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KEH

06-18-2006 11:25:33




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I really hate to bale hay next to a road where the prevailing wind blows trash off the road onto the field. Its really bad next to a house where the people throw trash into the edge of the field. Cleaned out some and put it back in the yard yeaterday. The guy was working in the yard on a race car, but didn't offer to help.
On trips to the midwest I have seen places where grass on the highway right of way has been baled, possibly as a way of getting the sides of the road mowed. Lots of luck doing that here. In the first place the ditches are too steep for mowing, and the amount of trash thrown out by our fair citizens would pollute the hay too much.

KEH

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john in la

06-18-2006 18:57:40




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
Some people are just gross!!!!! !!!
They had a spot on the news a year or two ago about the grass cutters complaining about people tossing bottles full of liquid human waste (word censor) out the window. Now think about what has to happen for a bottle like this to get in the neutral ground of a interstate.
The grass cutters would run over this bottle after it sitting in the 90+ deg heat for days.
That is not a pretty site.
One company is changing all of their tractors over to A/C cabs to protect the workers.

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Bus Driver

06-18-2006 18:04:07




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
In my area, the contractors who install the main lines for Time Warner cable just drop their trash in the area around each pole. I found a 7' length of coax cable that is 7/8" diameter in my field, among many other things. Anyone want to hit that with their rake or run it though their baler?



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Davis In SC

06-18-2006 20:14:35




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to Bus Driver, 06-18-2006 18:04:07  
The Power Co. came out to fix some stuff at our shop.. The tossed a used streetlight bulb, some wire, & some assorted hardware in our parking lot, rather than take it with them.. At least I did get a pound of scrap aluminum out of the deal.. Seems to me, that a company like Duke Power, that tries to keep a good image, would not allow their crews to litter the property of others...



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Bus Driver

06-19-2006 04:12:47




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to Davis In SC, 06-18-2006 20:14:35  
That is surprising and disappointing. I am a Duke stockholder. Fortunately, I have not experienced Duke workers leaving trash at the work site. Their present phone setup makes it very difficult to get to the person you really need to discuss issues such as this one.



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davpal

06-18-2006 17:26:51




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
It is as simple as your state representatives making a bottle deposit law. In Michigan where we have a 10 cent deposit the bottles and cans are much less of a problem. We still get a lot of paper trash like Mcdonalds stuff but that will eventually biodegrade away. I pick up my section of the highway all the time. We have about a mile of highway frontage so it is a big job keeping it up. I went to Texas a few years ago and was shocked by all the trash and glass bottles on the sides of the roads. It looked like a garbage dump in some places. All they need is a bottle deposit and it would improve greatly. Another thing they should have a deposit on and don't are oil containers. Simple enough but not being done. Change the oil in the car and five plastic containers with oil residue in them go in the dump. They could resuse the same containers a hundred times and only use them once. Oh well, thats life in america I guess.

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Jonfarmer

06-18-2006 17:47:12




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to davpal, 06-18-2006 17:26:51  
Vermont has a 5 cent deposit, and I think it's 10 cents on the big glass hard liquor bottles. We have beer bottles/cans galore along our highways because our state has a "no open container law" on alchoholic beverages, so you can get busted if you have open containers in the car, even though the driver was not drinking them, it's a stupid law that encourages people to throw them out as they drink them, and theres also folks whom apparently don't want to bother with the 5 cent deposit on soda cans either. You will find quite a few illegal "garbage dumps" around the countryside here.

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Stickler

06-20-2006 06:56:12




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to Jonfarmer, 06-18-2006 17:47:12  
I live in a province that has a real recycling program, 10 cents a piece for containers from anything a human can drink. There is almost never a container left anywhere. However I work in a province that the only thing refundable are beer bottles and cans. The highway ditches are littered with empty water bottles, pop bottles, etc. And I do mean littered. A person can easily pick up an entire pickup load in a single mile. I've done it many times.

