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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: ewwreckers on November 04, 2012, 06:24:27 PM
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Found on a Buy Swap and Sell facebook page a 12 foot rod, and 2 alvery reels for the sum total of $50. Start telling the old man about them and what a great bargain it was, and he brings us this, which he found out the tip!!! Alvery reel works perfect, and a 15 foot Daiwa rod in perfect nick, even still has fishing line on the reel! Now just to get the kids a beach rod/reel each and were all set for fishing!
Amazing what some people throw away!
(http://myswag.org/gallery/d/42238-2/Alvery+reel+Daiwa+rod.JPG)
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Nice pickup. We can't scavenge here any longer ... we have an overpriced "store" where they scavenge and we pay them almost new prices for things if we are desperate.
The tip is where I got my Primus 2 burner gas stove and original bottle about 20 years ago. Each to their own ... one's mans trash ... We have a kerbside collection where people throw the most useful things that could go to Charity ... they also throw out stuff that's useless ... alot of blokes with trailers collect any metal on the piles before the council gets there. I threw out about 30 bottles of wine (I don't drink it and the boss gave us 5 bottles each year for Xmas) and it was gone before I even got the rest of my stuff out there ... I had no idea how to store it (was in the garden shed okay?).
Kit_e
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I threw out about 30 bottles of wine (I don't drink it and the boss gave us 5 bottles each year for Xmas) and it was gone before I even got the rest of my stuff out there ... I had no idea how to store it (was in the garden shed okay?).
Kit_e
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Kit_e, that was very irresponsible. I'm sure that there are fellow swaggers on here that are highly experienced in the disposal of unwanted wine;)
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Here's a quick lesson for ya Kit, if it's a rough red, add lemonade and ice, if it's a rough white, add triple sec and OJ for a mimosa :D With those tips, you can drink bats piss that's been strained through a footballers jock strap.
We were in Dubbo a couple of months ago when they had the council pick up, man there was so good stuff, if only we'd had a trailer lol Vic collects scrap metal so he was seeing $$ signs everywhere lol
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Nice pickup. We can't scavenge here any longer ... we have an overpriced "store" where they scavenge and we pay them almost new prices for things if we are desperate.
Same where we are. The "recycling store" that set up next to our local tip use to be a good place to pick up odds and ends cheap. Not sure whether they have had a change of management or something, but the last couple of times I've been there their prices are ludicrous for stuff that was destined for the bin and has an unknown history. As I said to the guy behind the counter, I'm all for recycling but why would I buy second hand when I can pay a few bucks more and buy it new with a warranty?
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Same where we are. The "recycling store" that set up next to our local tip use to be a good place to pick up odds and ends cheap. Not sure whether they have had a change of management or something, but the last couple of times I've been there their prices are ludicrous for stuff that was destined for the bin and has an unknown history. As I said to the guy behind the counter, I'm all for recycling but why would I buy second hand when I can pay a few bucks more and buy it new with a warranty?
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Can't pick up anything,I was having a poke around one day after dumping some 'rubbish' I had a guy come running from the office yelling,waving arms at me,another guy came driving his front end loader at us,also telling us we can't take anything. I thought initially it was maybe an insurance problem in case somebody got hurt,nope, seems there might be a possibility that you could drive out with more than you took in,therefore no excess charges for them,despite the fact your helping with the landfill issue
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Our rates huge gibe up stupidly amount,as well as a extra charge ffr waste management, don't even mention the the tipshop that is doubly stupidly expensive.
I'm all for recycling, but the tip is like a Gestapo run town.
no chance I'd a pick up of anything from our tip........
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Kit_e, that was very irresponsible. I'm sure that there are fellow swaggers on here that are highly experienced in the disposal of unwanted wine;)
Yeah, sorry about that. I wasn't a Swagger back then. The wine was from a NZ maker ... the boss's wife's company. I don't think many of the employees actually drank it. We always got a white, a red, and a pink wine each year ... not sure what they others were.
I'll remember you if they ever do it again! One year I got an esky and cooler bottle. ;D Much more practical for camping in a TENT! LOL! I did use it before we got the EvaKool though ... Last year I got a $50 Coles voucher and promptly bought provisions for the weekend camping ... a Roast and some vegies.
