WHX?? 48,828 #26 Posted October 1, 2021 8 hours ago, roadapples said: That's why there's just a path through my garage... You related to @Achto ?!?!? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rjg854 11,378 #27 Posted October 1, 2021 hey there, Jim, there's a reason to keep stuff you just don't know yet when it's going to become useful again, but it does! Especially when you decide you've kept it to long enough and decide to get rid of it. "Bam" a little later, you think, I sure could have used that. 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex175 784 #28 Posted October 1, 2021 It really is insane, I had the fortune of growing up in a fairly well to do area, and the things we have found at our local transfer station have been astonishing. I don't think my parents ever purchased a bike, all came from there, we've gotten prehung doors, garage door openers, chainsaws and leafblowers, more nice chairs than you can count, not to mention just all the cool antiquey stuff. A lot of times it is either a quick fix, or more often than not a side effect of user error. My favorite was one time after a big storm blew through we found a brand new chainsaw in the box. Tree guys were backed right up for house calls, so our assumption was Joe Homeowner decided to get himself a chainsaw and take care of his fallen tree himself. We took the chainsaw out of the box and it clearly had been used for all of 30 seconds and the chain fell off on them. Must have scared the poor bastard cause they packed it right back up and dropped it off at the dump. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #29 Posted October 1, 2021 1 hour ago, WHX?? said: You related to @Achto ?!?!? My path has since filled in. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 41,150 #30 Posted October 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Achto said: My path has since filled in. The path of least resistance! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #31 Posted October 1, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, Achto said: My path has since filled in. Yep I know ...... I went in there a couple of days ago fellas and had to go but couldn't get to an open corner to crap in..... Was like lookin for a corner in a silo! Edited October 1, 2021 by WHX?? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,598 #32 Posted February 20, 2022 Today’s “trash” score…! 4 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #33 Posted February 20, 2022 Unbelievable Sylvia.... thers a franklins worth there! I just don't get it. I mean why just throw them out when somebody can use them and you can buy a friend??? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,598 #34 Posted February 20, 2022 10 minutes ago, WHX?? said: Unbelievable Sylvia.... thers a franklins worth there! I just don't get it. I mean why just throw them out when somebody can use them and you can buy a friend??? Yup…! I am happy to help reduce our landfill load… 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,598 #35 Posted February 23, 2022 Another trash night… Another wheel barrow… Cool old one. Works perfect. Keeper. 2 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #36 Posted February 23, 2022 A man cannot have too many wheel barrows. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,235 #37 Posted February 23, 2022 I'm working hard to limit my "dumpster diving" and similar behaviors. No. More. Space. Unless I can put something to use very soon, or know someone who can, it'd just be a temporary reprieve for the junk until I'm forced to discard it myself. So I squeeze my eyes shut and keep going. 2 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,598 #38 Posted February 24, 2022 14 hours ago, Handy Don said: I'm working hard to limit my "dumpster diving" and similar behaviors. No. More. Space. Unless I can put something to use very soon, or know someone who can, it'd just be a temporary reprieve for the junk until I'm forced to discard it myself. So I squeeze my eyes shut and keep going. Understand and sympathize… much of what I get I fix up and pass on to folks who need them for free… 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,235 #39 Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said: I fix up and pass on to folks who need them for free… I've got a trail of these behind me--bicycles, snowblowers, push mowers, fertilizer spreaders, a kids wagon, and lots of garden tools! I refuse all payments except my direct out-of-pocket costs (and I'm not always complete with that list, depending on the recipient). Recently, though, I was forced to accept some biscotti (😋) and a bottle of wine (re-gifted from non-drinker ✅)--what else could I do? Edited February 24, 2022 by Handy Don 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevasaurus 22,764 #40 Posted February 24, 2022 I work for beer. You can live on beer...did you know??? All I want for Christmas is a Dumpster...that I can keep. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff-C175 7,202 #41 Posted February 24, 2022 22 hours ago, Handy Don said: "dumpster diving" The Treasurer and I try to walk every day and our route takes us past the dumpsters at the local middle school. I always look and the Treasurer laughs at me when I pull out a treasure. "What are you going to use that for?" me: " I don't know yet! " Anyhow, I had this bracket that I picked and brought home. And I'm working on an old '87 VW that uses a special tool to tighten the timing belt tensioner. So I used that piece of bracketry and made one. The face on the pulley somehow reminds me of a girl I once knew. Can't quite figure it... maybe it's the beady eyes? or the big nose? or... something else? 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,235 #42 Posted February 24, 2022 Over the summer I volunteered time supervising some renovations at a school in NYC. Our job didn't generate much useful dumpster content (very efficient contractors)! But across the street was a "treasure box" for a townhouse gut renovation. One day I found three pieces of square steel tubing (2"x3"x10') and was down the block putting them onto my roof rack when the super for their job pulled up in a truck. I could hear him chewing out their foreman for tossing those very tubes (apparently certain valuable excess materials were supposed to be held on site to be returned to the shop)! No one had noticed me take them but I felt obliged to go over and speak up to spare the foreman any extra grief. One of his laborers came over and moved the tubes to the super's truck. Still, over several weeks (now with the foreman's assistance) I got a lot of other plywood, lumber, hardware, and even some furniture that was all put to good use--if I'd had a pickup truck I could've done even better! