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squarefishSILVER Member
(...trusty steed of the rodeo midget...)
403 posts
Location: the state of flux, Ireland


Posted:
Skips=dumpsters for americans and other aliens wink


So-- whats the best most valuable, funnest thing you've ever rescued out of a skip?
Should we star up a worldwide "skipwatch"?
Am I a complete packrat / scrounger / hopeless case?

winkM wink

RumpleSTmember
61 posts
Location: Cardiff/edinburgh


Posted:
got a bass guitar once, no strings but nice body. It was a while ago though, I gave it to one of my mates to fix up as I dont play bass. But yes. Skipwatch....good plan

we can be called the packrats! ubblol

Its a big ol mish mash!


_FSA_now comes with skydiving license
1,627 posts
Location: In your head. (Tasmania, Australia)


Posted:
Hhmm....best or most valuable? Uumm.... I don't really make it a habit to go looking through peoples bins....
But at the tip I scored a tennis racket with the strings cut out. Which may seem a ridiculous thing to have or even consider worth getting, but when you're a contortionist looking for things to squeeze through a tennis racket can come in handy.... ubbloco

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Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
Tennis racquet, hmm?? what kind is it? good condition? Decals in tact? Warped at all? Original grip?

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


_Clare_BRONZE Member
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)


Posted:
I opt for scrounger biggrin

Hope you're well martin... see you at the weekend?

Getting to the other side smile


squarefishSILVER Member
(...trusty steed of the rodeo midget...)
403 posts
Location: the state of flux, Ireland


Posted:
You coming down for deep soul james' thing? or do you mean am I coming up for the festival of fools thing in Belfast?

BozBRONZE Member
sober
109 posts
Location: Bury St. Edmunds, suffolk, United Kingdom


Posted:
i got myself a lovely blue sofa for my room, perfect, fits the decor, sits lovely in the window, bloody brilliant biggrin

*produces sandwich- is happy*


fNiGOLD Member
master of disaster
3,354 posts
Location: New York, USA


Posted:
hrm... a vacuum cleaner and a persian rug were the biggies biggrin
(though not at the same time)

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_Clare_BRONZE Member
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)


Posted:
Nah... I meant this weekend... we're coming to Dublin for James' thing... then we'll be at Festie of fools stuff too - you coming up for that?

Getting to the other side smile


yoniGOLD Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,099 posts
Location: Bideford and Bath, United Kingdom


Posted:
so far the best things i've got is a computer (£2 from the dump, with almost top spec just missing a hard drive)
and a mountain bike, which was just a bit rusty but still very good.

UCOF "evolution: Poi -> stick -> hoops -> devil stick -> juggling club -> juggling ball -> crayons."

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james_r80GOLD Member
Member
19 posts
Location: On a big hill, Australia


Posted:
i found a snowboard once that was cool, a sombrero, and a bmx with no wheels

Seize The Carp


pop_n_freshmember
48 posts
Location: Scotland


Posted:
my next door neibours threw out (as in payed for it to be removed) a huge AGA/Rayburn range cooker thing. weighed about two ton or so. but they guys removin it wouldnt give it to us. probably cos they knew the thing was worth a bomb. it was original 19th century cast iron. beautiful. but apart from that i have never seen anything i have wanted in a skip

Just call me Pop.


alien_oddityCarpal \'Tunnel
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees


Posted:
 Written by: pop_n_fresh


my next door neibours threw out (as in payed for it to be removed) a huge AGA/Rayburn range cooker thing. weighed about two ton or so. but they guys removin it wouldnt give it to us. probably cos they knew the thing was worth a bomb. it was original 19th century cast iron. beautiful. but apart from that i have never seen anything i have wanted in a skip



arga cookers are worth a bomb eek so no wonder the refuse reliefe people wouln't let you have it ubblol
me..... i've never had anything good out of a skip. when i was a kid, because i klived near a boat yard i used to raid their skips and me and my mates built a massive tree house and underground complex with all the off cuts of marine ply and fiber glass

Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
Me and Dad were walking to the post office one day and there was a skip out the front of a gorgeous expensie old house with great firewood in it....we were in a swanky street of a swanky suburb so we actually went to the house and asked (I think dad just wanted an excuse to cross the gate!) and we got ourselves some nice firewood!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


DentrassiGOLD Member
ZORT!
3,045 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia


Posted:
err all of my furniture is picked up off the side of the road. to date, i have a complete set of draws, shelves, bed, carpets, and 3 piece sofa set.
i also have a large stuffed monkey which looked lonely.
ubbrollsmile

"Here kitty kitty...." - Schroedinger.


