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Around here wood structures are usually bulldozed and burned, then the remains are buried. Assuming the trailer in question is an older one with an aluminum shell, usually there's someone willing to dismantle it for scrap. The remains are usually burned.
My daughter and her then husband dismantled a trailer and salvaged the metal, and I salvaged some 12' x 4' plywood and some 12' rough cut 2 x 4's. They were trying to cut up the steel roofing with a circular saw, not having much luck and kept burning up blades, till I loaned them a saw with an "Old Flooring Blade" in it and it cut through the roofing like a hot knife through butter. Made short work of that roof.
BTW, when I brought the 2 x 4's home the only thing I had that was red was an Elmo doll that was my grandson's. I figured I would get all kind of abuse if I tied the doll to the 2 x 4's by his neck, so I made a seat on the 2 x 4's and tied the doll in the seat. The doll was bright red and seemed to work.
I've heard of people burying old shingles. Not sure how legal it is. I think you'll run into groundwater issues in a rural area burying the wrong stuff near your well.
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Even having my own dozer and excavator, I spend more time 'un-burying' PO treasures, especially on my TX property.
I now know why they built a huge deck, very tall from the ground. They threw EVEYTHING over the deck and the plastic / trash covered 6 acres. I have found a lot of buried freezers and fridges, but PLASTIC, white and colored (toys) litters every nook and cranny.
One place I bought in WA had 5' tall stacks of dirty disposable diapers all through the forest. I was tempted to bury, but hauled off and disposed properly. Pee-yehw.
I watched a small house bull dozed into a hole the dozer dug them buried, and a building built on top of it. That was in the 70s. Can't do that any more. Believe EPA put a stop to it.
My wife and I had her parents' old mobile home dismantled like BardoXV mentioned above. I like the way the crew did it. They worked from the inside out, tearing everything out and throwing in the dumpsters we rented. Most people I've seen tear the metal off the outside first, leaving the insulation to get wet or blow all over the place. Dismantling from the inside out puts a stop to that.
My wife and I had her parents' old mobile home dismantled like BardoXV mentioned above. I like the way the crew did it. They worked from the inside out, tearing everything out and throwing in the dumpsters we rented. Most people I've seen tear the metal off the outside first, leaving the insulation to get wet or blow all over the place. Dismantling from the inside out puts a stop to that.
The problem with this method is that most of those old mobile homes have structural damage due to them just not being sealed very well, and they're framed with 2x2 lumber. So by the time they're 30 years old the only thing holding up the roof is the interior walls. If you tear those out first you're liable to end up with a ceiling on your head.
I've heard of people burying old shingles. Not sure how legal it is. I think you'll run into groundwater issues in a rural area burying the wrong stuff near your well.
I had a neighbor dump some old shingles on my shared driveway, saying that he thought they would melt in the hot Sun. They didn't melt when on a roof in the direct sunlight, so what made him think they would melt on a driveway in the shade. He also said there were no nails in them, but when I looked they were full of roofing nails. I got pissed and loaded them on my truck, and dumped them on the section of drive in front of his house, but past where I had to drive.
My wife and I had her parents' old mobile home dismantled like BardoXV mentioned above. I like the way the crew did it. They worked from the inside out, tearing everything out and throwing in the dumpsters we rented. Most people I've seen tear the metal off the outside first, leaving the insulation to get wet or blow all over the place. Dismantling from the inside out puts a stop to that.
My daughters only real problem was that while they had the dumpster sitting there, a lot of neighbors would throw trash into the dumpster, so they were paying for a lot of extra stuff that they weren't throwing away.
actually, this is and has been common practice in most rural areas for decades. while, i don't agree with it, there is really no one to police it and in most cases, very few even know when it happens.
i actually had a person send me pics recently of him burying an old trailer out in the country, that i had sold him about 15 years ago. it was a nice big 3 bedroom trailer at one time, with aftermarket metal roof, garage and deck. we used it as a deer camp. it all went in a pretty small hole. we had well water when we owned it, but they have a water coop in the area now. i still wasn't in favor of burying it.
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