Cleaning Up Substantial Yard Debris

[dirttoys]

That bucket is phenomenal

I'll look into it come spring. Going to clear brush and centralize the trash now.

As for the house, we've got trusted high quality contractors (family actually) who are doing such a phenomenal job. There property is part of an estate so it's funding the renovations. It's been a real joy seeing what was once a jewel of a house become one again and being able to renovate with a single cohesive design. Lots of dark blue with white trim, enameled cast iron sink, clawfoot tub and all the fixtures are solid brass. The idea is that we want to design something more permanent so the stuff like the brass will still look great in fifty years and so will the cast iron if taken care of. We've also been salvaging a lot of original hardware, solid oak doors with ornate hinges and porcelain doorknobs just sitting in the bramble behind the half collapsed barn. I spent two weeks scraping wallpaper so we could keep the plaster and lath in a particular room. Here's a pic of some restored hardware that was unrecognizable and covered in paint and a picture of our kitchen sink still in progress.

Looks great, neat project I am VERY glad you have help, that stuff is real work. If you do it by yourself it would be easy to loose sight of the end.

Best,

ed

 

[Bearsixty7]

Contact your Department of Environmental Conservation and ask them to press charges to cover the costs of the cleanup. 30 years of accumulation=30 years of after-care and guardianship. We need to do the same with the lead leaching into the ground from shooting ranges . Each one should be required to carry a 6 $$$$$$ figure bond for the eventual cleanup of poisoned groundwater and submit to, and pay for, groundwater monitoring wells. In NY, the DEC is installing monitoring wells at all dumps and landfills. It sucks seeing waterbirds dying from ingesting lead shot and seeing eagles die from eating the waterbirds.

Steel/Nontoxic shot has been required for waterfowl hunting since 1992. And more states are mandating its use in select areas for upland bird hunting–even for doves on some state lands. So there should be little to no waterfowl dying from ingesting leadshot.

Most shooting ranges have a company that comes in and reclaims a lot of the lead for reuse so no need for them to carry an unnecessary bond that only costs users more and also causes less ranges to be built. It's already getting harder and harder for ranges to stay open due to population growth and increasingly restrictive and expensive regulations.

You do know that lead is a natural element, it is in the earths crust in a lot of places. Who do you want to charge or make carry a bond so that all of that doesn't cause water contamination?

 

[Hay Dude]

Boy did this topic slide into the abyss. Lol
Renting a 15” diesel chipper in next 2 weeks to chip a 250’ long x 50’ wide x 10’ high pile of years of accumulated brush.
Planning on chipping what can be chipped and condensing the older rotted material into a pile to be scattered-spread out in woods.

Burning not permitted by this customer. They will be burning some money to pay for this, though

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I call my piles “rabbithabitat”. Pretty sure the possum,raccoons, skunks, etc thank me as well.

I have an internal fight with this a lot. I have a big soft spot for all of God's creatures so I appreciate this mentality. But, I also like things to look nice. Usually looking nice takes priority at my house. I had a tough time cleaning up the overgrowth around my pond since the frogs like it so much. So I left 1 bank overgrown for them...

 

[dirttoys]

LOL that is funny, don't care who you are. Saving Lennon would be powerful motivation, probably going to rethink my position on guns

And, you gave me a sudden, nearly overwhelming urge to start drinking Busch!!

 

[DieselBound]

If you look closely at my avatar you'll see something that did a MASSIVE amount of work- old car/truck hoods. Use the tractor bucket loader to push stuff on (lots of things can be rolled-on, and then off). Drag wherever. Here's a bunch of crap that I unearthed from my property (most was from only a few locations, fortunately):

Part of my property (far from the immediate homestead, thank goodness) had been used as a junkyard/wrecking yard (short term) overflow: people got most out (order from the County) , but there was still ample crap left. I think I ended up with 34 tires/rims. Lots of metal that I had someone else haul off: when I was doing this work I did not yet have a truck. Just after carting all that off, and feeling really good about doing so, I ran across a piece of plastic sticking up out the ground in an area that I wasn't aware of any garbage having been- pricked it out to then unearth a freaking swing set (there was vacuum cleaner and a bunch of other crap in that hole as well). An older friend of mine (lives in a more urban environment) told me that a friend of his would tell him to bring out his garbage to dump at his [his friend's] place.

