Bulk Arb Waste wanted - can collect but how to find

[Tree monkey 1682]

21 hours ago, Woodwanter said:

 

who are these people!? they pay to take stuff in?

 

the only thing i wont take is brash (just chip it first) or soil. 

 

i thought roots and big awkward lumps craned down are the most tricky to get rid off?

 

speaking to the lads who i see here, they all say they get paid to take the stuff down and unless its decent straight bits, just want to dump it as quick as possible and get on to the next job. 

 

is this now different then?

It's the Thames Valley power group or was, based in Didcot, took everything, paid for it I used to deal with them about ten years ago, when I was going to set up a tip site between the local 2 man teams of tree surgeons... But the local ones were a bit dense so it never took off, but they were paying £21 a cube for anything, including that they supplied the bulker... All I had to do is get paid. 

The problem is most tree surgery set ups are small, unless you get into the big boys and then they'd not entertain you because they all ready have biomass contracts. 

Most small business's don't have a yard or if they do it's not suitable to have an artic on or a skip or hook loader/ roro. Then they don't have decent kit to load it either. 

Most tree surgeons don't understand that the quicker the waste is gone the quicker they get paid.... But most of them drag the job out to make it seem bigger than what it is. So that rules out supplying a skip to site. 

Better off looking at woodlots and seeing if thes a forester selling thinnings off cheap... But thes no such thing as cheap timber anymore, thanks to green energy and renewable shite. 

Can you not accept pallets and screen nails out of them? There kiln dried and also thes loads of skip company's desperate of that type of timber! Never be short and they'd pay to get rid of it, not the other way around. 

Woodwaste local pro tip costs £100 a ton to get rid of, also recycling sites can't get rid of timber quick enough sometimes so thes huge heaps of shredded Woodwaste, de nailed no contaminants in sat on yards as as soon as the supplier doesn't want it the recycling company is stuck with it! 

 

[Rob_the_Sparky]

FYI the local small tree surgeon I get my wood from is saying: more people elect to keep the logs, he gets rid of a lot of it by advertising on Facebook and then I take the few ods and ends he has left.  He has no problem getting rid of the wood he does not want and TBH would be too small for you anyway.

 

N.B. a few years ago he used to dry and sell logs as well but the new rules put paid to that. (mostly anyway)

[Woodwanter]

I’ll take any size, small is ok too.

 

from what I’ve been told more people are asking to keep their logs?
 

drying logs to sell on seems like hard work now,

[NJA]

On 15/05/2025 at 10:39, Tree monkey 1682 said:

Can you not accept pallets and screen nails out of them? There kiln dried and also thes loads of skip company's desperate of that type of timber! Never be short and they'd pay to get rid of it, not the other way around. 

Our local skip hire place is very keen for me to take a trailer load of pallets as otherwise it costs them.  I hack them up for kindling, an hours work is a years supply of kindling.  They'd burn quicker but if you had enough of it..?

[doobin]

8 hours ago, NJA said:

Our local skip hire place is very keen for me to take a trailer load of pallets as otherwise it costs them.  I hack them up for kindling, an hours work is a years supply of kindling.  They'd burn quicker but if you had enough of it..?

Pallets are treated wood hence why it costs.  Doubt OP would want to take the risk in a commercial setting. 

[Woodwanter]

14 minutes ago, doobin said:

Pallets are treated wood hence why it costs.  Doubt OP would want to take the risk in a commercial setting. 

Exactly, sadly.

 

its bonkers. There is a local charity that take in broken pallets and fix them. They have bits left over, all virgin untreated timber, but they can’t give to someone like me with out the EA getting involved.

[NJA]

Oh OK fair enough!

[kram]

A bit far for you but seen this at side of road, "Free Firewood"

 

I think it will be there for a very long time!