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May 16, 2020 15:56:58 GMT
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While were on coins we found this Its very worn but turns out to be a George 1St farthing from between 1719-1722, again there are so many about its worthless!
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bstardchild
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May 16, 2020 21:25:14 GMT
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First house I bought in 1984 had a separate single garage never looked in when we viewed the house and when we moved in it was completely empty but had a lovely epoxy painted floor but no power or lighting
Second house in 1989 was a new build with integral garage and as you would expect it was empty but did have power and lighting
Current house was empty and purchased in 1991 (owned by the building society as many were at that time) never looked in the garage as I figured as the house was empty he garage would be too and the estate agent didn't have a key to the garage door (apparently it wasn't handed back)
First job was drill out the lock - Ooops I was wrong it was full of curse word, brick rubble, garden waste, an old sofa, carpets even a rather dead xmas tree - I actually couldn't get to the back but when I did there was a really nicely built workbench with doors and storage - downside was as a result my Carlton didn't fit in the garage so I demolished it
I hired a skip and filled it to the point where on collection ended up with a discussion with the skip lorry driver as apparently it was mixed waste and overfiled??
If I ever buy another house I'm going to look in the garage first...........
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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May 16, 2020 22:00:09 GMT
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Not so much found in a garage, but when the family of my elderly tenant cleared his stuff out of his garages and sheds after he died, the stuff they chucked was criminal. I got to one skipload and salvaged a lot, I hate unnecessary waste at the best of times, but the stuff they chucked and deliberately smashed up before it going in the skip still makes me feel sick now, as I missed two other skiploads. He was apparently Tony Sudgens (touring car racer) chief mechanic back in the 70s, so there were a lot of specialist tools for cosworth BDAs and the like in there. They even chucked his stuff from when he was in REME. Personally I find that insulting as well as wasteful. That’s a £350 lawnmower even second hand, I emptied an entire 10 yard skip of smashed up furniture (all really nice ‘30s stuff) to get to it as it was upside down in the bottom of it. What I don’t get is apparently the family were apparently keen gardeners who made a big deal of dismantling and taking the greenhouse, so they much have known?!
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May 16, 2020 22:40:06 GMT
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Could have been the deceased last request? My mum has stated she doesn't want to be any bother and to pile everything in the garden and torch it when she goes....
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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May 16, 2020 22:55:03 GMT
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It very much wasnt unfortunately. I’d got to know him pretty well over the previous year, rebuilding the extension with a new kitchen and bathroom and moving his bedroom downstairs, to keep him in the house he’d lived in over 80 years. He honestly thought when he went they’d want to take his stuff and look after it as much as he did.
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I used to work for a skip company, some of the stuff that came in was unbelievable, power tools still in boxes, tv’s , dvds, amps etc Used to take anything and if I didn’t need it, pass it round family and friends I hate waste too One thing I regret not getting to in time was a skip full of the old cast iron radiators, the ones that are the hoop style, the bosses idiot offspring get there first and smashed the whole lot up with a digger......😱
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The wanton destruction of stuff does my head in. I can fully understand,( but don't condone), skipping stuff . I can understand the frustration and seemingly hopelessness of having to empty say a garage or industrial unit by a certain date. I don’t understand why, if you don’t want it,that it needs to be smashed up so nobody else can use it. A couple of years ago I bought a tool from an oldtimer in Nuneaton. He had health issues and was closing his company down. Was heartbreaking to see what he had to put in a skip because he needed it gone. He was devastated to do it, but had no option. Unfortunately in this country, you get a lot of talkers, but very few doers. especially when you say it needs to be gone by the end of the week. You can consider yourself lucky if you even get the “My dog/ mother/ father/ brothers auntys next door neighbours cousin” just died so I cannot collect telephone call at the eleventh hour.
Back to the Oldtimer in Nuneaton,he went skip diving in his own skip for me. We had a grand couple of hours together. We loaded that van full of useful stuff. Being an old school gent,he wouldn’t take a penny for it. I kept some of it,but most I gave to people that would use it or cherish it. He was just happy to get it out the skip and to people who would use it. Unfortunately,he passed away a couple of weeks later. I like to think it brightened up his last couple of weeks 😊
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I agree with many of the sentiments above.
I do a little work for a house clearance company sometimes and the stuff people want chucked away is ridiculous - often brand new stuff, still in the packaging. I don't like to see anything old or quality built get chucked out, even if I don't have a use for it myself.
I would rather (and have done regularly) advertise stuff as free rather than put it in a skip. At least that way it goes to an appreciating new owner.
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Currently driving a '68 Karmann Ghia as my daily. Don't ask about previous cars - there have been way too many and I stopped counting at 160!
