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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Campfire on March 10, 2012, 09:56:22 PM
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I wanted to start this thread just to see how many scroungers there are in the myswag group.
We all go to camping, caravan and outdoor shows, vist local camping shops for nice and shiny accessories etc.
I'm just wondering how many people have taken rubbish to the local garbage tip, and aomehow found a discarded object of interest, and brought it home to be recycled either in the home or on the camper trailer.
I have been guilty of scrounging bits and pieces, and making camping gear with it that would qualify for the "dodgy mods" discussion thread.
Our local rubbish tips are a treasure haven, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder ( even if something looks like crap).
I bet there would be a few guilty as charged who have tried to pass old crap from the tip modified with a lick of paint as pretend ARB gear. I wonder if anybody has recycled rubbish as accessories on something flash like a new Complete Campsite Camper.
Cheers
Campfire
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at the moment in our area we are in the middle of a council clean up. there seems to be an endless supply of steel in these piles,namely angle iron,flat,round and various lengths of gal pipe and the like. a bundle of each down behind the shed is just what one needs to make simple little jobs where as to go buy a length of new material cost the earth.
other ones who like to work with metal will know what i'm talking about. :cup:
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At our waste transfer station rubbish is dumped in a big pit and you cannot enter it due to ohs rules. Bummer
Mark
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I have almost 1 1/2 sheds of salvaged /rehoused/ gear from the tip & road side shopping .
It never ceases to amaze me as to what will come into your experience if you open yourself to it
Skip dipping , roadside shopping , tip ratting just the best fun as you can never know what will come up . Most tips separate steel which is handy if you need something . I have built a 6 x 4 tipping trailer all from scrounged metal all l had to pay for was the 3mm steel floor All the rest including the paint was donated . It must be the hunter/gather in us or just the ability to see the resource available to us . Garage sales would come a close 2nd but you really cant match the thrill of the pick up
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Council tip got a huge upgrade a few years back, and stopped all the fun. I and some people I know have previously "found" a working mower that needed petrol and a home, acres of steel, a mile of good barb and plain fencing wire, steel posts, timber scaffolding planks, dray axle that is now a couple of anvils, steel bins , as many old gas bottles as you need to make into bbq's/ plant stands/ water features/ rifle targets that go boom. On the upside, the recycle shop does keep all the good looking stuff and you can buy it and other donated stuff like sports gear, furniture, household items as well as shed things for a very reasonable price. Proceeds to the endeavour centre.
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I get in trouble from the misses when do a clean out at home, and have been accused in the past of bringing home more crap/ garbage then I got rid of.
When I pay at the drive in/ out weigh station, I've even heard comments from ones significant life partner of having the tip pay me a refund for taking more away than I started with.
Women can be so cruel at times.
Campfire
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The 150mm pvc pipe that I use for our pole carrier came from the tip. That was fun trying to sneak out ... ;)
Cheers Chippy :D
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Hunter /Gather instead of sneeking up on prey its away with it ;D
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Growing up in Ballina, it was a Saturday morning ritual once a month that dad would take us two boys to the tip.
As mentioned earlier, most times we would come home with more than we took, to mums horror.
From car parts to a lounge set, with matching coffee table and foot stools. She wasn't really upset over that, except we had to make another trip to get rid of our old one, the trailer didn't come back empty either ;D
The best thing I ever got from the local council pick up days was a whipper snipper.
While walking one morning, I notice a whipper snipper in a pile of stuff, I thought, sheesh I can use some of the bits off it. Got it home, put some two stroke in it, and away it went.
As Navara04 said, it's amazing how many people throw away old bed angle, handy stuff to have around.
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I have heaps of steel structures (chairs, tables, BBQ amongst others) which I have made from steel and iron that I have recovered from a variety of rubbish tips. If the metal was rusted, a treatment of fish oil to kill the rust and cutting and welding. There have been numerous beds, tables and other items that I have been fortunate enough to produce and give to some senior citizens I know who otherwise could not have afforded them. I had to charge them all, it cost them a cup of coffee or cup of tea each.