Kit_e
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Can't pick up anything............ the tip is like a Gestapo run town.
no chance I'd a pick up of anything from our tip........
The reason is commercial firms tip stuff on the condition it is destroyed and totally unuseable in its original form which means it can be recycled but definitely not sold on or even given away. This includes all your personal mail, bills, old credit cards, personal files, etc, etc.
When you think about what you want personally treated strictly like rubbish, so do commercial enterprises. The tips know that's there implicit contractual obligation with the public and it's why they panic somewhat when they see you sorting through someone elses rubbish. It aint yours so don't try and steal it which is actually what you're doing, although you mightn't realise it at the time.
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pfft if it is in the tip it is up for anyone to grab it!
One mans trash is another mans......
There are sercure bins for bills and such, i always make sure nothing with any details are readable before they go in the bin.
In hard rubbish here we got 2 full sets of cast iron cook ware.
(Will add photos later)
Man they looked bad when i got them but a good go over with a wire wheel on the grinder and a few seasons they are good as new.
Gecko
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Prodigy
It was just the metal pile. Push bikes,brand new fencing /corrugated tin, chairs etc.
My wife picked up a decorative candle holder, looked almost brand new, perfect condition, that was on the back of the Ute,so we managed to get away with it.
You make me feel like a criminal as it came back to a good home,rather than landfill
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Oh I see. It's on my property and you decide it's just rubbish and so it's yours eh? That's very nice of you to decide that and take it without asking my permission to do so.
Try googling 'theft by finding' and you might bring yourselves up to pace with certain common sense legal protections that are put in place for all our benefit.
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Oh dear.....
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The reason is commercial firms tip stuff on the condition it is destroyed and totally unuseable in its original form which means it can be recycled but definitely not sold on or even given away. This includes all your personal mail, bills, old credit cards, personal files, etc, etc.
Ummm have you heard of a shredder? All my personal mails/bills/credit cards etc. leaves the house as confetti...
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You'll also find that ignorance of the Law is no excuse as in- Sorry officer I didn't know this backstreet was a 50km/hr speed zone or the missus hadn't renewed the rego like she said she would last week.
Now with stealing from the tip you might plead mitigating circumstances with 'mens rea' but unfortunately the Judge is going to explain 'actus reus' to you in sentencing. Look it up. But I've just been in the building game and when you invite me into your home, office or commercial premises to do work for you, I do not take anything away from your premises that doesn't belong to me. If any of my workers or subbies do they're instantly sacked but then I'm obviously a hard, old bastard rather than a nice warm, fuzzy, softy like some are apparently. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
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Got a cheapo shredder for our docs. Don't care if it is our property, the garbage tips property or free to anyone.
If the item is in your garbage bin at the front of the house before it is collected. Who's property is it? You have shown your intent to toss the garbage. Not wanted. Not in transit to or in the hands of the tip.
Maybe we need a locked garbage bin and wait for the garbo to come around.
If it is that important, organise a secure garbage collection. They don't cost much :-)
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It's an interesting query you raise Estelle but we should all be aware that in the absence of a note on the bin saying help yourself, give away or something similar, then technically it belongs to the Council via their contract with the rubbish removalist and they in turn may then own it. Now for the vast majority of us we don't care if some pensioner takes the deposit (well at least in SA) cans and bottles out of the recycle bin and we certainly are not going to back Council or the RR in any dispute over ownership. The ownership dispute issue simply doesn't arise.
However you'd want to be much more circumspect about helping yourself to deposit containers out of the clearly labelled receptacles at your local footy club and the like. You may simply get ticked off by a club member during the game but face charges if you come back for some after hours. We're talking adults here so I work on the rule, it aint mine I don't 'purloin' it.
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Geez, you must a be hoot at parties.... PMSL :D
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I would suspect that 99.9% of people would be happy for someone to help themselves to the garbage in their bin as it awaits council collection (as long as they don't make a mess). Unlikely to want it to belong to council.
Maybe those wanting only council collectors to handle their garbage could put a label on the bin to tell others to keep pinkies out of the bin. Would be easier and fewer notes. Probably how the Law would be interpreted as well.
It is a service we pay for after all.
