Disposal of brush and leaves

[XOFMOT]

I live in a pretty URBAN area and get a lot of requests for BRUSH removal. I can't seem to find a place at all to get rid of this type of debris. What about leaves? What does everyone do out there to get rid of your debris? Thanks!

[LoneStarLawn]

We have a free brush site here

[Just Cut]

I deliver it to a local landscape supply, they accept leafs, stumps grass clippings, limbs under 1' in thickness and no longer than 5' long , brush basicly any green lawn waste. I only bring large amounts, as they charge by the cubic yard. the small loads customer disposes of, or I remove by bag and put it out at the curb side for the city to remove. I also charge a disposal fee for any debris removed

[cantoo]

You might consider buying a small chipper to take care of some of your clippings and branches. The mulch could then be used productively. The stumps would still have to go somehwere else. Some of the guys here say that they try to find someone who owns some vacant land to make a deal with, you maintain their property and they allow you to dump on their property.

[Randy]

Here the city comes by with a 10 ton dump with a vac on it,and vac up the leaves and hual them off.Just put them on the curb,and they will come and get them for free.Well it's payed for by taxs dollars.If yuor have a cient outside of town you must get them desposed of your self.I have a few out side of town witch I use the leaves for compost.

[LoneStarLawn]

Originally posted by cantoo
...you maintain their property and they allow you to dump on their property.

I think that is the most contradicting statement I have ever heard.

[stslawncare]

hey, know of any farmers? take it to a farm brush pile and let it decompose, u can burn it, shred it, take it ur local soil supplier, many possibilities

[cantoo]

Should have added wooded area to the post, forgot I was Canadian I guess. It's a little different here we have trees all over the place. I also spread the leaves on low areas of local hiking trails. It is compost and they are happy to have it.

[rdh]

i got 7 acres and dump it in a hole and burn it every now and then at night with some drinking buddies fish and tell lies allnight it dont get any better than this.

[Runner]

We have all field in behind us, and all the leaves get dumped on the higher part, and all the brush gets dumped in the lower area. The brush IS building up though over the years. I like the idea of friends around a fire better, myself!:p

[1MajorTom]

We are very fortunate. A business owner has a vacant lot and he actually approached us at the start of last season, and offered his property to us to dump on. It was amazing. It is only a few minutes from our home. We take it for granted now, but we shouldn't because it has made life so much easier.

[fivestarlawnken]

Some of the local townships have leaf disposal sites.Either I burn and have a small bonfire or use for compost to kill weeds in the woods by my house.

[gogetter]

Originally posted by 1MajorTom
A business owner has a vacant lot and he actually approached us at the start of last season, and offered his property to us to dump on


Sweet deal Jodi!. Wish I could come across someone like this.
When I have larger amounts of debris from doing hedges or trees, I bill that to the customer and take it to a local landscaper supply nearby. THey charge me $15 for a pick up bed full, $20 for a trailer full (5'x10').
The problem is when I just have a bag here and a bag there. I live in an apartment so I can't just put it out at at my own curb.
Approached the owner of my storage facility, but turns out he doesn't own the wooded lot behind the facility.
Nearby township does have a compost site for residents, but not a resident and it's for homeowners only, no commercial dumping.
I need a house with nice size property!!

[EJK2352]

Have two towns I work in that do fall curbside pick-up's. The rest of it goes to a farmer who spreads it on a field that he uses for growing pumpkins:);) :) ED

[kutnkru]

Get a dump bed or an insert and then just find a convenient cliff or vacant wooded lot.

LOL!!!
Kris

[leeslawncare]

I don't know about brush but as far as leaves go . I ve got a friend that wants all the bagged leaves i can send her . she put them in her garden in the spring to hold down the weeds an ....thats cool for me .

[Premo Services]

I guess I am lucky. Most of the communities that I work in have leaf pickup in fall and spring, and brush pickup throught the year. There are some that don`t have pickup, and for the leaves they have wooded areas that I put them in. For brush, limbs, I have 3 1/2 acres behind my house and put them in the woods. :D

[rdh]

throw it out in back of kmart or just put tailgate down when you get on the highways.

[awm]

just put it out in my burn pile and burn it when its dry. ah country living:)

[cp]

I'm lucky in the sense that most of my customers have extra acreage that I dump on otherwise if it goes to the landfill it cost $50 a ton.

