Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Bruce]

Especially if it rains

I imagine you had some "widening" and overflow of the water in that ditch in the past. Water takes the easiest path downhill and getting "strained" through a dump likely isn't the easiest way when it is really moving.

 

[Mike CHS]

Especially if it rains

I imagine you had some "widening" and overflow of the water in that ditch in the past. Water takes the easiest path downhill and getting "strained" through a dump likely isn't the easiest way when it is really moving.

The ditch takes a turn and there is a good sized indentation where they dumped all of the stuff for no telling how many years. I bagged up a pickup load this afternoon and there is a large percentage of things that don't look like they had been there very long which tells me that the most recent dumpage was from the realtors people that emptied out the previous owners contents. There was no cleanup done since the house was so rough there would have been no point in it. Here a couple of pictures. The one with the smallest number of things is where running water has moved things off of the pile. The other I'm standing on the top of the bank which is about 10' deep at that point and the junk is all the way to the top. I'm amazed that I haven't been getting a lot of trash on the exit point of the ditch.

 

[Baymule]

Amazing what you can find......

 

[Bruce]

Those realtor or their "charges" should be held to account. Oh well, you will get it all cleaned up. What is scrap metal selling for these days?

 

[Baymule]

Those realtor or their "charges" should be held to account. Oh well, you will get it all cleaned up. What is scrap metal selling for these days?

Not enough to pay for all the work of cleaning it up!

 

[Mike CHS]

Not enough to pay for all the work of cleaning it up!

That pretty much sums it up Bay

 

[Bruce]

True, but if you ARE going to clean it up, hopefully it would at LEAST pay for the gas to get it to the metal place and maybe lunch . I took some I think about a year ago and it was selling for something like $35/ton. Fortunately I also had a bunch of old copper and wire, that sells for a lot more. It paid more than what it cost to rent the truck and put gas in it. Of course the primary purpose for renting the truck was to move furniture. Getting rid of the metal was a bonus.

 

[Mike CHS]

All of the metal I find I give to our 85 year old neighbor. He sells scrap but we also do things for each other so that works for us. His scrap trailer isn't far from where the trash is and it's less I have to haul off. We don't have "dumps" here where I can take a dump trailer but rather transfer stations so unloading is about as much fun as loading the truck.

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry if I came across as dinging you for cleaning up...wasn't my intent. I have the same issue here that I'll have to deal with including an old vehicle back in the woods half buried/sunk. The thought just hit me of un-burying it all to re bury it somewhere else...

 

[Mike CHS]

I didn't take it that way at all.