Kristen’s Chickens and Farming Ventures

[Kris5902]

@Kris5902 I know what you mean. It seem's that everyone say's that we should all recycle, but the recycling places don't always accept everything, or they want to charge you to dump it there. Some people do not want to pay, so they dump all kind's of trash out in our desert down here. It's nothing to find a big pile of old tire's, that kid's will come in and make a fort out of (until someone get's careless and catches them on fire), or old appliances that are used out there for target practice.

Our recycling centers are pretty good up here and accept most things, they’ve dropped the fees for tires, and fridges, for just that reason. Trust me I briefly considered scrapping the house and building an “earthship” type house with all the junk they have here... I’m pretty sure we had a good start on the tires for walls too!

 

[BlueBaby]

Our recycling centers are pretty good up here and accept most things, they’ve dropped the fees for tires, and fridges, for just that reason. Trust me I briefly considered scrapping the house and building an “earthship” type house with all the junk they have here... I’m pretty sure we had a good start on the tires for walls too!

They had one of those used tire places that would charge to drop off the tires at. When that place had enough for a good sized trailer full, they also took them out and dumped them in the desert. If we are to be able to do more recycling to supposedly help the planet, those recycling places have to do more.

 

[rjohns39]

I've only got ten sold out of this batch, the rest are mine. Haven't candled yet but I do have internal pips as the bator is chirping. Used tires, we have a guy here local who uses them for container gardening. As crazy as it sounds, it does work. For me used wire or fence is horrible to get rid of. Last run to get rid of what I could find cost a couple hundred bucks. And now I've found a lot more.

 

[aart]

the bator is chirping

I love when that happens!!

 

[Kris5902]

I've only got ten sold out of this batch, the rest are mine. Haven't candled yet but I do have internal pips as the bator is chirping. Used tires, we have a guy here local who uses them for container gardening. As crazy as it sounds, it does work. For me used wire or fence is horrible to get rid of. Last run to get rid of what I could find cost a couple hundred bucks. And now I've found a lot more.

Yay!!! Go chirps! And as for the tires, not so crazy... I have two tractor tires that are the whole of my garden ATM. What the goats haven’t ate that is! Now having to pay to get rid of wire fencing... that is odd. We squash it down as compact as possible, and throw it in the truck for a ferrous metal scrap run. Sure it doesn’t pay as well as aluminum or copper... but they pay us to recycle it! 2/3 of a ton covers our ferry and anything above that is spending cash. Best we’ve managed is 1.3 tons so far

 

[Kris5902]

And I hit post too soon... I also wanted to agree that it is a PITA to deal with though, especially the barbed wire. Two large chunks of plywood and some heavy hinges makes a nice brake for folding it up to a more manageable package.

 

[Ribh]

For quite a while all our used car parts came from dumped in the scrub cars. The powers that be finally managed to stop that & took all the rusty old bombs off island. Now we have to pay like everyone else! Someone doing tree removals finally got wise & instead of paying to dump it @ the tip is turning it into firewood ~ for which we are heartily grateful as the man's back & the chainsaw packed it in together!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Also took in 32 bad automotive batteries, 18 expired propane tanks, 4 broken refrigerators, two washers, one dryer

"....and a partridge in a pear tree!" Is what I started thinking as I was reading this!

Can't they even have a designated rubbish spot?

 

[rjohns39]

Morning Kris

This is going to be an interesting hatch... 30 RIW and 34 BH are viable and in lock down. Two external pips a bunch of internal pips and several that are under developed but growing.

 

[BY Bob]

Yay!!! Go chirps! And as for the tires, not so crazy... I have two tractor tires that are the whole of my garden ATM. What the goats haven’t ate that is! Now having to pay to get rid of wire fencing... that is odd. We squash it down as compact as possible, and throw it in the truck for a ferrous metal scrap run. Sure it doesn’t pay as well as aluminum or copper... but they pay us to recycle it! 2/3 of a ton covers our ferry and anything above that is spending cash. Best we’ve managed is 1.3 tons so far

I too was surprised at paying to recycle metal. We sell it for scrap as well and earn some money back. My dad makes a trip every couple months and comes back with over $100 usually. Of course that includes aluminum and copper as well as steel.