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I'm with you on that one Jeepers
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I reckon if it's been given up to the garbage contractor, then no-one wants it WHY NOT RECYCLE INSTEAD OF LANDFILLING? I mean, if we can't recover / recycle / re-use / something in this day and age, then what is the point of even bothering? We say that we are "doing it for the environment" but burying it is not the answer.
And in all reality, if the product is under $100 then it's not worth "chasing" someone through the courts. EG: a ten dollar candelabra.
Kit_e
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Geez, you must a be hoot at parties.... PMSL :D
Well we did have our moments POSL with the different types you run into over the years, in our case largely the upmarket, filtered coffee and Tim Tam set. Are you the client who happily tosses us the keys to the joint to get on with it while you go to work or do you have to be there holding our hand every step of the way and keeping an eye on the silverware? Or like the job where the 'man' of the house had to gingerly ask if the trades would mind popping down the local servo for ablutions because his missus is a bit thingy about strangers using their dunny. Small verandah job so we hadn't budgeted for an onsite toilet like you do with renos or serious builds and it had never been an issue before. Sooner or later you get em.
Before I get into 'The pet block of wood' I should relate my business partner's experience with one tradey he used to replace the foil ducting in his own home. Now L had noticed the ducted evaporative aircond was not keeping up and climbing up in the roof noticed gaping holes in the foil ducting and put two and two together because the suburb was around 20yrs old and he'd seen an HVAC tradey up and down the local streets for weeks and clearly the ducting was failing all over at the same time. Bailed him up and arranged for new ducting a few days later. Now L had done some running repairs and knew he'd left a measuring tape and pliers up in the roof and exactly where he'd left them. Job finished, inspected and paid for and then he remembered to go up and grab the tape and pliers only they were not there anymore. As old tradeys we know that every tradey knows exactly what are his tools and what aren't and L immediately knew something important about that particular tradey.
Well customer S was a super fastidious type when we'd arranged a custom shed for his backyard so I put my best tradey A on it. Nevertheless S would just have to ring to tell me that A had dropped a tek screw or a pop rivet nail, even though I knew A would do the ant parade when the job was finished. All done and S was happy and paid A by cheque on the day only to ring me up in deadly earnest the next day to tell me his pet block of wood had gone missing. Me explaining A was our most trusted erector and he'd be mortified by this as he was true Christian bloke which he was. Before S could finish saying he wasn't that worried but just wanted to let me know, I'd said leave it me S I'll get to the bottom of it right away and hanging up. The rub was S had a pet block of wood he used as a marker in his carport to know where to stop his car and God forbid it had gone missing and you know how it is folks.
I ring A for a laugh and at first he's puzzled and then looking in his trailer he says yeah I reckon this is it and it's got mixed up when I dumped my timber packers out of the trailer to unload in the carport. So A is going past the clients home next day and true to his word he knocks on S's door as he's retired and asks exactly where he can put it back in it's rightful place after such a terrible mixup. We're all pissing ouselves and S even rings me back to apologise for casting aspersions on such fine tradesmen and he didn't mean to create any fuss, yada, yada. Don't laugh because we pulled a few more jobs out of that as they'd say- S recommended you and if S was singing your praises you must be good. We do have nicknames for some of them you know.
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Geez, you must a be hoot at parties.... PMSL :D
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Well done.
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Oh dear.....
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Had cause to relate those anecdotes to the lad nearly out of his time as an apprentice sparky and he was telling me about the first electronic whiteboards they were installing in schools and a couple of days later I noticed he had a pen with the private school's name on it. Well the other tradeys took them excuses he. Heart to heart ensues about how you're not an honest man just because noone is looking when you pick up something that's not yours. Also if you accidently damage something on the job fess up and sort it promptly. He knows the rules well and doesn't have to advertise out on his own now with an apprentice in tow.
It came up again when he spotted this story and- Wow, how good would that be dad?
http://www.news.com.au/world-old/stupidest-idiot-in-the-world-sells-safe-containing-26000-on-ebay-for-12293/story-e6frfkyi-1226273442770 (http://www.news.com.au/world-old/stupidest-idiot-in-the-world-sells-safe-containing-26000-on-ebay-for-12293/story-e6frfkyi-1226273442770)
Hmmm...that all depends how you handle it and the appropriate outcome I respond, looking at him expectantly and he knows instantly here it comes again.
