Passing a mini skip…………..

[Alan Reynolds]

I couldn’t resist a look and saw what looked like a bit of a router table.
I asked if I could have a ‘dip’.
I found the ends of the table which were all bent and twisted and the mitre slide. It was thrown out as the end tables kept getting bent up.
Then found a little lifting table and a box of router accessories.
I straightened the tables out. They are made of baked bean tin metal as they are re so thin. Odd thing is I have an identical table but with a different “makers name’ on it. Those table ends are quite a bit thicker. I presume firms specify higher quality bits sometimes.
The router is a Bosch PoF1200ae which is a top range unit. I couldn’t find the other bits for it but they usually get thrown or lost.
BONUS. Found a full set of router bits further down. The missing one is in the router.
I’ve reinforced the tables with some aluminium which I rescued from my Daughter’s school when they moved to their new buildings.
My total now is 5. 3 tables and two handheld.

 

[tom2207]

Thats a win all round.

 

[MattF]

You lucky, lucky......

 

[OJCar]

I read the thread title and thought - "That's gotta hurt!"


Nice one Alan!

 

[stuvy]

I read the thread title and thought - "That's gotta hurt!"


Nice one Alan!

must be the irish in me as I knew where the thread was going

 

[colnerov]

Top totting.

 

[Blicksheep]

Nicely done

 

[Arc Tourist]

Its unbelievable as to what's thrown out nowadays.

Some hobbyist's use a lift table like the one shown, as a front rest for conventional and air rifle shooting.

 

[Erie Fred]

Over here, they are called Dumpsters.

 

[MetalMonkey]

All the skips around here just contain rubbish, damp plasterboard and the odd manky mattress - they obviously have different class of skip down your way!

 

[Erie Fred]

I climbed up top of a 40 yard roll off, and peered down....I saw sheet metal scrap...and then...then under this jumble, the hood of a 15 passenger van...
and then...the rest of it ! The whole damn van was stuffed down in there.
A real "Forrest from the trees" moment.
Scrapyard crane operator (my friend) was told to "make it go away quickly"

 

[Cobbler]

Scrapyard crane operator (my friend) was told to "make it go away quickly"

Perhaps there was a body in it

 

[Other Daniel]

I just saw the word "skip", and I was hooked.

 

[stuvy]

I climbed up top of a 40 yard roll off, and peered down....I saw sheet metal scrap...and then...then under this jumble, the hood of a 15 passenger van...
and then...the rest of it ! The whole damn van was stuffed down in there.
A real "Forrest from the trees" moment.
Scrapyard crane operator (my friend) was told to "make it go away quickly"

a good few years back I walked in to work after parking up and went past our metal skip that someone had put a complete vauxhall chavalier in. best place for it

 

[fixedfixer]

Can’t get my head around why folks skip useful stuff rather than advertise it for money of free to collect.

Only stuff I throw out is totally useless has all the nuts and bolts and parts removed as a ‘just in case’ I need them. My Dad did the same.

 

[Blobber]

Can’t get my head around why folks skip useful stuff rather than advertise it for money of free to collect.

Only stuff I throw out is totally useless has all the nuts and bolts and parts removed as a ‘just in case’ I need them. My Dad did the same.

Sometimes its more hassle to give stuff away than just dump it

I did take great please cutting up a Sierra into manageable chunks and putting it in a metal skip though

 

[Erie Fred]

Can’t get my head around why folks skip useful stuff rather than advertise it for money of free to collect.

Only stuff I throw out is totally useless has all the nuts and bolts and parts removed as a ‘just in case’ I need them. My Dad did the same.

Been doing allot of that lately, cleaning out the shop for the new 5' x 10" CNC plasma....don't want unknown **Language**/grifters/meth heads coming around to scope the place out.
"Not worth the Hassle"

 

[James1979]

Been doing allot of that lately, cleaning out the shop for the new 5' x 10" CNC plasma....don't want unknown **Language**/grifters/meth heads coming around to scope the place out.
"Not worth the Hassle"

100%. I have a threshold whereby if it’s not worth ‘x’ then it’s going in the scrap / landfill.

Wasteful? Un Greta Friendly? You bet

By the time I’ve advertised a thing for £5 and had a load of wasters try and beat me down to £4 I’ve lost £40 in billable time.

I did a car boot once. For half hour. Then my bullsh1t bucket got full, I threw the entire stall in the slip and never ever did another.

 

[tom2207]

Can’t get my head around why folks skip useful stuff rather than advertise it for money of free to collect.

Only stuff I throw out is totally useless has all the nuts and bolts and parts removed as a ‘just in case’ I need them. My Dad did the same.

youve probably still got biscuit tins full of that stuff ,,, just in case ...

 

[fixedfixer]

@tom2207 have you been looking in my shed? I’ve a set of wheel nuts from a mk2 cortina. You never know…….