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Wood Chip - What to do with it?

  • 15-04-2025 01:19PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737
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    Like everyone, i've a large amount of trees down and luckily nearly all chopped up now that can be used for firewood. Problem i have now is i've a huge pile of small branches, ivy etc. I was thinking of renting a woodchipper but just trying to figure out what to do with the woodchip then.

    How do people use it? Would it decompose enough to spread on the land in a couple of years if i add it to the dung heap?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,616 2smiggy
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    Sell it ? maybe some crowd will chip it for free, if there is enough there, and take the chippings in return. Depending on the size of woodchipper needed, they are expensive. We have a decent sized one, but you also have the tractor powering it, and a handy sized excavator + grab feeding it. Probably €130 or €140 per hour



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 fulldnod
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    Burn it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 148multi
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    IIf you add it to dung it will strip nitrogen from the dung, shove it in to a corner or celebrate bonfire night with it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 bogman_bass
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    Are you much of a gardener? Mulch for boarders etc



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 Jb1989
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    Any good for bedding is it



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 Thekeencyclist
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    Was in the same position as yourself, a lot of trees down, eventually got the last tree cut up 2 weeks ago and i had an awful lot of ivy and branches etc that would be no good for the stove so I got a machine in the other day, he stuffed it all into various gaps and holes in the perimeter hedging etc. Took him a few hours but it is surprising how much he could stuff into a gap or hole.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 lucalux
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    I know if I could get a load of wood chip dropped off I'd love it for the garden, but I wouldn't be able to collect a full load, no trailer or anything

    Ask around and see if anyone you know gardens would like it/could collect maybe?

    plenty of people buying bark mulch from garden centres, fresh woodchip is better imo, more moisture and breaks down quicker

    Brilliant for mulching, veg growing and weed suppression



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 minerleague
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    Please tell me you're joking? Make a heap in some corner - ideal for insects etc and will rot away in time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ABitofsense
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    Problem is my corners and ditches are already blocked and filled as i had to get a lad with a digger and saw to help move and saw up the large trees into safer manageable lengths.

    Ill use some of it for flower beds anyway, never thought about that.

    On the nitrogen stripping from the dung, i'll have to look into that abit more. It will be sitting there for a number of years before it will be used so might chance it and keep it turned and mixed with dung. It should decompose (hopefully) and then the nitrogen becomes available again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 PoorFarmer
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    Your local tidy towns or community development group might have a use for whatever you have left over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 have2flushtwice
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    I took a load of bark from a sawmills to put a floor in the greenhouse. Paid enough for it too.

    II'm Not joking when I say it was like a ditch after 6 months. The amount of briars and shite that grew from it, they must have mulched anything and everything into it. East galway sawmill by the way and ill never darken his door again after the hardship.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,448 patsy_mccabe
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    Every farm should have a 'Green' dump. Somewhere you can just just throw the end branches. I have an old ring fort on the farm that I use. It's covered in briars anyway, so the extra few branches every year just break down over time.

    I often thought a small PTO shredder would be great, but hard to justify it for the work I have.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 youllbemine
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    If you know what went into it, then mix away with dung. Leave it in the corner, mix it every 6 months and you'll have some lovely stuff. Make sure it doesn't dry out, that'll slow down the rate of decomposition.

    A shed that was bedded here 4 years ago and no stock in it since had the roof blow off the front bit. The bedding turned into the best compost you've ever seen. Whereas you'd swear the straw in the covered bit was put in last week.



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