Chips

[pembswoodrecycling]

if someone replied to a question i`d asked with "are you stupid" i would take it as read, in answer to the origonal question i think you need at least enough to fill an arctic.

 

Okay fair enough, what about smaller outlets? is there much call for chip at garden centres etc?

[detritus21]

Why not phone round some garden centres or farms or other places and do some Googling as to who may or may not want wood chip and who may pay for it and who wants it for nowt. I imagine that is what a lot of us have done previously. Its took me over 3 years self employed hard work to develop the contacts I have already so you may see why people may be reluctant to hand information out on a plate.

[Stubby]

The arctic is vast and would certainly take some filling be it the south or north pole . Or did you mean an artic ?

[pembswoodrecycling]

The arctic is vast and would certainly take some filling be it the south or north pole . Or did you mean an artic ?

 

In his defence the news says arctic is getting smaller!

[Stubby]

I have herd this also . Perhaps it won't take so long then !

[Buzzsurgeon]

I sell all I produce and get £50 a ton for it

[pembswoodrecycling]

I sell all I produce and get £50 a ton for it

 

Is that a trade secret?

[tommer9]

You could get intouch with local landscapers and gardeners etc who may come and take loads for a sum you can agree with them. A small ad in the shop window ofering it delivered may come up with the odd bit of beer money. Companies such as Boomeco — Boomeco develops and delivers innovative value added solutions for recovering post-consumer wood and natural resources will buy it off you in bulk, however you will need at least and articulated lorry load for them to come, which if i recall is about 28 cubic metres for them, and hard standing, they prefer concrete, but will inspect non concrete yards and and make you an offer, plus you need to be able to load to (i think they told me) 5.2 metres, i.e the height of the sides of their bulk artic trailer, so a telehandler is a must. You could offer other local tree surgeons free tipping at your yard to help get the amounts you have up to scale if you cannot produce enough yourself, but you would need to ensure that you have jumped through any relevant environment agency hoops. Boomeco arent the only ones who take it- stobarts will and a host of others.

Hope this helps. BTW for tree surgery waste a couple of years back, with no sticks or twigs etc in it, boomeco told me they would pay about £10 a tonne.

[Pedroski]

We keep ours, let it rot down a bit then sell it to customers as mulch. By "sell it", I mean we charge them labour + roughly £30 per cubic metre of mulch to mulch their borders.

[pembswoodrecycling]

Thanks tommer that's really useful. Basically a chipper will pay for itself eventually, and although not a fortune it could generate some form of income from what was previously waste, can't lose! [Thumb up:]