How many of you found garbage buried around your place from past owners?

[ponytug]

And the future archeologists can develop a complex theory of human worship of thatch ants and the human desire to protect and view them as guidelines to living?

All the best, Peter

 

[MossRoad]

Sounds like this guy did that with his wife !

Man accused of killing, dismembering wife searched ‘how to saw a body,’ investigator testifies

Prosecutors Monday argued a Massachusetts man was responsible for the grisly murder of his wife who disappeared more than two years ago while his lawyers insisted the man panicked after she suddenly died in bed.

www.foxcarolina.com

Yikes!

 

[MossRoad]

We frequently do "shallow removal" on signal pole foundations. Meaning, 5 ft diameter, concrete shaft, often going down 18+ feet; and we chip it down 48" and cover it up. I dont really "like" it, because my worry has always been, your doing an HDD through the area, and there is no way to know there is 18 cubic yards of reinforced concrete right there... But, it's not my call, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than removing the entire thing.

Reminds me of my last employer... they were having fiber internet pulled in to one corner of the building. Drilling company got to about the end of the run from the street and hit something metallic. Our boss says "I was afraid of that." Legend had it that an auto dealer across the alley had buried a railroad tank car under the alley to use as a fuel tank for the dealership, and yep, that legend was true!

They found the lid, hired a company to investigate environmental issues, they sopped up what was left in the tank, drilled holes in the bottom, took soil samples, all good. So they filled it in with soupy concrete. I left after the 3rd truck was empty and the tank wasn't full yet.

So someday, someone else will run into a THUMP! underground, and try and figure out why?

 

[civilian]

Reminds me of my last employer... they were having fiber internet pulled in to one corner of the building. Drilling company got to about the end of the run from the street and hit something metallic. Our boss says "I was afraid of that." Legend had it that an auto dealer across the alley had buried a railroad tank car under the alley to use as a fuel tank for the dealership, and yep, that legend was true!

They found the lid, hired a company to investigate environmental issues, they sopped up what was left in the tank, drilled holes in the bottom, took soil samples, all good. So they filled it in with soupy concrete. I left after the 3rd truck was empty and the tank wasn't full yet.

So someday, someone else will run into a THUMP! underground, and try and figure out why?

And then how would any one remove that is it was filled with concrete? Jon

 

[paulsharvey]

And then how would any one remove that is it was filled with concrete? Jon

How would you remove it once filled with concrete? Well, first, it sounds like flow able fill, which comes in excavatable and non excavatable types. Either way, even if concrete, same as you do a big rock; a big hoe, a big hydraulic hammer, or both. Regardless, its cheaper to fill today than remove tank today, and thats what matters; let tomorrow worry about tomorrow's removal....

 

[goeduck]

I have a property that had two dug wells that were abandoned by a previous owner when the County piped water to the road nearby. The County code at the time apparently required that the wells be filled with concrete to a couple of feet below grade. The county has some fuzzy pictures of approximately where they were, referencing a shed that is no longer there.

 

[oosik]

The previous owner was the original homesteader. 160 acre government land grant - 1893. So--- no electricity - no running water - no indoor plumbing. And - actually no driveway. My 80 acre parcel is one mile west of the county road. The homesteader drove across the neighbors fields to get to his property. My driveway is on the section line easement. 30 feet by one mile.......

About the only thing of his - still remaining....... gobs and gobs of square nails and big 'ol spikes. There wasn't a nail or spike that he didn't like. Fortunately - it's all on about one acre of land where the old homestead buildings were.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I have a property that had two dug wells that were abandoned by a previous owner when the County piped water to the road nearby. The County code at the time apparently required that the wells be filled with concrete to a couple of feet below grade. The county has some fuzzy pictures of approximately where they were, referencing a shed that is no longer there.

I have at least seven wells on my property. Three I still use. One was capped by a previous owner and one was filled with stones. I've filled two. One I filled with sand, just got a truckload delivered and used the tractor to dump it in. The other wasn't very deep, every time I had some broken up concrete that I wanted to get rid of I dropped it in the well and now it's full.

I just can't imagine putting wet concrete into something like that, you're just creating a problem down the road. The thought that keeps going through my mind as I clean up the tons of junk left on my land is that it always gets more expensive with time. It would have been a lot cheaper just to take this stuff to the dump when it was fresh.

 

[Sportsman762]

I have at least seven wells on my property. Three I still use. One was capped by a previous owner and one was filled with stones. I've filled two. One I filled with sand, just got a truckload delivered and used the tractor to dump it in. The other wasn't very deep, every time I had some broken up concrete that I wanted to get rid of I dropped it in the well and now it's full.

I just can't imagine putting wet concrete into something like that, you're just creating a problem down the road.

Many jurisdiction require abandoned wells to be filled with bentonite or portland cement. This is to prevent the well from allowing contaminates to travel between aquifers. If the wells were filled with sand then any contamination from surface water, or contaminated aquifers could go down the well and introduce contaminates into clean aquifers. Portland cement and bentonite seal the well so contamination does not have a shortcut to the next aquifer. Most of the time you seal the well to 4' or so below the surface then cut the casing off so it reduces the potential to cause problems in the future.

 

[paulsharvey]

I have at least seven wells on my property. Three I still use. One was capped by a previous owner and one was filled with stones. I've filled two. One I filled with sand, just got a truckload delivered and used the tractor to dump it in. The other wasn't very deep, every time I had some broken up concrete that I wanted to get rid of I dropped it in the well and now it's full.

I just can't imagine putting wet concrete into something like that, you're just creating a problem down the road. The thought that keeps going through my mind as I clean up the tons of junk left on my land is that it always gets more expensive with time. It would have been a lot cheaper just to take this stuff to the dump when it was fresh.

Was there a reason you filled the wells? Was it a permit issue, or was it you didnt need them, or where they actively collapsing or similar? Unless forced too, I wouldn't full them, id just leave them be