Excellent crop of tires this year...

[japody]

Boydton is a nice area. We looked at a few places along the lake and north of Chase City.

We're trying to keep it a secret.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

We're trying to keep it a secret.

I won't tell anyone...

 

[sandman2234]

Boydton you say!! I will tell everybody for you!!
David from Jax

 

[Wakey]

I like it.. Prime and paint and your cinderblock building will look new.

I don’t tell many how nice my town is, because it’s awful. It’s so awful you generally can’t find much for sale lol

 

[fried1765]

Wow. Fantastic job at picking up all that trash you found, and disposing of it. Your efforts will certainly improve the value and long term enjoyment of your new property. I think the previous owners were simply not good caretakers of their property.

Unfortunately this type of trash disposal was more common than we think. Some badly misguided landowners many decades ago, often would charge a small dumping fee to allow disposal on their property. I am sure they made a few thousand dollars over the life of their property ownership. The other case, is you have a landowner, that lived remote to the property, rarely visited the property and did not maintain fencing to keep out locals from dumping. And that seems to be what happened to my property. Remote ownership.

In my particular property case, the trash we picked up from our heavily wooded property was dated back to years 1930 - 1970s, and so far we have moved a total of twenty three - 15yard dumpsters out to the county landfill. The landfill does not allow tires, refrigerators and toxic chemicals, and happily we had none of these type of trash. We have cleaned enough up, that last week, we actually hired a land clearing contractor, who uses a skid steer with forestry mulcher. He opened up paths through the woods, and found enough debris to fill another dumpster in just 3 days. I estimate we have 95% cleaned up, with some small areas avoided due to some rather steep terrain for tractor access.

"The landfill does not allow tires, refrigerators, and toxic chemicals"
Obviously, the municipality wants to incentify folks to buy a backhoe for those items.
My local landfill has a fee for tires, and refrigerators, but will not accept concrete rubble.
I find that I only need to dig a proper size hole, to accommodate the ammount of rubble I need to dispose of.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

"The landfill does not allow tires, refrigerators, and toxic chemicals"
Obviously, the municipality wants to incentify folks to buy a backhoe for those items.
My local landfill has a fee for tires, and refrigerators, but will not accept concrete rubble.
I find that I only need to dig a proper size hole, to accommodate the ammount of rubble I need to dispose of.

Yeah... doesn't make much sense does it? It cost me $200 bucks to dump the 50 plus tires; not everyone is willing to part with their money for something like that. Probably another few grand in the other dumpsters; not to mention labor...

 

[Fuddy1952]

I took these two days ago, a place in S. Central Va. I wish I had taken pictures of the acres of old tires and six old mobile homes.
Fellow said "watch your step" referring to an old hand dug well hole.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I took these two days ago, a place in S. Central Va. I wish I had taken pictures of the acres of old tires and six old mobile homes.
Fellow said "watch your step" referring to an old hand dug well hole.View attachment 690864View attachment 690865

I think we tend to forget... We ARE in the SOUTH... A lot of these old places never recovered after the war; and reconstruction left the South in poverty well into the 1950's, and beyond for some area's. Think Appalachia ...

 

[Hay Dude]

What’s the big deal? Lots of people way back from the depression era kept old tires around for many reasons, among lots of other things.
I just cleaned out 50+ tires from a barn I was given free use of.
The owner died and was a depression era guy. Never threw away anything.....you act like it’s a superfund cleanup site lol

 

[fried1765]

What’s the big deal? Lots of people way back from the depression era kept old tires around for many reasons, among lots of other things.
I just cleaned out 50+ tires from a barn I was given free use of.
The owner died and was a depression era guy. Never threw away anything.....you act like it’s a superfund cleanup site lol

Free use of a barn?
Good place to store a midi-ex!