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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Speaking of dirt...does anyone have any creative ways to get free dirt? I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
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<< The state was cleaning out the road ditch.
They need a place to get rid of the dirt when they do this.
They dumped 20 of their highway dump truck loads in my back yard free.
Didn't cost me anything for the dirt or the hauling.
I was going to use the dirt to landscape around the house, but that didn't happen.
The 20 loads of dirt sat here right like they dumped it for 20 years.
In 1996 I built a 4 stall pole building right where all this dirt was setting.
Had to hire a guy with a BH and end loader to move all this dirt out of the way.
Before the dirt could be moved I had to cut down about 7 8'' to 12 '' 20 to 25 foot tall trees that had grown up in the pile over the 20 years it sat there.
I needed a place to get rid of this dirt - at the time my uncle was trying to fill in a large hollow at his place 2 miles from me so I hired a guy I knew with a dump truck to haul the dirt to my uncles.
My uncle got several truck loads of free dirt and with free hauling.
Watch for these kind of situations and you could luck out getting free dirt and free hauling.
If I had it to do over again I would never have hauled the dirt to my uncles but instead would have had the back hoe guy just pile it up some place else on my property.
I have about 120 feet of road ditch 3 deep and 2 foot wide to fill in plus a 22x 76 pole barn to level out the floor in. The grade in one end of this barn is 3 feet lower than the other end so it's going to take quite a bit of fill for that.
I sure could use those 20 dump trucks of dirt that I hauled off to my uncles hollow now!
Isn't it kind of an irony that I could use the very dirt that came out of the ditch 29 years ago to put back in that same ditch now??? >>
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Sure could have used my Kubota back then couldn't have I?
Another tip any time you see anyone doing excavation or grading stop and ask them what they are doing with the dirt especially if its the STATE COUNTY or CITY.
You may luck out and get some free dirt and hauling or at least at a significant reduction in the cost of the hauling.
PPS:
Just recently the city was replacing a large culvert in a run. They took out a bunch of truck loads of dirt from this project.
I stopped and asked what they were doing with the loads of dirt.
They were taking it to fill in a swimming pool they had just torn down.
Had it not been for that I may well have gotten 15 to 20 truck loads of free dirt and free hauling.
The moral of all this > Keep your eyes peeled as you never know what you might run into.
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<< The state was cleaning out the road ditch.
They need a place to get rid of the dirt when they do this.
They dumped 20 of their highway dump truck loads in my back yard free.
Didn't cost me anything for the dirt or the hauling.
I was going to use the dirt to landscape around the house, but that didn't happen.
The 20 loads of dirt sat here right like they dumped it for 20 years.
In 1996 I built a 4 stall pole building right where all this dirt was setting.
Had to hire a guy with a BH and end loader to move all this dirt out of the way.
Before the dirt could be moved I had to cut down about 7 8'' to 12 '' 20 to 25 foot tall trees that had grown up in the pile over the 20 years it sat there.
I needed a place to get rid of this dirt - at the time my uncle was trying to fill in a large hollow at his place 2 miles from me so I hired a guy I knew with a dump truck to haul the dirt to my uncles.
My uncle got several truck loads of free dirt and with free hauling.
Watch for these kind of situations and you could luck out getting free dirt and free hauling.
If I had it to do over again I would never have hauled the dirt to my uncles but instead would have had the back hoe guy just pile it up some place else on my property.
I have about 120 feet of road ditch 3 deep and 2 foot wide to fill in plus a 22x 76 pole barn to level out the floor in. The grade in one end of this barn is 3 feet lower than the other end so it's going to take quite a bit of fill for that.
I sure could use those 20 dump trucks of dirt that I hauled off to my uncles hollow now!
Isn't it kind of an irony that I could use the very dirt that came out of the ditch 29 years ago to put back in that same ditch now??? >>
PS
Sure could have used my Kubota back then couldn't have I?
Another tip any time you see anyone doing excavation or grading stop and ask them what they are doing with the dirt especially if its the STATE COUNTY or CITY.
You may luck out and get some free dirt and hauling or at least at a significant reduction in the cost of the hauling.
PPS:
Just recently the city was replacing a large culvert in a run. They took out a bunch of truck loads of dirt from this project.
I stopped and asked what they were doing with the loads of dirt.
They were taking it to fill in a swimming pool they had just torn down.
Had it not been for that I may well have gotten 15 to 20 truck loads of free dirt and free hauling.
The moral of all this > Keep your eyes peeled as you never know what you might run into.
