Dump fees going up again!!!!!damit!!!!!

[kkottemann]

The dump fees are going up again in the new orleans area and I think it is getting out of hand. There are 2 dumps that I haul to when I work in the area. One charges $5 dollars per yard to dump. The other i have been using more was charging $3.50/yard to dump, but now it is going up to $4.00/yard. I do not know about other parts of the country, but this is going to take a toll on my biz. Not to mention the dumps are about 30 Min out of town. I have a 25 yard grapple truck. I made 3 loads today. At $4 bucks per yard thats $300 in dump fees in one day. I currently do not have a chipper but i think I will be comparing prices monday. I tell you what, when I found out today that the price went up i was one hot coonass. Savant' mal cher'

What are dumping fees in other parts of the county? I would like to know. I don't know if those prices are good or bad as compared to other areas.

 

[DDM]

Free here.

 

[CaseyForrest]

KK, I work for a Landfill, $9.00yd3 for brush, $16.07yd3 for non compactible(building materials) and $14.00yd3 for general(household)

 

[kkottemann]

Free In greenvill???Wow!!!that is pretty nice. Is it a public landfill or private. How can it be free?? Unless it is a wood recycling center and they sell the mulch.

It seems pretty expensive in MI. Do you know what the average price per hour a tree company gets on a all day takedown. Just curious to see how it trickles down to the dump.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Tree companies here don't haul into the landfill. For one, its illegal for yard waste to enter a Sanitary Landfill. Second, EVERYONE up here has either a fireplace, wood stove, or outdoor boiler. The only thing we see occasionally is chips, and even thats rare as homeowners will take the chips for free, and there's a waiting list for the chips!!

I dont know what tree companies get per hour. I recently had a 3' dbh Silver maple taken down. No truck, all climbing and rope work. Cost me $950 for 6 hours. One climber and one ground man. I was the second groundie. Everything was left onsite and was cut only small enough to get it to the ground safely.

 

[kkottemann]

casey,
i did not think about the fire place effect. people use the wood. down here we are still in shorts in mid november. Fire places are a novelty, used mostly at christmas. I dump most everything, except pecan and hickory b/c I like to cook with it. What are people doing with the chips that there is a waiting list for them?

 

[arborworks1]

what do you do with your waste from removals and such

if logs and brush do not go to landfills, where do you take your material. private land and burn, give it away as firewood and free mulch, or invest big money and tub grind and sell mulch. seems burning is the method around this area.

 

[John464]

chips I dump for free. logs and debris $5 per yard. the only logs im dumping are the ones we cant use to sell for firewood.

 

[DDM]

Free In greenvill???Wow!!!that is pretty nice. Is it a public landfill or private. How can it be free?? Unless it is a wood recycling center and they sell the mulch.

It seems pretty expensive in MI. Do you know what the average price per hour a tree company gets on a all day takedown. Just curious to see how it trickles down to the dump.

I can dump chips for free in the county landfill but i only occasionally take them there.I dump chips at the landfill maybe twice a yr.I have 6-7 places within a 2 mile radius of the house i can take all i want to so i rotate. Good hardwood gets saved for firewood.Trash wood gets pushed up in a pile and burnt.I purchased 10 acres for burning and firewood storage. O and anything i can get out of the yard in a log goes to the sawmill they will buy anything but cedar.I sell enough logs a month to pay for my skid steer and dump truck.
I charge from 150.00 to 200.00 an hr depending on what equipment it will require.Crane is extra.

 

[CaseyForrest]

casey,
i did not think about the fire place effect. people use the wood. down here we are still in shorts in mid november. Fire places are a novelty, used mostly at christmas. I dump most everything, except pecan and hickory b/c I like to cook with it. What are people doing with the chips that there is a waiting list for them?

Hoemowers use them or mulch. Or they let them dry and burn them in their boilers.

 

[Koa Man]

$4 a yard is so stinking cheap. We pay by weight, $42 a ton, unless it is chipped, then it is $10 a ton. Palm debris, even if chipped, is $42 a ton. I have a few places where I can dump chips, even palm debris, for free so I rarely go to the green waste dump with chips. Your grab truck would probably cost you at least $200 a load here.

 

[Steve-Maine]

We have quite a few contractors who love to get chips free. As far as wood, we put in all contracts that dump fees are extra and just take wood to landfill and pay fees. In the last twenty years no one has complained about dump fees.

 

[vharrison2]

$4 a yard is so stinking cheap.

Koa, right? Don't whine about $ 4 dollars a yard.

 

[l2edneck]

Im lucky becuzz im small i pay flat rate for my trailers i can usually get atleast 3-800$ on each and its 10$ a load but i have to unload and the lines are usually ridiculous so what i save on dump i lose in time, for chip trucks its by the ton and fluxuates from 38 to 48 a ton my partner has a semi with a 60 yard dump he uses for his <he chips into the smaller trucks then transfers at his yard>i think he was paying 4$ a yard as well but most here pay by the ton so its out ragious 1 truck of chips is usually well over 200$a load

 

[elmnut]

Im lucky becuzz im small i pay flat rate for my trailers i can usually get atleast 3-800$ on each and its 10$ a load but i have to unload and the lines are usually ridiculous so what i save on dump i lose in time, for chip trucks its by the ton and fluxuates from 38 to 48 a ton my partner has a semi with a 60 yard dump he uses for his <he chips into the smaller trucks then transfers at his yard>i think he was paying 4$ a yard as well but most here pay by the ton so its out ragious 1 truck of chips is usually well over 200$a load

just a thought for you, lay a 1/2" rope across your trailer before you load it, then you can tie a running bowline over the pile. At the dump tie the other end off to a log or brush pile and drive away. It has always helped me to save time when unloading a trailer.

 

[ASD]

we sell the chip to the power co.

we sell the wood to a local fire wood outfit

the palm to the dumps @ 16.50 yd.

 

[juststumps]

we dump chips for free out here,,,have a township dump/recycling center,, nothing over 4 inches...free....they make mulch,, sell it...have another commercial place that takes chips for free......charge $8:00/ yard for logs,, junk,, stumps,,etc.....they mulch also,,they also dye and bag the stuff....we also have a lot of peple that just want some chips for their yard...so its no problem getting rid of the stuff....

 

[l2edneck]

just a thought for you, lay a 1/2" rope across your trailer before you load it, then you can tie a running bowline over the pile. At the dump tie the other end off to a log or brush pile and drive away. It has always helped me to save time when unloading a trailer.

I wish but its a county landfill n they wont let ya do any thing like that due to liability at the by the ton dumps its fine but triple the price thx for the advice we use to lay a steel cable under it tethered to one side of the flat bed with a hook on ot and use another truck to pull it off but no more they wont even pull it with the loader but the price is right and usually only takes about 45 mins provided you dont turn the load into cole slaw

 

[skyhightree1]

I am in Chesterfield,Va and the dump fees here are $40.00 per ton that you bring in on a dump truck. If I have a small job or a job where its not gonna make alot of money I haul on a pickup and utility trailer to the county dump because they just charge you 8 dollars per load that way... but you cant have any business decals or signs on the truck or they wont let you.. so I keep one of my trucks with magnetic signs so I can take them off..lol... May be wrong but hey we all know were in business to make money not lose it.

 

[JimL]

Always a couple farmers around here wanting a hollar filled in, take the as much brush chips as you want.

Some ???? treatment facilities take chips, mulch places will take clean chips with no trash in them.