How We Make Mulch & Compost from RECYCLED Wood Waste 

This has been very educational! Never knew how it was made! Thank you for sharing!😊

I use to manage the landscape department of a 1500 acre resort in Missouri in the late 90's that was owned by Bass Pro Shops. I would purchase those semi truck loads of mulch. It was really great to see how it all starts! We use to compost and recycle everything from the gardens and the restaurants too. I use to go out in the woods and turn it. For me that was so fun to get away from everything, hop on the machine and get in the zone! It was my quiet time!😂 Thanks for sharing this and allowing me to remember a great memory! You are doing a great job, keep it going!!

I’m amazed what your equipment expense must be. Great video and so educational. You should be part of every kids school curriculum. Every young person should see this process!

I never knew how much work composting was... great video.

This was a outstanding video really enjoyed it really glad I came over form Letsdig channel your now in my everyday list to watch ! Good Day from up in RI 😊😊

Another interesting and informative video. I’m retired now but worked for a mulch and soil company in western Pennsylvania years ago. I pulled a dump trailer hauling tree bark mulch to the yard from sawmills in a hundred mile radius which they would grind and compost and delivering compost, dyed mulch and soil to customers in a hundred mile radius.

Hi Ryan, your videos are becoming 1st class productions. Thankyou for taking the time to expertly film, edit and post these videos. Excellent overview and content in showcasing your operation. Well done...

If we could only find your "good stuff" locally. Thanks for the informative video.

Well now I know why some potting soils are so expensive. The time an resources it takes to make a great mix is quite extensive which equals to expensive. Thanks for the tour!

Looks like the raw pine bark or the stringy, fibrous output from the first grinder would be perfect to spread over muddy areas to help keep vehicles from getting stuck.

Thank you !! Mr.Digg, for taking time out of your busy schedule to show us how you make mulch. Very interesting Operation you got going there. And yes thouse EGG AND BABY CHICKEN stink enough to Gag a dead maggot. Been at the landfill many times when they come in.. Thank you for a very good video.

Thank you for showing us what is involved I never thought it took so much to make all that and reuse it again 💯

Awesome job explaining your mulch and compost more in depth Ryan thanks for sharing with us

"It will gag a maggot" Words you could almost smell and sure wouldn't want to. Fascinating operation your fixed and variable costs must be astronomical with all that equipment running.

I would love to get more info on the power plants running those grinders. Also, a look at the grinding heads themselves. Awesome video, as always. Ty

I enjoy your videos it brings back many memories from my early teen yrs working at the family landfill running trachoes, 955 dozer and a d8 along with watering the roads and working the sludge pits then driving the rolloff truck to get 2 loads a night of sludge and pallets with cardboard after school and on weekends. I got my cdl at 16 and have had it eversince i really enjoyed the landfill then we invested in a larger one 3 countys away. Great stuff I truly enjoy all you do.🇺🇸👍🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸

Brother, when you were talking about the chicks and eggs decomposing, it brought me back to my young teenage years of cleaning out chicken houses. 🤢 Always enjoy your videos. Fascinating

I had a hardwood mulch business in Central Virginia for 45 years. Your operation is truly impressive.

Thank you for a fascinating explanation for the production of something we buy, throw down and forget about. I had no idea the process was so involved and complex 👍

Amazing. I think I'll tear up my Bachelor of Science Degree in Business administration

Ryan my man you are nailing these videos brother you keep doing what you do with the attitude you have and bringing a new fresh look at how things can be trash to one and if used correctly can be a viable solution for so many things you won't have to worry about subscribers Dude when I pull up RU-vid you are first and then DP great job buddy

Who-weeee you got yourself an operation there. 👍

Hi Ryan! Your videos are always informative, and entertaining. I never realized all of what went into making these products, and I'm sure that yours have more quality controls than most others. You surely take pride in your work, and your products, and it shows!

