Experience using chip drop?
Posted by liberal_texan@reddit | Dallas | View on Reddit | 12 comments
I'm thinking of signing up for a free chip drop, and am wondering if anyone here has experience with the service in Dallas.
https://getchipdrop.com/free-wood-chips/dallas-tx/
How long did it take, what was the quality, how much was dropped, etc?
timayws@reddit
When you go to the website, ChipDrop recommends watching a video "why you shouldn't get chip drop" that pretty much lays out what to expect.
Expect to get 20 yards of mulch. FWIW there have been 3 drops I've seen with decent quality, especially for free.
You take a picture of 2 locatios on your property you want them to dump. I recommend a driveway or a garden bed.
If you have neighbors, get them in on it, and get a pitch fork to make shoveling much easier.
I put in a $20 tip and got service within a week. One guy called me and decided not to drop because he was concerned about destroying my yard with the soft ground from the rain, so my experience there has been pretty good too.
Significant_Fox9290@reddit
If you do this and have too much, I’ll come get some.
liberal_texan@reddit (OP)
Noted.
Unusual_Squash_503@reddit
I’ve used it annually for the past 4 years. It’s great for my needs but the contents of each dump have been all over the place. My most recent dump had a bunch of cedar chips but also a bunch of trash, and I’ve gotten a couple forms of ivy introduced to my yard because there were roots chopped up with everything else.
ShimeUnter@reddit
I did it last week with a $20 tip and had a drop the next day. The quality isn't great (lots of leaves and sticks) but you will get a huge amount for nothing.
BigRoach@reddit
My neighbor out here in Mansfield uses it. They’ll show up and dump a mountain of mulch that casts a shadow across the land until they spread it with their tractor.
EvanOnTheFly@reddit
It's usually more than people want. Just put a sign out for neighbors to take a couple buckets!
Hot-Education4582@reddit
Be ready to do lots of manual labor to move and for it to kill any grass underneath. My husband and I moved the woodchips from where they dropped it in the front yard to our flower beds and our backyard garden consistently with shovels and a wheelbarrow and it took us half a year to move it all. 😂 Overall worth it for all the free mulch and crazy arm workouts but our neighbors did not like the eyesore
liberal_texan@reddit (OP)
Did you specify where you wanted them to drop?
Hot-Education4582@reddit
Yes we asked for the front lawn.
adam_ltt@reddit
my neighbor did it in dallas and got way more chips than expected but the quality was actually pretty good for garden beds
buzzyburke@reddit
Ive seen people talk about it and the most common thing they say is I didnt expect it to be this much, driveway piled 8 ft high or something like that