Oh, what I wouldn't give for a problem like that! Here you have to stand in line for the privilege of picking raw wood chips up, and there is never enough to go around. To have someone deliver and there be no charge would be a godsend!
It was in Westchester, NY, and one town over from the Rockefeller Estate complex. A home that might be $250k elsewhere, is likely to go for at least seven digits. With real estate that pricy, even dumping grounds become expensive. And, nearly everyone hires a landscape firm rather than doing their own yard work. ................... My own home is not that way - it's farm country - formerly dairy and now largely field corn and produce. We've lots of land, but also nearly everyone has their own serious equipment for dealing with the land.
Heh... I have that.... problem. I have as much or more acreage than those around me, but do not own, nor do I know how to operate the "big boy toys" that most of the others have. I am managing this place with hand tools.
google "chipdrop" for the website that connects aborists to those needing chips... it might take a long time but eventually you will get a load of chips. no charge.
Howdy Dave! too long, no see... I signed up for a "chip drop" last year and a couple weeks ago received a call from an arborist asking where to drop them... I have an area cleared beside the driveway ready for such and they brought a big load (would totally cover my van) of beautiful chips. as I can always use chips and since my last llamas passed (after almost forty years--about double their normal lifespan--pampered llamas, I converted the pasture to meadow, and on my 72nd birthday, planted 72 trees (Hinoki Cypress and Japanese Maples) around the edges. I want to use the chips as mulch to hold moisture and keep the scotch broom scourge and other weeds at bay. (I also need to put cages around the cypress trees as the deer and rabbits are keeping them the size they were when I planted two years ago.) I signed up for another chip drop and didn't have to wait for over 280 days like the last time. A couple days after signing up, I received a call and asked if he could deliver them to the pasture--"no problem". I now have two
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Hi Ed, Very glad to see you're still around. I couldn't even get into your LJ anymore because of that old 750[?} friends problem. I still keep a camera handy, but lately it's primarily used for taking pictures of [step] grandchildren. There's also one young lady that we've yet to meet in person - she's about 300 miles away, is eleven months old, and started walking two months ago. "M" and I have both received both doses of vaccine, so we hope to meet our first great grandchild in another couple of months. No grandchildren yet from my three, although they're all in relationships. The young man that fed your llamas has been in 49 of 50 states, hiked the AT from end to end, and is now living in Bozeman - and building acoustic guitars.
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A home that might be $250k elsewhere, is likely to go for at least seven digits.
With real estate that pricy, even dumping grounds become expensive.
And, nearly everyone hires a landscape firm rather than doing their own yard work.
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My own home is not that way - it's farm country - formerly dairy and now largely field corn and produce.
We've lots of land, but also nearly everyone has their own serious equipment for dealing with the land.
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and I like it that way to be honest.
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Very glad to see you're still around.
I couldn't even get into your LJ anymore because of that old 750[?} friends problem.
I still keep a camera handy, but lately it's primarily used for taking pictures of [step] grandchildren.
There's also one young lady that we've yet to meet in person - she's about 300 miles away, is eleven months old, and started walking two months ago.
"M" and I have both received both doses of vaccine, so we hope to meet our first great grandchild in another couple of months. No grandchildren yet from my three, although they're all in relationships.
The young man that fed your llamas has been in 49 of 50 states, hiked the AT from end to end, and is now living in Bozeman - and building acoustic guitars.
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