Cool Or Creepy Things Found In The Bush Or On Your Property

[Rockbadchild]

When we bought our 25 acre rental property, there was indeed a dump on it. Spent years getting rid of all the stuff, including huge amount of old metal roofing. Still finding stuff today.

The property is one of the original properties on the lake, and was an old lodge once owned by a gold refining company. Never found any gold, however!

However, there is still one underground chamber that looks like a collapsed root cellar that we haven’t yet explored…

The underground mine on your propriety is pretty cool, I don't know how deep it is but when and if you decide exploring it (not recommending it) make sure there is air flow, if not bring a gas detector that at least measure oxygen and carbon monoxide.

 

[dmccarty]

The cameras stink for real pictures though. I tried to get a picture of an albino deer a couple of years ago. I could post the picture and tell you "She's there" but it would be a big leap of faith on your part to believe me.
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On my part also. I took the picture but still can't make her out.

I have some high end camera and lenses, but even with that capability, trying to get images of the albino deer we had 5-10 years ago, was an exercise in frustration. I have the images but thy are blurred in spite of the quality of the equipment.

There were two albino bucks but they did not last the hunting season. The twins split up best I could tell, and the last time I saw one, it was heading off our property which was not going to end well during hunting season.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

yes, you would be surprise on how many people bury garbage on their property i can understand but it’s not something i would do..

When I worked on a farm as a teenager, the owner would dump trash into a ravine on the property. Never could understand him doing this because we were only on the farm for a few days at a time before heading back to the city. He could easily have taken the trash home and had it picked up with his city house garbage.

There was a house in our county years ago, along a major road, where they would throw the trash all over the property. The trash was in white trash bags, and over time, the property was just filled up with white trash bags. There is a garbage collection center five minutes from that house, but the people were too lazy to take the garbage to the center, even though they were very likely going to nearest grocery store which was near the collection center. My assumption is the county got involved because the place was cleaned up.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

I took our grandsons magnet fishing near our home, we were on a bridge throwing in 2 magnets when my grandson pulled up a Glock 22 40 cal pistol!
It wasn't even rusted yet, it was missing the barrel but the rest was there. I let him keep it as a souvenir.
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Depending on state law, possession of the pistol without a permit could be a problem.

I would suggest taking the pistol to law enforcement and running the serial number. Given the barrel was missing and the pistol was tossed in the water, it is likely the firearm was stolen. The missing barrel would suggest to a reasonable person that the pistol was used in a crime.

Personally, I would not want to be in possession of that pistol.

Later,
Dan

 

[Rockbadchild]

When I worked on a farm as a teenager, the owner would dump trash into a ravine on the property. Never could understand him doing this because we were only on the farm for a few days at a time before heading back to the city. He could easily have taken the trash home and had it picked up with his city house garbage.

There was a house in our county years ago, along a major road, where they would throw the trash all over the property. The trash was in white trash bags, and over time, the property was just filled up with white trash bags. There is a garbage collection center five minutes from that house, but the people were too lazy to take the garbage to the center, even though they were very likely going to nearest grocery store which was near the collection center. My assumption is the county got involved because the place was cleaned up.

Later,
Dan

Brutal ... ya these scenarios are hard to understand. When I said I can understand is some people have the equipment to burry their garbage, they have to pay for dump fees and haul it. Since they are out of city limits and don't have the services. In their mentality its all going underground, so I can ''understand'' other work for I don't judge them but would never buy their property and I would never burry garbage on my property other then organic matter.

 

[ponytug]

After that project was over, we had to convert all of the press units from keyed to keyless. Some of that involved sitting inside of running press units while mounting electrical boxes, wiring harnesses, then making adjustments to the new sensors. You haven't lived until you climb inside a running press unit. It sounds like you're sitting inside the engine compartment of a large truck doing 60. The rollers are inches from your head. One wrong move and it would be like putting your head into a giant wringer washing machine. Death would be instant. No loose clothing. No rags in pockets. All shirts tucked in. And I cut my hair pretty short, too. I ranked that part of the job right up there with jump-starting aircraft that had the plug between the prop and the leading edge of the wing. Total concentration or death.

As I said

Nerves. Of. Steel.

