Council pick ups...

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...
 
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
 
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.
 
Tigerdazz2 said:
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.
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Just admit you only made $20 from the videos as you took the rest home!
 
New of an inner city council department many moons ago that filled their sheds ,because a lot was last years model , or a dirty spark plug,.
They all sold their stash , for a a milestone celebration amongst the crew
 
Not council pick ups, but as someone who exercises regularly, you never know what you’ll come across on the side of the road. Came across a 50 dollar note one time.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Not council pick ups, but as someone who exercises regularly, you never know what you’ll come across on the side of the road. Came across a 50 dollar note one time.
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Haha...i had that experience once at Brooklyn..was with my ex walking on the footpath...another.couple walking towards us about 20m away....we both spotted the pineapple at the same time but i was just a bit quicker.
Waited for him to come up with some BS .claim, "oh it mine i dropped it" but he just chuckled and.smiled sourly
 
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