SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

[LBrown59]

SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

TRY THESE SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

1* Swimming pool companies
2* cemeteries
3* Landscapers
4* Lawn Care companies
5* Home builders and excavators digging out basements and the like.
6* State County and City road and street departments cleaning out road ditches.
7* Construction sites: Or anywhere you see grading or digging going on.

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Can anybody add anymore places to the list ?

 

[JimR]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

Post a BIG sign in front of your house for clean fill wanted.

 

[AndyM]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

<font color="blue"> Post a BIG sign in front of your house for clean fill wanted. </font>

I believe he has such a sign in front of his place. Judging by the piles of dirt out front, I'd say the sign works well! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[AndyM]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

<font color="blue"> Can anybody add anymore places to the list ?
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Sometimes free dirt comes without my asking...
I was spreading some dirt around my front yard last summer, and someone drove by with a truck and asked me if I wanted more.

 

[kozak]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

Boy, Ohio must be the place to live. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I can;'t get enough dirt unless I spend thousands !!

Vic

 

[Pooh_Bear]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

Around here dirt is a commodity.
None of those places will give you dirt.
They will sell it to you, but not give for free.

I got a low spot in my front yard I'm wanting to fill in.
Saw the guys comming around trimming trees around power lines.
Told them to dump all that mulch in my yard.
And when that spot is full I got another spot they can dump it.
They were glad to have a place to dump it.
And I get to spread it with my tractor.
I'll let it settle a couple of years and then have some dirt brought in.
But this way I won't need nearly as much dirt.

Pooh Bear

 

[LBrown59]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Around here dirt is a commodity.
None of those places will give you dirt.
They will sell it to you, but not give for free.

I got a low spot in my front yard I'm wanting to fill in.
Saw the guys comming around trimming trees around power lines.
Told them to dump all that mulch in my yard.
And when that spot is full I got another spot they can dump it.
They were glad to have a place to dump it.
And I get to spread it with my tractor.
I'll let it settle a couple of years and then have some dirt brought in.
But this way I won't need nearly as much dirt.

Pooh Bear
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You fellers down there in the Smokies have Mountains of dirt compared to what we have up here in these Ohio hills.

 

[LBrown59]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> Post a BIG sign in front of your house for clean fill wanted. </font>

I believe he has such a sign in front of his place. Judging by the piles of dirt out front, I'd say the sign works well! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif )</font>

Not well enough - I'm still way short.
Righ now I have 2 projects being held up for lack of enough dirt.
Ah that's sure hard on Seat Time.

 

[LBrown59]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

Boy, Ohio must be the place to live.
I can;'t get enough dirt unless I spend thousands !!
Vic
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last summer I got 30 yards of top soil delivered free.
Had I had to purchase it it would have cost me 1100 at one landscape company and another one wanded 1300 for 30 yards.
I don't have a cent in the dirt truckin or loading.

Some more ideas
Take your tractor and go dig some
Basements
Swimming pools
Cisterns
Septic tank holes
Small ponds and watering holes

And Keep the dirt

 

[AndyM]

Re: SOURCES FOR FREE FILL DIRT

<font color="blue"> Boy, Ohio must be the place to live. I can;'t get enough dirt unless I spend thousands !! </font>

My next door neighbor gave lots of fill dirt to me summer before last. There were small bits of bricks and block in it, but it served my needs well. Plus, he brought it all over with his tractor and FEL and dumped it where I needed it.

Here's a picture after my next door neighbor made many trips with his FEL.