Just wondering how you all dispose of your used salt. I'm working in my barn right now and just throwing it on the ground but just wondering what I should start doing with it before it piles up to much.
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Then dispose of the small residual with your daily trash. That's what I've been doing for years. Of course, that means I only use about 2 pounds of it on any deer cape to begin with.
As George said, use less of it. I am practicing that on each cape I do. You will be surprised on how little it takes. I use to think that because the cost was cheap, was to heap. Then I had to dispose of it. George, my garbage man will not take salt or animal carcasses. So I spread the salt in the woods behind the house, but I broadcast it everywhere in the woods as the rain will take it away faster, and it keeps the weeds down. I can hide a few pounds in the garbage, but I cant hide any amount that would tip off the garbage man, he will just set it on my side walk and drive away. I am cutting down mainly because I have to hide it when done.
Until I get a 5 gal. bucket full. Then I take to an area I hunt and dump it on an old stump. Once the rain washes the blood out deer start digging in it.
Mine goes in the weekly trash, unless it is bear season. Then I use enough that I have to take it to the dump because the garbage man complains about the weight.
We use about 3 tons of salt a season and get rid of the waste salt by giving to the county highway dept to mix with the sand that they spread on the ice covered roads in winter- helps me out and they use tons of salt in addition to mine.
in your most heated neighbors yard, in fact, use it to write a message in the grass, as the rains fall on it, it seeps into the ground and short of resodding, he wont be able to stop the grass from dying...lol
rapport with your garbagemen! We use inmates from the county jail to pick up garbage. When I have some real stinky, heavy stuff, I put 3 cold soda's in an ice chest in the back of my old garbage truck. Heck, I believe they'd hual off a corpse for those soda pops!
I know Ill hurt some feelings here, but throwing it on the ground in the woods is very irresponsible, folks. In this day and age of CWD threats, etc, thats just not how its done. Watch what happens when your local competition finds out you are commercial dumping, dumping contaminants, whatever you wanna call it. Ever notice how trees along roadways in the north die? Like, because of solvents and salts from de-icing practices?
Look, if you are having THAT hard of a time putting waste salt into an approved landfill like you should, just do this...find someone locally who is buying deer hides. Meatcutters, other taxidermists, theyre out there...and GIVE them your used salt. I guarantee you theyll take it! Just dont throw waste salt on the ground anymore. Thats such a bad contaminant, and its just wrong.
Now this question came up months ago and as i said before , why are you getting rid of it . I have never disposed of any salt in almost 40 years of doing taxidermy . I use it over and over to salt my hides and when it gets low , I add more . I have never had a hide lose hair in a tan from using this old salt . Just dry it out and use it again . The only problem you might have is it smells after a while from all the fats . Stop wasting it and as Bill said , stop polluting . Rick
I tip both driver and thrower fifty bucks each at X-mas. They take anything I put out the rest of the year! One of them is a steady client. As far as the salt goes, I only do about 30-40 heads a year so I dont have that much. I own 10 acres so I dump it on my land in the same spot where I feed the deer in the harsh winter months. It does'nt seem to hurt anything and now the deer have dug a hole there.