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[4570Man]

Neat, was almost like watching a heavy equipment school exercise. Just curious why you didn’t just mash it over and stuff it into a dumpster? Reusing materials?

Dumpsters are expensive. I have no idea what they cost in other parts of the world but locally it’s a few dollars a day rental, a transport charge of about $100-150 each way and then a disposal fee of $50-70 a ton. You can burn all the wood or better yet sell it for reclaimed lumber. The tin can be scraped although locally scrap has hit rock bottom and the insulation wouldn’t amount to a ton to haul off or better yet just burry it.

 

[Kingsqueak]

Dumpsters are expensive. I have no idea what they cost in other parts of the world but locally it’s a few dollars a day rental, a transport charge of about $100-150 each way and then a disposal fee of $50-70 a ton. You can burn all the wood or better yet sell it for reclaimed lumber. The tin can be scraped although locally scrap has hit rock bottom and the insulation wouldn’t amount to a ton to haul off or better yet just burry it.

Yeah I default to pay to play, largely because I don't have the hauling equipment yet. e.g. to clean out my property and house, it was about $330 for a 15yd dumpster. The alternative would be to have to neatly cut all materials down, bag or tie up in twine, separate it all, then take truck bed load after load back and forth to the "recycling center" because there is nowhere around to just kick stuff off a truck in a dump pile here.

With all the nanny states in the Northeast, if you just want to shove something into a pile and have it disappear, the dumpster is the default method...or unfortunately illegal dumping which a lot of us wind up having to clean up after if you have land.

 

[LouNY]

Disposal fee's here are getting ridiculous I just took a small load over last week from an apartment cleanout $0.15 per pound and then a sofa was a flat $20.00 ended up at $77 for just 380 pounds of assorted garbage.

 

[hayden]

I thought this was pretty funny. As part of the camp tear down, I relocated the outhouse out of harms way because the original owner wanted to keep it. So I scooped it up with the loader forks, as seen in the first picture. Look close, and you can see the spray can of air freshener in the outhouse window.

Next picture is after I moved it. Look close again, and you'll see that I never even knocked over the spray can during the move. It was totally by chance, but I thought pretty funny.

 

[Oldpath05]

I fretted over what to do with the building for many years. I couldn't find anyone who was willing to take on maintenance in exchange for using it as a camp. The original owner would use it a weekend or two every few years, but that's all. Meanwhile I was paying to mow the lawn, paint periodically, and generally keep after the place. Plus taxes on improved property.

I also looked at fixing it up to rent, but since it was a camp, there was no running water, no heat, no electricity, and no septic. All those would have had the be added to meet minimum state standards for a rental. Plus the road into it is 1/2 mile and would have needed pretty major improvements, and then plowing in the winter. And then in the end I'd be a landlord which is about the last thing I want to be. So in the absence of compelling economics, I abandoned that idea.

So I agree it was a shame to take it down, but honestly as I got deeper into it, there was some significant rot. I also had a couple of guys come and salvage quite a bit of material from it, so most of the good stuff was saved.

Maybe another way to get rid a house/camp is have a fire dept do a practice drill......

 

[hayden]

Maybe another way to get rid a house/camp is have a fire dept do a practice drill......

I liked that idea, but there are a variety of limits on what's allowed for open fires, so practice burning of a building is a thing of the past now. Intentionally burning painted wood, insulation, etc is against the law at least in Vermont, and I think nation wide via EPA regs, but I'm not certain about that. That's why I had to separate stuff out.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

They still do FD practice Burns here.

 

[Molalla1]

They still do FD practice Burns here.

Here also . . . just had one done about 3 years ago.

 

[4570Man]

^^^^^^^^^^^Cement blocks weigh 30-35 lbs, how many blocks did you have on that pallet? Those front tractor tires dont compress much.

They were stacked 60 per pallet plus those few more up top. I think the total was about 75. And those are the old heavier blocks.

 

[Oldpath05]

They were stacked 60 per pallet plus those few more up top. I think the total was about 75. And those are the old heavier blocks.

So that figures to about 2,500-3,000 lbs, that sounds impressive to me.