Regards
Tjupurula
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My garage looks like a garbage tip. I hate throwing things out but slowly running out of room...lol
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Back in the day when you could do this in Brisbane.....
Antique kitchen table, just needed a new top,
More recently the tip at Eurong nedded a wine rack, which we still have just for laughs at campsites, and a folding chair which was duly returned to the tip on the way back!
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I have heaps of steel structures (chairs, tables, BBQ amongst others) which I have made from steel and iron that I have recovered from a variety of rubbish tips. If the metal was rusted, a treatment of fish oil to kill the rust and cutting and welding. There have been numerous beds, tables and other items that I have been fortunate enough to produce and give to some senior citizens I know who otherwise could not have afforded them. I had to charge them all, it cost them a cup of coffee or cup of tea each.
Regards
Tjupurula
that is awesome ..well done you :cup:
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I have heaps of steel structures (chairs, tables, BBQ amongst others) which I have made from steel and iron that I have recovered from a variety of rubbish tips. If the metal was rusted, a treatment of fish oil to kill the rust and cutting and welding. There have been numerous beds, tables and other items that I have been fortunate enough to produce and give to some senior citizens I know who otherwise could not have afforded them. I had to charge them all, it cost them a cup of coffee or cup of tea each.
Regards
Tjupurula
I find it amazing that if we male humans collect crap and pile it up, it's usually the female of the species that will give you an ear full.
Yet in nature the more blue crap a bower bird gets the better the female mate.
Why has nature dealt us a cruel fate of not having the female of species select her mate by the
amount of crap he has in his shed.
I could be landing swim suit models with just one glance of the crap in my shed ( wish I was a Bower Bird).
Cheers
Campfire
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My Neighbour put a old roller mower out for collection day
I picked it up painted it put a new cord on it and sold it on eBay for $400.00 :)
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I find it amazing that if we male humans collect crap and pile it up, it's usually the female of the species that will give you an ear full.
Yet in nature the more blue crap a bower bird gets the better the female mate.
Why has nature dealt us a cruel fate of not having the female of species select her mate by the
amount of crap he has in his shed.
I could be landing swim suit models with just one glance of the crap in my shed ( wish I was a Bower Bird).
Cheers
Campfire
Hi Campfire
I guess I must be part bower bird then, as I collect and recycle almost anything that I can. I am a boily by trade, but today I broke up some old pallets, and have madfe three planter boxes for herbs and the like, and the wife reckons it is good when I am busy doing all that. The only thing shiny involved is my hairless dome, and the only blue item is the japanese safety boots (or is that politically incorrect), I would say thongs, but that could mean something else too.
Regards
Tjupurula
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If we were Bower birds collecting to attract mates l would have bus loads of them by now . Its also amazing what you pick up on the side of highways , either left by mistake or lost . I found a jack & socket set waiting in a rest area to travel with its new owner . We get along fine :cheers:
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My garage looks like a garbage tip. I hate throwing things out but slowly running out of room...lol
I hear ya, brother............
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I "scavenge" the recycle shop at my dump and I did come up with an old vacola preserving pot a while back that I'm going to modify into a gas camp oven cooker like a "camp oven mate". The wings where the handle attaches to my 12" oven just brush the edges so I'll need to cut them down a few mm's but otherwise it's the perfect shape and size. All it needs now is a "chimney" hole in the lid and a hole for the gas ring underneath. :cheers:
I've done a few dump runs in the past few days because we're putting up a double carport where we used to have a dodgy, not-secure-able garage that we referred to as a "glorified carport". The only pro it had against its massive list of cons was that I could store my crap in there.
Now I've got decidedly less storage room so I had to get organised and build some covered racks between my two small garden sheds out the back. Actually it's been good motivation to sort through what I will actually use and what i'd like to use but probably never will. ;D
Anyway, long story short, I had to hold myself back from bringing home all sorts of gear this time coz it wouldn't fit in my new racks! :'(
Cheers,
Jono.
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I find it amazing that if we male humans collect crap and pile it up, it's usually the female of the species that will give you an ear full.
Yet in nature the more blue crap a bower bird gets the better the female mate.
