Hey guys, thanks for all the replies. But since there are so many, I'll just reply here in one go:
1: Someone said it looks like branches and not mulch. 99% of it is mulch done with a mulching head on a LARGE dedicated mulcher. So the chips are roughly 2-6 inches each. There are only a "few" branches and such, comparatively speaking...it's just that they stick out like a sore thumb when compared to the rest. And that pile in the picture is only a fraction of what's left. My front yard is 6-12 inches deep in the stuff. If you look around at the surrounding tree line, that's how thick it WAS before clearing...unwalkable. Also, BTW, that pile in the picture is 50 ft wide and 15ft tall...and that's only 1/4 the yard I've done so far...it's quite the work to do...
2: Someone said just pile it up. That's what I've been doing for months, but it's super hard to do, given that there are still some stumps barely above grade that catch on the buckets and grapples. And at this point, I've only done about 25% of the yard and was just looking for some other way to go about it.
3: Someone said find someone to buy it. I found a couple places that said they would, then came out and looked at it, and said it wasn't worth their time....they wanted ACRES of the stuff. Granted, they are more industrial, but having to find multiple people on facebook or other places seems tedious. I would only assume a single person would not want it all, so I'd be dealing with several small loads across several small people for months...and I don't live here yet (no house built yet). Also, I don't yet have it all piled up to efficiently gather and load it. However, I may go ahead and give this a shot just to see if there are any takers...
4: Someone said use it for gardening or food plots. I'm just trying to get the front cleared out for a house and front yard for right now. I thought about just migrating it all to the back and letting it turn to compost...maybe treating it with something like mushrooms, but I don't have a dump trailer or anything to efficiently haul it with, and going one bucket load at a time would take a year, lol. And to be honest, there's no way I would dedicate myself to do that.
5: Someone asked what type of trees. It's a mixture of mesquite, cedar, elm, and just garbage underbrush like thorn bushes, etc.
6: Someone said don't burn it. I had actually considered burning it, but in small chunks/piles. Obviously, I would NEVER light the whole thing up in one go...hell, I don't even have water out here yet, lol. I thought about just dumping a bucket load in a cleared, dirt-only section, and burning one pile at a time, with the tractor and box blade on stand by should I need it. Thoughts on that?
Long short, while I appreciate everyone's feedback, and definitely agree that at some point down the road I would like to have it all for a future food plot or similar, right now, with this particular stash, I just want to get rid of it the quickest, easiest way possible. It's a LOT of work to pile up the rest, and I don't have a good place to store it, and I'm just trying to get the house plot and front yard cleared for now.
