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How to dispose of old mobile home

If you have a volunteer fire department
in your area, offer it up to them to burn
for training. I know a couple of people
who have done it.
 
I paid $800.to have a person tear mine down and he pulled the frame away.
I also paid $50 for a permit to have it take down and removed from property taxes.
I couldn't give mine away. No place in country to put it.
 
I had an old double wide on my place when I bought it. I paid a junk guy $1200 to come tear it apart and haul it off. It was from the 40's
and I'm sure it was filled with asbestos and Lord knows what else. I didn't want to mess with it. He came in with a big loader with a grapple
on the bucket and loaded it in a large dumpster trailer. Only thing I would do different is to pull the windows out first, was alot of glass
in the yard when he was done.
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I have torn two of them apart. Unfortunately for you, I am one of a kind. You wouldn't find another of me in your area. They are not difficult to destroy. It is the carpet and the insulation that is tougher to handle and dispose of properly. The siding is usually aluminum sheets. The wood girders in the floor will have some value. The rest of the wood can be burned in a camp fire pit. Make it a family affair. kids love to wreck things. The roof is the real problem though.
 
Here in my state--a couple times a year we get a very HEAVY FOG....When that event happens and a guy is ready with boy scout water well there ya go......
 
I had one about that size but was a construction/ office trailer. I had used for storage, paid a local scrapper $600 and also got rid of a bunch of scrap iron to sweeten his deal. I burned the wood and kept the frame. I made firewood racks out of the frames and sold them. Happy for me, also had to get demo permit.
 
I had a forty yard dumpster backed up very close along side of the trailer. Then I took a mini excavator with a thumb and tore of the end of it.
From there I was able to drive the mini up on the trailer floor and torn it into small pieces, throwing them into the dumpster. Went from front to
back. Used cutting torch for the frame. someone will buy the axles and wheels.
 
A guy bought the place next door. Found a local guy who hauls them off your property, refurbishes them and sells them. One next
door had been sitting since 1995 and was in horrible shape...like 16x60'. Poof!!!!

Also on the property were some painted steel panel buildings like you see builders advertise to put up on your property. Deal was
tear it down and you get the steel......Poof! 2 disappeared.
 
I don't know what rules you have, but a few posters down must have awful rules.
Around her just drag it to where you can burn it and be done with it.
I tore one apart and burnt the wood piece at a time. the aluminum siding went to the scrap
man.
the insulation got put on my burn pile and buried when it melted into glass.
It takes a bit of work but if you have time and a saws all it can be done.
 
Here in Nebraska it's against the law to burn a standing building, even if you own it.

If you take a tractor and loader and knock it into a pile, then it's rubble and you can burn that.
 
I thought I wanted to build a trailer out of a house trailer frame. We puled it to the dump. I unbolted the bolts securing the body to
the frame.
I talked the tractor operator into pushing the body off the frame. There is always a few bolts we never seam to see. The tractor operator was
having a hard time, and wasn't very happy about the whole operation. The body finally got pushed off. We puled the frame home. it sat for years,
and finally ended up in the iron pile. the frame was very thin, and would not have made a good trailer. Stan
 
I tore down two rotten old house trailers, one was 12x60 and the other was smaller but with an addition that was bigger than the trailer. Had another guy who helped with it too, it's a bit of work but not too bad.
The smart way to do it is to tear out the drywall and insulation and all the interior first, then remove the metal siding and push by hand till the walls collapse, it doesn't take much. Then the roof is on the ground
and easy enough to tear apart. We hauled all the drywall and insulation to the dump, saved some lumber and burned some, and one of them had a pretty heavy frame that was useful to make a wagon and a
support beam in a new building. The unwise local method that I do not recommend is to remove the aluminum siding first and sell it for scrap, use the money to buy beer and then stare at the rest of the trailer
and think how am I going to take that apart now, it's ready to fall over?.
 
I bought one for the frame once, will never do it again. My plan was to remove the aluminum siding and water heater then tear it apart in chunks with the grapple claw on the loader and burn the chunks. I got the sidingn off OK but when I tackled it with the loader and claw the walls crumpled into little pieces. What a mess! The frame ended up being too light weight to use so it went to the scrap yard along with the axles. I did get good use out of the water heater. It has been heating water in my shop for probably 20 years. For what this escapade cost me in the end I could have bought a new water heater.
 
A lot depends on the brand of the mobile home. My shop is built using a lot of mobile home I-Beam and it is pretty heavy duty and has worked well. My hay barn is also made with mobile home steel and it to is heavy duty. I have also seen some that is very light duty. I also at one time pulled mobile homes all over the U.S.A. and seen both heavy duty and light duty. I have a trailer I started to built using mobile home beams and if I had ever finished it, it would be very strong. The mobile home beams are 5 inch channel iron
 
Put it up online via craigslist or
facebook, but put a dollar value on it.

Seems rarely people want junk for free when
offered, but bet your bottom dollar if they
find junk on the side of the road they
can't stop fast enough or if you ask some
money for junk they can't keep there wallet
closed.
 
(quoted from post at 00:19:56 06/18/21) Put it up online via craigslist or
facebook, but put a dollar value on it.

Seems rarely people want junk for free when
offered, but bet your bottom dollar if they
find junk on the side of the road they
can't stop fast enough or if you ask some
money for junk they can't keep there wallet
closed.
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ait for thunder storm , light it off and claim a lightening strike
 
We did a demolition job some years ago
with several old mobile homes. Used an
excavator with a thumb. We were able to
grab the aluminum siding with the thumb
and peel it off separately. Loaded all
the wood, insulation, furniture on dump
truck and hauled to landfill. Had to cut
frames up with torch to haul for scrap.
Didn't take long to clean up the whole
site.
 

I'd knock down and apart anything you can with a loader. Maybe start with cutting it up into manageable sections that you can haul to the dump. Use a sawzall with plenty of blades and cut away. Or a circular saw with a metal blade. A chain saw will make short work of the wood but it might be worth the price of chain just to cut through the metal siding and roof as well as well, don't know as I've never tried that. If any of those are too slow then go rent a portable hand held concrete saw and try that. Wear your goggles, mask/respirator, and some leathers so you don't make shorts out of your jeans while wearing them. (don't ask how I know but my knee has healed and looks like I have a knee surgery scar)

Cut around the windows and try to avoid breaking the glass. You can use a torch on the frame but someone would be interested in that for a trailer. Axles can be had fairly cheap and you could cut it shorter.
 
My brother tore 2 down by hand, I helped one day and it was a miserable experience. Owner had to get permission from the park to have it torn
down. Equipment like an excavator would have been good to use. Amazing how much wood was in it.
 
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