Boy do I love this tip. I will for sure use it next time I have compost or delivered.

Pretty smart!

Amen! What an excellent tip.

love it.. will make sure Randy does that when he unloads it

Oh, I do like this idea!

what a good idea!

Do you guys rent out. I'll give you his number and my address. I ask the mulch guy to do this he's going to look at me cross-eyed.

Genius

Just keep telling him how amazingly well he handles that truck, getting it to back up so exactly and dump its load on a dime... I stand at the back with a rake and try to help guide the sliding mulch down to the bins as I shout to him to go up, down, jiggle, whatever. It works!

Wish I'd seen this tip last week. Had 9 yds delivered.

Jill, I just love the picture I get in my head thinking of using your method when the old logger comes to deliver.

Well, I don't have things like that delivered...haven't for many years, but we have an old truck, so we can have it loaded and then take it home. I usually put one tarp in the bed of the pickup and of course put another tarp over the load. Then lucky me, I get to unload the truck when I get it home! Woohoo!
Sometimes I dream of having a yard guy!

Its a great idea ,just depends on the type of delivery equipment. Ours comes on a trailer that lifts and no controle over aime.

The only time I've ever had bulk mulch delivered, I was mulching over an area that used to be a brush pile. It was near the street, so I had the mulch guy dump the load right where I needed to spread it. When I buy mulch in large quantities (and it's been a few years since I did), I bought palletized bags of it. Then I put the bags on my hand-truck, wheeled them to their new location, and when I had all the bags there, I opened them and spread them. It worked for me.

Last year, someone took out some trees nearby, and the tree guy gave me a huge load of wood chips from that. And the utility companies were trimming branches away from lines last year, and I got two nice truckloads of wood chips with leaves mixed in from them. Most of that batch sat all winter, so I've got some nice leaf-mold to spread around this spring.

Bags would be easier yet... I've compared prices before and concluded I didn't want to pay that much more for bagged, but I may not have found the right place for getting a break on quantity... good point on buying by the pallet!

It was late fall, and they were on sale. The pallet was 130 bags I think, and ran me around 100 bucks, IIRC. Might have been less than that.

Thanks for the additional info... for $100 I can get about 5 yards delivered, which would be 135 cubic feet, so if your sale bags were 2 cubic feet they'd have been cheaper... Of course, if you can get an occasional dump of mulch from the tree trimmers, that's free, and it's hard to beat free!

I have never ordered compost in bulk, but super idea for those that have the space.

Just had a thought....If several people went in on ordering it in bulk, and schelduled delivery at a plant swap; they could each bring a bin and split the cost!!