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May 16, 2015 16:03:21 GMT
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As some of you know i drive skip wagons for a living, sometimes i get lucky and grab stuff before the skips get sorted. link Believe it or not,this gazebo was in a skip! All complete with sides, one of the metal frame parts had broken,so i did a very temp bodge,then another frame turned up in the yard, so i took off what i needed and fixed this one. link Electric lawn rake,nothing wrong with at all,checked over all the wiring ect, works a treat,even all the tines are there! link link These clamps, just a bit of lube,all is well! link Stilson type wrench. Was seized up solid with cement type stuff, a couple of hours with a wire brush later!  link Cordless circ saw .... Battery was fubar'd but one from my old cordless drill fitted, so good luck there! |
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May 16, 2015 16:13:43 GMT
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link Its 110v .... Good job i also 'rescued' a transformer ..... link And it works! link These pipes ... About 90mm diameter and 5mm wall thickness ....... I have absolutely no idea what i'm going to use them for,but they were to good to for the scrap bin! link link This was rusted solid,and rivetted together,so i cut the rivets off wire brushed it clean, greased it up and reassembled with bolts ..... Again no idea what i'll use it for,but there will be a use for it one day ............
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May 16, 2015 16:18:05 GMT
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link The drawer units you see here,yep all skip rescues. link link This rubberised sheet,got a dozen sheets all rolled up, made good liners for the drawers and my tool chest!
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May 16, 2015 19:11:23 GMT
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link One of my bigger subjects .... This never made it to the skip,one of our regular customers,a small local builder type, had this in the front garden of a house he was renovating, a conversation took place with me being told if i want it,i could take it, but asap .... So bought wifey with me that evening to see if it would pass muster,so to speak. Gof rid of the drawers in the middle,and she got me to make a wine rack ( did i mention i hate working with wood?) she rubbed it all down and painted it up. Will get a better pic of it all finished now she has filled it with crockery.
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May 16, 2015 19:32:55 GMT
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It would be a dopey customer who wasn't nice to the skip driver....some good finds there though, I can't beleive someone through out those clamps! Theres at least a couple of hundred pounds worth and you can never have too many clamps! Haven't noticed so many people skip diving since the price of scrap went down though.
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May 16, 2015 19:47:25 GMT
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It would be a dopey customer who wasn't nice to the skip driver....some good finds there though, I can't beleive someone through out those clamps! Theres at least a couple of hundred pounds worth and you can never have too many clamps! Haven't noticed so many people skip diving since the price of scrap went down though. If you saw what people chucked away ...... In the last 2 weeks alone the lads in the yard have gotten out of skips .. A fully working petrol whacker plate. A petrol powered hydraulic breaker,working, Mini moto bike, it worked after a bit of fettling. Stihl saw.they got it working after a while Chainsaw as above Then theres cash,jewellery mobile phones etc etc ..... |
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joe90
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May 16, 2015 21:38:39 GMT
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Always check the back of picture frames for money, it's a good hiding spot
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May 16, 2015 22:00:31 GMT
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Years ago a friend rescued a complete patio set, brand new, still packaged, seems it was skipped as the chaps wife didn't like the colour.
A friend runs a charity,recycling bicycles, I am still stunned by what gets skipped by some people, unused bikes are a regular sight
Ttfn Glenn
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May 16, 2015 22:12:10 GMT
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There's a very good reason I stay out of the skip yard when we take stuff in, coming back with the van full of different rubbish would not make for a happy site....
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Some awesome finds.
I love the wall unit you created.
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Mate was a hook loader skip wagon driver. He took me to a landfill site where supermarkets dump food. We loaded up loads of in date dog and cat food that had been dumped. Another time I borrowed a large van and filled it to the brim with, again in date, Tesco pop. They has simply changed the design of the logo so all the old design had been taken in artic to a plastic recycling yard where they were driving machinery over the pallets to burst bottles. Yard said I could have as many pallets of pop as I wanted on condition it wasn't sold. I gave it away to friends, neighbours.
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Love your big dresser/wall unit with added wine rack. Do you have the same problem as me where you struggle to fill the wine rack and keep it full?  Been thinking about that big pulley block too. I've just came back from the park with the kids where they have a cool zip line with a very similar set up. Do you have kids you could build one for (obviously just as an excuse as you'd be using it yourself). If I had a bigger garden I'd love to run one from my shed down to the back door so when I'm finished for the night I can just hop on and zip home |
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May 17, 2015 10:18:12 GMT
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Cheers grizz and brandaneHere's how it looks now. Credit must go to Mrs Prime, as she did it, all i did was carry it and the wine rack! ( oh i don't drink wine so usually full of Pimms,Mrs Primes tipple, or Cider for me) link link |
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May 17, 2015 10:21:18 GMT
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Wow credit to both of you. Looks great when set up like that. Just spotted the wallpaper in the background. Now that's cool  |
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May 17, 2015 10:21:23 GMT
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link link And much to the horror of Mrs Prime, and to the delight of my 15 yr old tomboy daughter i got this not long ago ........... We are not allowed to play with this indoors for some reason ..........
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May 17, 2015 10:23:05 GMT
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Wonder why not... Kaboom!!! Sorry mum  |
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May 17, 2015 10:29:32 GMT
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I gets lots of mundane stuff, usually nothing worth mentioning,let alone photographing for an online forum..... For example the kids got a couple of baby rabbits a couple of yrs ago,supposed to be both females ........ Well they were not,so had to be separated .... Have you seen the prices for decent sized animal runs!!?? We have separate hutches from when we had guinea pigs, but not two rabbit sized runs ..... So cue keeping my eye out for anything 'rabbit appropriate' in the yard .....  link link Getting big stuff home though is an issue ...... |
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May 17, 2015 10:31:38 GMT
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Wonder why not... Kaboom!!! Sorry mum You should have seen the look we got when daughter wanted to take it into her bedroom ...... You could have melted teflon with that look ........ |
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May 17, 2015 10:33:45 GMT
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Love your big dresser/wall unit with added wine rack. Do you have the same problem as me where you struggle to fill the wine rack and keep it full? Been thinking about that big pulley block too. I've just came back from the park with the kids where they have a cool zip line with a very similar set up. Do you have kids you could build one for (obviously just as an excuse as you'd be using it yourself). If I had a bigger garden I'd love to run one from my shed down to the back door so when I'm finished for the night I can just hop on and zip home Oh and me on a zip line? You'd need a bigger pulley than that!! And thick cable! |
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May 17, 2015 10:35:59 GMT
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Mate was a hook loader skip wagon driver. He took me to a landfill site where supermarkets dump food. We loaded up loads of in date dog and cat food that had been dumped. Another time I borrowed a large van and filled it to the brim with, again in date, Tesco pop. They has simply changed the design of the logo so all the old design had been taken in artic to a plastic recycling yard where they were driving machinery over the pallets to burst bottles. Yard said I could have as many pallets of pop as I wanted on condition it wasn't sold. I gave it away to friends, neighbours. We have one of those processing places near here .... Last time i was in They had pallets and pallets of beer,lager and cider ..... And no,i couldn't have any ....... |
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