Tiger_heart
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Your best find and what is the worst you've seen dumped?
Council pick ups...
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Tiger_heart
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I picked up a music stand, and realized that over the years, one man's trash can become another's treasure. But also, in a throw away society we live in, this may be one of the last bastion's of our parent's generation?
Never seen anything "unusual" but heard many stories (discarded dentures; a false eye; a plastic skull to name some I recall). It seems also that lots of "second hand dealers" circle around, when the clean ups are on...
Never seen anything "unusual" but heard many stories (discarded dentures; a false eye; a plastic skull to name some I recall). It seems also that lots of "second hand dealers" circle around, when the clean ups are on...
upthetigers
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Working PS1 console, full set of Harry Potter books, bike wheel set. Tons of stuff, I flip stuff online as a side hustle
Gym equipment.
Once found a bench in decent nick.with leg/hammy attachment...barbell and about 80kg plates...lucky i had a station wagon back then about 25 years back
The cupboard i did a thread on that the missus wanted...had to sand it all,.restain and replace some hinges
Not much decent quality stuff tossed.out these day its all cheap chinese garbage or ikea.crap
We live near an.industrial area that has a rail line ...lots of old style 30s and.40s brick bungalows being sold and new duplexes built in place...people sell the house and.leave pianos behind...see so many dumped near this train line over the years
When.i bought my place it had a fireproof filing cabinet in the garage that weighed 10 tonnes...i made.sure it was in the contract that it stayed put when i sold
Once found a bench in decent nick.with leg/hammy attachment...barbell and about 80kg plates...lucky i had a station wagon back then about 25 years back
The cupboard i did a thread on that the missus wanted...had to sand it all,.restain and replace some hinges
Not much decent quality stuff tossed.out these day its all cheap chinese garbage or ikea.crap
We live near an.industrial area that has a rail line ...lots of old style 30s and.40s brick bungalows being sold and new duplexes built in place...people sell the house and.leave pianos behind...see so many dumped near this train line over the years
When.i bought my place it had a fireproof filing cabinet in the garage that weighed 10 tonnes...i made.sure it was in the contract that it stayed put when i sold
Tigerdazz2
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When working as a part time"Sanitation Engineer" aka "garbologist" for Marrickville council back around 1999/2000 we found TWO full bins of VHS porno movies behind the shops in one of the main roads going out to Dulwitch Hill. Great find as we got $10 each for them back at the General Gordon & Tempe Hotels.
The other best buy was a commercial vacuum cleaner that was even better than the Kirby my ex wife got conned into forking out over a grand for, it lasted over 10 years from when I found it put out with rubbish near a newly built apartment block I was tiling at. I also scored 3 three half filled 20 litre tins of Tradex base coat paint & a near full 20 litre bucket of waterproof membrane liquid.
The other best buy was a commercial vacuum cleaner that was even better than the Kirby my ex wife got conned into forking out over a grand for, it lasted over 10 years from when I found it put out with rubbish near a newly built apartment block I was tiling at. I also scored 3 three half filled 20 litre tins of Tradex base coat paint & a near full 20 litre bucket of waterproof membrane liquid.
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