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37 chief

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I have a bank next to my house that get wet with a lot of rain, and slides into the road. The city comes along, and scoops it up the dirt, and hauls it away. Soon I will have no bank. I cover it with green house plastic during the rainy season. I hold the plastic down with metal parts. Wheel rims work real good. Disk blades work also. This is the first time I had blades missing. Some people use the blades like a large frying pan and fill with cooking oil. Some blades are 20 inches across, and could still be used. Since I don't disk anymore Not a great loss. They just weld up the 4 in hole. They are called waks or something like that. One guy left a another piece of metal when he took one blade. I usually just give blades away for cooking. One guy said he used his for cooking fish. Just don't take them. Stan
 
Around here ANY metal left out in sight will disappear quickly.

Scrappers constantly patrol, I see them slowly driving the neighborhood all the time.
 
Build yourself an outer support structure that holds the dirt back into the bank not allowing the dirt to wash away. Whether you use wood or metal or both just make it simple and easy. Wingnut
 
Ice Plants (name not ability) could work as a cover. No Mowing, just flowers and green. They grow in SC well. Jim
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I'm not sure if this post is about holding dirt in place, or people stealing disc blades.

I wouldn't think you would be doing yourself any favors by covering it with plastic, depriving it completely of sun light, and killing all vegetation. Dirt needs a root system (such as provided by grass) to hold the dirt in place. Going to be some erosion until grass can get established. But ..... there's kind of no way around it and only so much you can do to prevent it. By putting plastic down, you are only creating a complete do over every time you pull the plastic back up. Even though you dodged some erosion while it was plastic covered.
 
Planting anything in adobe causes the ground to get saturated by the plants holding the water then a large chunk slides off because of the weight. The deeper the roots go the more slides off. All that can be done is keep the water off. Stan
 
We call that stuff pickle weed, excellent ground cover. Not for adobe dirt on a steep bank. Stan
 
I apparently have a different question than the others. Who in the heck wants to eat out of a rusty disk blade? I'm pretty sure Walmart sells woks and I doubt they're very expensive!
 
(quoted from post at 03:39:27 03/08/22) I apparently have a different question than the others. Who in the heck wants to eat out of a rusty disk blade? I'm pretty sure Walmart sells woks and I doubt they're very expensive!
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If you saw what those pans in Walmart were made from you'd gladly eat out of a rusty disc blade.

HOWEVER, the blades are NOT rusty. You clean the blades off with a wire wheel first, then put them over a HOT fire to burn off anything nasty. Fire absolves many sins. Finally, you season them same as you would any cast iron pan: bacon, bacon, sausage, and more bacon. The more you cook with them the better they get.

BTW, they are called a DISCADA. Agrisupply sells them ready to use, with fancy handles.

Woks are much more curved.
 
Yes, but they cost about $50.00. Interesting place I buy my hay spears and mower blades from them, ag parts and cooking utensils.
 
(quoted from post at 05:39:27 03/08/22) I apparently have a different question than the others. Who in the heck wants to eat out of a rusty disk blade? I'm pretty sure Walmart sells woks and I doubt they're very expensive!
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You don't generally make woks out of disc blades, you weld up the hole, add some legs and make a discada. A discada is similar to a wok but generally it is for Mexican food. Quite popular in the barrios I used to work in and the food can be terrific. A wok is usually thinner metal to aid in the quick heat-up. Wok cooking is intended to be quite rapid but discadas are usually heavier (hence the disc blades) and the cooking is just a bit slower.
 
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