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Post by Jugglerguy on May 16, 2012 19:24:06 GMT -5
I thought I'd share my rock slurry disposal method after a comment by john (herchenx) in another thread. I have a one acre lot with woods behind my house, so I have lots of places I can dump slurry. I started tumbling at Christmas, so I was just throwing buckets full of slurry water into the woods next to my house. In the spring, the leaves were all gray and looked bad, plus I was worried about tracking it in the house. I was also concerned about dumping borax anywhere because I didn't want to kill all the plants, even in the woods. So I made a box from scrap lumber and other stuff laying around my basement. I sunk the box in the ground behind the house and just dump buckets of slurry water in and close it. The soil is sand at least to the bottom of my basement, so I have good drainage. Eventually I might fill it up, but I think that's going to take a while. When I do, I hope it will be possible to remove the solid material and put it in the garbage.
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herchenx
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Post by herchenx on May 16, 2012 19:46:00 GMT -5
Wow, Seems like a cool idea. Yeah the acre behind our house is other people's houses.
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Post by Jugglerguy on May 16, 2012 19:52:26 GMT -5
Could you hide something like this in your yard somewhere? You may not have a lot of surface area, but you own a lot of depth. Just make the hole really deep.
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Post by herchenx on May 16, 2012 20:22:08 GMT -5
I have a bunch of gravel. I was thinking of digging a pit and just filling it with gravel, then dumping the slurry-water on the rocks. Truth be told, most of what I dump is water. The heavy slurry stays mostly in my 5-gallon rinse bucket. It is almost half full of slurry though so I may just haul the whole bucket to the dump and get a new bucket.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on May 17, 2012 10:14:11 GMT -5
Ha, I don't even HAVE a backyard! Y'all are lucky! I have a bucket from which the H20 is supposed to evaporate, so the leavings can go in the trash. Not evaporating so far, even here where it is desert.
I like juggleguy's technique, but I bet that stuff turns into concrete eventually. That said, you should put some old heavy metal tool in the middle of what will become the concrete block, to provide a challenge for future treasure hunters!
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Post by helens on May 17, 2012 10:17:14 GMT -5
This was funny:). I have been dumping my tumbler stuff on these ornery ferns that just keep growing back no matter what I do... they are Florida native ferns, meaning they are HUGE, practically prehistoric, and impossible to dig out... so I've been dumping ALL the borax on them trying to kill them... and... they just won't die!!! MONTHS of tumbling boraxed slurry, and they are STILL kicking!!! GRRR!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 15:44:47 GMT -5
my suburban lawn can use the various minerals. Specially the iron from jaspers.... lol!
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Post by grayfingers on May 17, 2012 16:09:56 GMT -5
Nice set up! I no longer use borax, as I have a lot of plants and shrubs. I have found grated Ivory bars do the trick. I let the slurry settle, pour off the liquid into the landscape and the rest is added to a bucket to dry. I have a couple large buckets full and have been wondering what to do with it. Awhile back I made a stepping stone. I mixed some powdered up slurry with some coarse sand and a little Portland cement. Used a ice cream bucket for a mold. After seeing Woodyrock's footprint stepping stones, I am wanting to make some using 'agate cement'. It's only an inch thick but very hard. Bill
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