Personally, I would take jump starting aircraft over that job any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

All the best,

Peter

 

[dmccarty]

Brutal ... ya these scenarios are hard to understand. When I said I can understand is some people have the equipment to burry their garbage, they have to pay for dump fees and haul it. Since they are out of city limits and don't have the services. In their mentality its all going underground, so I can ''understand'' other work for I don't judge them but would never buy their property and I would never burry garbage on my property other then organic matter.

What is maddening with dumping in my county, is that there are NO fees for dumping at the dump or the various collection centers. Those services are paid for in county taxes and when one goes to the dump or the collection center one does not pay a penny. Yet, people will still toss trash along the road, on their property, or worse someone else's property, like mine.

Yeah, I would not buy property that had buried trash on it and I have seem that here and there over the years. In the two cases I mentioned, there were simple, easy and no cost ways to handle their trash, other than tossing it on the land. Just odd.

Later,
Dan

 

[MossRoad]

What's kinda neat about garbage dumps is that they are a time capsule.

My parent's property bordered a large ravine off of one side. About 400' long going down about 90'. There used to be a two-track dirt road going along the side of it. Apparently it was quite the dumping spot up until the late 40's. Over the years, being curious kids, we'd start digging through the junk piles. Once in a while we'd find china that wasn't broken. Pots, pans, cans, bottles of all shapes and sizes. It's the thing archeologists dream of a thousand years from now.

 

[sixdogs]

What's kinda neat about garbage dumps is that they are a time capsule.

My parent's property bordered a large ravine off of one side. About 400' long going down about 90'. There used to be a two-track dirt road going along the side of it. Apparently it was quite the dumping spot up until the late 40's. Over the years, being curious kids, we'd start digging through the junk piles. Once in a while we'd find china that wasn't broken. Pots, pans, cans, bottles of all shapes and sizes. It's the thing archeologists dream of a thousand years from now.

In the bottle dump of our very rural northern New England farm, the daughter found an old "ship's bottle" that had a torpedo style on one end rather than a flat bottom. I knew nothing about them but was told the bottles were used to carry fresh water on ships and more could be piled sideways with the pointed bottoms.

 

[JethroB]

A local private junior college had several hundred acres of farmland just out of town. They had their own private dump/landfill there for decades. Until the the EPD found out about it in the 80s. The town had a similar setup. Our own little superfund sites nearby. Both had to be cleaned up at huge costs.

 

[tradosaurus]

What is maddening with dumping in my county, is that there are NO fees for dumping at the dump or the various collection centers. Those services are paid for in county taxes and when one goes to the dump or the collection center one does not pay a penny. Yet, people will still toss trash along the road, on their property, or worse someone else's property, like mine.

Yeah, I would not buy property that had buried trash on it and I have seem that here and there over the years. In the two cases I mentioned, there were simple, easy and no cost ways to handle their trash, other than tossing it on the land. Just odd.

Later,
Dan

The local city dump use to be free if you showed your water bill proving you were a resident. That went away 10 yrs ago so people are less likely to pay a minimum $50 fee to dump their trash.
We elected not to pay for trash service so my method is to burn all paper and cardboard and then dump cans/bottles at the gas station (bagged in small bags) about twice per week. Other larger items like milk bottles, wine bottles, etc. are dumped at the gas station when we fill up. I had someone pick up all my metal trash I accumulated over the last 4 years for free since he was going to recycle it. Food waste/scraps can be composted and used for gardening.

There really is no reason for rural owners to have trashy property.

 

[tradosaurus]

My Grandfather, being a Country Doctor, had a habit of buying out widow's estates as "House and Contents." House and contents, means you buy the entire estate if no one else wants to challenge it with the single check, to be bought out. i always thought this was difficult for me, cause I'd have to sort though the good and bad. And the Grandfather wanted to keep everything..... for some reason.

Well, one House and Contents turned out to be strange. While looking at one of his new purchases, I noticed a trap door in the kitchen no one had seen before. This was an old house and it was common to have a root cellar close to the kitchen.

I pulled up the trap door and it was filled with clothing. New, old, clothing, with the sales tags still on them.

So I started to take the clothes out, and found a step! And then another step, and another, and another.

