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Every removal and pruning job we run produces wood chips, and those chips have to go somewhere. Hauling them to a transfer station costs us time and money; dropping them at a property that wants them costs us neither. That is why arborist wood chips go out to properties in our service area for a flat $50 delivery fee, which covers the run. They are a better mulch material than anything sold in bags — a mix of wood, bark and leaf material that breaks down into a real layer of organic matter.
$50 flat delivery fee · Delivered by the truckload as jobs come up nearby
This is a byproduct arrangement, not a landscape supply service, and the practical constraints are worth understanding before you request a load.
A drop is one truck’s worth — commonly in the range of 10 to 20 cubic yards. We cannot split a load or deliver a specific number of yards, and you will not know the exact volume until it is on the ground. Plan for more than you expect.
Loads come off jobs we are already running nearby, so we set a delivery date with you once one is lined up. We cannot promise a specific time of day — the load arrives when the crew clears the job — so the drop spot needs to be accessible that day.
Whatever we were working on. Chips are mixed species and the material changes with the season — loads in spring and summer carry more leaf content, autumn and winter loads are woodier. You can request chips only, or note that you are happy to take some larger material.
Truck access, room to dump, and a spot you are certain about. Once a load is on the ground it stays there — moving it is your project. A driveway or a clear flat area near where you want to spread it works best.
Spread chips four to six inches deep, as wide as you reasonably can, and keep them pulled back off the trunk so the root flare stays visible. Mulch mounded against bark holds moisture on tissue that is not built for it and invites decay. Doughnut, not volcano.
Do not dig chips into the ground or use them as backfill around a new planting. As they break down they tie up nitrogen, and buried below the surface they hold water where roots need air. Chips are a topdressing.
Fresh chips are fine to use straight away as a surface mulch and do not need to be composted first. They settle and lose roughly half their volume over the first year, which is worth allowing for when you decide how much area a load will cover.
Other legitimate uses: pathways, informal play-area surfacing, and adding carbon to a compost pile.
For fertilization and a full root-zone plan around the mulch, see tree fertilization and mulching.
Used as a surface mulch, yes. Washington State University research on arborist wood chips has not found surface-applied chips to transmit tree pathogens to established plants, and recommends them as a mulch material.
The genuine caveats are narrow and worth stating plainly. Chips should never be used as backfill or as a soil amendment. Where a tree has been lost to a root-rot pathogen, the infected root material itself should be removed rather than chipped and spread back over the same ground. And chips should not be mounded against the trunk of a tree that is already under disease pressure.
If you have a specific concern about a nearby infection, tell us when you request the load and we will tell you whether it matters.
A flat $50 delivery fee per load within our service area. The chips themselves are a byproduct of tree work we are already doing — the fee covers getting a truck to your property. There is no obligation to buy anything else.
One truckload, commonly somewhere in the range of 10 to 20 cubic yards depending on the job it came off. You cannot specify a volume and you will not know exactly how much until it is dumped. Most people underestimate how large a load looks on arrival — and how quickly it settles.
Once a job near you is on the schedule we set a delivery date with you. What we cannot give you is a specific time of day — the load leaves the job when the crew is finished, so it could be late morning or late afternoon. Some requests are filled within a week or two and others take longer, depending entirely on where our work is at the time. The drop spot needs to be clear and accessible for the whole day we agree on.
Not reliably. Loads are mixed species because they come from whatever we removed or pruned that day. If you specifically want to avoid a particular species, or you would prefer conifer or deciduous, tell us and we will try to match it — but we cannot promise it.
Somewhere a dump truck can reach and safely raise a bed, on ground you are happy to have covered, and as close as possible to where you intend to spread them. A driveway or a clear flat area works well. Once the load is down it stays where it lands, so pick the spot carefully.
Not for use as a surface mulch. Fresh arborist chips can go straight down as a topdressing four to six inches deep. What you should not do is dig them into the ground or use them as backfill around a new planting, because breaking down below the surface ties up nitrogen and holds water where roots need air.
Not as a surface mulch. Washington State University research on arborist wood chips has not found surface-applied chips to transmit tree pathogens, and recommends them as a mulch material. The real limits are that chips should not be used as backfill or a soil amendment, and that infected root material from a root-rot tree should be removed rather than chipped and spread back over the same ground.
Wood chip delivery is a flat $50 delivery fee per load to properties within our service area — Auburn, Kent, Federal Way, Renton, Tacoma, Puyallup, Fife, Sumner, Pacific, Edgewood, Milton, Bonney Lake, Lake Tapps, Covington, Maple Valley, Des Moines, Burien, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Tukwila and Fairwood.
The fee covers getting the truck to you; the chips themselves are a byproduct of work we are already doing. What we cannot do is treat it as a supply order: the volume is whatever came off the job, loads are not split, and we cannot hold the truck to a set time of day. We can commit to the date. If you need an exact number of yards, a landscape supplier is the right call.
If you also want the trees on the property looked at while a crew is nearby, our plant health care and tree pruning consultations are free.
Every certification number below links to that arborist’s credential record with the International Society of Arboriculture, so you can verify it before anyone sets foot on your property.
Washington L&I Contractor License PACIFA*813KG · WSDA Pesticide Applicator #109480 · $1M liability insured
Send your address, where you want the load put, and any access constraints for a dump truck. We will add you to the list and get chips to you when we are working nearby.
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