brush chips

[bqz]

What's a good way to use wood chips from brush piles?

I've used them as mulch many times. In the garden and around trees and bushes.

.....Alan.

[Forerunner]

Here in the midwest, it's mud country, from January thru May.
Wood chips make excellent walkways over clay or muddy areas.
They are also excellent for mulch. Use around fruit trees and bushes, but keep them away from the immediate trunk, as they attract insects.
Dew words and red worms will slowly but surely eat the chips from below, enriching the surrounding soils and propagating themselves to everyone's benefit. Being high in carbon, wood chips also make an excellent compost base, especially in piles that aren't intended for immediate use, as the larger chips decompose slowly. They also make lasting paths through and around the gardens. In a pinch, use them for animal bedding. They aren't as absorbent as sawdust or straw, but are far better than nothing.
If the chips are dry, they make very convenient fire starter and even woodstove fuel, for the temperate months when you don't want a roaring blaze.
Chips are better to use in the garden, all around, as their larger size/less exposed surface area allows for less nitrogen absorption than sawdust, and therefore won't bind up the nitrogen in the soil as sawdust tends to.