Why has nature dealt us a cruel fate of not having the female of species select her mate by the
amount of crap he has in his shed.
I could be landing swim suit models with just one glance of the crap in my shed ( wish I was a Bower Bird).
You're not alone there my feathered friend.
Council tip got a huge upgrade a few years back, and stopped all the fun. I and some people I know have previously "found" a working mower that needed petrol and a home.
I was lucky enough to find one like that on a nature strip. It was even running at the time...
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I found a cheese sandwich a few years back , if it was not wrapped in cling wrap I would not have picked it up I am thinking of eating it on our next camping trip
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I found a cheese sandwich a few years back , if it was not wrapped in cling wrap I would not have picked it up I am thinking of eating it on our next camping trip
I can envision a future print of Camper Trailer Australia with the special edition complimentary MySwag Production's DVD called:
"Fregan Vs Wild"
Cheers
Campfire >:D
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The misses made me have a clean up in the shed on the weekend so that we could find our camping gear for Easter... She was chucking so much stuff out to go to the tip it wasnt funny!!
When she went inside I had to sneak half it back into the shed before she noticed!!
In Gladstone QLD the tip had a "tip top shop" where they used to go through all the rubbish and re-sell it... some good bargains although some stuff you could buy new for the same price!!
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blahhhhhhh pmsl .... you guys are truly nutters !!!!!
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So why dont you guys start taking pics and posting what you have made out of recycling and share some of these groovy things that you have come up. (but becareful cause we dont any feathers ruffled in here ok )
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A man is nothing without "STUFF"
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I thought the idea of having a shed full of crap was to scare the women folk & keep 'em out so us blokes could get some peace. might explain why the beer fridge is in the shed............
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A man is nothing without "STUFF"
Man that is DEEP..........
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One of my good mates has a mini skip business, so he comes across allot of 'stuff'.
I've scored off him a 5kva Honda genset, that just needed the frame rewelded and the sticky valve knocked back down and a Honda rotary hoe that was missing a pull start.
He found a mint early 40's Stanley combination router hand plane still in it's box complete with cutters and receipt. Turns out it's worth $1200-$1500!
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If we were Bower birds collecting to attract mates l would have bus loads of them by now . Its also amazing what you pick up on the side of highways , either left by mistake or lost . I found a jack & socket set waiting in a rest area to travel with its new owner . We get along fine :cheers:
I have a theory,
The Bower Bird collects alot of stuff to sexually arouse a potential mate.
Throughout thousands of years of evolution we share many common and genetic traits with other species.
If man has a desire to collect rubbish as part of some dormant genetic link, to the bower bird, than could the same be said of the female of our species ( Bower Bird Courtship ritual).
Could it be that women find our dormant evolutionary Bower Bird traits of collecting crap highly sexually arousing, yet when we become married they subconsciously see that habit as a threat from other competing women who may want to move in on their turf.
Is that why we are constantly getting tuned up to clean out our sheds, because we maybe displaying too much Bower Bird Sexual Prowess that married women find a threat, and other women subconsciously find a turn on.
I leave this radical yet untested theory to those of Bower Bird Gene Pool.
Are you a victims of too much sex appeal.
Maybe this thought is too radical for modern science.
Campfire
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I have a theory,
The Bower Bird collects alot of stuff to sexually arouse a potential mate.
Throughout thousands of years of evolution we share many common and genetic traits with other species.
Campfire
Youre on the money ;D
As this article says, the key to a good collection of Bower Bird Cr%p is creating an optical illusion!!
:cheers:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/sex-rocks-for-bower-birds/story-e6frgcjx-1226250992274 (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/sex-rocks-for-bower-birds/story-e6frgcjx-1226250992274)
I wonder wat "forced perspective" is??
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No all that exciting or even valuable, but i always fill the patrol up with firewood when I visit the green zone at the local dump. Saves the hassle of collecting it elsewhere and 90% of the time it's gut in good lengths. :)
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No all that exciting or even valuable, but i always fill the patrol up with firewood when I visit the green zone at the local dump. Saves the hassle of collecting it elsewhere and 90% of the time it's gut in good lengths. :)
I guess that depends where you come from, as out here firewood is extremely valuable. We rely on diesel generated power, and when the generators go off, the firewood is used for cooking and making tea or coffee, hence it is very valuable.
