How much do you pay per ton at the landfill.

[ForTheArborist]

Here we pay $22 per ton of green wood and about twice that per ton of other. This dump doesn't consider palm trees green wood, and they charge more if there is anything palm in the back.

Other dumps are higher, but sometimes it's worth it to go to them in order to save travel time. They don't consider the palm trees as refuse there, but they charge $33 for the first 800lb of green and about $50-60 per ton there after.

Are these prices steep compared to what you pay?

Anyone have a way of avoiding dump costs?

 

[gr8scott72]

Here we pay $22 per ton of green wood and about twice that per ton of other. This dump doesn't consider palm trees green wood, and they charge more if there is anything palm in the back.

Other dumps are higher, but sometimes it's worth it to go to them in order to save travel time. They don't consider the palm trees as refuse there, but they charge $33 for the first 800lb of green and about $50-60 per ton there after.

Are these prices steep compared to what you pay?

Anyone have a way of avoiding dump costs?

One of the dumps here is $20 per load. lol

 

[ForTheArborist]

As many tons as you can manage per load?

 

[gr8scott72]

As many tons as you can manage per load?

You got it.

That same one won't take wood chips tho.

 

[Hddnis]

Last time I payed to dump it was $12.00 per ton and you could have anything in there from wood chips to old sod. Just no rocks, plastic, garbage or metal. Basically it had to compost, paper and cardboard were allowed if it was a small percentage.

Once it was compost they charged $15.00 a yard to buy it back. lol

Mr. HE

 

[ozzy42]

$24 pr ton here for anything considered organic yard waste. $18 min.

Same charge for palms ,wodd chips ,logs or mulch.
That is at 2 private facilities.Co dump charges more,and does the same thing with it.
So much for government efficiency.

I believe it is higher in hillsborogh,and even more in pinellas.

 

[ASD]

We get PAID for our chips $23.00 per ton

Sell the good logs to the mills

Sell the junk logs to an outfit that dose fire wood

Y would any tree service not sell it's byproduct?

 

[ForTheArborist]

"We get PAID for our chips $23.00 per ton

Sell the good logs to the mills

Sell the junk logs to an outfit that dose fire wood"

hone:I see. I know what I need to be researching now.

How long do you have to leave those logs for the mills?

 

[ozzy42]

We get PAID for our chips $23.00 per ton

Sell the good logs to the mills

Sell the junk logs to an outfit that dose fire wood

Y would any tree service not sell it's byproduct?

It's all about geography.

Can hardly give firewood away in south Fl.
Saw mills around here will not take logs harvested from residetials ,won't risk the chance of nails and other things.

If your lucky,,,every now and then you can give some chips away.

 

[gr8scott72]

Y would any tree service not sell it's byproduct?

Depends on your market. I can give wood (hardwood) and chips away SOMETIMES.

Don't have anyone that would buy either of those.

I do take pine logs to the mill in either log form or pulpwood lengths although it's barely worth the trouble. (6' pulpwood under 24" diameter pays $16 per ton.)

I also just bought a chainsaw mill so I'll be saving the very nice wood for myself.

 

[Dadatwins]

My place is $30.00 per load for dump trailer approx. 300 square foot capacity, no tonnage measured. Does not matter if it is brush, logs, leaves,stumps or grass. If it is organic and they can run it thru the big grinders, they take it. They separate and filter the material and wholesale it back to me as mulch, top soil, and chips.

 

[ASD]

"We get PAID for our chips $23.00 per ton

Sell the good logs to the mills

Sell the junk logs to an outfit that dose fire wood"

hone:I see. I know what I need to be researching now.

How long do you have to leave those logs for the mills?

We ship them as we get them

 

[ASD]

Once you have a steady stream of logs and chips you should be able to find a buyer for it any where in the USA their are buyers all over.

Need chips ? mulch ? saw logs ? fire wood ?

 

[jefflovstrom]

For The Action, we are screwed with palms, but do you know Inland Pacific Resources on Hwy67 in Lakeside? Best deal in San Diego.
Jeff

 

[gr8scott72]

For The Action, we are screwed with palms, but do you know Inland Pacific Resources on Hwy67 in Lakeside? Best deal in San Diego.
Jeff

I don't have palms here. What's the deal with palms?

 

[jefflovstrom]

Palms are not green waste. They do not decompose like trees. They say they last longer in a landfill than diapers.
Jeff

 

[ForTheArborist]

For The Action, we are screwed with palms, but do you know Inland Pacific Resources on Hwy67 in Lakeside? Best deal in San Diego.
Jeff

I looks good judging by their website. I've got a job over that way for next week. I'll try it out.

Thanks, I even just got off the phone with that customer over there that told me about the place too.

 

[gr8scott72]

Palms are not green waste. They do not decompose like trees. They say they last longer in a landfill than diapers.
Jeff

Cool, learn something new everyday.

Bummer for those that have to deal with them.

 

[ForTheArborist]

Palms are not green waste. They do not decompose like trees. They say they last longer in a landfill than diapers.
Jeff

No shi*!

 

[Hddnis]

I've been working to make the waste stream pay.

Around here you can't sell chips because every other outfit is happy to give them away. To sell them requires that you process them further, screened for size etc.

The biomass energy market is getting better. A few local nurseries installed burners that use wood chips. They discovered that the "free" wood chips from other outfits clog the feed systems. This has made a market for chips screened to a uniform size. The trouble is you can't ask too much for them or the nurseries will just buy their own processing equipment.

Firewood is hard to make money on. You have to sit on it till late winter and hope it is a cold one so people pay top dollar.

I am looking really hard at a shavings mill to deal with all the pine. So far running the numbers says that will work. Just have to make sure I have the capital before jumping into this.


Mr. HE