Well...here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro area, the tree products market has changed radically over the past few years. We used to have to pay just to get rid of wood chips, let alone brush and logs unchipped. Even then we still hauled a great deal of our cuttings to a private no cost spot. Now, if you go to the right places, you can be paid one dollar per cubic yard for logs, in another place you will be paid three dollars per cubic yard for woodchips (if you bring 100 or more yards per month) (a better price for the very large volume suppliers). And if you bring in brush with the wood you can just dump for free. Now with a 33 cubic yard box on the truck, there are not very many jobs that I can't fit onto one load-brush, limbs and logs. So why bring out an extra truck, chipper and noise when just one will do? And, we like to use the brush from the tree for padding or cushion when we send the chunks to the ground(they don't bounce so much or damage the ground). I know what you're thinking, "Doesn't that take longer to wait til the tree is cut to wait for the clean up?" I don't think that it does really, because having a cushion for the wood offsets the time it takes to rope down chunks, and if you have one less groundsie, a good log loader operator can really make the work a lot easier. So you see, we don't really like to chip (except when we feed the chipper with the loader and there is a large amount to chip). I don't know if this makes it clearer, but let me know.
