Yes ... Tell the arborist that you want them to leave the wood chips, and ask if there's a discount because they don't have to go to the dump.

NOTE: Make a nice bare spot for the chips to go

Shovel and spread. they may start composting themselves, but just keep spreading that lovely almost free mulch.

Eucalyptus has properties that cause other plants not to grow, and I would not use a pecan that died from a disease. If you know it died from natural causes, then it would be safe.

Always reuse and recycle what you can, when you can.
One reason to put something down as mulch is to prevent unwanted plant growth. Eucalyptus does have a bit of a reputation for being allelopathic, growth inhibiting which is what mulch is supposed to do. Some people spend fairly large sums of money buying Eucalyptus chips for mulch.
If that Pecan tree did die of some disease it most likely will not affect other plants, unless it was something like anthracnose, and if so other plants would also be affected.

I have used shredded eucalyptus for mulch ... no problems.

If possible, use the pecan for firewood as well as mulch. it burns well.

If you get longish (6-8 ft) logs cut out of it, a local woodworker might take some.

the problem with fresh chips.. which are usually 50%+ green leaves... is that you end up with uneven application ...

if you have the room.. i would let them stand and compost themselves until next spring ... and then spread the resultant material ...

but i understand... many of us.. dont have the space for such ....

ken

I think the pecan died from neglect. There is a row of them and previous tenants had horses turned out among the trees. This particular tree was chewed and most of the bark stripped from the trunk. Coupled with lack of dry season irrigation for 5 years and I think I am lucky the others have survived...so far. I do irrigate them and my horses are fenced away from them.
Cheryl

Be really nice to the tree guys and maybe you can get another load of chips in the future from their work on someone else's yard!

Don't worry about the eucalyptus. I would use all of it ad then tell the treeguys they can dump more undiseased chips if they want from the next guy.

Don't worry about the eucalyptus. I would use all of it ad then tell the treeguys they can dump more undiseased chips if they want from the next guy.