Arbtalk, the UK’s leading online community for arborists, created this service to help Arborists find convenient drop-off locations for their chip loads. It reduces unnecessary travel, lowers emissions, and ensures that useful material doesn’t go to waste – a win-win for everyone involved.
Wondering what the catch is? There isn’t one! If you can receive loose bulk deliveries of arb chip (typically 5–6m³ or more), simply register your site on Arbtalk for free. Not sure where to start? Check out our quick guide to getting the best out of your listing, or browse the FAQs to learn more.
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Its 100% free to sign up for free arb chips delivered to your door. Simply create an account in under one minute at Arbtalk.
We’ve tried to make it as simple as possible to create your listing. Simply click on the ‘add new tip site‘ button and follow the instructions.
You’re all set. Now all there is to do is wait patiently to be contacted by one of the Arbtalk tree surgeons working in your area.
When someone contacts you either by phone or email, this is your chance to discuss in detail the contents of the load of free arb chip.
Congratulations! Your free arb chips have been delivered. Time to get on those gloves and get to work spreading them!
I’m the Secretary of Hady Hill Allotment Association in Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire. We have an account on your site. Just wanted to say thanks to one of your members for our first drop off – that was on day 1 of signing up!! Happy days. Those chippings (after the wet wet winter) were used straight away to maintain pathways.
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Had my site listed just over a fortnight and got my first drop today. Our place can be quite hard to find but they found it easily. Here and gone in about 5 minutes. Load was clean chippings (and they were). no access problems. All good. Good resource for the trade and recipients. Well done for developing it.
Registered on the Arbtalk database and was thrilled to have a company call us with a load of bark which they dropped (within an hour of calling us) to the gateway of one of our horse paddocks. This has proven to be a great area to drive in and prevented the gateway from becoming poached.Excellent!
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We’ve met a lovely local guy called Steve who has given us a huge load of chippings so far!
We now have his contact details for future projects and he can certainly do with the off loading!
I’d recommend Arbtalk to anyone who wants to know- working in collaboration like this helps keep our community links strong and promotes the green ethos of our forest school- making sure our natural resources are used properly!
We received lots of free wood chips and logs all from this site which we have used on our woodland paths to make it much safer for our children.
Massive thank you as without this we wouldn’t have any.
I have had one load of
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Thank you so much for the bark chippings. We have put some on the floor around our mud kitchen and made a pile, which the children love to climb on. We have planted 400 trees on our site and have put the bark chippings around each tree to keep the grass from growing around them and keep the moisture in. They have been used in the mud kitchen to create various recipes and potions and we will be using some to make a sensory footpath. I’m sure as we develop we will find more uses for them and will always be happy to add to the pile!
Meadows Farm & Animal Sanctuary is a social farming project of the Shiva Trust Charity. Being a 26 acre site, they have no shortage of room or use for wood chips. Their first load of wood chips that arrived via Arbtalk was put to good use, mulching around the bases of newly planted trees. This…
Just a quick look through the tip site directory will show you how popular it is with keen gardeners looking for wood chips for allotments. In fact, this group probably makes up for about 50% of all the listings in the directory. Wood chips are suitable for a variety of uses around your allotments, including…
This homeowner was delighted to receive some free wood chips from an Arbtalk tree surgeon. They have been put to good use as a mulch in the flower beds around her garden. This is just one example of what tree surgeons wood chips can be used for. The people benefitting from this free service have…
A forest school site put their free wood chippings to great use, with some used as the floor in their ‘mud kitchen’, mulching around newly planted trees, and of course a big pile for the kids to jump and play in!
This happy tip site owner received several loads of free wood chips from a local tree surgeon. They have been used in various places around their allotment site. In this image the wood chips have been spread on the floor inside the polytunnel to help suppress weed growth.
Have you had a load of free arb chips delivered? We’d love to hear from you about the experience. Better still, send us a photo of your projects so we can share them with other users! Please do not use this form for general questions. Everything you need to know can be found on this page or in the FAQ’s section.
