need help with removing glass from soil.

[leveled]

I recently had some brush removed and now Im finishing of the area to make it into lawn area its about a acre. As a awarded bonus I found some pretty good size glasss pits on my property. Anyone have an experience with getting the glass out of the soil? As of now I have been just raking it up and picking it up one at a time, but everytime it rains it shows its dirty little self I hate glass

 

[charlz]

How loose is the ground and how small are the glass pieces? Would one of these manure forks work? MANURE FORK, regular/mini-tine, basic/motorized, easier cleaning I have seen simlar in the feed stores for a lot less I think.

 

[joshuabardwell]

What a nightmare. Can you just dig the whole thing out with your loader?

 

[leveled]

right now the ground is pretty lose I have been ripping all the roots out from the brush and a tilled it up pretty good. I would say the size of the glass is about 1.5" Its really not the bulk piles its the ones that got away from the piles and have got spread out . do you think a power rake would do the trick?

 

[leveled]

What a nightmare. Can you just dig the whole thing out with your loader?

yea done that is buried slightly. Its everwhere!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Do you know the origin of the glass? I would be suspicious that it was a dump for old chemicals, and if that is so, there could be some nasty stuff in there. Glass factories usually recycle their old glass, so there is no need to dump it.

 

[boggen]

been fighting glass myself. dug in were i guess there was a old junk yard collection of stuff. and spread the dirt up around the house to deal with run off water issues. and never realized it had glass in it. till after i got it spread out.

if it is that bad. i would say, remove a couple inches of dirt. and haul it away. and then bring in good clean dirt.

you might try a sifter or like, but all ya going to do is break up the glass into even smaller shards, and when ya go bare foot across lawn end up with with glass in your feet.


i suppose you might try getting a dozer in there. and push the first couple inches of soil all into a pile (bad ugly soil pile) then use dozer to dig down another couple inches of good clean soil and put in another pile.

then spread the old nasty pile back out. and then put the good clean soil back on top. but i am not sure if the glass would come back up through the soil or not. at moment it seems like that is what is happening with me. and i should have tried to bury the glass deeper....

 

[Jstpssng]

been fighting glass myself. dug in were i guess there was a old junk yard collection of stuff. and spread the dirt up around the house to deal with run off water issues. and never realized it had glass in it. till after i got it spread out.

if it is that bad. i would say, remove a couple inches of dirt. and haul it away. and then bring in good clean dirt.

you might try a sifter or like, but all ya going to do is break up the glass into even smaller shards, and when ya go bare foot across lawn end up with with glass in your feet.


i suppose you might try getting a dozer in there. and push the first couple inches of soil all into a pile (bad ugly soil pile) then use dozer to dig down another couple inches of good clean soil and put in another pile.

then spread the old nasty pile back out. and then put the good clean soil back on top. but i am not sure if the glass would come back up through the soil or not. at moment it seems like that is what is happening with me. and i should have tried to bury the glass deeper....

Trouble is that if you live where the ground freezes you can't bury it deep enough. They've been picking rocks out of the potato fields up my way for 150 years, and they still get a good crop every spring.

 

[leveled]

Do you know the origin of the glass? I would be suspicious that it was a dump for old chemicals, and if that is so, there could be some nasty stuff in there. Glass factories usually recycle their old glass, so there is no need to dump it.

Its all pop bottles and mason jars etc.. its an old farm.

 

[ncnurseryman]

Know what you mean. I am constantly picking up glass, plastic and all sorts of misc metal. Lots of old nails everywhere. In the wood behind the old farm house, its full of trash where past residents just dumped it there. It would take a lifetime to clean it all. I just pick it up as I go. Good luck.