How many of you found garbage buried around your place from past owners?

[paulsharvey]

Ive seen some stuff about the last leg of the transsiberian rail road, the loop that goes north of lake baikal, finished in the 1960s? or so, that they left dozers, cranes, trucks, ect when finished, for multiple reasons. Partly, not a for profit company, but also cause it wasnt worth the trouble to bring them back out.

Without looking at a map, I think it went way north to Yakutsk from Novosibirsk, rather than follow the Amur river to Valdivostok,

 

[RjCorazza]

Interesting. I don't have it so bad as many here.
My property has been farmed since the mid 1600's or so, and I occasionally find metal that dates to at least the 1800's. Mostly harness related equipment of all things.
The land became a large dairy operation in the 40's through 80's, and from that era I find cow tags and assorted modern hardware and chain. When the farm was sold off and demolished they left a huge amount of unreinforced concrete debris buried all over. That was a problem 25 years ago when I put a fence in, and again recently when I had a small pole barn built. EVERY hole hit a piece of concrete, some small, some large slabs. There was a 100x300' loafing shed and (3) tile silos that were demolished and spread out everywhere.

 

[Jstpssng]

It was standard practice pull a car over a ditch, perpendicular, so you could crawl under to change oil easily, with the added bonus of no oil tray needed, just drain it in the ditch

My father used to dump it on the gravel driveway to keep the dust down, a practice he ended around 1970.

I once saw a camp outhouse perched across a stream channel as you describe. They must not have been brook trout fishermen, at least not in that stream.

 

[Highlandr]

My father used to dump it on the gravel driveway to keep the dust down

My grandfather did the same. And put burnt oil in a sprayer and "treat" rough-cut lumber used for cattle pens and loading chutes.

Drain and flush the radiator wherever the vehicle sat. It's just "water".

 

[not2old]

I have to admit to pouring my waste motor oil around the fence posts in my yard in the mid 1970's. Everyone did it then. A relative used it to preserve the cedar shingles on his parent's house. That house was torn down when over seventy years old with the original roof.

 

[Jstpssng]

I still know people who apply old engine oil to their truck frame every year, and others who use Bar&Chain oil as a preservative.