Cleaning up after a true slob

[skent]

In our county, (Carroll) the landfill charges by the ton. You weigh in and out and they get you $52.50 per ton. But that is actual garbage.

Scrap metal and appliances go to the scrap metal area and does not count toward the weight. Refrig and AC units are also taken. They have a re-cycler come in and tap off any refrigerant thats left.

Yard waste (grass clippings and branches) goes to a different area to be composted.

Plastics and glass, along with tin and alum. cans and newspapers goes to another area and is also taken no charge. But all must be clean and sorted.

Really confusing until you do it for a number of times.

 

[MrP]

I Pay $12 per month for all my trash to be picked up 2 times a week. They take almost anything.

I did take my old garage doors to the land fill last month. Total charge $0.

 

[Bird]

Brad, the garbage collection business is quite an interesting business in a number of ways. When I lived in the city, the garbage was picked up twice a week. For many years it was the city owned trucks and city employees. They worked a 4/10 plan ( 4 days a week, 10 hours a day), so each crew had two routes; one they ran on Monday and Thursday and the other on Tuesday and Friday). Looked like a great job to me; they had the weekends off and Wednesday off, and for the city, all the garbage trucks were at the garage every Wednesday so any necessary service could be done. But before we moved out of the city, they changed to a private contractor in our neighborhood to see if it was cheaper, but the pickup schedule remained the same.

Then we bought this place way out here in the boondocks; no governmental garbage pickup, but one individual in the business who picks up the garbage once a week for $12 a month, and he's reliable, too; never fails to show up. And of course, except during burn bans during the dry weather in the summer, we can burn trash anytime (and you can burn it even during the burn bans if it's enclosed - my brother built an incinerator at his place, and I made a screen to go on a barrel that meets the requirements). However, a couple of months ago a big company with big packer trucks started working this area. It just so happens that my garbage man (the individual) comes in the afternoon on Wednesday, but the big company truck comes by here that same morning, and I've always set the garbage bags out early in the morning. I don't guess that company hires the brightest bulbs in the house, because that big truck has picked up my garbage every Wednesday morning (including this morning) for the past two months. My garbage man doesn't have anything to pick up by the time he gets here, but I'm still paying him./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif He said they're picking up almost half his route, and that he called them once to let them know and the guy he talked to got smart and sarcastic so he hasn't called back. I guess he's making pretty good money since his workload has dropped off, but he hasn't lost any paying customers./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

MrP (Mike), apparently you're getting twice a week pickup for the same price I get once a week pickup, but I'm happy with my arrangement, since I have a big shop building I can put the bags of garbage in until pickup day.

 

[EdKing]

Our township brings in 2 dumsters every Satarday to thier stockpile area. They will take anything exept tires. Total cost is to be a resident of the township. We can do unlimited burns here as well, so anything I can burn I do.

 

[Bird]

That sounds like a good deal, Ed. Of course we don't have "townships" and I've never really understood just what a township is.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Bird, It is Gov't dividing a County into smaller pieces all reporting to the County Gov't. Most people don't even know what Township they live in until the go to vote and they say "you can't vote here" after you wait awhile in line. Of course, you have your township taxes and all......

You seldom see any signs unless one Township is fueding with the other Township next door.....

Tom

 

[EdKing]

<font color=blue>I've never really understood just what a township is. </font color=blue>

It is just a subdivision of a county. Probably along the same lines of a political district. It is kind of funny, my mailing address is Graysville PA, which is in Gray township, but I live and pay taxes in Richhill township, which has the town of Wind Ridge, which has its own Post Office.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

Another sign is driving along a road like 700N that T's into another road like 300E you have to turn right onto, go a few hundred feet and then turn left to get back onto the same 700N road again to continue your journey. It happens at every township line around here.

 

[Bird]

Thanks, Tom (and Ed). I guess that sounds a bit like our "precincts" within the county. Justices of the Peace, Constables, County Commissioners, etc. are elected within those precincts.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Yes Bird, The same here. We have a Judge here within our Township but has power outside the Township. We used to have Justice of the Peace titles here in Indiana but they did away with the title.... Turned out they had too much power with the then state laws..... Somebody must have been abusive....

Gary, where the he11 are you?..... 700 N.. 300E. You ain't far from me. I am in Roanoke.

Tom

 

[jhburke]

It is just another division goverment. Here in Illinois you have townships more than one in a county more than one in the state. This does not include villages, different divisions of city goverment.
This goes back to the early days. You had gov official to meet with. This was because of lack of transportation in those days. You know gov they never drop an outdated or useless comitee once one is started.

 

[bgott]

We aren't supposed to burn around here but we can get away with it if no one rats you out. I've been known to put out a burn barrel, put a screen on it and have some freezer burnt hamburger on a plate with some tongs. When the local slab-savers show up I'm having a barbique.

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>if no one rats you out</font color=blue>

I guess they would in this area./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif When my brother built his incinerator and started using it, a deputy sheriff showed up twice in the first week, but after that when the sheriff's department got a call, they'd just call my brother on the phone and ask him if he was using his incinerator, he'd say, "Yes" and they wouldn't bother sending a deputy to the house./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[MrP]

<font color=blue>MrP (Mike), apparently you're getting twice a week pickup for the same price I get once a week pickup, but I'm happy with my arrangement, since I have a big shop building I can put the bags of garbage in until pickup day. </font color=blue>

Bird,

I am happy with the service too. They pick up on Monday and Thursday. I usually don't put anything out on Thursday, but it is nice if I need to.

