Saturday, August 4, 2012

A Trip to the Landfill

Or How to Make a Mountain out of a Moldhill

    We don’t have trash pickup, so whenever the trash reaches the tolerance threshold, off we go to the local landfill.  Recycle bins get more frequent visits.

    New tractor tires plus garage door replacements and new barbecue assembly left quite a bit of residue, so time for a trip to the landfill.

     Step one, change forks on Farmhand.  That is a bit of a challenge with the tractor not running that well, but it got done.


     Put the tire on the fork, raise tire to pickup level, roll tire from fork to pickup bed, repeat three more times and Voila!


     The time-consumer was separating the metal frame from the fiberglass garage door panels. Add the door tracks and a few other items, and off we go.







     The landfill site is quite well kept, really.  Those hills in the background are all manmade.



      Check in and pay the fee, about $50.  Three stops:  tire pile, trashpit, and metal pile.




Do you have new respect for manmade mountains now that you see what they are made from?



     See what you miss by having trash pickup?  I tell you life on the farm is sometimes terribly exciting.
      Anyway, my trash is somebody else’s problem now, so off  I go, checking out the newest wind generator sites as I head for home.  The final leg of my journey is blocked by a white pickup—a crane is coming down the road.  Certainly not an endangered species in this neighborhood right now.

      I explain I’m only going a half mile to my driveway and I can beat the crane hands down.  Besides, it wasn’t coming as far as the driveway.  It meandered onto our place.

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