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
What's its name?

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


DentrassiGOLD Member
ZORT!
3,045 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia


Posted:
Sparticus biggrin
EDITED_BY: Dentrassi (1145583877)

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Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
biggrin

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


DentrassiGOLD Member
ZORT!
3,045 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia


Posted:
i have a couple of pics of him in my gallery ubbrollsmile

"Here kitty kitty...." - Schroedinger.


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
That monkey rocks my socks!

How could anyone leave him on the side of the road!


although I suspect his drinking, smoking and womanising may have had something to do with it wink

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


the_poierSILVER Member
the 1337 poier
346 posts
Location: england


Posted:
i found a huge dog with stuffing and bean bag bells inside...its the size of a sofa!

ive got a fuzzbox and im not afraid to use it
R.I.P. gayfest


doctor_fandangoGOLD Member
co-director of A.C.B.I.S.H.A.
761 posts
Location: in the corner beside the filing cabinets, 2nd floo...


Posted:
the keyboard im writing on was in a skip, we have a cabinet that was made from slvaged timber, all the dowels in my staffs ae scrap,we have several wicker baskets, the 5.0 surround speakers, a few videos and a couple of amps. skipdiving is fun, once youve had all your shots of course!

 Written by: rumpleST


got a bass guitar once, no strings but nice body




nice bass guitar, no strings attached... ubblol

There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1,

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Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
I got a note in the mail saying there is a hard rubbish day coming up....

I'm so excited!!!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


alien_oddityCarpal \'Tunnel
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees


Posted:
*looks shifty* if anyone finds a black suitcase in a skip containing £500,000 IT'S MINE!!!! you hearhehe

Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
hear? pardon? sorry, just a trifle deaf...
wink

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Chronofracture333Hobo Gaylord
329 posts
Location: I am worldwide and lush


Posted:
Things I've taken from skips in the last month or so....

-Pretty much all the food I've eaten.

-Washing machine, used the drum for a v.tasty fire bin, and my friend used the motor in a bike powered generator.

-Decent hard drives and other computer stuff.

-Bike frame and enough parts to make a better bike than you could buy for £200.

-Metal poles for fire staffs.

-Samurai sword. biggrin

-Classy pram with chrome wheel arches which I've halfway turned into a bike trailer.

-Easter eggs!

-Assorted furniture and other smaller items.

The only problem I've had with being a bin rat is finding a crowbar and other tools someone had dumped. Then being stopped by the cops, who wanted to look in my rucksack.... They called it "going equipped" for burglary. I was released without charge, but a night in the cells is not a fun place to be.

Skipdiving rocks! It's the urban equivalent of living off the land.

smile

*no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no*

"Oooh, what a shiny new move!"


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
1. why did they want to look in your rucksack in the first place?
2. night in the cells? they can do that simply cos they are wankers??? eek

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Chronofracture333Hobo Gaylord
329 posts
Location: I am worldwide and lush


Posted:
If the police have reasonable grounds for suspicion ( ie. don't like the look of you), then they can stop and search you. It was dark when they picked me up, but I guess I just looked like a criminal to them.



And since walking around with tools on your person is a crime, and carries a potential six month sentence, I was taken to the station. It took them till morning before they got round to interviewing me, when luckily I managed to persuade them that I wasn't a burglar.



I was released without charge, but they get to keep my fingerprints, DNA, and photo. I got to keep the tracksuit bottoms they gave me though, apparently it's cheaper for them to buy new ones than it is to get them laundered. ubblol

*no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no*

"Oooh, what a shiny new move!"


doctor_fandangoGOLD Member
co-director of A.C.B.I.S.H.A.
761 posts
Location: in the corner beside the filing cabinets, 2nd floo...


Posted:
skip raiders unite! https://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10900

There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1,

"in most of our friends we're the hippies. but we have hippie friends of our own.. its like a dog having its own pet" - H. Sinoquet 19-03-2005


alien_oddityCarpal \'Tunnel
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees


Posted:
 Written by: Chronofracture


used the drum for a v.tasty fire bin, smile




old washing machine drums make perfect fire bins, i've seen them at partys loads. all you need to do is put it on some bricks and you can put stuff under it to cook like spuds in foil ect.

Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
carrying tools on you is a crime?

*is getting progressively more and more scared of Big Brother*

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


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