Big Chipper Inc

Specialties

Big Chipper is a full service tree service with a professional staff including a Certified Arborist and a fully equipped tree crew well able to do any job large or small, from a small trim or pruning job to removing large dangerous trees right next to your house. Give us a call and let us come out and evaluate your tree situation and give you a free quote.

History

Established in 1986.

In 1986 Big Chipper was born of an offhand remark by a friend who owned a sawmill in Northern Michigan «why don’t you let me bring you a load of bark down to Grand Rapids and see if you can sell it». He did bring a load of bark to Grand Rapids and we did «sell it» and many more. Soon we decided to invest in our own Semi rig and we started to haul our own bark from various sawmills in Northern Michigan and Ontario. As time went on our mulch business grew and we realized we needed to diversify to offset the seasonality of the mulch business. We started to haul planner shavings from Ontario, Canada to the turkey growers in Western Michigan, this proved to be somewhat of a balance for the mulch, but as fuel prices rose the planner shavings business became unprofitable and we stopped this part of our operation. Again, looking for a venture to offset the seasonality of the mulch we bought a new Beast 3680 horizontal Grinder in 2000, hoping to widen our margins by manufacturing our ow