can't pass up usefull trash

It being a dull day, I decide to respond to what "Lane" foisted Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:53:36 -0700 on rec.crafts.metalworking , viz:

I'm the same way with wood. Especially the expensive stuff which was too small for work. Unfortunately, I haven't the room anymore, too much is going in the fire pit.

Thanks. I do that at least half dozen times a day. :-)

The absolute worst is when I move something because it's in the way and I think it's time to put it up proper. I can almost never find those items. :-)

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

Thanks.

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

It being a dull day, I decide to respond to what "Jeff Sellers" foisted Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:52:17 -0400 on rec.crafts.metalworking , viz:

We're not going to solve the solid waste landfill problem until we make Dumpster Diving an Olympic Sport.

tschus pyotr

After the first 2 or 3 years I rarely had any slack time. Of course when I first started I was working at the local truck stop nights and evenings.

That's one reason I really like living in a small town. I just can't stand the political nonsense that goes on in a big city.

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

The town I grew up in had until about 20 yrs ago, a dump attendant who would pick the pile between drop-offs by residents. He would resell what he could, haggle, barter, trade, whatever. He even built a house in town out of salvaged building materials. He always had bikes and hubcaps. My dad bought a lawnmower he had assembled out of 2 or 3 others for $20. That mower was the best running one we owned, even compared to a couple of others we bought new, and outlasted them to boot. Dad only stopped using it when he got a rider...

I still miss the open dumps, for the fractional horse appliance motors and bed frames if nothing else.

--Glenn Lyford

Heck, I ran my shop for 5 years! In the summer I would work 80-90 hours a week, (no kidding, just ask my wife!), and still be behind on work with a full time mechanic, a runner, and my wife. In the winter, I would often come down, open the shop, and pray for the phone to ring! I could not for the life of me find something to fill in the winter months. We made out like bandits all summer, and gave all the money back in the winter! Greg

Which reminds me..Ive got both a Roberts and an Akai Reel to Reel collecting dust..if anyone needs em.

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

Ah yes, putting something in a "safe place" simply means that you won't be able to find it again for at least 10 years (if ever).

My father built farm wagons and boats in winter to keep the shop busy. But the big money was at the card tables around the big old coal furnace. The local farmers would gather there, and my father would sell them pop and crackers while I won their money.

Gary

Some things really need to be left in the trash.

My parents owned a motorcycle shop and we had someone come in with a blown out front tire on their motorcycle. They were screaming about suing the shop until I looked at the bike and saw this loser had taken the rock hard crap tire I had thrown into the dumpster last week from my RD350LC and mounted it wrong direction on his front rim.

He was asked to leave or be arrested. Then we had to resort to cutting 1 or 2" of bead from each tire thrown out. (You guessed it, tire recyclers would not pick up motorcycle tires for any price, so they could only be thrown out.)

So, I can see someone damaging a product beyond use so the business does not get sued for a product it never sold in the first place.

Bart D. Hull snipped-for-privacy@inficad.com Tempe, Arizona

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I suspect that's pretty similar to rebuilding a Beetle's engine on the front porch of a rental house in Deridder LA. And yes I removed and replaced the engine with the car in front of the house. And it wasn't a paved road...

Yeah, put them in the kitchen or on the frig. for reminders for the other occupants of the house.

My whole life is like this part of the thread. Going to work is like going camping if you don't put it in the truck its not going to be on the job. I've been looking for my staple gun for 2 weeks now for a little job at home.

My problem is being multi-functional and while going through stuff looking for that thing your after you don't see that other thing. Then the next day your like I just saw that somewhere... :o) I must get so focused on what color it is and what it looks like that I miss all the other objects that would be nice to memorize.

I almost got 5 computers today , but the guy that I've known for over a decade wouldn't let me have the towers cause he was told to smash them. I just wanted one better than my old one and put music on for the shop. Oh well, now I have 5 monitors to choose from and I really needed one last week. The way people throw away computers they should set up a business to erased the hard drives and give them to kids.

I like the white-boards myself, no chalk dust. We have one right by the kitchen table, and the shopping list gets assembled on it, bit by bit. Then 'hard copied' for the trip to the store.

I also have put them on neavrly every free surface at work. Doors, walls, hallways. Some folks think out loud, most of us there think in pictures.

Jim

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Had my son's horn at the music store down in Mesa. The repair guy said the owner came down the street one day and saw a whole bunch of drum cases for sale outside the pawn shop. It was the same cases they had thrown out, up to and including still having store stickers on them. Now they do serious demo to anything going into the dumpster.

Joel. phx

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Actually my trap is auctions...the piles of stuff at the tail end, where you get a 2 tonne (weight!) press frame (bent cross beam!) for $10 etc etc.

Then I suddenly realise that I have about 5 tonnes of variously shaped bits of steel to deal with. I have to get my 8mpg truck and drive all the way down there, and the petrol costs a bloody fortune....however..

Well -- that *is* "safe" -- even from you. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

They got a Big Whiteboard, I got a smaller one. Nice to have worked for a company which made them. Made them of enameled steel glued on particle board backing. Heavy, but they last.

I've seen panels that go on the front of refrigerators.

I've a 4x3 foot combo board (white board with section for pinning up papers) at my friend's place, right by the door. Magnets, kids scribbles, "To the moon - by bus!" and the "Honey Do" list.

Know what you mean.

It being a dull day, I decide to respond to what Gunner foisted Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:35:26 GMT on rec.crafts.metalworking , viz:

Hmmm, now seeing as how your in Bakerfield (or near enough), and I'm in Seattle (or near enough), this poses a problem. But I'll think about it and see what happens. I've waited this long, I can wait some more...