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11th June 2016, 06:23 PM #1.
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Men's Shed Scroungers at it again
We got a notice from WAMSA about free flooring during the week so a few of use went out to investigate.
Short story was a small flooring business was closing down and the owner had dozens of packs of various sizes he had been trying to sell but having no buyers he decided to give them away to mens sheds.
We immediately put our names on 2 of the packs with the longest boards, from 600 mm up to 3.8m long, x 90 wide, 14 to 10 mm thick flooring.
Timbers included Jarrah, Marri, Blackbutt, and WA Blackbutt.
The flooring is premium grade, some of the Marri is curly and will make beautiful panels for furniture.
We went back this morning to pick up with 3 trailers and my Van.
Loading onto the trailers was easy using slings and his forklift.
After loading the two packs we still had a bit of space on two of the trailers so the owner bought our a pack of Spotted gum shorts so we grabbed that.
Then the owner brought out a pallet load of quality 6 ply large offcuts including a half a dozen full size sheets with minor marks on them which we shoehorned into my van.
All up there would have been close to 3 cubic metres of material.
Just to round things off in the factory unit next door I stickybeaked in their tall scrap bin and saw hundreds of brass and SS plumbing and compression fittings buried in amongst great piles of razor sharp swarf. Some fittings were even still in their original plastic bags and some were Swagelock (high quality) brand. I got half a plastic bucket worth before the swarf started to cut up my hands. Would have loved to pull out all the swarf but it was a tangled mess and it would have been too hard.
One of the members did take some photos and I will see if I can get hold of them and post a couple here.
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11th June 2016, 08:36 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Couldn't have gone to a more worthy cause. Better than going for firewood.
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11th June 2016, 09:50 PM #3
Great to hear!
I need to start keeping an eye out for some timber, it's probably going to be about 6 months before my shop is up and running but I want to get some stuff drying in the meantime.
Should I just keep an eye on Gumtree or are there other places I should be scoping out?
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11th June 2016, 11:57 PM #4.
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This fella did advertise on Gum tree. I offered to put an ad in the forums for him but he has to move it all out by monday.
Here are a few pics
This was the pack of short Spotted gum plus a few sheets of ply offcuts
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This was th larger longer pack on the trailer and some of the the ply in the van
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Off loading into our storage container.
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Yes that is me dumpster diving AGAIN!
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12th June 2016, 05:20 AM #5
Love dumpster diving, found some absolute gems over the years!
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18th June 2016, 03:52 PM #6
25 out of 10 for resourcefulness. Good on you!! I am just a little jealous!
CheersThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
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19th June 2016, 02:48 PM #7Senior Member
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Glad there was no one checking for over weight vehicles........ Well done can't wait to see some finished projects from the scroungers
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