So you paid for the safe and opened it up and discovered the $26k in it so what would you do son and why?
Anyone care to help him out because he didn't really know until I told him exactly how I'd handle it.
Test out your true parenting skills on that one Swaggers although you could easily stay quiet about it and noone would be any the wiser most likely.
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A safe with $26 K accidently left in it is hardly the same as a $10 candelabra deliberately thrown out.
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Far out, was just saying what a bargain my old man found. Maybe I should shut up about the 5kva Honda Gennie that he found that starts first kick everytime. Or about the great big box of brand new vibes that was found....funnily enough nobody's claimed them LOL
Vic says forget the legal side of it, if you can, just go for a good scrounge it's good fun lol
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I threw out about 30 bottles of wine (I don't drink it and the boss gave us 5 bottles each year for Xmas) and it was gone before I even got the rest of my stuff out there ... I had no idea how to store it (was in the garden shed okay?).
Kit_e
Kit_e, that was very irresponsible. I'm sure that there are fellow swaggers on here that are highly experienced in the disposal of unwanted wine;)
Not to sure about putting alcoholic beverages out on the curb. Anyone of any age could swipe it and partake in its consumption.
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A safe with $26 K accidently left in it is hardly the same as a $10 candelabra deliberately thrown out.
When the candelabra is sitting in the fenced off tip the Law presumes you know it belongs to the tip owners and in any case tip owners place large signs to remind you that is the case. Well unless of course it was stolen originally, that can be proven and it is returned to its rightful owner. That applies whether or not it has passed through many innocent hands since and the last possessor threw it out as junk, completely unaware it was a valuable antique worth say $26000.
That's the Law and for very good reason and I've yet to see any threshold value test in the Law of larceny but I'm all ears if you can point me to it and its particular jurisdiction. I tell my son you're either a thief or you're not and there aint no grey about it son and be mindful of theft by finding or those with fuzzy ethics.
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If the item is in your garbage bin at the front of the house before it is collected. Who's property is it? You have shown your intent to toss the garbage. Not wanted. Not in transit to or in the hands of the tip.
Yep, belongs to the council, just the same as all the rubbish (gold) put out for "clean up". Once on the footpath, it belongs to council.
I see a lot of heading off in la la land here...
Paper, documents etc are usually taken elsewhere, not landfill...so has no bearing/no need to be used in an argument for or against as far as what the OP originally posted about here!
Tips - sorry..."transfer/waste stations" is where rubbish is thrown/taken, Again, what the topic is about.
Residences & places of business have absolutely NO similarities to tips as far as content, provisions etc go. It's like someone talking about shoes, & someone else trying to compare them to trains!
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To return to the topic of tips it was quite a few moons ago I realised why tips have the policies they do. I was a regular tipping the tandem trailer when I noticed truckloads of apparently good plasterboard and naturally asked the question is it for sale. Nah mate was the instant reply. It's going to be bulldozed because that's our brief. Bit of a waste thinks I but you realize with experience why it's so-
http://defectivechinesedrywall.com/what_is_it.htm (http://defectivechinesedrywall.com/what_is_it.htm)
Same with the lad when he was starting out on his own and a proportion of clients would ask the inevitable- how much for cash, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. How do I handle that dad? That's easy son you look em straight in the eye and say- Yes I'm aware some tradeys want to cheat the tax office but if they're like that they'd probably cheat their customers and I always assume my customers wouldn't want that. Besides, you don't know the punter from a pile of faulty plasterboard and he just might be an ATO employee testing you out.
Anyway he quickly worked out it nails the right customers and weeds out the potential problem types. What sort of customer are you? Black...white...fuzzy...?
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Yep, belongs to the council, just the same as all the rubbish (gold) put out for "clean up". Once on the footpath, it belongs to council.
Interesting! It belongs to the council once it's on the footpath, yet if a bin is knocked over and rubbish spills onto the ground, the council will expect the bin owner to clean it up.....at least that's how it works where I am.
