It will be wonderful....I have a couple of yards of that mixed with pine in my yard too...Because of the green leaves it breaks down fairly rapidly...it's the classic mix for compost of "brown and green".
Spread it around...that's what I am doing!
Condolances on the loss of your tree...
Linda C

Oak makes wonderful mulch, do watch the pile if it is large it can become anaerobic. This is not a big problem to deal with, don't worry now it will be a year or more you will need to worry about it.

Research done by many people including Dr. Abigail Manynard at the UCONN Agricultural Research Station in New Haven, Conn has shown that there is no significant change in soil pH after years of adding oak or pine to the soil as mulch.

Deebs43,
Oak mulch is fine and even any mulch is fine. I grow in a spot that we use to have 25 feet piles of split wood on for years and it didn't do any damage to the soil "soil was tested". What I would worry about most is what disease the oak had and what trees are around the area that's getting mulched. It really is just a myth about mulch depleting the soil of nitrogen.

"It really is just a myth about mulch depleting the soil of nitrogen." Hostagalore

This is the most persistent myth about mulch; apparently it is dying but a slow death. Fresh organic matter placed under the soil surface will tie up the nitrogen but not on the surface.

Thanks, everyone! I will be spreading it around two big areas where I'm planting new hostas. The only trees the mulch will be under are white cedars. It's so great to be able to use all this mulch after cutting down those big old trees!

Now I'm headed over to the tree forum to lurk and see if I can decide what trees to plant in their place. Cut one, plant two... :-)

ALL FREE HARDWOOD CHIPS ARE GOD's GIFT TO YOUR GARDEN ....

the only problem is spreading it if there are leaves in it.. so i let it stand until next spring .. so they compost out ...

otherwise.. you spread it all around.. and next spring.. you find bare spots.. where all you spread was green leaves ...

i understand.. with 5 acres.. i have the freedom to let piles hang around ... and maybe you don't have that ability ... if so .... spread what you can.. but leave a yard or two to rot .. so you have some to fill in next year ...

ken

Hmmm...good idea to let it sit a while to "melt" the leaves. But...pile is currently in the middle of the driveway, so that's out.

However, I can do what you recommended by spreading most of it, then moving the rest to where the oak stump was ground out. There's a pile of stump chips there already, and the lawn around it is toast anyway from the heavy equipment.

Mary

i kinda figured it might be in the driveway .... ken

I spread it thick and allow it to ripen in your garden
You'd be surprised at how fast that will happen. Mount Mulchmore in my back has sunk by about 1/4 in about a month.
Linda C

What's wrong with mulch in the driveway.... hosta's grow there, I've heard repeatedly :-)

Oh my... 10 yards of mulch sitting in the driveway. I was in the same situation a month ago. It took us the better part of a week to mulch the beds, give it away, create new beds to get rid of it and store some in the shed. We moved it all using 5 gallon pails so I could tuck it around the plants and not bury everything. I ended up quite happy with the results and I think you will be too. Everything looks a bit bright right now but I am sure it will soon begin to turn grey.
Good luck in getting it all moved and used up. You can see some pictures of what we did in the link below.

Danni

Here is a link that might be useful: Danni's Garden