This is a new private company, the other company stopped picking up the trash in the entire neighboor hood last December. Still billed us and claimed they were picking it up, but never did. Seemed a no brainer to switch to the new company.

 

[MossRoad]

Hoosier and Gary, wher the heck are you? I'm up in South Bend.

Our North/South County roads are all tree names starting with Ash, Beech, Cedar, etc.. in the east working alphabetically to the west. The East/West roads are all people names starting with Adams, Brick, Cleveland, etc.. in the north working alphabetically to the south.

The county to our east uses county road numbers for all roads, like CR1, CR2, etc.. but they are kind of mixed up, especially the diagonal roads. Not much sense to it.

The county to our west uses the 700N, 700S, 700E, 700W system and it is pretty good because you always know how many miles you are from the center of the county.

The county to our south kept the same tree names as ours for the north/south roads, which is great. They use numbers for the east/west roads.

To our north is the great state of michigan. All of the roads are just names of the towns that they connect or random lakes, woods and people. Makes absolutely no sense at all. Even the people that live there have trouble getting around.

As far as townships in our county go ours are German, Warren, Olive, Portage(most of the city of South Bend), Greene, Penn, Harriss and Madison, and maybe I missed one or two. There are seperate volunteer/paid fire departments in the townships as well as paid in the cities. All of the departments co-operate with each other, and it is not unusual to see 3 or 4 fire departments at a fire. Not a bad system, but lots of politics.

Each township used to have its own elementary and high school as well. Those have all been taken over by 3 or 4 school corporations back when busing came into play. Most were converted to township halls or left to rot. One, at the end of my street, became a church/school.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

Tom, I'm in Fort Wayne. I live in Wayne Township but my property is in Washington township just east of the Washington Township-Lake Township line. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Actually, the toad I'm on is an exception to those that jog at the township line. Since it's a part of the original Lincoln Highway that job was reworked into a curve right along my road frontage. Technically, I actually own a little pie-shaped sliver across the road that's mostly in the right of way.

You've got to love that. I own it. I have to pay taxes on it. I have to insure against liablity on it yet I can't do anything with it. /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

I'm in Roanoke off 900 N. If I could drag the house 90' to the west the property taxes would be 1/2. That's the corporation line. I pay taxes on a strip that is an easment and pay taxes on the creek that runs through the back of the property. I also get to pay a ditch assessment on the creek to keep it clear which hasn't for the all the years I have lived here. It's life in Indiana.... But still not a bad place to live.

Moss, All our County Roads that go east and west have numbers. All the roads that go at an angle have names.

They start at the center of the County and have roads that cross with one called Meridian (N-S)and one called Division (E-W). Then all the through roads start with 100, 200, 300 etc and have a N,S,E,W, after it depending on which direction it is from those crosing center line roads. Any roads that don't go from County Line to County have "50's" behind them like 150, 250, 350, etc.

So, you can have a County Road 100E, 100W, 100N and 100S and 150, 250 350 etc.

Now, if you drive down a road here and enter another County the numbers may be several numbers off from what you were just on. But, there is always a jog in the road so you know you entered another County. Thus the term "County Line Jog".

Of course, since I grew up in Ohio (not far from here) I always knew when I hit the State Line. Usually went from from asphalt to chip and seal roads. But then that was several years ago. Not so much now......

Indiana, it's still a great place to live in this World and I have been to a lot of places.

Tom

 

[tdenny]

MossRoad,

I spent a summer in the South Bend/Mishawaka area many years ago. I was living in Indiana working in Michigan. It's always interesting when you live and work in two different time zones.

Nice area of the country.

 

[Tom_Trees]

<font color=blue>The county to our east uses county road numbers for all roads, like CR1, CR2, etc.. but they are kind of mixed up, especially the diagonal roads. Not much sense to it.</font color=blue>

Well, I live in that county to the east (Elkhart county) and there is some method to the madness.

Even-numbered county roads run East-West; Odd numbers run Nort-South. If the road is a diagonal it gets an odd number if it's less than 45 degrees off North-South and an even-number if it is more than 45 degrees. The numbering starts at the North and the West, so CR 1 is the first North-South road East of the West county line, and CR 2 is the first road South of the northern county line.

And if a new county road goes in between two existing roads it gets a three-digit number with the first digit being the road to the West or North -- so CR 101 is just east of CR1 and runs North-South (kinda -- it's one of those diagonal roads /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif).

Given the roads being roughly a mile apart, and the fact that I live on CR 14 just east of CR 31, pust me about 7 miles south of the county line and about 16 mile east of it.

But there's still a whole bunch of no rhyme or reason in the numbering scheme!

Tom

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

My property is on the east-west road dividing the township in half. It bears the township name plus "Center Road." When it crosses a township line, it changes into the name of that township plus "Center Road" again. I know that on my road I can be on three different named roads which change names at the township lines without making a real turn. One of these roads runs through a town so it gets the further distinction of having East and West designations because of the postal address system. It's really not a bad system once you get the hang of it.