Dumping garbage/used materials

[mbosma]

Hi all,

Just wondered what your opinions and practices are. I spent the day yesterday pulling rolls of old wire fence and barbed wire out of a valley in our woods. Got about 3 big rolls, plus a thousand small pieces just big enough to cut tires, feet and hoves. I'm sure that back in the 50s when they dumped it there (along with some old car parts) that they never thought anyone would care. But now it's close to my home where the kids play and where the pigs will be kept next year.

While I worked, I sure was thinking that they caused me a lot of trouble by being lazy. Does anyone throw stuff away on their property? If you do, realize that you won't own it forever, and that someday someone will pick up your mess. It's a lot easier to dispose of it properly the first time, vs. digging it up half burried later.

 

[forgeblast]

Metal (since my truck died) goes on the side of the road with a free to good home sign. Its normally gone in a few hours. Wood products are burned, and the rest bagged for garbage. That being said i do find litter from others up and down our road.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

save that wire and metal for your next concrete job.
Rick

 

[jinman]

Many forms of trash won't burn, are too big to be put into trash cans, and cannot be recycled. This includes lots of building materials: bricks, concrete, etc. Old wire is also something that is a pain to deal with since it is normally rusty and a cut would be nasty. If you live out in the country, you may have little resources for getting rid of these kinds of items. I think if you dig a big pit and bury those materials, it doesn't hurt a thing. Putting them into a pile in the woods is dangerous and sure to shortly be a mess, but burying is something I do and can live with. I select my burial site carefully to prevent water from eroding or carrying contaminants into streams and lakes. Now that I own a full-sized loader-backhoe, this job is a lot easier.

Several years ago I pulled a rusty 5-wire barbed wire fence out of my woods. Lots of trees were dead from the wire being wrapped around them probably 50 years ago. I wouldn't take a chance on cutting with a chainsaw, so I rolled up that old rusty wire and pushed the trees into a pit along with the wire. It's no longer on the surface and if someone ever excavates my land, they will find about four isolated places with burial pits.

 

[s78wingrider]

Don't forget, any metal can be sold for scrap. In this area it is fairly high right now. Price goes up and down.

 

[mbosma]

This load is going straight to the scrap yard. Maybe I'll get enough cash to pay for my gas.

There are plenty more rolls of fencing where this came from for my next concrete job, some are still mostly intact. I also plan to build more tomato cages and bean trellises when time allows. I'll pull them out as needed

We burried a few things during a kitchen remodel to save a trip to the dump. Big hole, burn what will in it, then cover it up. As long as it's not close to the creek I think it'll be fine. I just don't want it laying around where we walk/work.

 

[Jimbrown]

Well 50 60 years ago there were no land fills like exist tiday. Old wire and cars were worthless. Lots of us threw the stuff into gullies to get rid of it and to act as some type of erosion control. There simply was no other economical way to deal with it. We have a similar thing around here with open mine shafts. Most are 50 to 100ft deep. They were dug and abondanoned. Are they dangerous you bet is anyone going to fill them in? Not likely.

 

[dmccarty]

What Jim said. :thumbsup:

The farm I worked on as a good had been at least two different parcels of land before being merged. The guy that owned it would dump trash and I do mean trash down in a gulley near a barn. No trash pick up out there. No he could have taken the trash home since we would work on the farm a couple of days then go home to the city. But I think he was doing what the previous owners had done.

I was walking on some trails at my kids school a while back. The trail is on land that I am guessing was clear cut 15-20 years ago. Way back in time some one lived out in those woods because the trail goes across some ones trash heap that was sorta kinda buried. Glass and pieces of metal are on the surface. Just no other way to get rid of it back in the day.

Now the modern day trash dumpers are a different critter.

Later,
Dan

 

[gauthier]

Well,to each his own,,free country,etc. Very true,we are all just living on a spot of land for a short while,and someone else will live there sometime in future,but they can make it as they wish when they own it,just like I am making it as I wish now

I got a metal/other things dump,not garbage,,it was started before I bought this place and I have continued it:laughing:

 

[CompactTractorFan]

When we moved here we had one of those above-grounds dumps on the property...Had to have my uncle come in and haul it away...