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snoopy11 5,714 #43 Posted February 24, 2022 On 9/30/2021 at 8:32 AM, squonk said: Then you see shows on TV and it's unbelievable what people hold on to and won't let go! Are you referring to my favorite... hoarding programs...? Entertaining programming... sometimes a bit.. eh... grotesque... but... entertaining. Don Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,598 #44 Posted February 25, 2022 5 hours ago, stevasaurus said: I work for beer. You can live on beer...did you know??? Yes. In fact, here’s an excellent article from 2008 on that very topic: Beer: Is There Anything It Can't Do? By George Will July 10, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Perhaps like many sensible citizens, you read Investor's Business Daily for its sturdy common sense in defending free markets and other rational arrangements. If so, you too may have been startled recently by an astonishing statement on that newspaper's front page. It was in a report on the intention of the world's second-largest brewer, Belgium's InBev, to buy control of the third-largest, Anheuser-Busch, for $46.3 billion. The story asserted: "The (alcoholic beverage) industry's continued growth, however slight, has been a surprise to those who figured that when the economy turned south, consumers would cut back on nonessential items like beer. ... " "Non what"? Do not try to peddle that proposition in the bleachers or at the beaches in July. It is closer to the truth to say: No beer, no civilization. The development of civilization depend on urbanization, which depended on beer. To understand why, consult Steven Johnson's marvelous 2006 book "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World." It is a great scientific detective story about how a horrific cholera outbreak was traced to a particular neighborhood pump for drinking water. And Johnson begins a mind-opening excursion into a related topic this way: "The search for unpolluted drinking water is as old as civilization itself. As soon as there were mass human settlements, waterborne diseases like dysentery became a crucial population bottleneck. For much of human history, the solution to this chronic public-health issue was not purifying the water supply. The solution was to drink alcohol." Often the most pure fluid available was alcohol -- in beer and, later, wine -- which has antibacterial properties. Sure, alcohol has its hazards, but as Johnson breezily observes, "Dying of cirrhosis of the liver in your forties was better than dying of dysentery in your twenties." Besides, alcohol, although it is a poison, and an addictive one, became, especially in beer, a driver of a species-strengthening selection process. Johnson notes that historians interested in genetics believe that the roughly simultaneous emergence of urban living and the manufacturing of alcohol set the stage for a survival-of-the-fittest sorting-out among the people who abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and, literally and figuratively speaking, went to town. The gene pools of human settlements became progressively dominated by the survivors -- by those genetically disposed to, well, drink beer. "Most of the world's population today," Johnson writes, "is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol." Johnson suggests, not unreasonably, that this explains why certain of the world's population groups, such as Native Americans and Australian Aborigines, have had disproportionately high levels of alcoholism: These groups never endured the cruel culling of the genetically unfortunate that town dwellers endured. If so, the high alcoholism rates among Native Americans are not, or at least not entirely, ascribable to the humiliations and deprivations of the reservation system. Rather, the explanation is that not enough of their ancestors lived in towns. But that is a potential stew of racial or ethnic sensitivities that we need not stir in this correction of Investor's Business Daily. Suffice it to say that the good news is really good: Beer is a health food. And you do not need to buy it from those wan, unhealthy-looking people who, peering disapprovingly at you through rimless Trotsky-style spectacles, seem to run all the health food stores. So let there be no more loose talk -- especially not now, with summer arriving -- about beer not being essential. Benjamin Franklin was, as usual, on to something when he said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Or, less judgmentally, and for secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #45 Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/23/2022 at 5:46 PM, Handy Don said: I'm working hard to limit my "dumpster diving" and similar behaviors. No. More. Space. 10 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said: Understand and sympathize… much of what I get I fix up and pass on to folks who need them for free… Ok this conversation would not be complete without @Achto 's supreme diving skills. Now I have not personally seen him do full gainers into the dumpster off the high board but the things he brings home from work is awesome. Battery chargers, very nice expensive ones, small diameter tires, trailer jacks, hardware by the ton. Pallet loads of stuff they don't use in production anymore and are just willing to scrap rather than repurpose. This is all new brand new stuff mind you. At plow day once I sorted nutz n bolts into samich bags and gave them out to fellas. We had more than we could ever use and I felt like a guy pushing dope! It was all good. 2 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #46 Posted February 25, 2022 Lucky for me I have an in with the material support group so I get a heads up when stock is being scrapped. I only take what I think that I might have use for. If I took everything I wouldn't have room the the garage to store my tractors. Of course when I get some good stuff, I'm always willing to share. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JPWH 6,040 #47 Posted February 25, 2022 2 pressure washers one has a bad motor and the other has a bad pump, patio heater has a broken stand, generator needs a gas tank repaired, and a back pack leaf blower were dropped off by employees to go in the scrap metal bin at work. 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #48 Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) On 2/24/2022 at 7:40 PM, Achto said: Lucky for me I have an in with the material support group so I get a heads up when stock is being scrapped. What's he drink I'll help make some friends! Rescued this vintage metal cabinet out of the trash today. Was going to strip & paint it but decided it just had too much damned character! my rattlers and other stuff have a new home! Edited March 7, 2022 by WHX?? P Poor Pics 3 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #49 Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, WHX?? said: Rescued this vintage metal cabinet Nice cabinets!! The Flintstones is a great touch. Edited March 7, 2022 by Achto 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #50 Posted March 7, 2022 I was editing them ...crappie pics... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
