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lbrown59
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2008-03-09 152031
DIRT CHEAP ----------Was on my way into town and the State was cleaning out the road ditch less than a mile from me.
Stopped and told them I had a place to dump the dirt if they needed one.
They delivered me 3 truck loads.
Nothing like free dirt when you have a tractor !
== L B ==
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earthwrks
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3853 Home Office in Flat Rock, Michigan Pics |
2008-03-09 152039
As a contractor I love hearing these type of stories.
No such thing as a free lunch. Or dirt.
Around these parts, we use road salt--tons and tons of it. In fact the southeast area of Michigan is located right over a huge deposit of salt.
Guess where the salt runs off into when the snow melts? The ditch.
Where did you get the dirt from?
The ditch.
Hmmmm. Do non-saltwater plants like salt?
Noooooooo.
Cattails might like it and some exotic weeds too. ....
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kthompson
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5275 South Carolina Pics |
2008-03-10 152045
Salt is not a problem here but the trash that is in the road ditch and even mixed in the dirt is. Been there, matter of fact 5 years later still cleaning it up each time dirt is turned. kt ....
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hardwood
Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3583 iowa |
2008-03-10 152047
No salt problem here at least on the gravel roads. I used to get lots of free dirt form the county when they cleaned ditches. It did have some beer cans and a bit of crushed rock that the snowplows pushed in the ditch mixed in, but aside from that it was good topsiol that had washed into the ditches during a high water epesode. No free dirt anymore here, now they haul it to the county landfill and cover the layers of garbage with it, a zillion tons of good Iowa topsiol gone forever. Frank. ....
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