How much do you pay per ton at the landfill.

[Hddnis]

Palms are not green waste. They do not decompose like trees. They say they last longer in a landfill than diapers.
Jeff

Do they burn?

I know you most likely can't just torch off a big pile of them. I was thinking a waste to energy plant might want them. Do you have any of those?



Mr. HE

 

[jefflovstrom]

They will burn, but try to burn anything in San Diego without a permit after all the fires we have-OMG, impossible. Mexico they burn them.
Jeff
Sometimes people want the fronds for roofing gazebos and such because they last so long.

 

[squad143]

When I do "city" work and have to dump, it is around $77 to $80/ton for chips and logs under 3". They consider this compost. Anything larger is waste and is $120/ Ton.

I usually have someone lined up for the wood (unless its junk).

I just factor the cost into the job.

When I work up north (cottage country), I chip into the bush and leave the wood in firewood lengths for the customer.

 

[ozzy42]

Palms are not green waste. They do not decompose like trees. They say they last longer in a landfill than diapers.
Jeff

Must be something in the water out there .They treat palms like any other wood waste in Fl.



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[jefflovstrom]

I think you are drinking too much "peach palm" juice. Lets not derail. I dont think Peach Palm is a factor of the amount of palm waste generated here.
Jeff

 

[ozzy42]

I think you are drinking too much "peach palm" juice. Lets not derail. I dont think Peach Palm is a factor of the amount of palm waste generated here.
Jeff

You have don't any that I proof peach palm juice drink.




I stand by the previous statement" They treat palms like any other wood waste in Fl.

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[jefflovstrom]

:monkey:I am glad you stand by what you said, I wonder how many tree crews are out there generating palm waste and paying for green price. Not happening, unless it it private property dumping. Anyway , OZZY, You are de-railing this by introducing a production crop to the fact that we generate alot of palm waste. Take a poll of how many Peach palm dumps are going on here in this topic. Easy guy, I am just saying that if all I did was Peach palm (food, crop), I would agree, the fact is that a Mex Palm is different.And others. Why are so argumentive"
Jeff

 

[ozzy42]

Not trying to be arguementive,just saying I have never heard of palm disposal being a problem,at least not here anyway.

I'm just saying it is all treated the same here.
The only thing the recycle centers here seperate,or flat out won't take is treated or painted wood.[plywood,or const.waste].

 

[Gts4tw]

Here we pay $22 per ton of green wood and about twice that per ton of other. This dump doesn't consider palm trees green wood, and they charge more if there is anything palm in the back.

Other dumps are higher, but sometimes it's worth it to go to them in order to save travel time. They don't consider the palm trees as refuse there, but they charge $33 for the first 800lb of green and about $50-60 per ton there after.

Are these prices steep compared to what you pay?

Anyone have a way of avoiding dump costs?

Well, we pay nothing if it is conisdered compost or brush. Pretty much anything else is $6 for the first ton and $25/ton after that. Seems like a good deal now, but not too long ago you could dump whatever you could carry for a flat fee of $6.

 

[phillytreeking1]

In philly we pay $20.00 a load for chips no matter how big the truck thers a couple places in the suburbs that take chips for free. Now wood small trucks are $40.00 and big trucks are $80.00 . I have have my own dump so I have no problems and a mulch farm comes and takes the chips and junk wood for free and they regrind and make mulch , once or twice month they come and run semi loads out all day , i let them use my wheel loader but they will lowboy one of theres in if they have to. I guess the east coast is alot different no palms up here lol

 

[PurdueJoe]

We dump chips for free at one dump and pay $30 a load for logs and brush. The other dump we use on the east side is $20 for a 1 ton with a chip body and it doesn't matter whats in it.

 

[ozzy42]

I remember my uncle freaking out back in the early 80s when the county dump went from $5 to$8 pr load for a 2 1/2 ton truck.
He said it would stop people from cutting trees alltogether.

 

[capetrees]

$40 /load in a 6 wheel dump truck up, $30 for a one ton no matter whats in either, logs, stumps, weeds, chips and it doesn't matter how much you cram in either. My one ton has the chip box built onto it and I load it up when I need to. Usually I transfer the logs to the six wheeler adn run the cips in the one ton off to a friend in the lanscape biz.

 

[ForTheArborist]

After looking at all of those prices from around the continent, I know we don't have it good here. Dump fees are high in the city of San Diego. I suppose there is a higher price for the people that live in the meccas.

 

[gr8scott72]

After looking at all of those prices from around the continent, I know we don't have it good here. Dump fees are high in the city of San Diego. I suppose there is a higher price for the people that live in the meccas.

Yeah, but you probably get much more for cutting the tree down than we do here.

Oh, you can have your mecca. I like my 5 acres of country living outside the city limits. :biggrinbounce2:

View out my back door:

 

[jefflovstrom]

For The Action, I am in this area too and I dont think people understand how strict and screwed-up this state is. I just got a ticket for cell use on the freeway, first one= $180.00 plus $232.00 for traffic school. Anyway, you need to get out and meet people on large property, local fire district, Cal-Trans, etc, you would not believe the people who want it. Remember, we are in the burn area here.
Jeff

 

[Brush Hog]

Chips and brush are free but hours of land fill suck. I take all wood back to my house so I can heat it in the winter. Any pine goes into the bonfire pile.

 

[treeman82]

To dump organic refuse at a transfer station was $120 per ton last time I was there, and that was over a year ago, for a load of junk. The local mulch yard gets about $15 - $20 per yard, haven't had to go there in over a year either.

 

[Rftreeman]

anything that grows from grass to trees wood, chips and all is $41 a ton, they turn it in to mulch and compost that they sale and use at schools and city property's.

 

[capetrees]

We can't take it to our dumps anymore. We take them to private brush operations. The yard buries the junk in long deep earth basins and after rotting underground for 3+ years, they go to the old far end of the basin and dig it all up and screen it. Very acidic but very nitrogen rich loam is derived. That which didn't rot goes through the shredder and is buried next round with new brush and stumps on the other end.