Today I acquired...........

[angellonewolf]

^^^^^ looks close to the frog they used to do but its wrong somehow

 

[brightspark]

scored these today got them given all working and led. then my mate told me he got them off his step son who does contract cladding. apparently there was a full large skip load of them and was told he could have them when he finished with them he took 50 and left the rest bet the skip bloke rubbed his hands

 

[123hotchef]

Got this today View attachment 243524





But then I found this, keyway is a litle corroded.

cooler?

 

[Ruffian]

scored these today got them given all working and led. then my mate told me he got them off his step son who does contract cladding. apparently there was a full large skip load of them and was told he could have them when he finished with them he took 50 and left the rest bet the skip bloke rubbed his hands

What a waste
Would have loved some of those for the garage.

 

[Maker]

scored these today got them given all working and led. then my mate told me he got them off his step son who does contract cladding. apparently there was a full large skip load of them and was told he could have them when he finished with them he took 50 and left the rest bet the skip bloke rubbed his hands

Lucky git, my dad nearly got me a string of them but decided against it as he didn't have a transformer.

 

[Anguz]

A more suitable sized bit of bronze for my cross slide nut

 

[dobbslc]

Today i got a box of old Tamiya from a relatives loft clearance it was stuff my parents gave away in the family and it has ended up back with me. View attachment 243667

The metal chassis at the bottom is a Schumacher Top Cat / Cougar , not sure about the one with the body shell on it.

Edit: looks like a later Cougar 2000!

 

[zx9]

What a waste
Would have loved some of those for the garage.

Un usual for them to make it to the skip, why pay to have them taken away when you can just board them up behind the MF ceiling.

 

[Olderisbetter]

The metal chassis at the bottom is a Schumacher Top Cat / Cougar , not sure about the one with the body shell on it.

Edit: looks like a later Cougar 2000!

Unsure how old the Schumacher is, they still make them but i think they are not as good as i remember.

 

[brightspark]

I said to my mate why didn't he get them all. he owns the cladding company and there on big money. that's what happens on big contract jobs .I filled my van up with the gear left over on a large shop fit I worked on for the last 2 days. the lads couldn't be bothered to take back half rolls of cable and new lengths of 4x4 trunking and light fittings left over

 

[123hotchef]

I said to my mate why didn't he get them all. he owns the cladding company and there on big money. that's what happens on big contract jobs .I filled my van up with the gear left over on a large shop fit I worked on for the last 2 days. the lads couldn't be bothered to take back half rolls of cable and new lengths of 4x4 trunking and light fittings left over

its criminal really what gets skipped! you can tell they aint self employed

 

[zx9]

its criminal really what gets skipped! you can tell they aint self employed

It is all priced into the job and costs a lot less than potential penalties or having labour doing nothing whilst waiting for materials.

 

[RichardM]

It is all priced into the job and costs a lot less than potential penalties or having labour doing nothing whilst waiting for materials.

and if it is kept, it has to be catalogued, stored and taken out of stores for the next job it will fit. Cost of storage may be more than the cost of materials.

 

[zx9]

and if it is kept, it has to be catalogued, stored and taken out of stores for the next job it will fit. Cost of storage may be more than the cost of materials.

You can add traceability or lack of to your list.

 

[roblane65]

scored these today got them given all working and led. then my mate told me he got them off his step son who does contract cladding. apparently there was a full large skip load of them and was told he could have them when he finished with them he took 50 and left the rest bet the skip bloke rubbed his hands

That is unusual on most large sites I've worked the main contractor has been responsible for all temporary
lighting and it's nearly always hired in. unless theres been some obscure heath and safety BS why they couldn't be used again. Not the most waste I've ever seen , once worked on two four storey office buildings
a couple of days before they handed over they emptied the eight 30' contractors containers into four 30' roll on roll off skips I hate to think how many thousands went !

 

[dobbslc]

If they belong to a temps firm the main contractors will get charged for them!
We had a client today saying they owned about 100m of 25mm swa cable and to leave it there, they didn't own it and it definitely came back to us!

 

[Pete.]

That is unusual on most large sites I've worked the main contractor has been responsible for all temporary
lighting and it's nearly always hired in. unless theres been some obscure heath and safety BS why they couldn't be used again. Not the most waste I've ever seen , once worked on two four storey office buildings
a couple of days before they handed over they emptied the eight 30' contractors containers into four 30' roll on roll off skips I hate to think how many thousands went !

Used to be that way, nowadays they supply 'safety lighting' and contractors supply their own task lighting.

 

[dobbslc]

No, What you mean is the site will supply the safety lighting then the subbies will rip it down and drag it into their work area to see what they're doing!

 

[angellonewolf]

The metal chassis at the bottom is a Schumacher Top Cat / Cougar , not sure about the one with the body shell on it.

Edit: looks like a later Cougar 2000!

i had a few tamya cars allways wanted when younger Schumacher belt drive 4x drive i bought a quad copter the other day 2nd hand me and son had our moneys worth out of it in one night having a play with it they are only £40 new but its great the only problem with it its to light and you can only fly it when theres no wind

 

[Maker]

its to light and you can only fly it when theres no wind

I used to have a helicopter like that, had about a 500mm rotor which broke every time I used it. Straight out the box on Christmas morning, fired it up indoors and smacked it straight into the radiator, clearly an outside toy. New blades ordered, in the garden, slightest breeze and smacked it into the fence. On a good day, in a field I could get about 20 minutes flight out of it before breaking something, eventually I ordered a second, faulty one to borrow parts from. I've actually still got it somewhere, I wonder if it still works.