[jdseven]

In my area the town takes the leaves for free. But we have to pay $5 a load for pickup or trailer.

[Grapevine]

We live in a small town and if you are a resident the landfill/Compost is free. Technically if you are a commercial guy they don't allow dumping, but my father in law is best friends with the Highway super. It really is a small town.

[roscioli]

Grapevine- where in mass are you?
I dump all my junk either on site (most customers own at least 1 acre lot, 1/2 woods, or I dump it one of 2 other places. My grandfather has a large farm with a nice cliff that we have been extending for years now with junk like that, and my family also owns a restaurant with a huge back lot. Everything good for compost goes to the restaurant, sticks and brush go to the cliff. I NEVER BURN ANYTHING. Burning is fun, but then one day a guy said to me "I dont understand the people that burn leaves, just dump them in the woods, let them rot, and help nature, rather than help ruin it" And i said, WOW, that is very true, and havent burned since. Now I am getting to the point of being anti-burning. THis from a guy who used to burn oil rags on a daily basis....

[kutnkru]

Originally posted by awm
just put it out in my burn pile and burn it when its dry. ah country living:) AWM I would find out what the ordinances are in your area because here in Upstate NY you cannot burn or dispose of "Commercial clippings/harborage(brush)" at your residence.

Most of the areas around here have the municipalities to pick up the debris from curbside during Oct and mid Nov. We used to do this until the one year it snowed 8" for Halloween and then everything was a mess again due to plowing, and we had to eat the cost of pulling it back to the curbs.

We have been hauling everything away since that time.

You might even check with a local topsoil company. Quite often they will accept clean clippings/shredded leaves to mix in with their blended soils.

Good Luck!
Kris

[andyslawns]

we have about a 200 acre farm north of town. there are several ditches so it is not a problem for us. I love the guys that think leaf disposal is going down the interstate 70 mph with the tail gate down.:blob3:

[yardmonkey]

WOW, $50/ton. Ours is $20/ton with a $10 minimum. But we also have a compost site that accepts leaves, grass, limbs up to 4" diameter - no charge. Plus citizens can pick up compost at no charge. I can't imagine operating without the compost site. LCOs and tree guys as well as "civilians" are dumping yard waste all day. The city also picks up yard waste curbside to take to the compost site one day a week year-round. I guess I'm lucky to be living here in Norman, Oklahoma. (I don't think they have a compost site in OKC, but I haven't really looked into it).

[wallzwallz]

4 out of the 5 towns i work in have free grass + leave dumping,but charge $30 for 1 ton high sides for brush. In the town w/out leaf dump can't do cleanups there unless it will fit in 1 Leaf Box or less

[rdh]

the ones here is the kind you cant dump in .its like a bunch of dumpsters and you back up and throw it in by hand .

[Randy J]

Cantoo already mentioned it, but I think it's worth repeating. Why not get a chipper/shredder and covert it to mulch? You could then resell it to your customers.
By the way, I'm asking a serious question. Maybe I'm missing something, but it sure seems it would be worth converting to mulch for resale. You'd have to buy the chipper/shredder, but the material is free!

[lawnboy82]

Tom, I had sent you a PM about where you can dump brush and stumps over by where you live. I would like to make sure that you got the message, because I have not heard a word from you. Please respond tonight, thank you.

[Randy Scott]

The machines that are used to make mulch material are around $30,000 plus dollars. A guy I know is demoeing one and that's what he said the price was. You have to sell alot of mulch to pay that puppy off. There is a difference between mulch, and ground up wood chips and branches. What runs through a chipper is not the same as a tub grinder which makes mulch.

[lawnboy82]

RANDY! Please find me a new tub grinder for 30K$. Over by me a larger tow behind 12" goes for that much. I should think that a descent tub grinder is going to be at least 200K, also dont forget that you need to run the stuff through 2 times to break it up into mulch. Sometimes you have to bust it up with a machine so that may be 3 times breaking it down.

[grassyfras]

what about smaller shredders like those ones at Home depot would they work if you just wanted smaller debris to put in bags?

[cantoo]

I meant to chip the smaller stuff and haul only the bigger stuff away. My 8hp chipper will take a 3" branch and I only paid Can$350 for it used. I also have a 5hp chipper that we use just for leaves, we set it beside the wooded area and rake the leaves into it. It will shred the leaves and blow them about 10' into the bush to rot. They rot quicker and blend in better after chipping.