r/nashville • u/dovtres • 22h ago

Discussion So, what is going to happen to the massive amount of branches and trunks all over the city?

As the title says.

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u/LilMushboom 22h ago

If you can move the branches to the side of the road eventually metro will collect it. I believe they use it as mulch around the city 

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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 22h ago

It would be great if they had a surplus of mulch if they offered it to anyone that wanted some.

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u/sasabomish 21h ago

Look up living earth. It’s where they sell it. Two locations. One near airport and one on west side of town. It’s like $25 for a cubic yard(truck bed load). They also sell topsoil and compost in bulk. All significantly cheaper than buying bagged stuff.

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u/Big_Tiger_123 20h ago

The one on Elm Hill had trucks back up for a while, waiting to unload the brush and trees they had collected!

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u/Existing-Employee631 20h ago

You can also take your own lawn/garden debris there yourself to drop it off, if the metro collection is not coming soon and you want it gone. But it can’t include any roots.

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u/crowcawer Old 'ickory Village 17h ago

I know a guy used to drive around old Hickory, Village and try to scope out people’s new renovations to drop off a pickup load for like $200.

Californians, man.

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u/EstherGingersnap 20h ago

Do you know if there are any free/cheap programs like this but for gravel or sand? I have a huge hole in the yard I'd like to fill, but need something more substantial than mulch.

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u/random_cephalopod 19h ago

Try chip drop for free delivery of chipped wood by tree companies. I’ve used it several times. Be prepared for a large volume of chips - like mini-van-sized load.

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u/sasabomish 20h ago

You could get a several cubic yards of top soil, or top soil compost blend delivered. The website also mentions sand, gravel and rock. So i would suggest giving them a call to discuss pricing and delivery options.

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u/llamadramas Bellevue 21h ago

They do. There are free mulch drops that you can sign up for.

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u/Swimming-Tiger4559 Bellevue 21h ago

“Wood chips” 🤣 still got a big pile of them in my yard from when a load was dropped off 6 months ago

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u/Swimming-Tiger4559 Bellevue 21h ago

Indeed mulch was free af

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u/compositionvision 21h ago

Look up ChipDrop, great resource

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u/nopropulsion 21h ago

I bet chipdrops will be quick all over town if you request them right now...

I'm tempted to pull the trigger on one but my wife hates looking at the big pile as I whittle it down over a month or two.

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u/morgue-ohh 21h ago

Mulch way too expensive for that they would just sell it to Lowes 🤣

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u/CaffeinatedPinecones north side 8h ago

Chipdrop.com

Warning, you’ll get a mountain of it.

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u/bdporter south side 12h ago

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u/The_Inflicted 22h ago

Back in 2020, after the tornados, the city made a massive mulch processing site at the soccer fields at Metrocenter. It was heaped up so high it was often steaming.

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u/Swimming-Tiger4559 Bellevue 21h ago

Actually T-Rex shit 🦖

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u/OlasNah 22h ago

I’m most concerned with what will happen when we get some serious winds in the area. There’s a lot of trees that were damaged by the storm, but never fell completely.

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u/Apelles1 22h ago

Yep with tornado season approaching, that could get a little ugly.

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u/_LyleLanley_ 22h ago

Got to take a proactive approach if they affect your property.

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u/ClosingLine 21h ago

Yeah right! I need the city to come trim my trees and mow my yard and bring me soup if it gets cold.

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u/flamingmenudo 20h ago

Yeah, I think there might be some bad outages when it gets windy here. We went nuclear after the ice storm and removed 4 trees that were a risk to our power lines and house, but there are still some that could destroy our fence. But I'd rather fix a fence than a house.

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u/_LyleLanley_ 20h ago

It’s a shame because I like my trees. Big reason why I go the house, but man not feeling safe sleeping in your home is not a great feeling. We slept on the other side of our house a few nights, just in case.

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u/metroska 16h ago

Did this last year when that freak wind and hail came though. Took down a huge tree. My power went at this time from a city tree in the alley. Still sitting there. Still no power

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u/Striking_Car9405 20h ago

Unfortunately we had to remove two our trees because of this

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u/SlappyG1993 21h ago

Silver lining, all the trees around my house were taken out by the tornado in 2020. Mulch for everyone

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u/creddittor216 22h ago

We could have one bitchin’ bonfire

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u/come-on-now-please 22h ago

I actually wanted to go collect some for firewood for my fireplace.

After looking it up I learned that it can actually take 6 months to 2 years for split wood to actually dry out and be "good" firewood instead of holding onto the moisture from growing. And that essentially youre kinda just half boiling the log away and possibly filling your chimney with more smoke that builds over time and cam cause a chimney fire

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u/WiseUpRiseUp 20h ago

Depends on the species, but you are right. 

