Oil spill on lawn

[Dozer]

This winter I had a 5 gallon bucket of hyd fluid in the yard for the wood splitter. I set the bucket on the snow bank, a week later I came back to find the snow melted out from under the bucket. Bucket was on its side and empty. Now I have a oil slick in the grass about 12' long. Is there anything that can be done about this or do I just have to dig up the contaminated soil and replace?

[LwnmwnMan2]

Dig it up and replace.

Been there done that.

[Steve Foss]

Dig it up and replace.

Been there done that.

+1

[crothmeier]

I had a snowmobile that leaked about 2 gallons on the yard. i dug it out a foot deep, and replaced with new soil and replanted. that's about all you can do.

[Dozer]

Thats what I was scared of!

[pureinsanity]

Happy Digging

[luckycrank]

you could always move!

[Dozer]

you could always move!

That would require selling, Im not so sure that even happens now days!

[LwnmwnMan2]

There are quite a few homes selling. Just about every foreclosure we plowed this year has sold in the last 2 months.

Commercial properties not so much, but it would quite a coicidence if it was just the houses that we plowed that sold.

If it was, I'd better get a raise from these places!!!

[Dozer]

There are quite a few homes selling. Just about every foreclosure we plowed this year has sold in the last 2 months.

Commercial properties not so much, but it would quite a coicidence if it was just the houses that we plowed that sold.

If it was, I'd better get a raise from these places!!!

The problem is those houses are selling WAY below what I can/will sell mine for.

[pureinsanity]

The problem is those houses are selling WAY below what I can/will sell mine for.

For sale by owner. Great house, built on an oil field. (see front yard oil is seeping through the ground killing my grass)

[Dozer]

For sale by owner. Great house, built on an oil field. (see front yard oil is seeping through the ground killing my grass)

I like that! Might have to try it!

[LwnmwnMan2]

No, the snow will not dissipate it.