Awesome job keep up the good work Nice to see things getting recycled properly

looks brill there that's what i call the perfect recycling place. plus the team are a bunch of great guys. all the best from Steve in England.

Mr D- I have enjoyed your channel ever since I found it through a shout out by DP. Your videos continue to get better and your outgoing personality and great explanations are very appreciated! Keep up the great work!

Keep up the good work. Good video from someone that knows nothing about composting....

Came over from Dirt Perfect! Awesome operation you have!

Found your channel from watching Mike and Chris. I am very impressed by what you do. Any thing you can keep from being buried is great. Otherwise sooner than later we will run out of places to bury it. This is one area that I think should be well supported by the city state and federal government instead of making it difficult. I hope other land fill operations see your channel and copy some of the things you do to recycle. I love the channel and hope you keep posting informative information.

You did well for the amount of time you had to explain a very complex operation, kudos. Keep on smiling.

This is what I was hoping you would do, especially for all us newbies, show us all your different divisions and what all you make. For me, i would love to see a video of each product ( potting soil for example) from start to finish, the more detailed the better but, might not be interesting to some so I know you gotta do what the masses want. Considering all the equipment you have, have you looked into making shredded tire mulch which some call it permanent mulch but no idea how long it actually lasts. Would think a handheld wand type metal detector might help locate pieces if metal faster than kicking it around with your feet, but maybe it would pick up the conveyor parts and surrounding metal parts too much than locate the culprit metal, am sure you tried them and didnt work for some reasons. I actually watch big wood grinder videos on YT just to see them destroy trees to mulch ,,,,,, and big metal shredders grinding up cars, etc.,,,,,, yep, I'm that wierd.

It is interesting to see all the pallets being destroyed in your area. In other area, scrappers travel around picking up used pallets and taking them to places that refurbish and sell them to manufacturers producing new products.

I really need to make my way down and see this operation it amazes me every time I see one of your videos

Watching your videos I'm reminded of the saying, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Love how you leverage the different businesses to make recycling feasible and cost effective for your operation. Must hurt to see good stuff being buried that you just can't profitably make use of.

The city has a composting/mulching facility. They were selling mulch mainly to landscapers and retail. Compost can be purchased wholesale or retail. You have a huge operation. I enjoy the tours.

You did a fantastic job explaining this process! Great Job!

This video made for great viewing bro. My wife works in a hatchery here in NZ and said their non usable eggs go to a composting place as well. Safe travels. Ken.

I watched the lets dig/ dirt perfect video while back. Just noticed this one, great video.

Thank you for a very informative presentation. Looks like a lot of maintenance head problems. Nice looking equipment and layout.

Your whole setup is awesome! I'm very curious about the economics of it. Would love a video on that.

Looking at the mulch side, especially the initial breakdown of the product. Reminds me of the "mulch" that my local school system would put out on playgrounds and parks. it wasn't mulch as much as it was stuff that probably was mixed with stuff that had been run through a tub grinder that had some really worn hammers and anvils. Like some chunks would be about four to six inches diameter and maybe like ten to fourteen inches long. All mixed with micro chips, actual 2" to 4" chips of mixed wood, leaves, pine straw, pine cones. Basically all the stuff that the city and county would pick up as green waste would be crunched up mixed and spread out. Stuff was horrible. Landfill wouldn't take it because it was a burn hazard, it was too bulky for hog fuel on top of no plants nearby that could burn it. It was finally dumped on a field where the field owner had to pay for a good grand under to come out and turn it all into reasonable stuff which they then sold by the tandem axle load as organic booster for clay fields. Dump out thirty or so loads, turn plow and disc it in. Add more and repeat, mix in sand and then fifteen or so loads of compost. Suddenly a cheap clay field in a year is highly productive grow field. Many thought it was basically magic that last bit.

I would like to see you guys doing maintenance on the equipment like those grinders and chippers, lube, screens, belts you know how much time is spent on it. Great videos.

