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26th November 2019, 06:14 PM #1Senior Member
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Are these chisels fit for the bin ?
IMG-20191125-WA0003.jpgIMG-20191125-WA0004.jpgIMG-20191125-WA0005.jpgHi everyone, in 2015 i purchased a house.
It needed a bit of work so as the rubbish amounted up the wife and i took the rubbish to the dump. Each time we
went i would look in the metal skip for the odd tools that had been thrown away. These are the chisels i found in
the skip over a two year period. I also took out planes, squares, bevels, sash cramps, and a mechanics tool box
with assorted spanners and wrenches from the 1950s and earlier. The dump has changed now and you cannot take
anything, so how many tools have been dumped in the last few years?
Cheers Martin.
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26th November 2019, 08:26 PM #2
Wow! that's Gold Martin . A huge amount of waste goes on!
I love coming home from the tip with free tools . I get a kick out it every time I re use one .
I had a bit of fencing and cleaning up a while back . Had to service the cheap quality small wire cutters to do the fencing . Went to tip and came home with a German made older slightly rusty one ! Serviced them so I have two now .
One day we had a rubbish throw out where every one in the street put stuff they don't want out for the council to collect .
The Kids started coming in all holding handfuls of Stanley planes and brass pressure gauges!!
"Look what we found !!"
What !!
I went and told the owner she was throwing out good stuff . She didn't really care at all I think . The time had come for her to just have that stuff gone .
Kids had real good fun finding real treasure .
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26th November 2019, 09:25 PM #3China
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The problem these days is there are many people who think if it does not work with a smart phone throw it out
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27th November 2019, 06:58 AM #4Senior Member
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We have a 'Re-use' shop at our tip, loads of tools, ladders to lampshades, bikes to buckets, in fact pretty much everything you could think of, I went in one day and found a pair of snow shoes (in Somerset !!!).
Never miss a visit there whenever I am passing and very rarely come away empty handed.
(Probably why I have so much 'stuff')
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27th November 2019, 11:33 AM #5.
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Not at the tip but in a skip at a former workplace I once found a 20L steel drum nearly full of near new half decent mechanical tools like spanners, screwdrivers, sockets, etc. The tools were mostly standing upright in the drum and "glued" together and to the bottom of the drum with what looked to be epoxy but turned out to be some kind of varnish. My guesses were this was either some kind of a prank or accident whereby the varnish has accidentally landed on top of the tools. Half a tin of paint stripper swirled in on top of the tools easily dissolved the varnish and I then had myself a spare set of tools for the van.
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27th November 2019, 12:25 PM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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My local government has a recyclable goods drop off day once every month, which i regularly visit and to check out what others have dumped, my favorite pile to check out is the discarded lumber stack. They only take untreated, unpainted timber so often times would find a decent amount of good condition jarrah.
Sadly have never found a set of chisels though...
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27th November 2019, 12:38 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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We have a "Transfer Station" where I can drop off every thing from wet garbage, magazines, paint to dead propane bottles.
There's a Swap Shed where old computers and pocket novels go to die.
I have let my house fill up with stuff. Tools and toys.
I add to the Swap Shed from time to time but take nothing, I have no more room.
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27th November 2019, 06:03 PM #8Senior Member
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We have a place you can drop stuff off called Acorn. It is run
by our government which then re-sells the items. They employ
people with disabilities so they have something to do to earn money.
It is a well used facility but you never get any good tools or old stuff.
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