Cleaning up glass/trash in woods

LOL about the archaeologists!

Burning is a great way to get rid of some of this stuff, but some of it shouldn't be openly burned. Plastics, anything synthetic etc. can release some real nasty stuff into the air. But on the flip side of that, is it really any worse going into a landfill? I suppose the big incinerators and trash-to-energy plants have sophisticated catylitic converters on the exhaust.

The camper frame, overstuff chair and couch are going up in flames this winter though! We'll prepare the burn pile in the middle of the clearing in the summer, before everything freezes and get hidden by snow. Once there is snow on the ground, we can have bonfires without having to pull a permit.

For burning brush, you can get a permit year round if you ask. We burned a masive pile of slash over the weekend and I'm still a little giddy about it. Plenty more slash where that came from!

Snakes? Just let them know you're coming. When you go yanking up a sheet of tin or a board do it with a pole or pike if you're in really snake infested areas. You'll most likely never run across anything dangerous anyway. I've ran across a snake or two but they are usually trying to get out of dodge and not attack you.

As long as they're not on a plane.

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Quint-don't be a tease-tell us about the snake on the plane!!!

Great movie coming out shortly called "Snakes On A Plane". You gotta go see it. Samuel L Jackson takes on a plane full of snakes.

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What a catchy title-I'm sure it will be a blockbuster-BTW, I've given up on cleaning the glass up on this particular section-I dug three feet down yesterday-can't find the bottom of the pit-I guess somebody dug a hole at some point and used it for yrs. I am going to fence a 20x20 square to keep my critters out.

I'm helping a friend clean up 26 acres that has been badly abused by the former owners. There are car parts (engines, hoods, doors, etc.) everywhere, and broken glass is more common than grass.

The bad news is that there is no easy way to take care of it that doesn't involve dump truck loads of topsoil. The good news is that good land in SW Va. is worth the effort.

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DJ-unfortunately, where this "glass pit" is, a dump truck can't go-it's straight down the mountain with no access that doesn't involve lots of tree cutting and road building.

We have several "dumps" on our place...my boys just LOVE them!!! They've found some really cool treasures...but they sift through a ton of junk. Hire some boys, outfit 'em with heavy work gloves, pay 'em decent, and let them keep "anything cool"

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Funny!

At the Cincinnati Museum Center, there is an exhibit on "outhouse archaeology." Dig teams have excavated privy pits from the 1800's in the Cincinnati/Newport/Covington area and found all kinds of cool stuff - dishes, old bottles, animal bones, children's toys, etc. I love that exhibit.

But I sure don't envy your dilemma.

Every house we've bought has had its share of junk to clean up; I cannot fathom why so many people just pile stuff in a corner and let weeds grow up to cover it. If we had to clean it up on a larger scale I'd feel very overwhelmed.

Wooly-great suggestion-it's the first thing I tried-ran an ad in the local Bargain Finder-lots of calls, no takers. Candidly, after I started the project I was glad-it's not the junk that's a problem-that's just work, it's the glass, partially buried, broken jagged, dangerous stuff! I could start a whole new thread on "not" finding somebody to pay to work on a farm!

While leveling an area to put up a barn, I unearthed a sleeping bag with bones in it.

Wow!

I examined some of the bones that had spilled and found out they were from the previous owners pet rotweiler.

You never know what you're going to find.

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[QUOTE=E. I. School] In one spot we did want to use, we have man with big tractor come and shove it all in one area, then dump lots of dirt on top of it....about 4 feet worth...it was an uphill slope area...and then smush it all down.
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All these years and I thought I was was the only person who used the word Smush...LOLs.