Burying stuff...

[jim_wilson]

Last summer I used the BX23 to put in a new driveway leading out to the backyard where I hope to add the garage this summer. While doing the digging I came across a couple of pits full of what I termed "toxic waste". The stuff is grey to black in consistency and was buried in garbage bags along with other random trash like bottles and cans. I have a pile in my backyard that I believe is 300+ contractor bags full of about 40 pounds or so in each bag. Problem with this stuff is that noboby want's to take it because it can't be identified as to what it is. I have to get it tested or something to try and determine what it is so I can find somebody to dispose of it. If I had more land I could just dig another pit somewhere in a back corner where I know I would never go again and rebury it there but my house is 1/2 acre in a suburban neighborhood so somebody would notice if I did that. All in all I think if I had to dig up something out of the ground I would have rather had it been an old Volkswagen or a pile of bulldozer parts. At least that stuff I could have just hauled off to the junkyard. Anybody want to trade some some of their old car parts, bulldozer parts, boat hulls for about 5 tons of gunk?

 

[m1greg]

Rick>Redevelop a piece of land enough times, and there is no guessing what you might find buried there.

Yes I will second that! While the contractor was digging the basement for our addition he started hitting piles of timber and miscellaneous debris. He then started exposing chunks of concrete that became bigger. Then he hit a foundation wall. Turns out that the original house that had burned down wasn't removed from the property at all but was instead pushed into the basement and covered with fill. Took a big excavator and many a truck load to remove the wood and assorted bits ( car parts, metal shelving, charred wood, old water heater, etc ) before we could even but in the footing for the new basement wall. Just recently I found the article about the house fire in the local library's archives.

 

[slowrev]

Indy,
Sounds like my place we bought from my wifes uncle. I got a metal detector to trace the cast iron sewer drain and found out is hard to find a place it won't beep /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Ben

 

[HammerFour]

Indy, in regards to your Termite issue when they start swarming.......get some chickens.

They would love to clean out those bugs for you.

 

[Indydirtfarmer]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Indy, in regards to your Termite issue when they start swarming.......get some chickens.

They would love to clean out those bugs for you. )</font>

That SOUNDS like a plan, EXCEPT for the fact that they swarm on our enclosed back porch. If I was to turn loose a flock of chickens, my wife might turn loose a flock of whoop-arse..... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[riptides]

ya but,

I think they swarm to reproduce. Not relocate. So you may be helping a neighbor, or another part of your house /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
But I think you may still have a little problem. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[cisco]

Slopes would worry me, for reasons stated in other posts about wash-out. I needed to bury some inert stuff (like concrete), and only have a tractor with FEL and box blade. So, I dug a trench - 6' wide (box blade width) and 4 feet deep by about 40 feet long, with sloping ends so I could drive my 4WD tractor in and out, with loaded box blade or FEL. Once I'd placed the concrete stuff to cover about 1/2 the depth of the trench, I pushed the dirt back in to get it level with the surrounding area, and used the remainder (top soil) for other stuff. Yup, I'll have some sinking of ground along the trench as the dirt settles with rain and time, and will have to top off with dirt to get back to an even surface. Burying wood (termites and decay with YEARS of settling ground issues), toxic stuff or the like may not be wise, but rocks, concrete and the like - go for it.