Mulch and wood chips

Mulch and wood chips are a byproduct of the tree service industry and are very popular with gardeners, landscapers and weekend warriors who like to use it around their property. It has multiple purposes but is often used for landscaping decoration, fertilizing, to suppress weed growth and as general ground and path cover.

Instead of paying to dispose of the wood chips we donate them to local residents, schools and businesses. This helps us reduce costs while offering a valuable service to the community.

When trimming trees, branches and brush are run through a grinding machine and chipped into small wood chips. The resulting mulch is a combination of leaf matter and wood chips. In most cases the mulch will have a notable amount of green leaf matter in it but you'll find after a few weeks the leafs will breakdown and you'll be left with mainly wood chips.

If you'd be interested in getting some mulch keep the following in mind.

1. We only deliver a full dump truck load which is a minimum of 20 cubic yards. This can cover up to about 2,500 square feet which is a pretty huge load of mulch. Please be prepared to accept such a large load. Unfortunately we can't deliver loads any smaller than this.
   
   
2. Our truck requires a drop location with at least 20 feet of overhead clearance. When the bed of our truck is at full tilt it can be as high as 20 feet (see pictures below) so please take a moment to look and see if there's any low hanging wires, tree branches or any building structures which may get in the way. 20 feet is about 2 stories tall. The biggest problem we encounter are telephone drop wires which usually stretch across your driveway.
   
   
3. The drop location must be flat, level and must have adequate space to fit our truck. Our truck is about 9 feet wide so any gates it travels through should be about 10 to 12 feet wide. The second most common problem we encounter are drop location which are on steep/twisty roads or in driveways which are too narrow.
   
   
4. If you think this may be too much mulch for you to use we often suggest that you share it with your neighbors. Even if you have some left over you can usually put an ad on Craigslist.org and people will come by and pick-up whatever excess is still available. Most people can get rid of any left over mulch in just a few days this way.
   

Here's some pictures of our truck dropping a load of mulch. Notice that the drop location has no clearance issues. There's no overhead wires, tree branches or anything that may get in the way. The ground is flat, level and there's plenty of space to maneuver our truck.



The mulch immediately starts to flow out as the truck bed lifts up.



Notice how tall the bed of the truck is here. That's about 20 feet tall. Click on the picture to enlarge it and you can see our crew member standing near the rear of the pile. This gives you a pretty good idea of both how tall the truck is and how much mulch you'll receive.







All done. That's quite a lot of mulch. The person who was using it was going to share it with his neighbors and use most of it to cover his backyard.



If you'd like to get some mulch please call us at 510-845-3644.