I gotta say ........ great info ...... very well presented ........ love the detail info ......... great camera shots .......... your awesome !!

Awesome operation. Its great to see how much you actually recycle.

I learn something new with each video, Good stuff. Keep Smilin

Another great video! Very educational. I am at the stage in life where I can enjoy and appreciate “useless knowledge “. Thank you for your perseverance. Keep this type of content coming. I am curious as how the “good stuff” gets blended in the right proportion and consistency.

Thanks for walking the whole place and explaining everything. Cool to see the whole process. And hear how long each process takes.

Great video! We appreciate all your work. Recycling and repurposeing is a lot of work.

You have quite the operation there, keep up the good work 👍🏻

I'm glad I found this channel. What an operation! Very interesting processes going on around there.

Very well explained, I wish I would’ve had the opportunity and the vision to do what you have accomplished.

😅Hi Ryan, another great video of your process. Never knew half of this was possible. The products are amazing. Best wishes from Scotland. colin

Pretty interesting! We are in SE Indiana and Dad and I are trying to get more nutrients in our farm ground. We have been spreading chicken manure, mixing it with topsoil and other bacteria. Trying to breakdown last years harvest like corn stalks. So far we have been seeing great results. Dad is very intrigued with the biology of it all. Trying not to spray as many fertilizers as well.

Your set up is amazing! Especially since your turning a waste product into a usable material.

Man I sure wish I lived close enough to get some of that compost! It really pisses me off when I get a bag of so called compost from the big box store and ain't nothing in it except sticks and pine bark. And in their bags marked top soil.....more sticks and pine bark. Wouldn't even grow crabgrass and weeds!

Hi Ryan just jumped over from Chris And Mike's channels (39yrs in mines & quarries 12yrs in recycling). Some operation you have so much different to the Uk, The over the top health & safety policies would bankrupt you over night. The smell would gag a magot priceless.

Thanks for showing us this process. You have some pretty neat stuff going on there.

Mate you did it again absolutely brilliant video again .i would love to work for you really gotta love the way all your workers wave and smile you can see your a fair boss .no one could pull the wool over your eyes you know how every little thing works on you r sites finger on the pulse .aaron is a very good right hand man looks like he ahead of the ball every time good work

100% Proper operation Mr Big Dig , I like your cousins cut offs seems like that’d be the least problematic and a pleasure to break down . I’ve seen those big tub grinders on const sites launch chunks of wood out 60’ or so and like you say it’s a violent operation beside one of those machines ! Also glad you showed the winrows we had 30 head of horses and I’d clean up and put everything in rows that stuff looked like is was on fire out there smoking on a cool morning breaking down , my lady said she wanted to bag it and sell it for black dirt potting soil , I guess it’d be one way to recover money spent on these dang horses hahah . Anyways sure glad LD18 and DP got to check out your most impressive operation and I found your channel , I kinda live vicariously watching these vids cause I love all that equipment and hard ass work but on disability from a bad ticker , they put a pace maker / defrribulator in my chest so there’s no way to go around those big ass magnets on those machines plus no welding so I’m reduced to just pushing around dirt on the Takeuchi taking aggressions and stress out hahaha I love it . KEEP ROLLIN MR DIG OL Scotty Kansas city

another great video! Never knew what all was involved in the process. thanks for sharing!

what an absolutely brilliant setup, the video was so interesting it captured 100% attention. It`s unthinkable what time,effort and different processes it takes to make something that we take for granted, when we go to the garden center buy a bag of compost or whatever, stick it in a pot with a plant and watch the plant grow. .. I was going to make a flippant remark and say how `mulch` I enjoyed watching, but I don`t think I`d better.

thank you for the tour, This has been a very good education about what all is in and has been done with it in the bags that we buy from the local garden supply stores around the country.

