What do you guys do with your wood chips?

[DDM]

Yeah I delivered a Load about 8 Yards that i Gave a fellow. He wasnt Home But i was given directions where to dump them. His Wife came out while i was closing the gate and told me to load them back up they werent brown! I told her he husband had asked for them I was just the delivery man. Like i was going to shovel up 8 Yards i had given away.

 

[Nickrosis]

I'd hate to live her life - she must face one disappointing day after another. You mean this shopping cart of food isn't free? I have to pay for my electricity? People won't just get out of my way when I drive? Maybe this explains why I'm an optimist...

Funny story (to me)...I'm sitting with my diesel Ram at an intersection waiting to go & these two little old ladies are walking (fighting) their dogs. They stand around waiting for me to move, but there's no break in traffic so they wait for a while. Finally, they decide to go in front of me and are bothered by the 100 decibel engine. I'm bothered because there was a break when they went by. As they left, one turns around with a dirty look - I wave and smile. People like that....I'm so glad I'm an optimist.

Do you folks let your chips compost a little before you apply them so they don't steal nitrogen from the plants?

Nickrosis

 

[DDM]

You know whats Really annoying? Your Driving a Over Loaded Dump and Some Smart A$$ Teen with a Friend with him thinks it would be to get in front of you and keep hitting his brakes real fast! Then speeds off But Alass!
you see his GEO parked at a Block buster.
So you Block him in because he wasnt in a parking spot to start with. Go into Subway and Eat a nice long lunch Watching thru the window of course. Then let him out when YOU Get ready!

 

[Newfie]

David,
Amusing, but a let down at the end!. I thought you were going to finish with the grand finale of burying the GEO with the load of chips!

Around here everyone sells them at $5 a yard to homeowners or $5 a ton to the Biomass plant (wood to electricity). I probably make less than a hundred yards a year and end using them all myself.

 

[DDM]

Luckily for the little Fellows When i Came out they Took a look at me and didnt say a word :blob5:

 

[chad]

if there cherry chips i put them under my pillow.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

If they were piss elm, I would put them under your pillow.

 

[DDM]

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Or cat spruce

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

What is Cat Spruce?
And why would you want to put it under Chad's pillow?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Just giving you a suggestion aside from slippery elm

I think it is black spruce but I've seen it used for white. So it is coloquial for P. gluaca and mariana. Because it can smell like a male cats spray when growing around the bogs.

 

[Stumper]

Grand fir is another raunchy one. I don't much care for Ailanthus either. I 'll agree with Chad that cherry smells nice -as do all the fruitwoods.

 

[rtsims]

Trying to find a market for our chips. We currently dump at the shop but it gets out of control. We probably have about 3000 yards right now.

 

[capetrees]

I give them to a long list of people locally for free. Organic farmers use them for their trails around the farms, burn them to make bio-char (?) and others for composting. One guy puts them in the animal pens while homeowners use them around their landscapes, the outer areas that need cleaning up after a long winter. Up around the house and planted areas, the use the hemlock mulch. Last chance, I dump them in a local garden centers pile that he uses or sells off to a larger landscape supply company. I've never had a problem getting rid of the chips.

 

[rtsims]

I could get rid of our chips for free as well, and we often do. I'm looking at finding a market for them.

 

[capetrees]

Keep an eye on the septic world.

I know, it sounds gross but designers are looking for ways to remove more nitrogen from the effluent and it seems woodchips layered under the sand is doing the trick.

Could be a market for them soon ....

http://www.eco-web.com/edi/05036.html

 

[rtsims]

I'm looking into the idea of running the chips through a horizontal grinder to get a finer chip, they call it hog fuel around here. Then possibly go one step further and mixing it to make a quality mulch, or some sort of landscape material that has a value. Just a thought

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

I'm looking into the idea of running the chips through a horizontal grinder to get a finer chip, they call it hog fuel around here. Then possibly go one step further and mixing it to make a quality mulch, or some sort of landscape material that has a value. Just a thought

If you have a market for the chips. Around here the colored stuff is 30 or 40 dollars a yard. The tub grinders have the spray gun built right in. Once you get a customer, they keep coming back. Never heard of chips being pig food.

 

[rtsims]

Hog Fuel, not pig food hahaha. Mills burn it for power.

 

[capetrees]

Vermeer makes a horizontal grinder. Don't know if it has a spray gun in it. If so, a bit of advice, spray it more brown than red. The red fades and tints to pink.