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

[paulsharvey]

HDD= horizontal Directional drill.

 

[ponytug]

HDD= horizontal Directional drill.

Thanks, I was wondering as well.
Good luck with your resident dismantler.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I have a small junk pile that I am excavating for good junk. I have retrieved several perfectly good glass quart mayonnaise jars (remember them?) that make perfectly good canning jars after cleaning. 100 year old cobalt glass pill bottles. Scrap iron. Once upon a time, you burned what would burn and shoved the rest in a ditch.

 

[two_bit_score]

I hauled off 8 or more pickup loads of carpet when I moved here. Some of it was rolled out in the yard, two layers thick. There was an old single wide trailer that had 4 layers of carpet in it. I still find pieces of old shag 18 years later.

It's amazing how long that stuff can last.

 

[two_bit_score]

Some cities and towns have areas that wee buried by disasters over the years. I know Galveston Texas has areas that were buried by the Great Hurricane. Here is something interesting about Seattle.

>>>Beneath Seattle lies the Seattle Underground, a network of underground passageways, basements, and former streets located in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. This subterranean system was once the original ground level of Seattle, built on filled-in tidelands that were prone to flooding and vulnerable to fire. After the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889, which destroyed 25 city blocks and prompted a major rebuilding effort, city planners decided to regrade the area by raising the streets one to two stories higher—up to 30 feet in some places—to combat flooding and improve sanitation. As a result, the original street level became inaccessible, and shop entrances were left 12 to 22 feet below the new ground level, requiring ladders for access.
The underground space was used for storage and later became a haven for illicit activities, including speakeasies and opium dens, before being condemned in 1907 due to fears of the bubonic plague. It remained largely forgotten until the 1960s, when preservationist Bill Speidel revived interest by launching the first guided Underground Tour in 1965, helping to save Pioneer Square as a historic district. Today, the Seattle Underground is a popular tourist attraction, offering guided tours through its damp, dimly lit tunnels, where visitors can see remnants of 19th-century buildings, vault lights, and historical artifacts. The area is also known for its eerie atmosphere and stories of Seattle’s sordid past.

 

[paulsharvey]

Jacksonville FL was built on its burnt ruins. Beaver Street/SR10/US90 (Not I-10), we were working on moving a gas line about 10 years ago, under the road, asphalt, on top of concrete, and as we dug down, you smell something like oil fuel spill. about 36" deep, rail road cross ties, creosote treated. I dont know if the road was build on top of an old rail road, or if the cross ties where used to bridge muck, or what?

 

[paulsharvey]

In Florida, there is often a thought that everything is pretty recent, except old St Augustine. In reality, Jacksonville, Ocala, Starke, Palatka, Lake City, Tallahassee, all where around during the war.

Palatka was water mains that are from 1898... So, its not all new.

The Chruch we used to go too, was named Elaim, meaning "of the people", although not the original structure, was started as a church that the slaves could stand in the back, and also get "the word". I think it started shortly pre-war, like 1858 or so

 

[etpm]

Speaking of buried stuff, a friend's well terminated in a tree. 450 feet down. I mentioned this to the guy who was putting my well in and he said that they went through trees on a regular basis. Whidbey Island is all glacial till on the south end, 3000 feet thick. Who knows where those trees came from. But they all must be from Canada. I have a big rock on my property that is of a certain type and the closest source is 300 miles away in Canada.
Eric

 

[paulsharvey]

So, we have done some deeper directional drills, either under creeks/rivers, or to get below other bored in utilities. In my part of the state, we have zero rock. Old house, 105 ft deep well, still in sand. But, some of these 75 ft, 100ft deep directional drills makes you think, what is the "soil" down there, 50 ft below sea level? There is rock somewhere down there. Other parts of the state, and I mean just 30 miles away, you get into truck sized chert rock, or limerock. Never worked in south Florida, but ive heard the rock down there is hard, and everywhere when you get about 5-10 ft below sea level.

 

[Jstpssng]

Some cities and towns have areas that wee buried by disasters over the years. I know Galveston Texas has areas that were buried by the Great Hurricane. Here is something interesting about Seattle.

>>>Beneath Seattle lies the Seattle Underground, a network of underground passageways, basements, and former streets located in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. This subterranean system was once the original ground level of Seattle, built on filled-in tidelands that were prone to flooding and vulnerable to fire. After the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889, which destroyed 25 city blocks and prompted a major rebuilding effort, city planners decided to regrade the area by raising the streets one to two stories higher—up to 30 feet in some places—to combat flooding and improve sanitation. As a result, the original street level became inaccessible, and shop entrances were left 12 to 22 feet below the new ground level, requiring ladders for access.
The underground space was used for storage and later became a haven for illicit activities, including speakeasies and opium dens, before being condemned in 1907 due to fears of the bubonic plague. It remained largely forgotten until the 1960s, when preservationist Bill Speidel revived interest by launching the first guided Underground Tour in 1965, helping to save Pioneer Square as a historic district. Today, the Seattle Underground is a popular tourist attraction, offering guided tours through its damp, dimly lit tunnels, where visitors can see remnants of 19th-century buildings, vault lights, and historical artifacts. The area is also known for its eerie atmosphere and stories of Seattle’s sordid past.

That's interesting.

This would also fit well in the "Tell us something we don't know" thread.