The junk makes the park look pretty bad. I feel sorry for our neighbors and friends who have to drive by such an eyesore every day. In the interest of cleaning up our park and making it a safe and happy place to be, we spend time every week sorting, moving, cleaning, storing and getting rid of vast quantities of weird stuff. The following is an inventory of one small corner of the park. 
These are two culverts that we replaced last summer. Today we loaded them up to go to metal recycling.
Here is an old tractor, which we will probably clean up and display somewhere in the park.
This is the frame for the old honey wagon (a honey wagon is a machine that sucks poop out of RVs or portajohns). It is also destined for metal recycling.
Here are two fuel tanks that used to sit next to the corn crib. We can't quite decide what to do with them, or even if they are still usable. I suspect they will end up being recycled too. Behind them you can see two broken fiberglass paddleboats which are headed for the trash.
These are some old merry-go-round frames which we intend to restore and use. Behind them is a little trailer which bears a label indicating that at some point it belonged to the Illinois Secretary of State.
Ubiquitous propane tanks. I think we had a billion of them at one point. The gas company can't use the older tanks, and metal recycling won't take them unless they can be adequately assured that there is no danger of explosion - in other words, they have to be taken apart or punctured before we can recycle them.
Here you can see a little red truck that doesn't run and a wagon that has moss growing on it. The truck will be towed to the recycling and the wagon, which has a decent frame, will be repaired and rebuilt for our use.
We spent a lot of time today digging things out of the snow, hauling the stuff away or throwing it in the garbage, and chopping a pile of wood that has been lurking in this corner. Soon I will post some pictures of our newly improved back corner.
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