receive everything he deserves.

I hope your day is laid back and lucky, too!

I believe landfill-mining will be a thing before long.

They were just huge piles of stinking garbage. Now, everything is orderly, with different sections for different materials. And the heavy equipment is running constantly to bury the garbage.

The landfill is huge. I go to the compost section where I can just pull the heavy waterlogged cans out of the hatch, without having to lift them into a dumpster. The compost area is a good two miles from where you check in. It's wayyyy back in the woods. I saw a bear back there once.

In the 90s, I was working at a large facility in the finance department. One of the women accidently threw away some really important paper files. Our director was looking for volunteers to go to the landfill to look for files. This was a different landfill then the one I went to today. This one was about 35 miles from my home.

I volunteered, and another guy went with me. We had to do a lot of detective work at the landfill office (ie: where would the truck from this plant have unloaded, etc.).

We ended up in a freaking MASSIVE pile of garbage...probably a couple of acres.

We waded through all of that shit, among the rats and the large birds feeding on the garbage. We were looking for anything that looked like it might be from our office.

We finally found the files. We brought them back to work, and we were nice and stinky.

They sent us home for the day, and the next day, we got a $100 each monetary award for finding the files.

When I was about 5, I guess, one of my favorite things to do was to go to what was called "The Boneyard" ( the city dump) with my Grandad when we visited him and the rest of my Dad's family out in the middle of Kansas. We visited maybe 1 or 2 times a year.

Now what made this a memory was on one trip to the Boneyard my Grandad and I returned to his home and we were meet by my Mother. Boy was she mad. She started hollering at Grandad about where we were and how come he didn't tell anybody. etc, etc.
Now I can understand her concern, when no-one knew where I was ( Grandad did his own thing and no-one really cared about that).
But the thing that was really imprinting was I paid no attention to her because me and Grandad were engaged in a pretty neat discussion about something cool. This only made her mader I must add.

Small town in the NY Adirondacks. There were some incredible finds and some useful junk.

One roadside dump I also went to had a ton of discarded mattresses piled up haphazardly. My fried and I used to romp on them and build little fortresses. Later found out that they were discards from a local tuberculosis sanitarium....

Yep...gotta be careful with what you find there!

Sometimes, when I used to go with a friend of mine (we were building his house), we would come home with more than we brought there!

When my boys were small they loved going along with him. I guess it’s a guy thing?

Probably not the same thing as going to the landfill, though.

I’ll bet that idiot tailgating you had a MAGA bumper sticker.

but somewhere down Route 81 in Pennsylvania, there was a HUGE auto junkyard.

A friend and I were partially restoring my 1966 Ford Fairlane, and I needed a windshield.

So we took a trip down there and spent the entire day in that junkyard. It was huge, and a bit scary. There were cars and car parts up in trees!! It was surreal.

The guy that was tailgating me probably did have a MAGA sticker. It looked like a new Hyundai SUV. He was taking a big risk with new vehicle. I was driving a 2011 Subaru.

Mr. Diamond talks about a big auto junkyard in Zeleinople, PA. Could that be the same one you mentioned?

this one was in Northeastern PA (NEPA).

I've noticed (at least in Buffalo) that the drivers that display anything god or jesus related are the worse freaking drivers ever.

Also, I always have issues with Jeep, Chevy, Audi, Mercedes and Subaru fucko's tailgating me. I literally had an Audi pass me in 30 mpg residential zone with double yellow line a few weeks ago because I apparently was driving too freaking slow for them. Fuccckk!

I'm not bragging, but I just got recently popped for speeding. The prosecutor was nice enough and reduced it to a parking ticket but my fine was still $185! I don't know how people can afford how they drive. I was only speeding because drivers were camping in the left lane and I was trying to get around them.

I've never been to a landfill but we have heavy trash pick up days here. I've found high quality and plenty of life left in many, many items that I rescued from the landfill!


Have a relaxing evening, Lucky!

that you found and cleaned up really nice!

You have a relaxing evening too, Aggie.

I should find all my photos and create an OP about my trash picking.

Oh, you remember the nickname Harker gave me!



Thank you, Lucky!

So did mine, but mine had me driving it by the time I was twelve!

He died in early February, during a very cold winter.

In the driveway was a 1966 Dodge Polara, and the dump truck.

My father's brother came over and taught me how to start them up, and move them around, which I did every day.