Do you make money from your wood chips?

to speed the composting process you can add urea fertilizer (concentrated nitrogen). mix well 'n let the pile sit. you want the pile to get hot which it will. once the pile cools you can turn it over giving it oxygen which is needed in the heating/decomposing process.i believe the oxygen works with the nitrogen to cook it. this could take weeks or months.
screen/sift to remove the black gold and repeat with the chunks not rotted away. read about composting and apply it to your material. buy a compost turner if you get into it.
http://www2.vermeer.com/vermeer/NA/en/N/equipment/compost_turners/ct612

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concentrated Nitrogen fertilizer will help break down woodchips true, but it your compost will be devoid of life. it is very salty and kills micro-organisms. I recomend manure or brew waste, coffee grounds, or restaurant scraps.
 
I dont see why chips are not mulch. It is hard to charge for because when they are on the truck I really want them off the truck. When they are not on the truck, I have no desire to ever touch them again. There are more community Gardens in Detroit than I think anywhere in tShe country. Never a problem to get rid of chips anywhere in the city.
 
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Chips are not mulch.

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This sounds like something your average landscaper would say.

Mulch can be anything. Pine needles, leaves, bark nuggets, woodchips, dyed, shredded bark, grass clippings, etc...

Creating some sort of absolute statement like this just helps foster ignorance among the public.

Decaying tree parts are the original form of mulch in the forest. Over the last few decades, landscapers, big box stores, and landscape suppliers have beaten us over the head with these dyed products to the point where a tree guy is now saying that mulch is a specific thing not to be mistaken by such imposters as woodchips or leaves.
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I'm not arguing semantics here, I'm arguing philosophies.

-Tom
 
Yes Tom. I believe rrmoving wood chips from the sight is the dumbest thing. I emcourage all my customers to keep them. Some customers think im trying to get out of work. But all organic material should stay. Otherwise you are literally robing the site of preciois organic matter. I try to convjnce customers to mulch their trees, compacted areas etc. Wood chips are very valuable and the homeowner really should keep them
 
Leaving on site for Nutrient Cycling versus hauling off and nutrient Stripping.

At PNW-ISA's annual training conference, two years ago, the showed some small scale studies of different mulches, "arborist chips", ground bark, shredded tires, and maybe another.

Yes, shredded tires which cover bare ground are mulch, just as stones are.

"Arborist chips" did the best job in the study, IIRC.

Sorry, but I don't have a link to the presentation. Oh, wait...TCI's link is to the study, just googled it and found it to be the same.
 
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You can get a receipt for a tax deduction if you donate to a registered nonprofit, like a school garden or wildlife rehab center.

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Actually that is not quite true. You can only deduct the costs you paid associated with getting the chips to the place of donation and then you can only deduct them if you haven't already expensed them.

For example if you produce a load of chips during the day and you are already expensing the fuel, wages and other costs associated with them you would have no tax deduction for the donation yet.

If you delivered them in the company vehicle chances are those expenses are already accounted for so you still have no deduction.

Further, you can only deduct your actual cash outlay for the chips. In otherwords, if they have a retail value of $500 but you only spent $200 to produce them then the max you could claim as expenses (or donation) would be $200.

In otherwords, you have to spend it to claim it and you can't claim it twice.

Unfortunately, in most cases the cost of the chips has already been claimed as a normal business expenses so you are not likely to find any charitable donation available for your use.

It falls under the same tax law principle that doesn't allow you to claim a charitable deduction for your time.

Sux, but that's the way it works. I found it out the hard way.

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Yes, Rick is right about this. So much for the tax-deduction.



A person could always have a simple sign made for their chip pile at the school garden. "Mulch donated by XYZ tree service."
 
Catch on fire? If its a fire hazard then its probably not worth it. I was going to store it on y grandfathers 80 acres, but if something could catch on fire that easily im not going to especially since the drought
 
arboriusboy said:
Hey guys, sorry for bump I'm new here and would like to ask you for help. Nowadays everyone is trying to find the easiest way to make money. I think that now is the time for it. I have to make some changes in my life and I'm sure that I know how to do this. Do you think that I'll do this at this time?
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