All filled up with rotting, new, old clothing that still had tags on them. And then I saw the rafters, meaning that this as an entire basement. I ordered a dumpster to the site. Then spent an entire week doing nothing but pulling out what must have been 250 thousand dollars of, now rotted, and useless clothing, that had been neatly stacked in the basement. All of them still had sales tags. It took three dumpsters. One of the House and Contents was a 1980 CHEVROLET EL CAMINO. I didn't like it, so turned it down. I was just happy Grand Pa was paying for my college tuition.

I wonder what the story was behind the clothing with tags still on them?

 

[drssg]

I wonder what the story was behind the clothing with tags still on them?

That sounds like a crazy person to me.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

That sounds like a crazy person to me.

Or a crook. "It fell off the truck."

 

[drssg]

When I was a teenager, a friend's dad worked in the local dump. We also had a local Frito-Lay plant, and they would periodically bring non-sellable inventory, due to packaging issues. The dad would swipe the product, and they would have a massive quantity of chips in their house for a while.

On hindsight, I'm not convinced that anyone knew that there wasn't anything dangerous in these discarded chips. We were happy to chow down, and we didn't ask questions.

I f-f-f-feel f-f-f-fine!

 

[turnkey4099]

If any manufactures would just offer a manual trans, no power windows/mirrors/anything, I'd be happy. Just need 4WD, a radio, and turn signals get all the other crap off my truck because I don't want to pay for it.

You forgot the EIGHT FOOT BED! That would make it a real work truck rather than a play toy that can't carry and 8' 2x4

 

[Dftodd]

I wonder what the story was behind the clothing with tags still on them?

Cleptomaniac My guess is someone with either a severe shopping addiction and hiding the spoils in the root cellar.

Thrift store owner??? Keeping all the stuff turned in with the tags still on.

Defunked flea market stall owner and stashed the going out of business merchandise in the cellar.

Someone stole a trailer, wanted the trailer, and kept all the stuff they cleaned out of it.

They actually did that last one here about 8 to 10 years ago. Someone stole a semi trailer full of feminine products from the local Kimberly Clark factory

 

[turnkey4099]

The local city dump use to be free if you showed your water bill proving you were a resident. That went away 10 yrs ago so people are less likely to pay a minimum $50 fee to dump their trash.
We elected not to pay for trash service so my method is to burn all paper and cardboard and then dump cans/bottles at the gas station (bagged in small bags) about twice per week. Other larger items like milk bottles, wine bottles, etc. are dumped at the gas station when we fill up. I had someone pick up all my metal trash I accumulated over the last 4 years for free since he was going to recycle it. Food waste/scraps can be composted and used for gardening.

There really is no reason for rural owners to have trashy property.

We had a well run recycling program in this county. Had to sort to glass, paper, plastic, metal, etc. Then the Far East consumers of the US output got fed up with all the plain garbage people were dumping in the bins and quit buying. I was absolutely shocked at just how much recyclables had been going out of the house but now just goes in the weekly garbage pickup. It really bothers me to see it going to waste.

 

[turnkey4099]

Cleptomaniac My guess is someone with either a severe shopping addiction and hiding the spoils in the root cellar.

Thrift store owner??? Keeping all the stuff turned in with the tags still on.

Defunked flea market stall owner and stashed the going out of business merchandise in the cellar.

Someone stole a trailer, wanted the trailer, and kept all the stuff they cleaned out of it.

They actually did that last one here about 8 to 10 years ago. Someone stole a semi trailer full of feminine products from the local Kimberly Clark factory

It really sounds like a typical "horder" although those types usually don't hord just one type of thing.
We had one lady in this county back when that had a couple houses, both jammed to the gills with new stuffl.

 

[Dftodd]

It really sounds like a typical "horder" although those types usually don't hord just one type of thing.
We had one lady in this county back when that had a couple houses, both jammed to the gills with new stuffl.

I agree. Probably elderly with dementia. Once the marbles start to go, you never know what they start collecting.

With my grandfather, it was sliced cheese wrappers.

Couldn't throw them out, had to save them. But couldn't give a reason why.

He got them confused with plastic sandwich bags and bread bags. He and grandma used to wash, dry them, and reuse them.

Granted when I stayed with them for a bit on the farm just before they sold it, they kept trying to get me to use those washed and stinky sandwich bags for my lunch.

I had a fresh box of sandwich bags stashed and hidden in the gameroom off the kitchen