I started watching your channel a few weeks ago .. Love your operation and your videos .. I worked in the chicken business for 12 years before I got into construction but I never knew that some of the waste could be used for compost !!! Thanks for sharing !!

Thank you for another great video. Stay safe out there. Cheers

Amazing setup. The recycling king . Regards Andy Perth Australia

LANDSCAPE MULCH IS BIG BUSINESS

I use to love doing mulch making as a side job from my regular construction job; until the mulching company I worked for decided to get the bandit mulchers then it became a tedious process with more downtime than production time because the belt or grinder always had something wrong with it. I don't know about now days how the bandits hold up to other mulchers but I can imagine they're still a pain in everyone's ass as I see more and more companies moving away from bandits.

Great shot of that grinder. Thanks.

You have one fantastic operation. Keep up the good work my friend God bless.

awesome! thanks for the good info on how it is all done!

That is great information. Thank you for the video and content.

Check around with the poultry companies in the area and see if they produce waste water sludge. It's also a great source of nitrogen. Works great as a fertilizer and may be something you could incorporate into your compost.

No need to apologize, we enjoyed the conversation and explanations.

Awesome video. Great to see the whole setup with a detailed explanation. Cheers, Ben. Gold Coast, Australia

Thank you for the tour

Nice rotochopper I miss grinding it was fun

Lot of work making compost . Great video .

Love it Ryan, you did a great job as always explaining it..cheers🍺🍺🍺

Great video, very informative, your Business is set up just right, potting soil looks rich an nutrients, looks like it would grow some good plants, it has that wet damp look to it that potting soil has, awesome operation Ryan, thanks for sharing 🇺🇲💪✊🤙👌👍

Not sure how many employees you have across all of your businesses but I’m impressed you know every name. Also I don’t see micro managing. It’s nice for managers to let workers do their job. Mistakes will be made but it adds to the experience and knowledge.

very interesting , thanks for the video . with a star sieve you could replace 2 drum sieves and possibly speed up the process

I worked at a winery here in Fresno CA where sometimes the compost piles would smoulder and occasionally catch fire.

When you look at that bag of potting soil in the box store you would never guess the magnitude of the the operation that it takes to get there! Having run the maintenance department in a mineral crushing, screening and bagging facility I get it. Only thing is our product didn’t have to age.

Thumbs up u have a amazing operation

Mr. DIGG, thanks for sharing! I enjoy your content and appreciate you sharing your operation. Just keep it coming, you got me hooked! Altoona, PA

Super great video. Thank you.

Thats good to know the sand that goes into the compost mix doesn't have weed seeds in it. Around here people make the mistake of buying "river silt" for their yards. Later they find out it was full of Torpedo Grass seed. One of the worst things you can have in your yard.

I am so glad I watched this very interesting

love watching the video of this, also saw it on let's dig 18 RU-vid too.

Thanks for the tour, enjoying your channel thanks to Letsdig!

Congrats on building this amazing operation. You look pretty young. How many years did it take to learn the business and have the capital to buy all the machinery. Those things ain't cheap. If you built this operation from scratch you 100% earned the title of PhD in entrepreneurship. To give back, you can now teach business classes at your local universities in your "spare" time.

Thanks ! For the walk around! Enjoy it! 👌👍

Appreciate you walking around explaining this whole operation!! Quite the process to make mulch!!

Awesome setup you have going on! Enjoying the vids. New subscriber from LD18 and DP.

Another good video, I enjoy these types videos so keep them coming.

Love this channel ❤ keep up the great work

Mr Digg, a suggestion. Just catching up on tour videos, a neat video helper that is used by Bealy Good Farm. A microphone that attaches to your hat or collar that assists in the audio quality. With the video I just watched, when the camera is turned away from you the audio quality decreases dramatically. With the external audio pickup the audio comes thru in a consistent level. Just an idea if you haven't already incorporated it into your videos. Thanks for your informative and fun videos!

Very interesting process!

Amazing process!

Great tour