Regards
Tjupurula
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I have a theory,
The Bower Bird collects alot of stuff to sexually arouse a potential mate.
Throughout thousands of years of evolution we share many common and genetic traits with other species.
If man has a desire to collect rubbish as part of some dormant genetic link, to the bower bird, than could the same be said of the female of our species ( Bower Bird Courtship ritual).
Could it be that women find our dormant evolutionary Bower Bird traits of collecting crap highly sexually arousing, yet when we become married they subconsciously see that habit as a threat from other competing women who may want to move in on their turf.
Is that why we are constantly getting tuned up to clean out our sheds, because we maybe displaying too much Bower Bird Sexual Prowess that married women find a threat, and other women subconsciously find a turn on.
I leave this radical yet untested theory to those of Bower Bird Gene Pool.
Are you a victims of too much sex appeal.
Maybe this thought is too radical for modern science.
Campfire
;D ;D ;D Classic ;D
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Agh we have our own Sheldon :p
Love it
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I have a theory,
The Bower Bird collects alot of stuff to sexually arouse a potential mate.
Throughout thousands of years of evolution we share many common and genetic traits with other species.
If man has a desire to collect rubbish as part of some dormant genetic link, to the bower bird, than could the same be said of the female of our species ( Bower Bird Courtship ritual).
Could it be that women find our dormant evolutionary Bower Bird traits of collecting crap highly sexually arousing, yet when we become married they subconsciously see that habit as a threat from other competing women who may want to move in on their turf.
Is that why we are constantly getting tuned up to clean out our sheds, because we maybe displaying too much Bower Bird Sexual Prowess that married women find a threat, and other women subconsciously find a turn on.
I leave this radical yet untested theory to those of Bower Bird Gene Pool.
Are you a victims of too much sex appeal.
Maybe this thought is too radical for modern science.
Campfire
:cheers:....wot sort of smoke comes out of your campfire :-*Agh we have our own Sheldon :p
Love it
blahhhhhhhhhhhhhh pmsl ...(i love the big bang theory)
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Youre on the money ;D
As this article says, the key to a good collection of Bower Bird Cr%p is creating an optical illusion!!
:cheers:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/sex-rocks-for-bower-birds/story-e6frgcjx-1226250992274 (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/sex-rocks-for-bower-birds/story-e6frgcjx-1226250992274)
I wonder wat "forced perspective" is??
C'mon Mace, the art of optical illusion is to steal her glasses when you first meet, that way you start dating before she knows how damned ugly you are, speaking strictly from experience of course.... >:D
Tjupurula
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Optical illusions can back fire also on the modern day bower where the following scientific principle is applied:
Optical illusion = Too much beer and judgement impairment
Forced perspective = When you wake up the next morning and realize your not alone because of an " Optical Illusion" ( see above) and hope to hell you didn't trigger " Big Bang Theory" .
I think I want to hang with Sheldon at the comic store.
Campfire
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I think I want to hang with Sheldon at the comic store.
Campfire
Bazinga!! ;D ;D
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Optical illusions can back fire also on the modern day bower where the following scientific principle is applied:
Optical illusion = Too much beer and judgement impairment
Forced perspective = When you wake up the next morning and realize your not alone because of an " Optical Illusion" ( see above) and hope to hell you didn't trigger " Big Bang Theory" .
I think I want to hang with Sheldon at the comic store.
Campfire
as long as you enjoyed your quantum leap :cheers:
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The townies come out to dump in our little tip because it's free, could probably find the tools to make a fleet of camper trailers and something to pull them with in there.
Without leaving home I could probably manage to build an entire camper from the various abandoned farm machinery, she'd be a tad overweight though.
Haven't got anything here I salvaged, but I nicked a water tank (used as raised garden beds) to build a veggie garden at a school before.
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I found this as a engine in a box and a frame and a petrol tank old style rubbish dump alas its gone now ,oh well