Grading Company tried to bury a car, etc

[Taylortractornut]

Homebrew you not the only one lol I fixed a temp tank for a local church a few years ago when I was 18. Had an old Ford van that had tar inside it from the roofing company that left it. We tarred it and burried it and they never did put in a real tank. I ve hit a few in the past that were so old they would collapse after the back hoe broke into the side. The big thing here is now scrap iron is so valuable Im surprised to see it burried I use car frames and axles alot, and the farm equipment is valued to for various projects. In Mississippi you can build anything you want rod or house wise ontop of stumps and what not as long as there is at least 2 feet of clay on top. I dug up a 46 Chevy deliler turk once that had a near perfect grill and door handles made a few bucks off them.

 

[Renze]

Same thing happened when we helped doing dirt work when my neighbor built a new house... he could tell us the exact year of build of any of the headlights, doorhandles or blinkers we found....

 

[CurlyDave]

The grading company guy told me it was okay to bury the stumps and stuff "outside the building envelope" meaning that he buried them in the backyard of where the houses will be, not where the foundation will go. He said it was okay to put organics in the hole, but everytime I went out with my camera, the guy on the trackhoe would start pulling the stumps back out of the hole, acting guilty.

Save those pictures. Especially if you can somehow establish the map location of where the trash & stuff is burried.

A few years down the road, the owners of the houses, which will now have huge settlement problems, will kiss your feet. They may also cross your palm with silver for copies of the pictures to help them out in their lawsuit...

 

[Dusty]

In many jurisdictions, you are allowed to bury stumps on your own property and there is a set limit of the amount of cubic yards associated with that allowance. You are not allowed to bring stumps onto the property to bury. Only those that originate on the site are allowed. There is no prohibition on burying such items such as concrete or bricks, but, once again, they must originate on the site. The state doesn't want you to be starting a dumping ground, but they do realize that some small amounts of these materials it isn't practical to have removed. In MA, these rules are enforced by the towns generally, and in some cases the DEP. Usually there has to be a sizable violation before the DEP will get called in, since they don't have the manpower to investigate every complaint. When burying stumps, it is best not to bury more than one to a hole and to make sure that the hole is well filled with dirt surrounding the stump. That way, you will not create a sink hole 20 years later, however, some sinking of the surrounding ground is to be expected. Personally, I rather have a stump grinder come in and reduce the stump at the surface than try to dig it out and then bury it. The last stump, was about 24" across and cost me $45 to have it ground down 8" below the ground surface. It would have taken a lot more in time and fuel to do what they could do with a stump grinder in a half an hour. Dusty

 

[mschech]

wow. If i recall 2-3 years back it cost me $250 for a 24" and 36" stump to be ground, and just to 4" below ground. And that was as a option AFTER he was allready onsite to take the trees down. (of course he DID need to make another trip to bring the stump grinder)

 

[Bird]

Last year, I paid $75 to have one stump that was probably close to 36" ground down; not sure just how far below grade, but it's all grassy lawn now.

 

[gb19711]

Our county developed laws a few years ago against burying stumps, etc. after some houses in a new development started having gases from the decomposing material creep into their basements.

 

[slowzuki]

You don't want to bury that stuff anywhere near your house if you live in termite areas either. Big risk of infestation that transfers to your house.

 

[Renze]

At a construction company where a friend of mine worked, they needed to build a new carpentry spray paint shop for doorframes and windows.
When digging a pit (to lower high wokpieces so you can spray the upper part without using a ladder: sinking the workpiece down instead of climbing up with the spray gun) they spent 4 days instead of one, because they had to excavate 2 volkswagen vans (the 60's hippie style vans) and several old cement mixers from the site. In the late 60's and early 70's it was pretty usual to bury stuff. Nobody at that time expected someone to dig INSIDE an existing building, but time taught that what goes down, must come up

 

[rback33]

You don't want to bury that stuff anywhere near your house if you live in termite areas either. Big risk of infestation that transfers to your house.

Termites are everywhere. As a former pest control technician who did his college thesis on termites, I can tell you it won't make THAT much difference where they are buried. If they are going to infest your buildings they are going to infest you buildings. The most important things are to get regular inspections and if your house is on a crawl space, do not leave ANY wood debris on the ground in the space to attract the vermin.