been use’n my rock rake i built for my bobcat… try’n to get all the larger rocks and broken bricks out of my graded dirt so i can put down sod… and plant a few trees…
so i end up… so far… with a load that would fill my dump truck (16yds)… would cost $69 to dump plus time & fuel…
SO… i place an ad on craigs list… explain what i have… and that i’ll load it for free… bring your truck or trailer…
my mail box is about full… 1st guy who responded has a dump trailer and wants as much as he can get… so… i guess he’ll get it all…
when we were frame’n it was winter and we’d put a sign out for free firewood… and dump all our scrap on the curb… we’d have people stop & ask if we had any scrap for the day…
i love give’n away trash…
P:)
Replies
You have to wonder if he plans to use it for unauthorized fill on a low site.
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
It's pretty common here for demo'd concrete to get mashed up with an excavator and worked into a road bed. I don't have a better idea. Lately I've heard a couple of horror stories about guys burying all sorts of debris... asphalt shingle scraps, sheetrock scraps, pallets, packaging, etc. etc. etc. and in one egregious case using same as fill under a concrete patio adjacent to a house. Patio settled and cracked badly (how can you compact trash??) and my excavator removed 100 yards of garbage and replaced with 100 yards of fill. Lawsuit may follow.
"and in one egregious case using same as fill under a concrete patio adjacent to a house"
My neighbor used construction trash (including beer cans and grass clippings) under his addition. I keep waiting for the whole thing to fall down so I can buy the lot and turn it into a swimming pool, but it manages to stay standing.
Speaking of "fill"... I had a steel septic overflow tank in my back yard that was put in when the house was built in 1951. We're now on city sewer. The tank finally rusted out and caved in leaving a hole about 5' X 5' X 5'.
I asked friends and relatives if they could contribute any fill. The best contribution was an old busted up sidewalk, but there's also a car bumper and an old boat motor (no gas or oil) down there also.
do you? or do you just have to wonder if one mans trash, is another treasure.....? really not trying to be a jerk, but if you had to wonder/ponder/moralize about how someone may use something you gave or sold them.... you'd never be able to give or sell anything.
since we have to truck gravel in couple hundred miles, we have people buying broken concrete. I know contractor that will bid jobs free just to demo the concrete for resale
why would i wonder? it's perfect for errosion control.... bottom fill for raised beds... fill'n in an empty pool...
it's just rocks...
p
Sounds like clean fill to me. Only thing bad to put as fill in residential concrete is organic materials. Vic
My concern was if the engineer called for select fill, and the HO decided he could get something a lot cheaper."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
select fill is what we call a controlled borrow. its is a material that low on clay, no organic, trash, concrete tress, or contaimnat like fuel. around here it sand or sand clay
I busted out an old patio and sidewalk, enough to fill my old dump truck. Was on my way to the local landfill and got flagged down by a guy on the road to the landfill. He was looking for just that type of fill to stabilize a hillside on his commercial property. I asked no futher questions, saved me a hundred bucks in fees and gas.
I was talking with a guy from Ohio once. He knew some guys who bought a property to make into a softball field. They talked to a contractor about leveling it. The guy named a price of thousands of dollars.
They thanked him, saying they didn't have that kind of budget.
He was actually naming a price he would pay them.
Apparently that area had really thin topsoil.People with new building sites would have to buy soil to get a decent lawn. The contractor could sell the dirt he removed at a profit.
You never can tell.
When I built my pool, a local dirt merchant did all the back fill and final grading for free, for the dirt. He left an operator and an articulated loader here all day while he was arranging to sell the dirt a load at a time and dropped a bobcat to do the final cleanup.
I had them all around my yard fixing things that bothered me.
They also did the digging for my pool plumbing and buried the pipe.
I was real happy
Not a bad deal!
Dad always said... "one man's trash is another man's treasure".
I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
Or as my plumber says, " one mans shid is another mans bread and budder"
It's awfully easy to overload a dump truck with broken up concrete and bend the frame. Sometimes it even costs $490 to have it straightened at a truck shop.
Or so I've heard anyway.
(-:
Just went to my town dump to toss an old window. Backed up to the garbage truck and started unloading, and I saw 2 circular saws in the garbage truck. One was a Makita and the other a Black & Decker. I took out the Makita, the guy who works there took out the other and we went over to an outlet, both work fine. Go figure. Blades were rusty but they sounded fine.
I put stuff to my curb even if heavy trash is coming for weeks, stuff I don't want and know someone could use. Last time was a few weeks back and they took everything over 2-3 days.
Years ago I had a pair of old Skidoo snowmobiles, needs some parts for the hood & grill. Machines were so old I could not find them.
My next trip to the landfill I opened my truck door and there on the ground were the parts I needed!!!! In perfect shape!!!
Dump guy said that someone just left after dumping a load of snomobiles!!
I love going to the landfill!!!!
Ya just can't have too much broken up, dyed concrete.
View Image
View Image
View Image
View Image
http://www.tvwsolar.com
We'll have a kid
Or maybe we'll rent one
He's got to be straight
We don't want a bent one
He'll drink his baby brew
From a big brass cup
Someday he may be president
If things loosen up
C/L is great for getting rid of stuff or picking up stuff.
We took down a big blue spruce in the front yard; the woodsmen trimmed and chipped up the branches but left the trunk cut into rounds. I had half of it gone the same day, and the rest the following day.
We were heading home one day and were following a pickup with couches in the back heading in the direction of the dump (just a few blocks from our home). We followed them into the dump and asked if we could have them, and they said "sure". Exit dump, do a quick transfer between vehicles. Wife said they'd be good for her charity. Later decided they wouldn't be so hot, no problem. Ad on C/L and they're gone in two days. Saved 'em from the dump, anyway.
I hate seeing good stuff thrown away when it could be used by someone else, even if it's not me.
Yahoo freecycle is a good plaace too. Got a Craftsman toolbox, filled with plumbing fittings pipe wrench hose bibs and a flare tool.