ben1
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I once found a dewalt radio in a skip, the best is when i go to the biffa and someone is about to chuck something, such as a battery drill , get it home and it works!
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Dec 11, 2011 23:17:48 GMT
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I thought I wouldnt be collecting much as I'm running out of storage but then you just cant believe your eyes and ears in what I do! One of the lads we take over from asked if I needed any turfs? As it happens I need many! Some fell off the back of something earlier that day and he cleared them but didnt take them away, just the two he wanted. On return to the site I found 20 Turfs top quality too.   This is the second turf load to be unturfed recently on our road, unfortunately I was off on the first one!  I have bought grass seed to do whats needed but I havent had time to get it down and now its a bit too cold so this has come in handy to get a head start. I was out in the garden finishing off until 7pm tonight in the pouring rain laying the last of it! I did try and tell her that wrapping presents can be done when its dark outside but hey thats all done too! I also came across this nice gate   I saw this bracing on the back at first and thought whatever it was would be well made and sturdy and definately worth a second look, so I was quite pleased to turn it over and find its a brand new gate! I've got just the job for it too, to connect our garden with next doors as the kids play with each other in the summer I cut a hole in the hedge but its a bit open and this will plug that gap like it was meant to be! Thats it for last week, lets see what falls off this week, I'm hoping for a xmas tree! |
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Last Edit: Dec 11, 2011 23:20:00 GMT by ashley115s
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Dec 24, 2011 20:23:11 GMT
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Unfortunately nothing major has fallen off these past two weeks but I have been given this!!!!  A brand new garage door, was a special order as its only 6' tall instead of 6'6''. Apparently they changed their mind and the bloke took away and stored it in his garage just incase it came in handy! Well my friend was sign writing his race car and he asked if he knew anyone that might have a use for it? Hell yeah thats always me! It' go nicely on the back of the garage on the side of the house. I was surprised when I turned up to collect it that it has all the brackets hinges screws keys handles instructions etc attached to it, he said it was brand new and it really is! We've already hatched a plan on how were going to make it taller! We'l install it at the normal height and fill in the bottom with a sheet of metal or more likely some Upvc facia rivited along the bottom! |
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Feb 14, 2012 23:09:58 GMT
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Been really quite at work on the useful debris front. I could do with some baton size wood so we'l see what comes up soon! These straps fell off something the other week and I found this Audi badge in the skip which I'm going to attempt to make some sort of pen/pencil holder out of it for the garage, I'm fed up of looking for pencils all the time!   |
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Cool thinking on reuse of Audi badge.
Pity you are probably a bit far from me, otherwise we could have made some nice wooden base for it.
I always see badges on all the hubcaps on the road and thinl the same sort of thing.
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Mar 21, 2012 21:23:45 GMT
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Thanks for the offer Grizz, I'm sure one day our paths will cross!?! Its been a bit quiet on the find front of late but the last two weeks has found a few gems.  Found this gate in the skip. Looks like it been across the road but with minimal damage, I'm sure i've got a home for this! Looks home made but you'd have to pay upwards of £50 in B&Q for one.  This cavity insulation in the skip, just managed to save it before the rain got to it! Will come in handy when the game room goes up. Also found parts of a shed which one of the lads had dismantled from home. A bit annoying he cut it down to fit in the boot of his Golf! Id have removed it for him with chopping it up! Still I'm sure it'l come in handy when I extend Jacks playhouse with a garage on the side to house his bikes/go carts etc. |
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Mar 21, 2012 21:26:38 GMT
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And this piece of sheet metal found on the H/Shoulder, Not sure what its used for Its bare metal one side the other has a white finish and its got something inbetween I-Bond? Think i'l google that!  |
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Mar 24, 2013 21:23:19 GMT
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Found this by the skip at work. doesnt look damaged, just needs a clean. I intend to mount it on the wall in the garage and hang the air line on it, or after seeing what one was advertised on Ebay for I might take the money!  This isnt debris but it was found in sisters garden. She didnt want it so its up to me to love it again! I liked the handles first and the rest of it looks so old, its had wood worm and there was some rot underneath. I'm thinking of keeping it in the garden to use as somewhere to put the wash basket when hanging out the washing. I hate bending over! Grizz recommend a jet wash and some yacht varnish, I think he's right!   |
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Mar 24, 2013 22:10:47 GMT
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love stuff like this.
