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Vacuumed and cleaned. Those hard surfaces are great!
Six dollars for the load at the landfill and a little gas money to haul. Would have probably cost twice that and been more than twice the work to buy compost bags and cut everything to fit in them.
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They're called pickup trucks... you should check them out.
I do not, and have never, wanted a pick up truck as a main vehicle and I won't go through having three vehicles again. Too much hassle. This works just fine for me.
I do not, and have never, wanted a pick up truck as a main vehicle
I could care less, but just out of curiosity... why? Rear seating pickups these days have more room in the cab than alot of SUV's, plus you have all that payload area in the bed and notable towing capabilities. Also, fuel mileage in light duty's is comparable to probably even your Kia...
Nothing personal, but bagging that stuff might've been easier........
No taken personally. I checked the price and size of the composting bags we have to use at the curb and figured the amount of time and effort required to cut all that down to a size that would fit. Cost at least doubled and work to finish I estimated at 4 times. Easier to shove it!
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Originally Posted by JTraik
I could care less, but just out of curiosity... why? Rear seating pickups these days have more room in the cab than alot of SUV's, plus you have all that payload area in the bed and notable towing capabilities. Also, fuel mileage in light duty's is comparable to probably even your Kia...
Winter. I spend all winter sitting behind pickups going nowhere loaded with sand bags and concrete blocks. Not for me.
No taken personally. I checked the price and size of the composting bags we have to use at the curb and figured the amount of time and effort required to cut all that down to a size that would fit. Cost at least doubled and work to finish I estimated at 4 times. Easier to shove it!.
You have to use special bags to get rid of your yard debris?
Where I live I just throw it into regular trash bags or just in my trash cans. Where it ends up after that, I'm not sure, but its out of my way, so I really don't care! Its all biodegradable, so its all good!
Yes, you buy them at the grocery stores for $1.55 a pop, put yard waste in them and they pick them up in a separate truck. The city does a lot of composting here. You can get compost, mulch, etc at the landfill. Really excellent program. We also recycle most plastics, paper (including old phone books) and clear and green glass at the curb.
Or you can bundle the limbs (I find this more hassle then just cutting them up), and pay $1.00 for a sticker to put on the bundle.
Once I figured out how much more it was going to take to cut the branches small enough to fit in the bags I decided to just haul it all. I estimate at least 15 bags for what I had and it cost me $6.00, some time, and some gas.
I used to use my limbs for mulch, but we have switched to cedar for the bug problems we encountered. It looks better, but it's also more expensive.
I still cut up the larger pieces for kindling and firewood. Apple and Maple burn nicely.
Last week I put steps on the Kia so my wife has an easier time getting in and out. That is a story in itself. There are a lot of incompetent people screwing up the works out there...
Next will be cross rails so I can haul this stuff on the roof!
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