chipper and use it because they're useful, but my first big load of woodchips was seeing a truck in my rural area towing an industrial woodchipper and I flagged it down. They dumped about 12 cubic yards of chips, and they refused any offer of money. They did give me their card for the company they worked for though if I wanted more later, and now I pay $50 for them to come out of their way periodically to deliver instead of themselves paying to dispose of it.
I'm in rural Eastern Ontario, and options like ChipDrop are not available here.
Im across the gulf from you in Maine. I just scored a load after a neighbor had some trees cut. Cost me nothing!
Good stuff!
Some tree serves will give them to you for free, saves them some time and money taking them to a landfill
Good morning!! Thank you for your valuable information!!! Your example is such an encouragement and inspiration to keep gardening even when I am now a new widowed senior! The garden is one of the best places to be!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊Thank you once again!!!!😊😊😊
You are so welcome!
There must be more of a demand for them where we are, because the tree company we deal with charges $50 a load for the chips. It's not a dump truck load, but their custom pick up that also dumps. When they use their industrial chipper, it empties straight into that truck.
We do have a wood chipper, but it only fits straight branches up to 3 inches wide. It does have a shredder chute, too, for anything up to 1/2 inch. It sheds things much finer than the commercial one, but has its limitations. We have been cleaning up dead trees and branches since moving here. After a few years of branch piles getting bigger and bigger, we fired the tree company to come out with their chipper. It took them 8 1/2 hours to chip four piles of branches. That was a couple of years ago, dumping the truckloads where I asked them to. I think it was about 6 truckloads. We still have some left, after a couple of years. The stuff that was too big to chip was cut into about 4' lengths and neatly stacked. Perfect for lining the bottom of raised beds!
in our area, if you happen to have tree trimmers working in the area, you sign up and they can come and dump huge amts of wood chips on your property....this year we also got some wood logs for firewood....all for nothing...husband has been busy putting the chips between our garden boxes to prevent weed growth....here's the thing ...ASK...many times you can get things you need by just asking...
It's the same here - free if they are in the area most of the time.
Tried that. To no avail. No alternative in this neck of the woods😊
I had 30 yards of wood chips dropped off one time by a local tree company. If you grab them while they are on a job they will come to your house after they're finished because it saves them the tipping fees to dispose of them. That 30 yards was a HUGE amount took me over a week, maybe two, to finally move them into place one wheelbarrow at a time. I'd do about 5-10 wheelbarrows full a day every day. It seemed like it would never end and was quite exhausting work. I now look for small trucks on jobsites.
When one wants to care for a forest garden, though, a chipper comes in handy.
Great service. Hard to find in the Fredericton, NB area
Same in Cumberland County NS. I signed up for Chip Drop last year and it resulted in nothing. I bought myself a chipper this spring and I'm quite happy that I did so. I own 11 acres, so between what comes down in storms and what I clear myself, there are too many small limbs for me to burn in a season. Now I just turn it into mulch!
You have to call around sometimes and be a little tenacious. I've been using these guys for years so we have a relationship
Ya the other day I called someone for a load, hope they come soon. You stuff looks great not loaded with twigs like my last load but then you paid for this.
I get my woodchips at the township building across the street for free. I have to shovel into my truck but it's easier getting them into a wheel barrel from my truck rather than shoveling. I did get a cheaper shredder last year but use it mostly for shredding plants and leaves for my compost pile. It greatly quickens the composting time using shredded material so I'm happy with it.
Nice!!!
I live in Canada, they dont do chip drop here. At least not in my location.
I live in canada. It's a big place man :)
Thanks, Greg! I wish they came to Cape Breton !
just ask sometime you go by a crew working , maybe they will drop it off for free.
@@michaelboom7704 Thanks! Good idea.
A great deal! Just a newbie in town, does anyone know if there's FREE wood chips near or around Digby? Thanks R
Did you pay for delivery because you are on the outskirts? I've never had to pay for a load. Our local companies have to pay to dispose chips in the greater Moncton area, so it can sometimes be more convenient for them to unload at a willing homeowners place.
Making the arrangements is another story. I will say that you have to be completely at the mercy of the companies willingness to do that, so if you need them now, it's not typically something you plan for. The first year I contacted 4 or 5 companies and they all said they would get in touch if they could, etc. NEVER heard back! I guess there's the rub. What's in it for them? Lol
Ended up getting them from a company in my neighbourhood that was doing a job down the road. I walked down the street and told them they could dump their load on my driveway, and they did! The more convenient it is for the company the more willing they are do help you out I guess. Timmy's and donuts might help entice the crew, lol!
Ah yes... Timmies....the Canadian lubricant! 😂
Yes that is usually a great enticement!
They had to drive 35 min to get to me. 2 guys in a big truck for over an hour. Price is fair.
@maritimegardening4887 $100 I more than fair. Hard to get wood chips in our area at all let alone just for $100!
Cheers!
Mike
it just arrives! weeds and all!
What weeds would be in it? These guys would have chipped directly into this truck from a limbing or tree felling job, probably earlier that day, and rather than drive it to the landfill, they drove it to his house. They're a tree care business first. The wood chips are just a side gig.
What weeds are in branches?
@@maritimegardening4887 not the branches. the mulch. seeds love a pile of mulch
@@samurphy you said "would have". Assumptions lol
How and who does one contact to get this
the number is there in the vid
So you pay them to take their waste product that they would otherwise have to pay to dispose of? I mean, if they gave you just the chips with no stumps I could understand, but this service should be free.
Seems like both parties were happy with this arrangement.
They had to drive 35 min to get to me. 2 guys in a big truck for over an hour. Price is fair.
Since you have sand down in your garden what will you use the chips for?
People charge $100? Yikes. I’ve never paid for this privilege.
They charge you money to drop off wood chips most tree businesses struggle to find places to get rid of anyway? What the late stage capitalism kind of system is that???😂
There is a demand for wood chips. What makes you think they are struggling to get rid of it? Plus, it costs them time and fuel to deliver the wood chips. Hilarious that you leap to blaming capitalism. 😂😂
@@refarmer1574 I live next door to a tree business that participates in the free program called Chip Drop. They are desperate to get rid of wood chips anywhere and everywhere that will let them dump for free. My youngest brother also works for a tree service with the same problem. Garden Answer, here on CZcams, gets free wood chips dropped off by their tree guy when they need them. I mean, I could make you a list of dozens of YT gardening channels who get free wood chips from services like Chip Drop.
Don’t pay for wood chips from a tree service. You’re just buying someone else’s trash.
They want money because it costs them fuel and time to bring them to me.
@@maritimegardening4887 Yup exactly! Ironically it's easier for those living in the city to get woodchips than we rural folks can. But not really so ironic when you think about it. Out here most cut down their own trees, and then end up burning the logs in their wood stoves. Lol
Edit: When I first saw those logs in your video, my first thought was "free fuel!, bonus score!" :)