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Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:28 pm
by Benj Ross
Mikey wrote:Harley wrote:The only option for me now is to take it to the tip. That tipping fees are $65.00
Bill Fitzmaurice wrote:Make a burn pit, burn it, use the ashes as garden fertilizer.
Harley wrote:Golly gosh, I'd be arrested for burning that stuff in my section
By asking people to PAY to dump, they're encouraging people to take their stuff out into the wilderness to dump it. That's just plain stooopid.
Here in Pahrump, there's no charge for residents to take stuff to the dump, yet there are still a lot of people who are too lazy, or don't want to spend the gas money to go to the dump, so they dump it in the desert. It really sucks when I'm way out in the middle of nowhere, riding my horse and enjoying nature, and I come upon a truckload of someone's ignorantly discarded furniture, appliances, car parts, trash, etc. Makes me wanna leave THEM out in the desert!
Here on the island where I live, it costs $300+/tonne to dump. When I take my stuff off island (to the same place it ends up when I dump it here) it costs me $85/tonne. They charge to drop off recycling now too
Technically it is illegal for me to take the garbage out of county (off island) to dump it, but I talked to the mainland dump and they said they are aware of our dump situation and the higher authorities are OK with it.
Gotta love the beuracracy
Benj
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:31 pm
by Harley
badgerman wrote:Nail all the pieces together and sell the conglomeration as art... You really only need to be sure to use the words "organic", "existentialism" and "recycled medium" to qualify it as art.
I had contemplated using my biscuit cutter to join the bigger pieces together, but that means extra cutting, setting up, gluing, making sure it lays flat bla bla bla, so sod it, it gets dumped.
Problem is the original owner has long since departed this life. It belonged to my father-in-law and my son inherited it...sort of...long story
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:04 am
by AntonZ
Benj Ross wrote:Technically it is illegal for me to take the garbage out of county (off island) to dump it,
Then it isn't garbage until on mainland you decide you actually do want to get rid of those items that you have such fond memories of.
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:32 am
by Patrick Mos
In the netherlands you can call the city dump, and they will come over and collect it....all you have to do is put all the trash outside....
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:43 pm
by Harley
patrick1979 wrote:In the netherlands you can call the city dump, and they will come over and collect it....all you have to do is put all the trash outside....
For nix?
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:20 am
by jswingchun
Mikey wrote:Here in Pahrump, there's no charge for residents to take stuff to the dump, yet there are still a lot of people who are too lazy, or don't want to spend the gas money to go to the dump, so they dump it in the desert. It really sucks when I'm way out in the middle of nowhere, riding my horse and enjoying nature, and I come upon a truckload of someone's ignorantly discarded furniture, appliances, car parts, trash, etc. Makes me wanna leave THEM out in the desert!
My other hobby is looking for and photographing snakes and other reptiles. They like to use these trash piles as hiding places, making it easier for me to find them. I'm always thrilled to find trash piles in "snakey" places. One man's trash, another man's treasure....
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:57 pm
by AntonZ
Harley wrote:patrick1979 wrote:In the netherlands you can call the city dump, and they will come over and collect it....all you have to do is put all the trash outside....
For nix?
More or less. We pay an annual fee for the city to pick up the regular garbage on a weekly basis. That includes the occasional extra lot as Patrick mentioned. There are limitations to frequency, quantity, size and the kind of materials. And we spell "niks"
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:06 am
by Ron Anchak
Can you donate the wood to a youth group or local school woodshop? I cut my pieces into small pieces and mix it in with the trash. You could start a compost pile.
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:59 am
by Chris_Allen
Harley. You're a fraud!
Making your workshop clean by dumping stuff outside is cheating. I am demoting you to 3 star Harley tidiness.
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:44 am
by Dave Non-Zero
I could turn up at the local dump with that trailer towed behind a car and it would be free, but if I showed up with a van, then i get charged.
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:12 am
by Ozmirage
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:38 am
by SeisTres
This is like getting a flying gerbil! I want a bat!
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:55 am
by CoronaOperator
SeisTres wrote:
This is like getting a flying gerbil! I want a bat!
I much prefer a flying squirel
... With armour plate!
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Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:57 am
by Harley
Ozmirage wrote:Use the scrap to make bat houses.
Gross
AntonZ wrote:And we spell "niks"
True, that's how it should be...but I was dreaming of Stevie
Re: It doesn't take long for the build-up...
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:16 am
by Israel
mulching time!!!! ahh and by the way do u pull that with your bike??
