It’s been six years of waiting with a solitary wood chip drop. This past month, the game changed. New tree service in the area connected through https://getchipdrop.com/ and has made four drops in a week.
It’s the good stuff. Fresh and wet and ready to be used.
Mulch. What is it good for?
Absolutely many things.
Garden bed maintenance and weed prevention.
Water retention around fruit trees.
Slowing water down on exposed slopes to preclude erosion.
Filling in areas chickens have scuffed to oblivion. (Turns out they like doing that on the side of slopes)
Filling in holes dogs dig to make a cool bed on a hot day.
Covering naked earth so that nature may cloth herself.
Compost piles to bury chicken carcasses, because sometimes a young dog hasn’t learned to knock it off yet
How well does it compost? The carbon content is certainally there, and it’ll cook. Steam is proof of a hot pile:
How do you move a lot of mulch? We’ve done it by hand. We’ve done it with a riding mower and a trailer. We’ve done it with a truck bed. I’m here to tell you, ain’t nothing so handy at moving big piles of mulch as a tractor. I processed and placed 1-1/2 dump trucks of chips in a 60 minute window, easily 10x more quickly then any other process we’ve worked with. At this rate, they can continue to bring in chips into the dozens of loads and we can continue to solve fertility issues across the property.
One bucket of the tractor holds ~20 cubit feet of material, or 10 bags of mulch from Lowe’s. At the cost of $4 per bag, each scoop is $40 in material. Each dump truck is 15-20 scoops, figure $700 in chips in bag form.
Even moving this all by hand, it’s a good investment in the future with sizable cost savings.
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