Turn Trees into Wood Chips

It really hurts me that we had to remove a couple of good trees during the excavation. If we could have moved them, we would have. Anyway, the accpeted method of discarding these is to chip them. In my case the excavator removed the trees, and piled them up at the bottom of the block. It turns out this might not have been the best approach, as most excvators don't care how dirty the trees get once they are on the ground -- but the tree-chippers do care, as the dirt blunts the machinery they use. Anyway, today the trees are being chipped. We contemplated keeping some chips for a future garden, but decided against it.