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JohnDeereGreen

06-18-2006 16:17:44




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
Yep, same thing happens here. While we were drilling beans a few years ago at our family farm, dad and I found about 6 beer bottles. The catch was, they were full. Musta been someone running from the law.
JohnDeereGreen



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no.2

06-18-2006 15:24:37




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  

A few years ago we found a sofa in a hay field along the road. I set it out near the road side and put a for sale sign on it. Two dayus later it was gone. I wish I could do the same thing with beer bottles. A friend who farms several fields in the river bottoms found a car and a truck in his corn fields when he went to shell corn. Both were burned and stolen!!!!! !!



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David in England

06-18-2006 14:03:59




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
Hi guys;
Amazed to read that the US has litter problems on the roadsides. Its a real problem here with pop cans & fast food containers thrown out of cars. Also the people who take their unwanted furniture and dump it off in quiet country roads. Are towns-folk as bad and inconsiderate all over the civilized western World?



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Jonfarmer

06-18-2006 17:31:02




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to David in England, 06-18-2006 14:03:59  
Yes david, it is the same here in the USA as it is there, and I am pretty sure it is this way everywhere you have people. Fast food and beverage containers are the norm everywhere and occasionally, they throw that stuff out while they're right in front of somebodys house, right on their lawn. Old tires and computers are another item that get dumped alot. Any little spot they can get where the chances of being seen are less, such as little sags and what not out in the country, that is where you will find people dump. The fishing accesses are another spot the dumpers frequent to dump, since nobody thinks too much of vehicles stopped at those, so they just unload when cars aren't going by and drive off, between the dumpers and the unsportsman sportsman who leave all their empty bait containers and dirty diapers from their kids behind, most of our fishing accesses are pretty gross.

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Jonfarmer

06-18-2006 13:33:11




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
Theres a guy near me that has it about the worse. Some of his land sits down low in a little sag on a pretty deserted dirt road that goes all the way through and connects onto the main roads, totally out of site, so this naturally is a dumping spot to some, all kinds of junk constantly get dumped there from complete junk automobiles, household trash, appliences, mattresses, furniture, everything you can imagine, and they pretty much always dump it right in the entryway to one of his fields. There is always stuff there even though someone constantly removes it, and I feel real bad for this guy, the way he maintains everything and keeps everything looking nice, and people dump loads of garbage almost daily. Some people are just complete hogs.

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Formerly PaMike

06-18-2006 12:40:27




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
Every field my dad owns has houses on at least one side of it. I pick up beer bottles all the time. Kids steal the beer, and drink it in the backyard. They then throw the bottles over the fence to get rid of the evidence. I just throw the bottles back now. That really pisses people off, but I am tired of baling hay with a tractor cab full of bottles, cans, bales, and other junk



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Brad Wright of MO

06-18-2006 11:58:13




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
We bale big round bales so when we bail our hay we dont immediatley pick it up out of the field. When we bale hay by a road not only is it trashy but kids come by and set the bales on fire and cut the twine. It really makes me upset. I bet if those kids were the ones out in the hayfield baling those bales they wouldnt want that to happen to there bales. I guess people just dont think about the trouble, money, or time it costs someone when they do that.

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KEH

06-18-2006 12:28:03




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to Brad Wright of MO, 06-18-2006 11:58:13  

Kids also will turn the bale flat side up so the rain will soak in.

KEH



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Randy as in Randy-IA

06-18-2006 11:55:17




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
Everyone must think their Mommy is following them around to pick up after them . I have the same peeve but I don't have that same problem . I work on construction sites and construction workers are bad about being to lazy to walk ten feet to put their trash in the dumpster after break or dinner , it's easier to just leave it on the ground at their feet because someone else will pick it up , but not before the wind blows it off the jobsite into the river or wherever . I make everyone on the jobsite that works for me police the site including the journeymen , I don't think the labororers should clean up that kind of trash by themselves just the trash produced incedental to the job , I know it's not cost effective but I don't like it ...Randy

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mjbrown

06-18-2006 11:40:49




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to KEH, 06-18-2006 11:25:33  
I's not for nothing those people are called "trash".



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BigMarv1085

06-18-2006 13:39:08




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 Re: Hay pet peeve in reply to mjbrown, 06-18-2006 11:40:49  
I had friend that lost a cow that had swallowed a diaper. The vet said the cow was probably trying to get the salt from it. The vet said it is quite common along highways.



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