Today the barbed wire goes away. The problem with it, well there are a lot of problems. 1)we did not put it up. We are trying to eliminate it. 2) there is too much of it to rewind it and besides, have you ever tried to wind used, rusty barbed wire? It has a tendency to return to it's coiled state even when cut into manageable lengths and when it does it doesn't really care who it tangles around. 3) nobody wants it. It's rusted, patched and totally nasty stuff. IMHO, all barbed wire is totally nasty stuff and and I don't understand why the previous owner used it instead of regular field fencing. I mean seriously, we must have taken down miles of the stuff in the past 10 years. Some of it is breaking on it's own from rust.
4) It's dangerous. Yeah, seriously dangerous. I've cut my shoulders and back on it as has DH and we want it gone. I'm not a kid anymore and as a result, I cannot climb through the stuff like I used to. Better it be gone than up posing a danger to our dogs or ourselves.
5)We have no way to get this much barbed wire to the recycler north of Kirksville, 30 miles away from us. We do not own a trailer or pickup truck and our van would be ruined if we stuffed it into the cargo area.
As to where we are putting it. I seriously doubt if anybody is going to be endangered by it by dumping it in a ravine with steep angled sides that is 25 feet deep. We don't climb down in those ravines, it's too dangerous and if anybody does climb down any of our ravines, they are trespassing and that is another bag o worms all together.
But the barbed wire, thrown into this deep ravine with deadfall logs dumped on top of it, will help control erosion on our property. The torrents of water that cascade down these ridges during heavy rains has to be seen to be believed. Think rapids in a canyon and you have a close picture. deadfall that is washed into the ravine will catch on the logs we put in along with the barbed wire and create a natural cofferdam.
Nobody will encounter it down the line as it will be rusted and non existant unlike the plastic and glass bottles previous owners have thrown into the ravines as a way to get rid of their trash. We pay 85 dollars a month to have our trash hauled away but the garbage man does not want to deal with a dumpster full of tangled barbed wire and he is too nice of a guy to expect him to. Nor are we out to endanger future generations. We wouldn't think of putting this wire in an area where kids or livestock would encounter it unlike some people who just put it in a pile out in their timber and let nature take care of it.
Sorry for the rant. I guess I accidentally created the false image that we are irresponsible land owners. We aren't. If anybody has a better idea of how to dispose of it and wants to come get it, they are welcomed to it but mailing it is out of the question. I don't think anybody makes a box big enough to hold all of it.
4) It's dangerous. Yeah, seriously dangerous. I've cut my shoulders and back on it as has DH and we want it gone. I'm not a kid anymore and as a result, I cannot climb through the stuff like I used to. Better it be gone than up posing a danger to our dogs or ourselves.
5)We have no way to get this much barbed wire to the recycler north of Kirksville, 30 miles away from us. We do not own a trailer or pickup truck and our van would be ruined if we stuffed it into the cargo area.
As to where we are putting it. I seriously doubt if anybody is going to be endangered by it by dumping it in a ravine with steep angled sides that is 25 feet deep. We don't climb down in those ravines, it's too dangerous and if anybody does climb down any of our ravines, they are trespassing and that is another bag o worms all together.
But the barbed wire, thrown into this deep ravine with deadfall logs dumped on top of it, will help control erosion on our property. The torrents of water that cascade down these ridges during heavy rains has to be seen to be believed. Think rapids in a canyon and you have a close picture. deadfall that is washed into the ravine will catch on the logs we put in along with the barbed wire and create a natural cofferdam.
Nobody will encounter it down the line as it will be rusted and non existant unlike the plastic and glass bottles previous owners have thrown into the ravines as a way to get rid of their trash. We pay 85 dollars a month to have our trash hauled away but the garbage man does not want to deal with a dumpster full of tangled barbed wire and he is too nice of a guy to expect him to. Nor are we out to endanger future generations. We wouldn't think of putting this wire in an area where kids or livestock would encounter it unlike some people who just put it in a pile out in their timber and let nature take care of it.
Sorry for the rant. I guess I accidentally created the false image that we are irresponsible land owners. We aren't. If anybody has a better idea of how to dispose of it and wants to come get it, they are welcomed to it but mailing it is out of the question. I don't think anybody makes a box big enough to hold all of it.
they usually hide and it has gone quite straight over the years so came home showered not going to make English muffins with cranberry
