Buried stuff rising to the surface

[Redbug]

Don't feel too bad. The people that lived on the land I now occupy were slobs, too. I have lived here 16 years and the glass keeps coming up. I usually see something shining and carefully pick it up and put in in a bucket I keep for just such things. I think the culture of the people is slowly changing. I have noticed the glass being replaced with fast food wrappers and plastics. They degrade in only one lifetime. Did you know the State Insect of South Carolina is the Litter Bug?

 

[niemeyjt]

The previous occupants here used the pond next to the house as a skip.

When it was dug out, I heaped up all the spoil and started sifting it with a screening bucket on the digger - I already have one heap of hardcore about four foot high - and that is with less than a quarter of the spoil screened.

J

 

[techwrtr2]

You need to bury the bodies deeper than you have been.

 

[CurlyDave]

The previous occupants here used the pond next to the house as a skip.

When it was dug out, I heaped up all the spoil and started sifting it with a screening bucket on the digger - I already have one heap of hardcore about four foot high - and that is with less than a quarter of the spoil screened.

J

Could you translate that into American English?

Somehow I think that skip might equal dump, but over here "hardcore" means pictures that are not family safe.

 

[niemeyjt]

Could you translate that into American English?

Somehow I think that skip might equal dump, but over here "hardcore" means pictures that are not family safe.

Skip - a waste disposal container - various sizes are available, 6 cubic yards is common - delivered and collected by lorry (truck:laughing.

Hardcore, as opposed to hard core:laughing:, is brick and other debris put in trenches and packed down before concrete goes in - is this what you would call rubble?

J

 

[CurlyDave]

That is exactly what I would call rubble, although it can also mean stones of various sizes. Generally from demolition of a building.

 

[20 20]

Up here we allways say we're growing rocks. Every year we have to pick rocks so that next years rock crop can give us more

 

[dmccarty]

Thankfully I don't have a dump. But our place had a road built right up the middle. Before the trees grew back in and shut down access people would come in a dump a little of this and that. Most of it was/is bottles and cans from people who drove in and out. Some was yard waste from the house up front. Somebody even dumped a tire.

I find old oil cans and such here and there from when the place was logged 70ish years ago but that is all. Thankfully.

When I worked on a farm as a teenage the owner would just dump our trash in a ravine near a barn. I never really understood WHY he did this. He had the farm but also lived in the city. We would travel out to the farm to work for a couple of days then head back home. He easily could have put the a bag or two of garbage in the truck and took it home. Instead we just tossed it in the ravine.

My kids school has a nice trail in the woods. We went for a walk on it a few weeks ago and the trail goes right over someones old farm dump. Old glass, tires, and metal. The land was logged over 15-20ish years ago best as I can tell from the trees. I could not see an old house or barn nearby but I am sure there was a foundation close to us.

Later,
Dan

 

[MicroPilot]

Many, many years ago I read an article which explained this kind of thing.

Essentially, if you have a collection of large objects mixed with small ones, there are many more ways for the small ones to fit under the large ones than vice-versa.
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This is why rocks come to the surface in areas with freeze-thaw cycles.....

Except over the eons wouldn't all the rocks that are going to, have already come to the surface?

 

[studor]

Except over the eons wouldn't all the rocks that are going to have already come to the surface?

No -- because other natural forces such as glaciers,erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes etc.(and sometimes heavy equipment!) keep burying them and moving them around. In a climate with freeze and thaw, things buried in the frost level move quite a bit within short enough spans to notice. At my place, the previous owners wanted to test the theory by creating numerous "back forty" dumps, buring old buildings etc. -- the theory works. They also wanted to test the theory that objects embedded in trees stay at the same height -- that one is true too judging from the trees I have that have embedded steel wheels, fence wire and pieces of equipment