OH GOD! what a smell!

[treesquirrel]

Had a neighbor ask me to level out a place in the back yard for a small storage shed yesterday. Even though I do tree work I'll do little bits like this with the bobcat sometimes.

So I'm shaving down a hillside and find a buried trash bag. Then it hits me.....

Almost puked the smell was so bad. Did not understand why anyone would bury trash but then it dawned on me. Dead pet!

The home owner then came outside and said "hey, you found the dog that died four years ago." They wrapped the carcass in rags and some garbage bags. The carcass never really decomposed as it was protected from the bacteria that does this. Totally gross! Some of it oozed out as I carried the bag to the back yard to dump it. The goo was liquefied meat I guess.

So after I dump it in the back yard but the smell is so strong it lingers until I leave.

 

[treeslayer]

do you know a climber, Xtremetrees is his handle, (robert otherwise)? he's in Atlanta, I haven't heard from him in a while, might have been him in the bag.

 

[treemandan]

I would have been like " Hey, now I am charging you 50 bucks for dealing with a dead carcass jerk off".
1. its pretty ####ed up when someone can't bury a dam dog
2. I ain't no dead animal cleaner upper. Nope, not in the job description.

I would have left the job site and still wanted full payment, then called the authorities on the filty bastards.

 

[treemandan]

I would have asked the owner where he wanted me to dig a hole with the Bobcat and would have reburied the dog. I certainly would not have left it above ground.

Actually that sounds reasonable BUT I am not a reasonable guy.

 

[treesquirrel]

I would have asked the owner where he wanted me to dig a hole with the Bobcat and would have reburied the dog. I certainly would not have left it above ground.

After the sickening experience I wanted the owner to have ALL the pleasure of re-burial. The dog is about as worthless as road kill to me.

 

[treemandan]

After the sickening experience I wanted the owner to have ALL the pleasure of re-burial. The dog is about as worthless as road kill to me.

I hear ya.

Last winter a coon got stuck under my oil tank. I had to pry his ass out. The smell, the maggots, the sound of bones breaking as I tried to yank it out...
I almost gave up and call someone from the yellow pages but I toughed it out. I would have been really pissed in your situation, they knew that dog was still in that pile they ask you to remove. Its the same when you bid to remove a brush pile and it grows twice its size by the time you do the job. I would have asked for more money for that discovery. When I say " asked'" I mean I would have said " I NEED more money for this".

 

[Rftreeman]

are you sure that wasn't Jimmy Hoffa.....


this brings to mind the Lynyrd Skynyrd song...

 

[treemandan]

are you sure that wasn't Jimmy Hoffa.....

pretty sure, I mean it was small and furry, had its nose wedged under the retaining straps for the tank.

Now I did puke, a few time. Even put on a mask. The smell stays in your olfactory for a few days. I soaked the area in bleech and has a few strong whiff for myself to clear my nostrils of the smell.

Around here the roadkill guys ( tough sob's they are) just huck the deadies( dear) on those rear mounted cargo carriers these days. You know the kind that goes into a reciever hitch? no tarp or nothing. I saw this one lolling around on the back of an Explorer the other day. He was on his back, legs stuck up in the air, head almost dragging on the pavement. He was smeared up pretty good. What a wonderful site for the youngins.

What skynrd song is that?

 

[treemandan]

oh yeah that one

F
whiskey bottle

Am
brand new cars

F

oak tree

Am
yer in my way.

 

[Stihl088stock]

Reminds me one year when I took the winter cover off my above ground pool to find a dead raccoon pretty much in one piece.

I thought it would be no problem to scoop up with the leaf net... Well, when the net touched it all the fur and flesh instantly dissolved into tiny particles and I was left with just the bones.

It must have been in there all winter and all the chlorine in the world wasn't helping the water's odor.

 

[treesquirrel]

It must have been in there all winter and all the chlorine in the world wasn't helping the water's odor.

Ouch! Man thats pretty sick. I hope you got it swimmable again.

 

[treeslayer]

After the sickening experience I wanted the owner to have ALL the pleasure of re-burial. The dog is about as worthless as road kill to me.

Worth a lot less, you can eat roadkill. you never harvested tenderloin from a fresh dead deer? Takes less than 3 minutes, 10 lbs from a big deer.

I agree about the dog, though, that was nasty. his problem.

 

[KD57]

My neighbor had a freezer full of meat go out, and it was so bad he just dug a hole and buried the whole thing. Years later, when the gas well came along, they dug it up w/ the dozers while making a drill pad. I could smell it from my house, and I am 1/4 mile away. They quickly re-buried it, lol.