Cleaning up the farm.

patsy_mccabe

Ok I'm trying to clean up the farm. An ongoing project. The problem is I'm not sure the best way to get rid of different things.

Dirty Plastic - This was old heaps of the stuff thrown in over a wall about 20 years ago by someone else.:mad: It's filthy mostly covered in dung. I've dragged it out but will the recycling crowd take it?

Old tyres - same crack. Anyone taking them?

Old Timber cattle box - No brakes etc. Could be 40 years old. Would I have to take off all the timber to take it to the scrap yard.

Any ideas? Pain to deal with.

TheFarrier

I’m at the same.
Tidying up the cattle yard after a few successive tenants were less than enthusiastic about keeping it right.

Went gathering my few bale wraps last summer for the plastic collection. Had the car trailer full and reckoned I was about done, when I pulled a stray piece over a wall. Found a silage trailer full of wraps behind it in the briars.

Have a heap of dung too full of plastic and netting. Anyone have a trick to getting the rubbish out of it??

The man with the dung spreader will have a fit if he sees this stuff coming.

_Brian

Offer the box free to take away on DD or Facebook marketplace.

Would the tyres and plastic go in a skip ?

DJ98

How do people get rid of old fencer batterys?

Nekarsulm

DJ98 wrote: »

How do people get rid of old fencer batterys?

Scrap metal places take batteries.

emaherx

DJ98 wrote: »

How do people get rid of old fencer batterys?

Meath Council recycle centre takes them presume others do too, cost nothing beyond gate fee.

Don't know if scrap yard will take fencer batteries but they pay for old car/tractor type.

bogman_bass

DJ98 wrote: »

How do people get rid of old fencer batterys?

Take it to where they sell them. They’ll take them back for free

emaherx

TheFarrier wrote: »

Have a heap of dung too full of plastic and netting. Anyone have a trick to getting the rubbish out of it??

No trick but I've done it and it was pure hard ship. Used digger back actor to root through but it was mostly hand sorting what came out. Plastic reyceler will take if you knock most of the Dung off but most important for them is net and film need to be properly seperated.

Lime Tree Farm

Scrap car batteries are worth money and tractor batteries even more.

https://www.adverts.ie/skips-waste-collection/we-buy-scrap-metal-copper-brass-alloys-catalytic-converters-cats-starters-and-alternators/11855614

Jb1989

Goes to a hole beside the yard here,.

two wheels good

Repak ELT (End of Life Tyre) members "should" take the tyres for a small charge. €1.50 +VAT I was told but I ended-up paying a bit more.
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Sheep breeder

We have a stands made of box iron for half ton meal bags for black plastic, one for net and a small meal bag hung in meal house and work shop for rubbish and a barrel for this Maguire and Patterson stuff.
The black plastic off the bale into the bag and then up on the trailer for recycling.
A neighbour of ours has a yard like a tip head and drops every bag where he finishes with it and none of the contractor will spread dung for him.
A sales rep friend always says first impression last when he goes into a farm yard, dirty looking farmer dirty yard, clean lad clean place.

Jb1989

Sheep breeder wrote: »

We have a stands made of box iron for half ton meal bags for black plastic, one for net and a small meal bag hung in meal house and work shop for rubbish and a barrel for this Maguire and Patterson stuff.
The black plastic off the bale into the bag and then up on the trailer for recycling.
A neighbour of ours has a yard like a tip head and drops every bag where he finishes with it and none of the contractor will spread dung for him.
A sales rep friend always says first impression last when he goes into a farm yard, dirty looking farmer dirty yard, clean lad clean place.

Does the dirty or clean person buy the most?

Who2

I’ve a 5000lt Kingspan oil tank with the top cut off here. I tie a cord off the big square around the outside and drape chords down into it all around and tie both ends. Then in goes all the silage wraps. I drop a bale on top of it every so often to compress the wraps and the theory is I can tie all the ends of the chords in when it’s full and lift the whole lot out in one lump with the loader. It’s my first year trying it but I’ve about two hundred wraps in already and they are only sitting up around 18”.

farawaygrass

The mechanic that serviced the tractor lately left all the old oil behind him in buckets. What would ye do with that?

Jb1989

farawaygrass wrote: »

The mechanic that serviced the tractor lately left all the old oil behind him in buckets. What would ye do with that?

Burning bushes. Soaking posts in. Give to some man with an oil burner

patsy_mccabe

Recycling centers will take old burnt engine oil.

Doctors room ghost

_Brian wrote: »

Offer the box free to take away on DD or Facebook marketplace.

Would the tyres and plastic go in a skip ?

And if someone wants to take the trailer fill it up with all the plastic wraps and any other old sh1te and only allow them to collect it in the dark.
2 birds one stone

memorystick

Jb1989 wrote: »

Burning bushes. Soaking posts in. Give to some man with an oil burner

My brother throws it into the slatted tank.


Another reason when I don’t farm with him.

Jb1989

memorystick wrote: »

My brother throws it into the slatted tank.


Another reason when I don’t farm with him.

Jesus

Odelay

memorystick wrote: »

My brother throws it into the slatted tank.


Another reason when I don’t farm with him.

Jesus Christ!

Grueller

memorystick wrote: »

My brother throws it into the slatted tank.


Another reason when I don’t farm with him.

Right job. Stop the inside of the tanker rusting.

memorystick

Grueller wrote: »

Right job. Stop the inside of the tanker rusting.

You never see a rusty chip pan

Nekarsulm

memorystick wrote: »

You never see a rusty chip pan

Because they're aluminium.....

memorystick

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Because they're aluminium.....

Not my mothers old Kenwood. Nearly as heavy empty as full.