how many of you give your chips away/sell?

Usually if we are on a job and someone (homeowner, neighbor) wants them, we'll give them away because it means we don't have to go dump them somewhere. But otherwise, the company charges for a delivery of mulch.
 
$50 buck a yard, holy Moses... I'd sell all day long! Around me the landscape suppliers sell the best of the best hardwood and colored mulch for $27. In NE Ohio were lucky to be able to dump for free anywhere. Most of the time the landscape places want you to pay 15 to 20 bucks to dump a load of chips there.
 
I network to find places (nearby) that take chips for free. One company tries to sell (9yd?) loads for $80 but I think that is a waste of time (and diesel!). I give away the firewood too. Make my money up in a tree... not selling scrap.
 
well our economy here sucks and some things are way more expensive and harder to get then out there. your $20 here is our $50. we sell the chips because it costs about $20-30 a load to dump at the local green waste. wed rather sell them to someone who can use them.

we get lots of buyers. almost everyday. orchards and farms call us up all the time.
 
At $50/ yard, I'll be you could chip as much as possible and pay for larger equipment.

I've sold it for $75/ truckload (10 yards or so, could maybe get more), have given it away in the past, and use a lot for my own property.

Stables, wildlife and other animal rehab places will take them, schools for garden projects and playground surfacing, people with horses and livestock. If you donate to a 501(c)3 organization, you can get a tax deduction receipt.
 
I have two great resourses for dumping mulch.

#1- My home. I'm 2 minutes away from town. And I'm zoned agriculture. I have farmers & gardeners taking mulch away all the time. It's great P.R. (It is one major reason I decided to buy the home I did. The convenience to dump right here is second to none).

#2-There is a large landscape supply place in the heart of town that takes all tree service mulch free. They will sell our mulch at $7/cubic yard (if I remember right). But, the biggest incentive for them is regrinding it and coloring it.

I use to sell some loads. I sold a load for $30 dollars, but then started to sell it at $50 dollars. If I were to do it again, I'll sell it for $135/load. That would be nearly 20 cubic yards.

My thing is this: I feel that if I'm going to sell a load of mulch, I want to give them the best we can create. I don't want a reputation of selling stringing Elm or something with thorns.

My model 90 makes nice uniform chips at about 3/4" x 3/4". It would be playground quality (if I could get out the smaller twigs.

With that said, I have to time the delivery after a tree removal that can fill the truck. This way the majority of the chips came from log wood, hence, creating the nice chips. This also means I need to have good knives on...

This means that I have to keep a small list of mulch deliveries and wait until I have "the good stuff." It is so much of a pain, that I stopped delivering/selling last year. (FWIW, I only sold about 4-5 loads per year, so it wasn't much).
 
We have a mulch processing co. that shares our yard so we have a ready place to dump at no cost. Where possible we charge for delivery.

Where possible turn "scrap" into revenue. There's a cost associated with disposal that can be recouped and an additional revenue stream created.
 
i was wrong about the price. i asked my boss how much we sell them for. it is 10$ a cubic yard. our truck holds about 5 cubic yards so that where i got the $50 from. but it's still nice to be able to sell them or give em away free. the places that we sell them to, we usually install the chips where the customer wants and the free dumps we dont do that. btw just got my weaver cougar saddle. and im lovin it!!!!
 
We're lucky here in that we have a pulp and paper mill that will take all of our chips (at no cost)for fuel to create steam. As the interest in biofuel begins to take hold in the area I hope one day to be able to sell our chips for something, anything but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
Current prices for hog fuel here are around $20/meter delivered to the mill but that's for loads of around 50 cubic meters. Not much money but at least it's a means of getting rid of the chips.
 
We sell good loads for $80/load. We probably only sell 20 loads a year. The rest we give away or send to the pulp and paper mill for free.

I've started stockpiling good chips and i intend to sell composted wood chips by the yard. Probably $30-$40/yard. Compost tea products to follow someday and to hopefully be sold with the composted mulch. I haven't figured that part out yet but decayed organic matter is best for soils.
 
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