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Interesting! It belongs to the council once it's on the footpath, yet if a bin is knocked over and rubbish spills onto the ground, the council will expect the bin owner to clean it up.....at least that's how it works where I am.
X2 and the council don't buy your rubbish you pay them to take it away.
What sort of customer are you? Black...white...fuzzy...?
Defiantly BLACK and if it isn't nailed down its mine ;D
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Goes the same here Rotare, & I imagine everywhere else too. Same with the grass out the front, belongs to council, but we're expected to mow it.
I've often wondered what would happen if I just left that strip & never mowed it. But I know the Minister would start on me before there was any (re)action from the council ::) *lol*
Good to know about how them tradesmen work/think?
Should I be calling up past tradesmen & tell they owe me because they were suppose to do a top-notch job because I paid "on the books"?
Nah, not worth the grief. I'll stick with the blokes I now who're happy for a fairer price in the skyrocket, knowing they'll also do a top-notch job ;)
**Disclaimer incase any ATO Officer is reading...the above is just a 'what if' scenario! :angel:
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I'll stick with the blokes I now who're happy for a fairer price in the skyrocket, knowing they'll also do a top-notch job ;)
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I just don't understand why people take perfectly useful stuff to the tip anyway? ??? Have they not heard of op shops? On top of that you have to pay the tip to dump it. When you can walk into a charity shop, pass on the stuff to grateful volunteers, saving space in the landfill, supporting a charity, giving someone a bargain and doing this all for free! I don't understand humans sometimes.
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I just don't understand why people take perfectly useful stuff to the tip anyway? ???
1) Because you already have a trailer load of rubbish that needs to go to the tip anyway
2) Because most goodwill /op shop / salvo places are selective with what they will take (eg, no electrical goods,car parts, large furnishings etc)
3) Because when you try to give away stuff via the local notice board people end up stuffing you around and its easier just to throw it away
4) Because everyone has a different opinion of what is rubbish, what is sellable, or what can easily be recycled
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Rotare, and that's why Vic has 2 acres of sh!t we're trying to clear up lol
Everything from fencing materials, to horse drawn silt scoops, to hand powered bench drills. Plus the 1000 other parts from cars he's dismantled, plus 5 containers of cr@p he got from a mate that we haven't even got to the bottom of yet lol Good thing we bought 50acres in QLD lol
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So if the footpath and everything on it belongs to the council, why do I have to mow it out of my pocket ... oh yeah, whole other topic. Sorry.
Kit_e >:D
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If everything on the footpath belongs to the Council, does that mean I can't go to the bin I use for rubbish and remove something once the bin is on the footpath?
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So if the footpath and everything on it belongs to the council, why do I have to mow it out of my pocket ... oh yeah, whole other topic. Sorry.
Kit_e >:D
Need to answer this. I was talking to a solicitor friend who works for a local council and he said you dont have to mow it, just ask the council to attend but dont expect them to mow it on your schedule.
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There has never been a requirement to mow the nature strip (in the Sydney area at least). It is the responsibility of the local Council.
Often see corner blocks with high paling fences down the side have long grass on the side street side. But you wouldn't leave it to Council because they sometimes use tractors pulling those grass choppers (can't call them mowers) and half rip the grass out of the ground and leave tyre ruts.
It is OK if you don't care.
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Don't anyone dare mention to prodigy how they had a mate do a welding job on a trailer for a couple of cold slabs, that would be thieving from a proper fabrication business. Come on mate, seriously. Take your halo off please ;D
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We have just had a council general rubbish pickup. I through out a dishwasher and washing machine and both were gone the same day by fossickers. No probs with that but when people search through your rubbish and spread the pile 5 times bigger than it was pisses me off.
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Prodigy,chill out fella
Should you live at our local tip, thn I'll remember not to go poking around in your crap.
Failing that, I reckon its better to take home and have a happy wife,than more landfill.
Someone obviously either didn't like it or didnt want it, but I thought it was good enough to take home. Perhaps they didn't have the patience for a garage sale, who cares.
Forget the preaching, just post up what other good finds you've all squires or found.