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May 17, 2020 11:47:37 GMT
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Dez, they probably did know, but couldn’t be bothered, it often occurs to me that some people who are into one hobby cannot or will not see the benefits of others hobbies or the equipment that goes with it, because it’s not ‘their’ thing it’s not important I wonder how much interest they took on their relative when he was alive? How many times have they all come out of the woodwork afterwards? You know what they say, where there’s a will, there’s a relative! 🙄
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May 18, 2020 16:21:28 GMT
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I am exactly the same. When we last moved we downsized to a bungalow which had 2 less rooms than the house we moved from. There was a lot of stuff we got rid of, but none of it was thrown other than a pair of knackered sofas and a well-past-its-best wardrobe. Everything that was of use was eBayed, given away free or charity shopped. Nothing went to waste, and we hopefully made a lot of people happy.
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Last Edit: May 18, 2020 19:42:09 GMT by mrbounce
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May 18, 2020 16:29:16 GMT
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I've just ebayed a broken washing machine and tumble dryer I'd normally take to the tip, but being closed I wanted them gone, some person has just given me 25 quid to take them away, lessons learnt for the future here me thinks. Also sold 2 Xbox 360s that were broke, theyve just paid for a new one for the daughter.
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May 18, 2020 16:36:03 GMT
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I've just ebayed a broken washing machine and tumble dryer I'd normally take to the tip, but being closed I wanted them gone, some person has just given me 25 quid to take them away, lessons learnt for the future here me thinks. Also sold 2 Xbox 360s that were broke, theyve just paid for a new one for the daughter. I sold the steering wheel that came on the Midas - it was a wood rimmed Astrali but the wood was split and knackered, properly so. I chucked it on the Bay of E expecting to get a fiver and it ended up going for over £110. Paid for my cylinder head!!
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May 18, 2020 17:18:04 GMT
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Breaking stuff could be down to them having a idea its worth something but either not having the time or inclination to sell it on themselves , so a malicious action .
Not excusing it but most people are busy all the time and may only have say a day or two to sort out clearing a house and shed etc .
As i have said somewhere else , my Grandfather popped his clogs and my Uncle was there withing days and skipped virtually everything . We still don't know why !
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May 18, 2020 20:50:35 GMT
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When I rescued the passat from my great uncles garage before the house was bulldozed, I also gained some tools too. Picked up an old arc welder, a retro toolbox of old imperial sockets and spanners (which have had tons of use by me already), various odds and sods, hinges, screws, odd metal bits and pieces, which has also found various uses across the fleet.
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1979 Mk1 Passat Estate 1.6 LS 1996 Mk3.5 Fiesta 1.3 Classic 1997 Mk1 MX5 1.8i 2005 Mazda 3 TS
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tomglt
Part of things
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Not sure if this counts but I rent a single council garage 10 miles from my house which I visit every few days. One evening I pulled up and saw something dumped in the corner next to one of the boarded up garages, turned out to be a home cinema sony amp and matching sub of nice quality and both very heavy which is always a good sign it was quite damp outside so slung them in the back of the car got them home dried them out, someone had cut the plugs off so found some spare plugs powered them up and hey presto work perfectly and are still in use today powering my shed sound system! Odd what people throw away or deem as rubbish.
On another note my pal recently bought a place in dorset from an older couple that had gone into a peoples home, he told me it had a workshop and boy did it! He waited for me to find the time to come over and go through it all. We found 4 record vices, a nice clarke lathe, standing fully working 1940s pillar drill and various other high quality hand tools, electric tools all free and included in the sale of the house, safe to say he wont need to buy any tools for a long time!
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Last Edit: May 19, 2020 0:05:36 GMT by tomglt
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May 19, 2020 10:17:30 GMT
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@johnnybravo got to agree about wanton destruction. I was talking to my neighbor across the road yesterday and we got round to workshops. Seems that his company had skipped a Colchester Student, un-named mill and bandsaw for "health and safety" reasons. He was ordered to smash them up. Fortunately he managed to spirit the lathe away to someone who would appreciate it.
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Proton Jumbuck-deceased :-( 2005 Kia Sorento the parts hauling heap V8 Humber Hawk 1948 Standard12 pickup SOLD 1953 Pop build (wifey's BIVA build).
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May 19, 2020 12:34:02 GMT
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@johnnybravo got to agree about wanton destruction. I was talking to my neighbor across the road yesterday and we got round to workshops. Seems that his company had skipped a Colchester Student, un-named mill and bandsaw for "health and safety" reasons. He was ordered to smash them up. Fortunately he managed to spirit the lathe away to someone who would appreciate it. A friend who has his own metal fabricators gained a 5 foot folder ( Edwards possibly ?) when a bodyshop he was working next to were told ‘there’s no place in the modern bodyshop for a metal folder!’ And a couple of the lads were told to skip it! For a few beer tokens the skip became the back of his van, in his words it’s the heaviest thing that van ever carried, and he didn’t care if the van broke because the folder was worth more anyway!
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