Posted by Steve Lettau on Aug 04, 2021

Photos by Bob Blazich, Narritave by Connie Pukaite 

A few impressive facts remembered from Sunrise Rotary's 'Road Trip' to Bill Wandsnider's Billy Goat Mulch production site on Saturday ...

Bill's huge monster tree-eating mulch-maker machine has a 1000 horse-power  motor  (for perspective, back-yard brush chippers have about 10 horse-power motors)

The monster, with big heavy metal teeth, easily gobbles three foot diameter tree stumps, and produces 270 yards of mulch per hour (that's a lot of typical-5-yard home deliveries!)

The monster machine produces a fine double- or triple-ground mulch, which is stored before delivery to customers in piles that heat up to 160 degrees, killing all weed seeds and other undesirable elements

Billy Goat Mulch is so fine, one inch is like 1,000 years of leaf decomposition - great for helping to improve Ozaukee County's clay soils and, it holds water, which in this year of drought, is nearly worth its weight in gold 

Thanks, Bill, for providing an eye-opening, fun and informative field trip for our Club meeting this past week. The opening stump speech was pretty good, too!