We've just had a local curbside hard waste collection, ,post up your good finds, gotta love a free bargain
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Don't anyone dare mention to prodigy how they had a mate do a welding job on a trailer for a couple of cold slabs, that would be thieving from a proper fabrication business. Come on mate, seriously. Take your halo off please ;D
Ha! You're talking to someone who remembers hanging around unfenced, burning rubbish tips as a kid scrounging old pram wheels for a billycart and the like. So now I have to deal with Vol 1 and 2 of the Building Code of Australia with State Appendices referencing a library full of Australian Standards, OHS, Fair Work Act, ASIC, ACCC, Australian Consumer Law, ATO, etc, etc and if my halo slips for an instant I'm in deep doo doo with all you fuzzy types calling for my head because it's all my fault and that's why you made all those Laws and Regulations in the first place. Then I'm supposed to cheer when the current Federal Govt proudly announce they've managed to pass a hundred pieces of Legislation through a difficult Parliament. Presumably that's because of so many fuzzy people out there nowadays that require them all to get through their day. Must admit I shake my head at what the next gen are up against with all this quicksand.
Anyway how'd you all do advising the lad about how to handle the surprise $26k in the ebay safe. Finders keepers? Or did you email back our 'Power Seller' saying you were surprised to find a sum of money in it and can he name the sum and how it came to be there and if he can you'll direct him to the police who now have it trying to establish it's rightful owner and if they can't, then it will be yours by finding?
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Bugger the "like " button wheres the "off " button . LOL .
Im sure you have family at my work Prodigy .
Ohh and on the 26K thingy.. Im still waiting for the local copper to give me the $300 and the wallet I found and handed in as a kid, that was never claimed, Only been 42 years ...
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Arrgh, just experiencing more and more of late, some ordinary decent tradeys and the odd young bloke getting screwed over by Laws, Regulations and red tape they have no idea about and shaking my head at the judgements and penalties. I'm just about out of it now, but you do get a bit paranoid for the lad and his young mates in future with the legal quagmire and potential liability they're up against.
WTF are these public service office jocks and nanny staters doing to this country?
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I used to dance on steel as a cocky young feller in the late 60s and not much had changed from this-
http://www.slideshare.net/vtsiri/construction-photos-of-empire-state-building (http://www.slideshare.net/vtsiri/construction-photos-of-empire-state-building)
Now it's all run by girliemen and hyperventilating schoolgirls with the vapours.
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Prodigy, take a prozac and chill out fella.......
Lay off the drugs mate, I've no idea how the thread started from a great find of a fishing rod at the tip to your last three posts of whingeing abou strangely bizarre stuff.
Post up great finds at the tip/roadside hard collection and join the fun.
chill out fella.
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wouldn't ya love to be camped beside him......
From safety chains to welding, like meatloaf through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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Need to answer this. I was talking to a solicitor friend who works for a local council and he said you dont have to mow it, just ask the council to attend but dont expect them to mow it on your schedule.
Exactly what I do if I see extremely unkept nature strips in my local area. Usually gets mown within a couple of weeks.
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Isn't knocking stuff off from the tip the same as knocking off gravel from the side of the road to help ya mate concrete a slab for a garden shed?
Anyone remember that? An old Holden 1 Tonner, 2 mates, 3 shovels, rubber thongs and blue singlets, = a ute load of sand and gravel in under 4 minutes. Or am I still stuck in the 90's? ;)
Shane.
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We have just had a council general rubbish pickup. I through out a dishwasher and washing machine and both were gone the same day by fossickers. No probs with that but when people search through your rubbish and spread the pile 5 times bigger than it was pisses me off.
That happens here in Brisbane too. It's the speeding, overflowing trucks driven by these clowns that peeve me off. Its a huge race to see who can get the best rubbish first. ???
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Taking others problems onboard and baying at the moon eh? Time to get away from it all again ;D
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Isn't knocking stuff off from the tip the same as knocking off gravel from the side of the road to help ya mate concrete a slab for a garden shed?
Anyone remember that? An old Holden 1 Tonner, 2 mates, 3 shovels, rubber thongs and blue singlets, = a ute load of sand and gravel in under 4 minutes. Or am I still stuck in the 90's? ;)
Shane.
I always thought it was put there as a return on our rates & taxes.