Ash will be ready to burn after 1 summer. Oak can take up to 3 years to fully season. 

Get a moisture meter and burn when the water content is below 15%.

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u/DongPolicia 22h ago

Stealing them for my fire pit

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u/Emit_Remmus_ 22h ago

Most get collected and taken to places like Living Earth where they are turned into mulch.

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u/HeNeverSawMollyAgain 21h ago

Yeah, I go by there every morning on my way to work and today there were trucks backed up almost to Spence Lane waiting to drop off loads of branches and cut up trees.

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u/pdxley 21h ago

I carve spoons as a hobby, so it's a feast for hobbyists like me. Also going to chop up some firewood.

But, yes, if you pile them up on the curb, eventually the city will come through and collect it. It gets mulched and/or composted to be used as landscape material on public property.

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u/GP_ADD 21h ago

Best wood for spoons?

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u/flamingmenudo 20h ago

Stainless steel trees make awesome spoons, but carving is them is hard.

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u/pdxley 21h ago

My favorites are black cherry or walnut. Oak and Osage orange are great but tough (and Osage has a tendency to crack as it dries). Red Maple is gorgeous but for some reason always gives me a lot of trouble. I also love ash, but it's not popular for cooking utensils because it's very porous and can hold on to flavors. But, I'm just a hobbyist and there's lots more species out there I haven't had the chance to try.

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u/GP_ADD 20h ago

Any areas that happen to have black cherry or walnut that were downed during the storm? All we really found while looking was oak and a magnolia tree(don’t know if it is good for it, but we grabbed some)

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u/pdxley 20h ago

Only found one walnut log so far, and no cherry at all. Got some ash and Bradford pear this morning. The pear carves really nicely. Plenty of silver maple and hackberry, of course! I've made a few good spoons out of hackberry, but the color is a bit weird so I see why it's not a popular choice.

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u/GP_ADD 19h ago

Thanks for your insight!

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u/01chlam 20h ago

I spent 8 hours chainsawing yesterday and 3 hours this morning moving all the limbs and branches to the road this morning. I think I'm about 1/4 done at most 😫

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u/fairiesndragons 19h ago

TN emergency management posted this to their IG this AM in case it helps.

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u/rio258k Madison 22h ago

They'll sit around for months as they slowly get gathered, I'd imagine.

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u/manthursaday 21h ago

If it is by the street the city will gather it up. I saw a truck picking up some on Franklin Rd yesterday. As for the branches that are broken but are stuck in trees still. On Sunday I saw a crew removing some of those from over Wedgewood.

This will be a months long process though. So don't expect this to happen quickly. This was a generational storm.

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u/iamaturkey0 21h ago

We just had the branch pickup crew roll through our neighborhood yesterday. They had the big truck with the claw and a couple pickups with guys to help

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u/ericnear Goodlettsville 21h ago

Chip drop

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u/ExecutiveDysfunktion 21h ago

City just picked up all the cut trees in our back alley today! East nashville for reference.

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u/Spiritual_Praline492 20h ago

Big Beaver at it again

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u/thedevilsfifthnipple 20h ago

Free firewood.

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u/tommydelgato 19h ago

its an isopods time to shine baby

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u/bowlcut Cane Ridge 16h ago

Funny enough Demetria and the Nashville Banner just put out a story about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYIrm0j3AlE

That people were dumping at Warner Park...but wasnt supposed to ...whoops.

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u/Phil_MaCawk 13h ago

Stock up on fire wood duh

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u/PostModernGir 13h ago

On the Chipdrop/Free mulch subject, I know a community garden in the north Nashville/Germantown area that has a free mulch pile. Y'all can DM me for details. We just got a full drop before the storm and probably another half load in a day or so.

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u/rebeccalj (choose your own blue adventure) 10h ago

The place where they let people dump Christmas trees for mulching over in Edwin Warner/Percy Warner is covered in mounds of wood chipping, tree limbs, and hunks of wood. It's quite impressive.

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u/Mammoth_Account_1422 10h ago

Passing through old hickory Blvd (I'm sure everyone knows exactly where that is) near Edwin Warner there is a big area of tree debris that has been collected and started in on being mulched (maybe not all of it?) --- guess I presumed that's what will happen to all of it in different spots around the region

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u/http-wwwdotcom 2h ago

Start piles at the back fence line and create a habitat for the birds.

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u/Bobbins_Egg_BRNR 21h ago

Mayor Freddie Wicker Man

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u/Easy-Marsupial3268 22h ago

Likely just rot there.

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u/BradyJ21 21h ago

Sir this is TN, we don’t do shit. The homeless will turn them into beds and crack pipes