Author Topic: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip (Read 11245 times)

Campfire · « **on:** March 10, 2012, 09:56:22 PM »

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

MarkGU · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:01:07 PM »

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.

McGirr · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:09:27 PM »

At our waste transfer station rubbish is dumped in a big pit and you cannot enter it due to ohs rules. Bummer

Mark

speewa158 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2012, 03:17:09 AM »

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

carinya · « **Reply #4 on:** March 11, 2012, 06:43:46 AM »

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.

Campfire · « **Reply #5 on:** March 11, 2012, 06:51:09 AM »

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

Chippy76 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 11, 2012, 08:36:21 AM »

The 150mm pvc pipe that I use for our pole carrier came from the tip. That was fun trying to sneak out ...

Cheers Chippy

speewa158 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2012, 03:02:27 PM »

Hunter /Gather instead of sneeking up on prey its away with it

Hairs · « **Reply #8 on:** March 11, 2012, 03:13:03 PM »

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

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.

Tjupurula · « **Reply #9 on:** March 11, 2012, 04:34:03 PM »

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

NewcastleKnight · « **Reply #10 on:** March 11, 2012, 05:03:31 PM »

My garage looks like a garbage tip. I hate throwing things out but slowly running out of room...lol

Mallory Black · « **Reply #11 on:** March 11, 2012, 07:51:17 PM »

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!

phatassphairy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 11, 2012, 08:01:06 PM »

Quote from: Tjupurula on March 11, 2012, 04:34:03 PM

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

Campfire · « **Reply #13 on:** March 11, 2012, 10:08:35 PM »

Quote from: Tjupurula on March 11, 2012, 04:34:03 PM

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

oldblade · « **Reply #14 on:** March 11, 2012, 10:14:39 PM »

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

Tjupurula · « **Reply #15 on:** March 11, 2012, 10:52:39 PM »

Quote from: Campfire on March 11, 2012, 10:08:35 PM

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

speewa158 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 12, 2012, 04:52:28 AM »

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

GeoffA · « **Reply #17 on:** March 12, 2012, 06:50:10 AM »

Quote from: NewcastleKnight on March 11, 2012, 05:03:31 PM

My garage looks like a garbage tip. I hate throwing things out but slowly running out of room...lol

I hear ya, brother............

Hefty · « **Reply #18 on:** March 12, 2012, 02:47:23 PM »

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.

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.

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.

BigJules · « **Reply #19 on:** March 12, 2012, 02:59:30 PM »

Quote from: Campfire on March 11, 2012, 10:08:35 PM

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.

Quote from: carinya on March 11, 2012, 06:43:46 AM

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...

fishfinder · « **Reply #20 on:** March 12, 2012, 03:27:28 PM »

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

Campfire · « **Reply #21 on:** March 12, 2012, 03:38:04 PM »

Quote from: fishfinder on March 12, 2012, 03:27:28 PM

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

Victim · « **Reply #22 on:** March 12, 2012, 03:46:34 PM »

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!!

phatassphairy · « **Reply #23 on:** March 12, 2012, 09:43:19 PM »

blahhhhhhh pmsl .... you guys are truly nutters !!!!!

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 )

Mallory Black · « **Reply #24 on:** March 12, 2012, 09:45:12 PM »

A man is nothing without "STUFF"

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Author Topic: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip (Read 11245 times)