That's why they're signposted as "Stockpile", let's you know they're not private piles ;)
O'yeah, it's not a 90's thing...it's just that trailers are used now because Holden 1 tonners don't exist anymore :(
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Well whaddya know a pic of the old digs-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40132991@N07/3794033663/# (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40132991@N07/3794033663/#)
No better place to put it than next to the botanical gardens cos fossickin is hard work and a kid might need some shade and a feed of tamarinds or mangoes.
If anyone has a Yahoo ID then post this in the pic comments section and perhaps someone else will recall some more details about the world's first/oldest OHS officer-
"Unfenced, no warning signs and always smouldering, a kid could scrounge about for old pram wheels for a billy-cart or some other useful junk. Mind you it was hard work in those days as not much useful stuff got chucked out and there was always a bearded old bloke with gammy leg/s for competition. He rode around in a 3 wheeled home converted 2stroke scooter complete with awning with tassels on top and proudly named 'A la cart the happy wanderer'. He'd warn kids not to get too close to the burning rubbish piles lest they sunk into red hot smouldering rubbish below and lost some toes or a foot. A self-appointed casual OHS officer for kids as we dodged the tipper trucks with no adult supervision whatsoever. Those were the days!"
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Those were the days!"
When common sense was alive!
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I am suprised Speewa has not seen this thread, he is the drive by master of the grass verge
GG
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I am suprised Speewa has not seen this thread, he is the drive by master of the grass verge
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Too busy this time of year, lots of hard garbage out.
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Thread revival...
DISCLAIMER: I am not a garbage rummager, normally!
I'm seriously pleased with myself today. hard garbage week in our neighbourhood next week. I went to a mates house today to pick up a welder he let me have. It a perfectly good and working Gasless MIG but he couldn't get on with it and has bought an Inverter Arc welder so has no need for it. Doesn't want to sell it as he thinks it junk and doesn't want any comeback. I've used it before it's fine for anything I ever want to do. Great start to the day...
I was driving home and past a large double story house and saw a pile of stuff being assembled on the curb side with a couple of young lads clearing out the garage. Under a garden table I spotted a Waeco 110ltr or 80ltr fridge.
I chuck a u-turn to go and have a look.
I've put a Waeco 110ltr in the Kimberley and hit the catches a few times already. I thought it would be good for spares. It's dusty but clean enough with one latch missing.
I asked the guy in the garage if he minds if I take it for the spare latches. Turns out its a 110ltr duel zone one. He reply that one latch is broken and it has no leads but, help yourself, that's all that wrong with it.
I quickly thank him, and load it in the back of the cruiser. As I do so a bloke in a 70series pick-up spots me and I could tell from his face that he was gutted that he wasn't 30seconds earlier.
Puzzled by the comments the young bloke said and never being that lucky, I quickly got home and decided to plug it in to the Kimberley, not expecting anything to happen.... Whoosh, it fired up! I couldn't believe it. Then thought to myself, yeah but it's never going to get cold... ???
1 hour later, -5 in the freezer and 3 in the fridge! No, surly not! ???
Been running for most of the day now pulling just under 2.5amps per hour!
15mins with a bottle of kitchen cleaner and it's nearly as good as new. Trip to getaway outdoors and $15 has a new latch installed and ready to rumble!
We now have 220ltr of beer cooling capacity. :cheers:
Some people in Perth must just have too much money or really hate selling stuff! ???
Still, it made my day, maybe even my week and we have several friends we camp with that will love to borrow it so it should put a smile on there faces too.
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Nice score mate. Right place right time.
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Awesome find mate how lucky :cheers:
BD
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Lets get in to " Road Side Shopping in the Green lie " lts a very basic thing Hunter / Gather its been going on for years .
As we don't have to kill to eat some of us still like to hunt . This long winder post about the ups & downs of it all are really great to fill posts but to come home with a new toy to play with is really the best thing .
My 1st Engal didnt come with the 12v lead but it had the 240v worked for 6 years till l sold it to upgrade . RSS (Road Side Shopping ) kept me in cooking gas for years , furnished part of 2 houses , helped me to fill 3 large sheds twice over & have 3 or 4 garage sales a year . My clients would get me to take stuff to the tip , sometimes it got there , sometimes it went home . lts almost easier to tell you of the stuff l have paid for than the scrounge .
