Is Hardwood chip worth anything £££ ?

[tommer9]

Farmers will often take it to replace straw, as straw has reched £190/ tonne plus this year!!!!!!!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Chip £20.23 for a load up to 2.5 tonnes

 

Green waste unchipped up to £54 per tonne

 

All adds up when your going there 3 times a week with chip!!

 

Holy crap you've got to find an alternative to that!!! Like Tommer says I dump at a farm who can't get enough of it... Put a thread up on here for chip dump in your area. We pay the farmer a tenner a month to loose rakings in the corner of a field and burn it every now and again aswell...

[Pete Hart]

My disposal costs obviously dropped dramatically a few months ago when i finally got my new chipper, as i can fit 3 to 4 times as much onto the truck now (allowing me to do a number of jobs befroe the need to tip off).

That has saved me not only time but around £50 to £75 pounds a time.

This is great but i'm just thinking of trying any means to reduce this cost even further, or to nothing.

Perhaps bagging good chip and selling it for a few quid per sack could even turn it into a small profit? I'll put the feelers out to see what customer reaction is, and with gardeners etc

[renewablejohn]

You could always use it to heat your house and generate electric

[Peter]

There is some capital expenditure required to facilitate that though.

[alex_m]

we dump our chip for free on a farmers muck pad, then he sells it to the local power station when he has an artic load or two. everyone's a winner!

[tractorboy1]

Why not stick a few cards in shop windows advertising you work, with free wood chip available. People love free stuff.

[Rupe]

Never paid tipping fees in my life!!

 

I have a list of clients and other people who will use any woodchip I give them. Yes, I give it to them, but only when it suits me. If someone wants some next week then its 10-20 pound a load depending on where they are.

 

And most of my regular big clients keep all arising from their job, so if I turn up with half a load on from yesterdays job then they have that as well.

 

I also have keys to all the allotments in town, they use more than I can ever give them, plus theres guys there who will take the odd leylandii logs that are chucked in at the end of the day, and then I get some vegies now and then in return. Everyones happy. 50 odd quid to empty the truck!! No chance.

[Rupe]

TCD

 

I like the avatar, thats off of Reactivate 10 if I'm not mistaken??

[RobRainford]

I try and leave stuff on site where I can. My local greenwaste site charges £25/load and if I fill our 12' ifor trailer with mesh sides I could be looking at 1.5-2t if packed in well. Although it's probably rarely much over a ton. I just have to pull up and drop the sides. They empty it for me. They'll take anything recyclable.