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Mar 24, 2013 23:32:21 GMT
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Grizz was hoping to stuff that chest of drawers into Mrs Grizz's car on Friday. Glad you posted pics, now I can show her how nice it is. Just to add, these were collected by Ashley an some of the guys he works with...... Thanks mate !!  |
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Mar 25, 2013 20:45:21 GMT
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I've got a couple of those drawer units pictured in the first post. Also scored a few rolls of that rubberised sheet that you use to line tool chests, so they are all nicely lined now!
Got two school lockers from the local primary school (mrs works there,so that helped)
We get cordless drills coming in all the time, usually its the battery and/or charger thats fubar'd.
Got a mini moto not long back!!! right on top of a skip. That came home with me. Sold to a friend for a party pack of beer.
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May 11, 2013 20:53:19 GMT
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Unbelievable!!! I found this on top of the skip at work yesterday! Why on earth you would just chuck this out and not pass it on to someone else or sell it is beyond me?  And as I grabbed it, it rattled!  Complete with furniture!  They liked it! We were going to buy one of these for our daughter for xmas, so we'l buy something else now! I'm not too sure about fate but quite often when I think about stuff it turns up! So I'm going to start thinking about better stuff worth more money  |
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I haven't updated this for a while but it doesn't mean I haven't found anything?! Nigh on brand new trailer board with a damaged connector.  Mike at work aquired a new lock up, whilct clearing it he found a carrier bag of car badges and gave them to me. Some cool ones there. Ill mount them on something one day...  Bikes Bikes!!! People are always throwing these out or they're falling from cars. This is a cheap old mountain bike. Take the ping pang stickers off (made in Bangledesh) must be quality! Got my mate to make some stickers up and the mrs uses it!  Found this Avery Berkel scale in the skip. Wasn't easy to pull that out god damn its heavy!!! Needed a good clean and wasn't working properly. Ive had it apart cleaned it and its almost there. Too cool to throw away!!!  Another bike. This didn't have its wheels on it but they were there. Had a puncture and that's about it! Again got some stickers made for it and gave it to my 5 year old nephew Hugo. The number plate I found litter pickering.  |
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Probaby my best one to date a rubbish plastic toolbox full of tools!!! Why would you throw this in the skip??? 147 sockets from 4mm -26mm All different size drives and at least three wratchets and loads of extensions.  Mostly Kamasa Draper and even a couple of snap on!  |
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bazzateer
Posted a lot
Imping along sans Vogue
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Aug 15, 2015 14:18:14 GMT
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Sounds like the perfect job for a soon to retire copper! I was on the A1(M) last week and saw a brand new looking ratchet strap on the hard shoulder (the piece with the actual ratchet on it). Then, about 50 miles later I saw it's other half, same colour webbing too! I thought then how cool it must be to do what you do.
Nearest I've come was when back in the late 80s a McVities lorry shed about 10 boxes of Digestives. Once the mess was cleared up our tea club had free biccies for several months!
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1968 Singer Chamois Sport
1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2
1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome
2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily)
2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily)
2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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Aug 15, 2015 14:39:09 GMT
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Ashley, those are great finds mate.
With my new territory I really need to hook up with you again when you are not sleeping.
Tools amaze me.
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Oohhhh I don't know I think I'd swap all this junk for a decent supply of choccie biscs!!! Anytime grizz. I think there might be some number plates here for you!
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Aug 16, 2015 22:52:43 GMT
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It never ceases to amaze me the good useable stuff people throw out. When I worked as a milkman I got several lawnmowers and some other interesting stuff out of skips on my round. Some of the furniture in my house came from skips too. Tie down straps off big trucks are a thing we find a few of on the road around here occasionally. My wife and her sister found both parts of one once. Woohoo, bonus. Even just the long strap without the ratchet end makes a good tow strop. Used one to tow my wife's '90 Ford Laser to the garage with my '71 Wolseley 1300 a few years ago when the Laser's clutch had packed it in and she couldn't get it to go in gear. Got a few funny looks on the way cos the strap was way too long for the job. Free stuff is always good stuff though.
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Aug 21, 2015 23:48:11 GMT
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Offtopic - Ashley, in the second pic of those sockets, is that a Stock Rod in the background?
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Yes it is. Well it was. It's been a mod c on the grass segto recently. Now it's semi retired awaiting a refresh.
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