I hired a excavation company to clean up this gigantic mess I inherited when I bought this property. So the guy shows up w/ a bulldozer and a backhoe, the latter weighing close to 22 tons. I'm thinking he's gonna have to dig halfway to China to bury this old barn that's back there. Instead he digs about 20 feet down, pushes it all in w/ the dozer and is just finishing grading it all out. I'll post pics tomorrow. I'm going to have a much larger lawn to mow now, what the hell did I do????

 

so the barn is now mulch.

 

chief that may very well become a sink hole where you buried that barn. can be a real pain in the ass a few years down the road.

 

^ i agree. after some time thats going to become a sink hole as the wood rotts

 

Yea, it’s a bad thing to bury a large quantity of wood.
The guy should have hauled it away and filled the hole with clean fill.
It will decay and settle an inch or two every year.
Depending on your area, it could attract a huge breeding ground for termites.
When they’re done feasting on the barn for a few years, they’ll make a b-line to your house.

I’m curious to see the pictures.

 

 

When my uncle built his house they had random shingles and wood just buried when they graded it and within a few years his whole nice lawn was covered by these fucking sinkholes that made mowing it a nightmare.

 

yeah. I hate it when people around me bury buildings or houses. I always say either cut it up and haul it off ,or burn it and haul it off. If you just flat bury it you'll have a terrible problem with termites for YEARS.

 

i'd tell that fawker to dig it up and haul it away

 

Might even be illegal.
I don’t know if the homeowner or the contractor would be liable if something happened in the future.

Lead paint, asbestos, or other contaminates getting into the water supply.

 

I don't think Chief is going to be too happy reading this thread.

 

You guys are a bunch of negative creeps. "Out of sight, out of mind", that's what I always say.

Rock on, Chief!!

 

He’s a Lawyer, he’ll straighten it out.
But I don’t know if it’s a good idea to get into an argument with someone who owns a 22 ton dozer.

 

exactly,
if it was the contractors idea i would make him pay for the removal and new fill

 

Hope that, as it sinks in the future, it sinks evenly and is the size of a croquet court.........

Seriously, hope there was no lead paint or VCT contained; assume you did not have any tests done so you can claim no specific knowledge.

 

meh....3FITTYZ > 22 ton dozer

 

where YOU been schmeckal?

 

You should have had him build you a bunker back there instead.

 

chief hasn't posted in a while. maybe he fell in the hole?

 

Termites got him.

 

Not where I've been....WHO I've been.

 

damn. quick little bastards.

 

Hey boyz, I'm here. Tried getting on this a.m. but problems w/ site didn't allow it (anyone else??). Anyways, the work is done, the wood that was left from the barn was so rotted from sitting on the ground for nearly 20 years that it literally crumbled. Most of the stuff that got buried was branches, brush and remnants of logs. That and some big ass pieces of concrete. No asbestos shingles as barn was covered w/ just tar paper when it burned supposedly. I just took a bunch of pics so I'll get some up. Looks great except now my lawn is 200 feet deeper than it was! Guess it could be worse, much worse.

 

 

before (1st 2 pics)



DURING (2)




AFTER

 

where's the barn?

 

^^^^that's just it-it was on the ground for so long it was practically dust by the time this got done after being burnt and decaying.

 

Nice looking yard Chief.






Plenty of room for a pool...and a few hundred A-Ziners...

 

yeah i'm sure chief is just itching to have a pool full of a few hundred guys LOL

nice yard...

 

You’re probably OK then. Please ignore my previously posted pessimism.
I was picturing some 40 x 40 foot 2-story barn, not some burned out rotting relic.

You should disassemble and move that shed to the back of the yard now. Or get a new one.
It will look out of place in the “middle” if you plant grass behind it.

I know what you mean about cutting lots of grass.
I just “reclaimed” about 2,500 sq ft of brush behind where my garage sits and planted grass last weekend.
All that work to clear it and now I’ll have more work to cut it every week.
But it should look nice though, as will your expanded yard.

 

:jealous:

You guys have some big ass yards

 

Pretty ambitious using that wheelbarrow to cart it off ....

 

Next up: we're having some Amish craftsmen build us a barn. The guy across the street had it done for 10K including materials. He's got a 20x40' barn that was done in 4 days. One of my best friends owns a concrete construction company so I am going to have him pour the foundation/pad. Then I can tear down that POS Sears tin building, though it has served me well. Funny on the wheelbarrow thang, but I use the tractor and trailer instead, it'll haul 1000 pounds no sweat.

 

Nice work Chief

I need to find some Mexicans to come clear out my backyard!

 

Da wife sez no A-zine meets in the backyard though she does want a pool. I can't believe how friggin' huge my yard is gonna be, every time I look back there I just smile.

 

how many acres ya got?

 

You gonna cruise Avondale???

 

I keep looking at that nice big yard :jealous:

Little too far from me (30 miles south west)

 

I used to mow 3.5 acres, it was fun for a while, but sure got tired of the Saturdays on the mower. I had a 6 foot finish mower behind a Kubota L3130, took about 2.5 hours to mow, I wanted a pond real bad!!

then I went and got divorced so had to sell it all....

 

Chief, You may have to consider upgrading your tractor unless you bought a bigger one then what you needed to cut your "small" yard. Hopefully you have somethign with a deck that's bigger then 42 inches. You're gonna need it with the new "big" yard

See, that's what I'm talking about... I want enough property so I can justify buying a CUT instead of a dinky little LT or GT...

Oh, shit, I keep forgetting I'm not on a tractor Forum

CUT = Compact Utility Tractor
GT = Garden Tractor
LT = Lawn Tractor

My Step-dad has a Kubota 7500 CUT w/ backhoe and FEL (front end loader), mower deck, etc etc...