Thread: Car Battery for weight?

This thread left me with mixed emotions, namely crying & laughing. Can't believe anyone would even consider dumping a battery in the water when it is a well-known fact there are much better, heavier things to use. I like to save up all my old thermometers and break open the glass, collect the mercury until I have enuf to fill one of those 15 gal
herbicide drums with that are so easy to get from farmers. This works perfect.
The old rods from a nuclear reactor are good too if you can get a word in when they are tearing down an old nuclear power plant, and have the unique quality of being able to locate yur brushpile with a geigercounter.

NO

From all the replys, kind of what I was thinking anyway. Just wondering if others used batterys for weight. I'll stick to concrete with no heavy metals.

BTW, I thought lead was only dangerous in Calliforinia.:rolleyes:

Move to Texas if you want but don't put batteries in the water. Lead is nothing compared to the other chemicals they use in them. Here you can be fined up to $1500 just for putting a battery larger than a D cell in the garbage.

Core charge on batteries here are 10.00 and recylers will pay some for them. Better sell to recycler and buy a bag od ready mix concrete.

Please never do that!!!

Dont let the game warden or Corp. of Engineers catch you.........

Originally Posted by CrappieTexan

Dont let the game warden or Corp. of Engineers catch you.........

Or me either. I would turn someone in, in a heartbeat if I saw them purposely putting a battery in a waterway. Would be nothing to me.

I have to say I am pretty much a tree hugger. I like trees and the nature more than I like people, development, and even progress. Sucks to be a construction inspector sometimes but I do my part for the lakes I love by being a major ass on erosion control. :D