Clean-up time

SteveH_CT · Jun 7, 2004

Well I'm wrapping up my landscaping job - I've added a lot of new yard. One thing thats bugged me since I started was this old trailer out in the woods. Well I got a 30 yd dumpster for our general clean-up and decided this was the time to get rid of this. Check it out - it looks like it has lead pipe framing. The toothbar made yanking it out of the woods a quick job.

SteveH_CT · Jun 7, 2004

Another view...

SteveH_CT · Jun 7, 2004

I got a better hold on it so I felt safe lifting it over the sides of the dumpster... and away it went! Things are really looking up around here. I'll have some pics in a week or two when the whole job is complete.

Take Care,

Cliff_Johns · Jun 7, 2004

On that last photo, it looks like you've taken off your FEL bucket and replaced it with the old trailer. I can't imagine why you would do that, but I guess the capacity is greater and you can dance ten feet in the air.

Cliff

cadblaster · Jun 8, 2004

Man, you could've sold that trailer on ebay.

SteveH_CT · Jun 8, 2004

It's still in my driveway (in the dumpster) - You're welcome to it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif It is in real bad shape - been sitting in the woods for years. Anyone who fixed it up would spend more time and $$ than just buying a good one to begin with.

om21braz · Jun 8, 2004

That 4310 is earning it's keep ! Keep the photos coming as it's interesting to see the various uses for the FEL. Out of curiousity, how much is it costing you to dispose of the waste in the 30 yd. container ?

SteveH_CT · Jun 8, 2004

Are you sitting down??? The cost is around $450 for the job. Fortunately I can get a lot of junk into a 30 cubic yard dumpster.

SteveH_CT · Jun 8, 2004

Actually I was thinking what a great work platform it would make /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif - No the bucket is there sinking it's gnarly little teeth into the side. I was amazed that the trailer held itself together when I yanked it out of the woods. It was so rusted I thought it would start to fall apart.

om21braz · Jun 8, 2004

Steve,
Thats' actually not bad compared to what contractors around here pay. I think the dumpster rental is $150.00 for delivery and pick-up, like $5 per day it remains on-site, and then the county charges about 50 cents per pound to dump in landfill. It's gotten to the point now most small outfits put waste in the back of a pick-up truck when possible to haul off - 6 bucks to get rid of all the bed will hold.

timb · Jun 8, 2004

That would be cheap! Around here we're paying by the ton - over the scales in and out. I just disposed of two loads of old plaster/destruction material - total came to about $110 for the two loads that combined weighed net about 7200-7300 lbs.

Tim

om21braz · Jun 8, 2004

Around here your 7000 lbs. X.50 = about $3500.00 if brought in container/dumpster - I don't think everyone is paying that rate. And they wonder why folks are dumping stuff on the roadsides.

timb · Jun 8, 2004

My fee was just the landfill charge - I hauled it in myself in the pickup. (Of course that meant loading and unloading that 7200 lbs of busted and bagged plaster by hand as well!) I think the basic rate is around $25/ton plus various 'fees' per load. 50 cents a pound is fairly absurd. But even at the local rates plenty of folks still dump off along the road here anyway.

Tim

om21braz · Jun 8, 2004

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Of course that meant loading and unloading that 7200 lbs of busted and bagged plaster by hand as well!)</font>

I don't envy that job !

cadblaster · Jun 9, 2004

Our county charges even for pick-up truck loads. Homeowners get a break on the first 700#'s. They do have weekend "beauty spots" where they don't charge (no household garbage accepted). I think they can refuse a load though, but rarely do.
/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I just love this trash talk... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

SteveH_CT · Jun 9, 2004

I just found out that my Beautiful partner in life threw out the household trash in the dumpster before it went away this morning... I hope that just gets tossed with all the rest. I know the last load I sent they seemed to go through pretty thoroughly... Gotta Love Her! Maybe it's not a problem here.

timb · Jun 10, 2004

FIL & I were discussing that as we came back from taking the 2nd load of plaster to the local landfill. I assume that there are plenty of things you aren't supposed to haul in but no one really checked. I had 75 black plastic "contractor cleanup" bags loaded with plaster, a couple of pieces of scrap metal and an old carpet. Drove through the scales and check-in station (no check) - up the hill to a ramp they have built for individuals (roll-off boxes on three sides of the ramp head) and unloaded myself. No one around. We could have had anything in that load - even an old fridge under the bags (egads - freon!) and no one would have noticed. At least at that landfill (and it must be over 1000 acres with municiple haulers coming through in a constant rhumba line) no one seems to keep that tight a lid on things.

Kind of surprised me.

Tim

om21braz · Jun 10, 2004

I know what you mean timb. About the same around here - it's the local dumpster sites that have the "trash bosses" wanting to check everything you throw in, tell you how to back up to the dumpster, and see if there's anything they want.

SteveH_CT · Jun 10, 2004

I've called them Trash gods... ours is a very small town, and the trash god wields a mighty shovel! Annoy him once and you are done for life... very annoying to me, I'm old, very old school where trash is trash and just burn it or bury it please. Sometimes I think I need to go back to college to get my degree in "waste disposal". Wait, that's plastic, can't mix that with construction debris... oh and what's that - an old blender, well that needs to way over there in the electric motor pile". I know I don't take it as seriously as I should... especially in a town were there is no public water supply, all wells and septic. This is a true account - the trash god actually questioned us one day when my neighbor and I were dumping construction debris, old trim, doors, etc... the Keeper of the Trash questioned the origin of the debris when he noticed some of the debris appeared to be of older vintage than what Ron's house is... it was from my house... and he actually knew how old Ron's house was and that this stuff didn't come from him place. Very Scary!