Where can I find rock salt & dirt in Lempster

Submitted by VinsonChe90 t3_1185rp8 in newhampshire

So a couple of my neighbors keep telling me about getting some free salt & dirt here in town and when I ask them for directions it's just "Yeah, you're gonna wanna go down the road for a bit until you see an old town road of the left, and head down there for a bit and you'll take the second right after the big tree stump."
BRO!! WTF are they even saying?

Tried asking for clarification to no avail. So I'm reaching out to you lovely folks of Reddit. Anyone know where I can find the local salt/dirt pile here in Lempster? I know where to find some in Gilsum, but I don't wanna feed off of that town since I'm not a resident there.

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SheeEttin t1_j9fx85k wrote

Sounds like perfectly good directions to me. Be glad they're not referencing things that aren't there any more.

Go down past where the Sears used to be, turn left after the house where the Johnsons used to live, if you see the spot where the rusty old trailer was, you've gone too far.

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Yankee_Farmer t1_j9ilewh wrote

The police desk Sergeant used to do that to the new guys fresh from the Academy, confident in their knowledge of all things.

"Investigate a suspicious car at Mooney's Garage." Where's that Sarge?

"Take a left and head east. Go past Kinkles Pond, and take the first left. Left again at the stop sign, then around Demoriak's Corner, then pull into the first parking lot on your right. Mooney's Garage is the next building."

First, none of those people have been alive since 1955. Second, he's just given you directions back to where you started, shy of 50 feet.

"The Exxon Station?! That I was across the street from?! There are no cars there at all!"

"Heh heh."

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akmjolnir t1_j9jofpx wrote

If you've ever been in Lempster you'd know that the directions given to OP could be 9000 different locations. Half those roads are probably muddy pits right about now.

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Able_Cunngham603 t1_j9gezaj wrote

First off, it’s sand and salt … not dirt. Second, you are going to have to figure out to decipher directions like that if you plan to live somewhere like Lempster.

Free sand is almost always at the town highway department garage. It’s probably down the road a bit on the old town road.

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jwd673 t1_j9gbzwc wrote

If the town salts/sands your roads then they have a stock pile somewhere and often times there’s a pile for residents to shovel into their pickup trucks. I think they do this for residents and it’s not free when you’re paying $X,000 in property taxes every year to live in the town.

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DeerFlyHater t1_j9fieaq wrote

Call the town, and see what they say?

Some towns offer it at either the dump or their DPW barn.

I'm surprised they are giving out salt, but that is pretty cool if they do.

If you end up looking to buy salt, the cheapest I typically find are the 50 pound bags of vaporizer at HD. It's just plain old rock salt. They have two formulas of vaporizer-the 50 pound is cheaper than the 40 pound.

Lowes has some even cheaper 50 pound bags, but every time I go they are hardened into bricks.

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tylermorris2000 t1_j9gmmug wrote

I would call the town or the towns dpw or whatever. It's usually the towns stockpile for the roads but they let residents get some.

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Puzzleheaded-Row-511 t1_j9gmx5q wrote

I don't know where in Lempster, but we just go to the town's public works yard and it's right outside. It's usually sand with some salt mixed in. Find your public works and you'll find the sand

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jgren91 t1_j9gz84e wrote

Probably at your towns dpw or fire station.

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akmjolnir t1_j9gffd4 wrote

Kempton Rd. > Town Pit Rd

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ShallotSad3969 t1_j9jb9a0 wrote

I'm pretty sure he told you exactly where it was

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