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PipeGuy

You've been reading too many Greenpeace pamphlets. It's an old trailer home not a box car full of dioxin. Most of its parts started out in someone's well water.

Agreed. Not enough room to really 'hide it' properly. Five acres?...well you could probably find a patch to plant it in.

Peladu

Oh come on Pipe, I throw my garbage out of the car window just like every other guy, and I always ask for plastic instead of paper…..sometimes I even flush twice when I don’t need to, three times if I am not on my toilet. You say it’s just a trailer, but you don’t know what else will just end up in there.

Be honest, oh so very honest…..would you knowingly raise kids on property that the previous owner buried his earthly belongings in? Then let them bathe, drink, and swim in the well water that is coming from that property? It wouldn’t be funny if Pipe junior was out digging a hole, for a new fort, and out came a plume of asbestos. OK, maybe that last sentence made absolutely no sense, but you seem smart enough to know where I am coming from.

PipeGuy

Anything carried to an extreme is probably "a bad thing" - especially when it comes to getting cozy with the idea of burying unwanted or otherwise undesirable materials. No, I wouldn't want my kids playing in a dump or drinking its water (though I played in a neighbor's uncontrolled dump as a kid without too much ill effect). That being said, I'd have few if any, concerns about occupying a property that had an old house trailer buried somewhere off in a remote corner beneath 10 or 12 feet of compacted dirt - honestly. Call me naive (or whatever else might come to mind) but I just don't fancy that much of a risk.

mdshunk

One of the most expensive and fanciest communties in my area is built over an old landfill. They market the community to retired folk (no kids allowed). Go figure.

Coastal

So whens this demo going down??? Get a thumb if you can, trying to pick stuff up with just a bucket will drive you crazy being a nooby operator.

Dont forget pics!!!

gravtyklz

I thought it would go down much sooner, but the business side of things is going slow.

Yeah the machine wont have a thumb....the only machine that has a thumb, WOULD cost double what one without would cost......and I say would because thats what the cat dealer told me......as he also said that they dont have it anymore anyways...he was a real trip.

The lack of rental yards around here drives me nuts. When it gets closer to time to do the project im gonna call every dealer I can find and see if they'll rent something to me. I hear great things about CAT rental stores and how nice their equipment is, but.....it would be nice to have what I need too.

Think it would really be horrible without a thumb?

Wolf

Loved that comment--that you love to destroy things.

I love destroying things with my excavator--that's why I do demolition exclusively.

Demolition--what a blast

Wolf

how did you end up clearing the land?