Did any body have any problems with Skip Dipping or is that another topic ???
Seek & yee shell find . :cup: :cheers:
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You would have gotten on well with my father, Jamie. He was the original tip rat. :cup:
Built his first car from parts scrounged at the local tips. ;D
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:cup: :cup: :cup: Good On Him :cheers:
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Prodigy, take a prozac and chill out fella.......
Lay off the drugs mate, I've no idea how the thread started from a great find of a fishing rod at the tip to your last three posts of whingeing abou strangely bizarre stuff.
Post up great finds at the tip/roadside hard collection and join the fun.
chill out fella.
Agreed, what started out as a light hearted thread did'nt take long to get turned over by a member who is obviously off his meds.
Lighten up fella...
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wouldn't ya love to be camped beside him......
You are kiddin are'nt ya Jeepers ;D
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So if the footpath and everything on it belongs to the council, why do I have to mow it out of my pocket ... oh yeah, whole other topic. Sorry.
Kit_e >:D
I live in a street in the Logan Council area and the Council would mow the nature strip every few weeks when needed in summer and randomly at other times.
We received a letter from the Council saying that in response to many residents asking the Council to stop the mowing and that the residents preferred to do it themselves, the Council had put it through a meeting and adopted it as a by-law that all the street residents were from then responsible for the mowing.
I queried this and asked for copies of the alleged residents letters as I thought the Council were a pack of cheap lying bastards and only wanted to save the dollars, and was told an emphatic NO, and if I didn't like that
I would have to go through the process of lodging an application for the Rights to Information which would cost dollars, take up to 6 months and still wouldn't give me anyone's name or address for privacy reasons.
That reinforced my opinion of the Council.
Would I be safe in assuming removing the cut grass from the nature strip would now be theft of Council? property.
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You would have gotten on well with my father, Jamie. He was the original tip rat. :cup:
Built his first car from parts scrounged at the local tips. ;D
My father walked into a tip with a battery and drove out in a HR, with rego. Drove it till the rego died and dropped it back to the tip. Made sure he took his battery out though. Lol
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I have not made the level of a Fridge yet, but have done very well out of the tip.
On the Gold Coast, we have large bins you back up to and offload in which the trucks pick up, different bins for different things.
Scavenging in not possible, but if it is on the other guys ute still, no worries.
I scored a Kiwi made, cast alloy 5 piece out door garden table and chairs from a guy 1 day.
A park bench for the garden another.
3 x busted bikes, that I fixed and sold on gumtree for $110
A Scott Bonner Drum Mower that I have started to fix for myself.
When fixing some bikes to sell, I asked the council guy for a busted bike for spares, he said no worries, so I went into the scrap bin and came out with what I needed plus a girls bike suitable for a 4 year old with the $189 price tag on it still, pumped the tyres up and the kids are still playing with it.
Then, I started this lawns caper for work, and now have been paid to take away.
A 3 x 3m garden shed, $150 on gumtree
7 Bikes in total so far. Sold on GT for $240
! large tool box for the ute, kept it.
Water Proof Laundry shelving units. Kept it
Shed shelving units, Kept it.
Out door coffee table style fire place, with a bag of fire wood, used once, came with the stand and 4 different poker things, brush etc. Even came with a great yarn of how it filled the house with smoke and cost a thousand bucks or so to have it cleaned. That's now sitting out the back for my fire bug missus to play with... ;D
Sure there are more items I have sold on GT, just can't think of them now.
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That's the Go . lf you don't ask you don't get & lts really great to have a hobby :cheers:
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We all still get to have a look at whats on offer at our dump.
A fairly tidy 2000 model commodore went in today.
Our dumpies recommend shopping there before going to the local Mitre10.
I needed a couple of gas bars for the boat BBQ a few months back, 90 something each from BBQ Galore..... $1.00 each at the waste disposal plant, formally known as "The Tip."
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I needed a couple of gas bars for the boat BBQ a few months back, 90 something each from BBQ Galore..... $1.00 each at the waste disposal plant, formally known as "The Tip."
Ummmmmm 90 something or $1.00 each , let me have a think about this ??? ??? , nope might need to have a :cheers: or 2 .