My brush hog was key in exposing stuff through all the brush: battled a lot of discovered metal, slicing through the front end of some old International pickup and slicing several rims, but the brush hog survived it all (and it was a "light duty" unit!).

One area is my "hobby" area. I've been sifting through the dirt (off and on) for a good ten years: lately I might get a couple of hours work in a given year- area has been shrinking and I just kind of let stuff settle and the debris to rise. This is the garbage area that got all the household waste, lots of glass, screws and nails. I'll probably curse myself, but I've only gotten one flat in all the work that I've done (at it was early on, and, thankfully, just a front tire on my small tractor- I watch very carefully about getting near anything with my Kioti and its loaded rears!).

Not exactly what I'd planned to do with my life, but looking at what I now have I can say that I've turned everything from a

 

[PlasterProspector]

If you look closely at my avatar you'll see something that did a MASSIVE amount of work- old car/truck hoods. Use the tractor bucket loader to push stuff on (lots of things can be rolled-on, and then off). Drag wherever. Here's a bunch of crap that I unearthed from my property (most was from only a few locations, fortunately):

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Part of my property (far from the immediate homestead, thank goodness) had been used as a junkyard/wrecking yard (short term) overflow: people got most out (order from the County) , but there was still ample crap left. I think I ended up with 34 tires/rims. Lots of metal that I had someone else haul off: when I was doing this work I did not yet have a truck. Just after carting all that off, and feeling really good about doing so, I ran across a piece of plastic sticking up out the ground in an area that I wasn't aware of any garbage having been- pricked it out to then unearth a freaking swing set (there was vacuum cleaner and a bunch of other crap in that hole as well). An older friend of mine (lives in a more urban environment) told me that a friend of his would tell him to bring out his garbage to dump at his [his friend's] place.

My brush hog was key in exposing stuff through all the brush: battled a lot of discovered metal, slicing through the front end of some old International pickup and slicing several rims, but the brush hog survived it all (and it was a "light duty" unit!).

One area is my "hobby" area. I've been sifting through the dirt (off and on) for a good ten years: lately I might get a couple of hours work in a given year- area has been shrinking and I just kind of let stuff settle and the debris to rise. This is the garbage area that got all the household waste, lots of glass, screws and nails. I'll probably curse myself, but I've only gotten one flat in all the work that I've done (at it was early on, and, thankfully, just a front tire on my small tractor- I watch very carefully about getting near anything with my Kioti and its loaded rears!).

Not exactly what I'd planned to do with my life, but looking at what I now have I can say that I've turned everything from a

Haha, I think you got me beat.

 

[STAYSAFE]

Those are VERY cool but I think my wife would lose it if I started trying to blowtorch the garbage.

Everybody recommends the dig and bury method. Considering it's old agricultural land and a multigenerational family property, that and I'm a bit crunch, I'd rather just pick it all up. Small stuff can be raked into the top soil season after season but that'd be the extent of it. Those run flats are real cool though. How well do they perform?

There is no such thing as “AWAY” in the clichè “throw it AWAY”. One can throw it over “here” or throw it over “there”, but you can’t throw it “AWAY”. Even Space Junk isn’t “away”. It’s just way out “there”.

 

[STAYSAFE]

Please spell “scrappers” like this. Please don’t spell it like this: “scrapers”. One is a person, after all. ScrappersLivesMatter. The other describes friction.

 

[rademamj1]

Please spell “scrappers” like this. Please don’t spell it like this: “scrapers”. One is a person, after all. ScrappersLivesMatter. The other describes friction.

I must admit, despite a minor misspelling, I fully understood the meaning and contention of the post.