Thread: Put that in .......' Jakes pile '

It's just plain amazing what gets tipped. Makes sense to the bean counters, I suppose; after all, they have storage costs, obsolescence, and such. My baby bro' worked for a while in computer network admin; his standing request was, "If you're headed for the dumpster, stop by my office first." Latest gift gloats to me were an HP LaserJet 4 plus, and a color laserjet. I've got storage issues too, though; The color LJ is still in my truck.

Joe

Wonderful Jake! I can picture you getting a little smile on your face when you see someone headed to "Jake's pile."

Congrats on the job.

Take care, Mike

This job is working out already

I hope the boss's prediction on your free time to work with it is a bit out!!!

My next door neighbour works for a scrap metal merchant who has bought an old warehouse + contents at auction and the neighbour is up there (2 hours drive away) sorting through it. Everything metal is binned up ready to be scrapped, everything else is chucked out at the tip. The local tip does not recycle, it's just a hole in the ground.

Whenever I talk to him I feel like crying. He has chucked out many cubic metres of oregon and other timbers in structural sizes, various items of furniture, other wooden bits and pieces. Into the scrap bins he has put boxes and boxes of srews and nails. Car parts, boxes of bearings (unused, still in wax paper), old hand plane bodies, hammers, files, rasps, drill bits.

I got in his ear about tools, so he has so far brought me a couple of spokeshaves. It's not that he can't see the value, but he simply can't bring home all this stuff himself. He tells his boss he should keep it but he can only see the value in scrap metal. If it's metal, it's scrap, if it's not metal, it's rubbish.

Wish I had the time to drive up there and have a look. Most of it is gone now though.

Great haul, Jake

Cheers

Paul

Well done Jake, good to see the boss is OK about taking the scrap home. When I worked over near Murwillumbah, all the offcuts went outside, and once a week the pile was burnt...and you weren't allowed to salvage it! Bosses orders. I didn't mind the river red gum and brushbox so much, but used to get antsy about wasting the coachwood, rosewood and rose alder pieces. Have no doubt some of it ended up in my wattle bag...as in, "wattle I take home today?"
First thing for you to do when work slacks off is build some racking!!

Cheers,

Cabinet timber too, bonus.

nice booty there Jake. BUT, mate you need a bigger shed.

Good score Jake!!!

Now, to sustain or even grow the pile, after leaving it for a while, make him something from the scrap.

Makes sense to the bean counters

If the boss has to pay to get his scrap timber dumped.... perhaps you should charge him for the stuff you take home?

Hope you get so much 'good stuff' that you can make a timber rack from it!

Xcellent pick up Jake

Originally Posted by apricotripper

........I got plenty of usuable lengths of cedar....including white,,,,, huon (lovely),,,,,silver ash......teak....silky oak....red, blue gum....new guinea rosewood (new to me)......got this little strip of brizilian rosewood , which you can't get anymore .

So do they pay you as well?
Good score Jake.

A good friend of mine runs a large cabinet shop. He has thrown all sorts of interesting timbers at me. Jarrah, rock maple, Qld walnut, PNG Rosewood, cherry ... just to name a few. And some big pieces in there too.

Every now and again they have a massive 'clean out' (read 'chuck out') of excess timber. I missed the last one 2 years ago (nearly cried), but the next one is only a few weeks away. Can't wait! More awesome freebie timber!

Enjoy your haul, my friend. And hope the new job is a winner. Would be a pity to see all your great skills wasted.

Cheers,
GW

Good score Jake
but
If yer get a combustion heater at home yer can grab all the wood and get free heat