Dumping garbage/used materials

[GGB]

In the "good old days", folks on a farm didn't throw away anything that might be reused "someday". A lot of old equipment got left back in the trees or along the hedgerow. It probably reflected the tough times from the depression, as well as when farming was changing from horses and mules to tractors. Perhaps the thinking was that the old stuff might be needed in case the new fangled tractor broke down. At least that's my thoughts.

What is interesting to me is how much survived the scrap drives of WWII. But today, scrap steel and iron is high enough to justify the time to take it to the salvage yard.

We're just now getting ready to pull several old pieces of equipment out of an area where an old fenceline had been. We have slowly been getting rid of a lot of clutter, but at the rate we're going, it will take a lot of weekends over several years to get rid of it all.

GGB

 

[bdeboer]

The scrap recyclers in out area won't take fencing wire, woven wire, barbed wire, chain link fence, etc. They say that is clogs up the shredders that they send it to.

Do you other guys that haul off scrap metal have any problems getting rid of it in your area?

Thanks.

They take it here in Central Ohio

 

[bdeboer]

I think it was still common practice to toss whatever in the back corner of the fence row until the last ten years here. Although in todays world I dumped 980 lbs of trash out of the barn from one of my rental properties for $37 at the transfer station last month. The interesting thing (at least to me) is they had probably 30 bags that the trash company picked up at the road when they moved out.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Clemsonfor,
You got me wondering now so I went and looked at the bottles layin around the cabin. The oldest coke bottle I could find was 1922 but my rusty ole brain seems to remember we had one that said 1898 and also coke on it. I will have to check and see if it went to town or with one of the kids. Will keep you posted.
Rick

 

[69x11]

keep in mind in most areas its illegal to dump/bury anything other than yard waste. EPD regulates it around here and will fine pretty heavy

 

[gauthier]

Well,thats what they do,make laws,new ones every year,,most of the newer ones,don't apply to me I don't think.

 

[tallyho8]

The scrap recyclers in out area won't take fencing wire, woven wire, barbed wire, chain link fence, etc. They say that is clogs up the shredders that they send it to.

Do you other guys that haul off scrap metal have any problems getting rid of it in your area?

Thanks.

Our scrap dealers will not take any kind of wire fencing.

 

[Mousefield]

Last week this is how we handle our large/extra garbage. Goes to a transfer station (dump) about a 10 minute drive away. :thumbsup:

 

[brin]

I want to pass this on.....We had an old console TV in a spare room and it was a heavy thing, anyway it finally stopped working and it had to be 20 yrs. old - it was a Zeinith TV..so I happend to be scanning Craig's list and saw an ad where the fella said he would come pick up any old TVs or other items for free... I called him and he came out and hauled it away...for free..problem solved..saved me the backache and hauling it to the landfill...so check out Craig's list and you might find the same deal...

I did see that his phone number was from our city and I did Google his phone number and verify his address and saw that he had run similiar ads over a long period of time before I gave him my information...so be careful about your security but that is sure an easy way to get rid of what is junk to you..

 

[Larry Caldwell]

My land was a remote cannery at the turn of the century, the ocean was the garbage dump then, and my kids are always bring stuff in from low tide trips like coke bottles from the 1800's and such. So what was garbage for them is now a minitreasure for others. Best watch out that some junk artist finds out about your dumps and digs them up.:laughing:
Rick

Your kids are playing in a gold mine. Sea glass is worth a fortune on the collector market. If they find pieces that have been polished by wave action or have changed color from the salt water, put it on eBay. They can pay for their own college education.

 

[LBrown59]

keep in mind in most areas its illegal to dump/bury anything other than yard waste. EPD regulates it around here and will fine pretty heavy

This is what creats illegal dumps.

 

[ToadHill]

I have one spot on the property that must have been used as a dump long ago. We still find old bottles and other items in that spot. I know the dump is old since I've owned the property for 20+ years and the former owner had it for 50+ years and neither of us ever used it as a dump.

A couple of years ago the wife found the remains of a high button ladies shoe near the edge of the dump area. As the trees grow they seem to push up something new each year.

 

[LBrown59]

Here is where I get rid of a lot of stuff i don't want.

I want to pass this on.....We had an old console TV in a spare room and it was a heavy thing, anyway it finally stopped working and it had to be 20 yrs. old - it was a Zeinith TV..so I happend to be scanning Craig's list and saw an ad where the fella said he would come pick up any old TVs or other items for free... I called him and he came out and hauled it away...for free..problem solved..saved me the backache and hauling it to the landfill...so check out Craig's list and you might find the same deal...

I did see that his phone number was from our city and I did Google his phone number and verify his address and saw that he had run similiar ads over a long period of time before I gave him my information...so be careful about your security but that is sure an easy way to get rid of what is junk to you..

 

[2458n]

Scrappers are not just dealing with one buyer in our area. The local shredder will not accept wire fencing,bed springs,or worst of all wire rope or cable. These items stop the shredder from working. The resulting "birds nest" has to be cut out out of the hammers at a considerable cost. The place to take the offending material is to someone who has a mill contract. There the metal is melted as part of the furnace charge.

 

[Dutch445]

I just purchased 2 acres adjacent to my lot that has been used as
a storage yard for years. The prior owner was a trucker, and had
several old trailers, flat beds, trucks, and even a full size van
body trailer (46'). over the years, a buddy of his would bring
dump truck loads of fill, stumps, concrete, gravel, and kept
filling the edges making the lot more and more usable. for the
most part it was a swamp. I lived next to this for 5 years, and
the town was after him to clean it up, to the point that they
started levying fines. Last year I made him an offer to buy the
lot, if he cleaned the lot out. IT took 9 months for a scrap guy
to come in and cut up the iron, and take it away,, pick up truck
after pickup truck load. they also disposed of hundreds of heavy
truck tires, after cutting the rubber of the steel. I closed on the lot
this May, and spent the summer pulling some remaining debris out
and piling up a bunch of wood into a couple large burn piles, and eventually
the town dumped some shoulders/ditches there and I levelled it and
have planted grass. I do know that there is more "stuff" that I can't see, but
it is buried and I have no intentions of digging it up. Since the lot can
now be combined with my house lot, I wouldn't imagine it ever being a
problem if I sold the whole property as 1. You can't imagine the response
from the neighbors, this lot is a corner property, and the prior owner
didn't really hide the junk, so now they are all happy they don't have to
look at it! I was really the only house the could see it, but driving by
it was an eye sore from the road.
I'll have to take some "after" pics, as I do have some before pics I took
to use in the purchase offer etc.