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

[Grace Tree]

We slash everything into a 17ft. trailer. Pull board in the front of the trailer. Drive out from under the load. Kick out the big wood for winter heat for needy families and burn the rest. No chipper, no dump fees.
Phil

 

[Thirdpete]

bah! $20 /cubic yard here, for everything. Branches, grass, logs, dirt, clay/stone, etc.

 

[S_T_S]

Try dumping in the UK, the only places around me are the skip hire places and they charge £50 ($90) per ton or part of!!

Lucky I don't pay anything anymore just a bit of mutual back scratching

 

[kkottemann]

I guess 4 bucks is not that bad.

 

[pesimon]

4 dollars a yard---I wish

Here the cost to dump at a liscensed facility range from $28 per yard ( wood, dirt and concrete only) to $65 dollars per ton for mixed construction debris. Most places are about 15 miles away but it takes about 45 minutes to get there and you sit on line waiting your turn for at least 30 minutes, usally a lot longer. Most of the garbage gets shipped off of Long Island, but some goes to the local incinerater. Don't seem to be many choices here--I guess that is why "piles" appear over night in some areas.

 

[Fireaxman]

KK - there is a pit in Waldheim where you can dump for $2 a yard when you are on this side of the lake. Let me know if you are interested and I'll get the details for you.

 

[kkottemann]

fireaxman,
that could be a possibility if I have multiple loads in a day. But for the most part I go ahead up to mississippi to a large pile I have there. I think I am going to buy a big chipper in a month or so.

 

[Steve-Maine]

I don't see what the fuss is about higher dump fees. We would just charge the customer more. It is like any other business when your cost goes up, you charge the customer more. Just the game of being in business..

 

[kkottemann]

Steve,
I agree 100%. Under normal circumstances. New Orleans, and the surrounding area have real issues right now. The goverment has crews doing the work for free in most places right now, on top of the fact that since the storm everyone and their grandpa has become a "tree Service" When the goverment (Fema crews) do the work, the home owner pays $0. How can I compete with that. I am not a huge company at all, as a matter of fact I am as small as it gets. My costs are pretty low. Last week I saw a preson "tree service" in a tree on top of two ladders. One ladder went up to the first major limb, the next ladder was proped on that limb going up the tree. The man was on top of the second ladder. Now I am sure the owner got a good price, since this man probabbly had no insurance, workers Comp. or general knowledge what so ever. With my monthly costs rising because of fuel, insurance ect.... the dump fee just kinda poured fuel on the fire. I am now working too cheap. But this is my chosen job, so work cheap or don't work, as a result I drive 80 miles to dump for free instead of 20miles and pay $100 a load in order to keep my doors open and lights on, and if I had kids to put shoes on thier feet.

 

[kkottemann]

Steve,
I agree 100%. Under normal circumstances. New Orleans, and the surrounding area have real issues right now. The goverment has crews doing the work for free in most places right now, on top of the fact that since the storm everyone and their grandpa has become a "tree Service" When the goverment (Fema crews) do the work, the home owner pays $0. How can I compete with that. I am not a huge company at all, as a matter of fact I am as small as it gets. My costs are pretty low. Last week I saw a preson "tree service" in a tree on top of two ladders. One ladder went up to the first major limb, the next ladder was proped on that limb going up the tree. The man was on top of the second ladder. Now I am sure the owner got a good price, since this man probabbly had no insurance, workers Comp. or general knowledge what so ever. With my monthly costs rising because of fuel, insurance ect.... the dump fee just kinda poured fuel on the fire. I am now working too cheap. But this is my chosen job, so work cheap or don't work, as a result I drive 80 miles to dump for free instead of 20miles and pay $100 a load in order to keep my doors open and lights on, and if I had kids to put shoes on thier feet.

 

[SRT-Tech]

we dump our logs and woodchips at a local blueberry farmer in the lower Mainland BC, Canada. His entire field is covered in rich black soil, from all the shreddies we dump. The wood is either left onsite for the homeowner, or dumped at the farm for the farmer to use. Free too!

 

[Log hog]

Just lucky I guess.

I have a cheese factory that burns wood chips for the boiler and the pay me $23 a ton that equals out to about $138 dollars a load for me. Not bad cause I average about 2-3 loads a week. Other wise I have some people that want a load and I barter with them. I got 2 people that grow blue berries and I dump a few loads a year for them also.

 

[kkottemann]

What do blueberry farmers do with woodchips?

 

[clearance]

What do blueberry farmers do with woodchips?

They use them for road fill, free, easy to push. Chips are easy to get rid of where SRT is, most farms take them, it rains a lot, stuff gets stuck in mud, cows, horses like to stand on chips.

 

[SRT-Tech]

they break down VERY QUICKLY in the moist climate we have here, producing VERY nitrogen rich soil, which the blue berries farmers LOVE, cuz they get big thick high yielding blueberry bushes!

and yes also what Clearance said, we's got a bit of a water problem....lol

 

[geofore]

blueberries

What do blueberry farmers do with woodchips?

blueberries require a slightly acidic soil and the wood chips serve two purposes they keep the weeds down and also keep the acid level up which is good for the blueberry bushes. It takes the chips a few years to break down and while they are breaking down the chips are taking nitrogen from the soil so you have to fertilize the bushes for a year or two till the chips start to work on their own to help the bushes out. The chips keep the weeds down the first time you apply them. Blueberry folks would come around to the sawmills to get loads of sawdust for the same reason. The city folks who come out to pick their own berries appreciate they don't have to get their feet dirty (mud vs sawdust) to walk in when picking.

 

[Yellowdog]

We have started pregrinding wood with a brush mower to make it fit in a dump trailer or rolloff container more efficiently. On a big enough job, we can haul to a property where we can use brush mower or bring it out to the job site for a few hours. What would take days and $$ to haul off can be reduced to shreds and chunks and hauled more efficiently for less $$. YOu can get a lot more shreds into a container than limbs and logs!