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Pissed off? I am....

Limpet_Chicken said:
Personally, I reckon if some bugger leaves a skip full of valuable or useful stuff, that is to the former owner, mere waste, to be tossed out for landfill or recycle, they cannot want it THAT Much, and if its in the street, without going onto private owned property, then anything in it is fair game.

The scrap thats come from those in the past, its meant the difference between going hungry, and heaving food on my table. In that situation, you fucking bet I'm going to take all the Pb and Cu, and hike it up to the scrap yard. Old TVs yield vacuum tubes, and whilst not huge, at least a couple of decently rated capacitors and some misc. assorted components.

Just waiting until I have enough respectable caps for a marx generator fit to power a decent gauss gun, can be ok on ebay, but hell, I haven't spent a single penny on caps, and if I built it with the ones I'd scrounged for nothing, I bet I could still, even before getting enough for my preferences, put a round through sheet metal without too much difficulty, and thats not even using discarding sabot type AP tungsten-cored rounds :D

Best haul ever from a skip?

Found one coming home from an appt w/ my GP one day, saw a dumpster nearby and of course decided to check it. Spent a couple of hours searching it, after finding a gold and diamond woman's rolex (fake rolex, but high quality, still true Au and diamonds) and a jerusalem templar-style cross, solid silver, more modern, but still nice silver chain, hallmarked, etc.

Date-1600s.

Plus a load of very silver-like looking buttons, took as many as I could find, and at home, tested one with hydrogen sulfide, upon which it blackened rapidly, showing they are at least partially composed of Ag.

Plus some antique stamps, a 'penny red' amongst them, cigarette cards (full set, bar just one. I think I'll try to hunt down the missing one for sale,and then flog the entire lot, these ones are pretty old, and doubtless the entire set will be worth more than the same, missing one card.

Abandoned buildings are good finds too, if somewhere is literally falling to pieces, being reclaimed by nature, I see no moral problem with walking/climbing in there, and taking a set of pipe cutters and a hacksaw to the plumbing. Hell, recovered almost £40 in copper alone, before counting what got made in lead, and that wasn't even taking into account stripping out all the copper wiring.

Heh...breaking into a long-abandoned nursing home once as a kid, even found an absolute fucking shiteload of unused, sterile-packed rigs needles, and a few bottles of temazepam jelly eggs too =D

Oh boy, that was quite a find, being barely into my teens at the time, if i was at all, that represented a huge boost to my usual finances. Not like anybody is going to come and renovate those crumbling old shitpits, or ever use the stuff in skips.

Throw it out? give it to somebody that might USE it (like the gutted TVs slowly but surely building up a sodding great bastard of a cap bank for railgun/coilgun experimentation), or if not use directly, then sell. There are people out there that would really welcome the extra meal opportunities afforded by a few kilos of copper (made a tenner on a slight more than just 3kg just recently actually, some lead, but almost all copper, few bits of brass etc, all saved up, any time offcuts, or scrap bits were made, metal turnings, welding garbage etc., car wheel weights in the street, I toss the lot into a bucket or two until theres eventually built up enough to scrap it all in. I always make a decent few bob off hat.

That skip with the silver and stuff in it was nuts though...wtf;...who the hades throws out antique silver jewelery ffs? Not that I'm going to sell that piece, I really quite like it for myself. Goes great with my trenchcoat and combat boots=D But if someone's tossed it, and I find something like that....its mine!

The pork eventually came, couple of plastic pigs. They were more than happy to leave, after seeing I'd stacked unwanted waste in neat piles, for sorting, and then returning to whence it came, all the more so on learning that someone was throwing out valuable antiques. Its sickening enough when stuff like that gets melted for scrap metal, but just to throw things out?

Hell....I recycle even so little as a few hundred mg of plat cat, or Pd/C. Absolutely bloody criminal to go destroying or rubbishing antiques like that.
Got a whole bit haul of cut glass drinking vessels too, a lot of REALLY ancient video games on floppy disk, including a couple of my childhood favourites, terminator-future shock, and system shock 1.

Old buildings are the best, great for casing, nobody loses out, if its just going to be pulled down or allowed to lie in mouldering ruins. Way I see things, if somebody can turn that into food on the table where otherwise, they had none, good.

I've been in that situation before-either eat, or make sure the pets have their food. And going hungry is no fun.
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Limpet_Chicken said:
Personally, I reckon if some bugger leaves a skip full of valuable or useful stuff, that is to the former owner, mere waste, to be tossed out for landfill or recycle, they cannot want it THAT Much, and if its in the street, without going onto private owned property, then anything in it is fair game.

The scrap thats come from those in the past, its meant the difference between going hungry, and heaving food on my table. In that situation, you fucking bet I'm going to take all the Pb and Cu, and hike it up to the scrap yard. Old TVs yield vacuum tubes, and whilst not huge, at least a couple of decently rated capacitors and some misc. assorted components.

Just waiting until I have enough respectable caps for a marx generator fit to power a decent gauss gun, can be ok on ebay, but hell, I haven't spent a single penny on caps, and if I built it with the ones I'd scrounged for nothing, I bet I could still, even before getting enough for my preferences, put a round through sheet metal without too much difficulty, and thats not even using discarding sabot type AP tungsten-cored rounds :D

Best haul ever from a skip?

Found one coming home from an appt w/ my GP one day, saw a dumpster nearby and of course decided to check it. Spent a couple of hours searching it, after finding a gold and diamond woman's rolex (fake rolex, but high quality, still true Au and diamonds) and a jerusalem templar-style cross, solid silver, more modern, but still nice silver chain, hallmarked, etc.

Date-1600s.

Plus a load of very silver-like looking buttons, took as many as I could find, and at home, tested one with hydrogen sulfide, upon which it blackened rapidly, showing they are at least partially composed of Ag.

Plus some antique stamps, a 'penny red' amongst them, cigarette cards (full set, bar just one. I think I'll try to hunt down the missing one for sale,and then flog the entire lot, these ones are pretty old, and doubtless the entire set will be worth more than the same, missing one card.

Abandoned buildings are good finds too, if somewhere is literally falling to pieces, being reclaimed by nature, I see no moral problem with walking/climbing in there, and taking a set of pipe cutters and a hacksaw to the plumbing. Hell, recovered almost £40 in copper alone, before counting what got made in lead, and that wasn't even taking into account stripping out all the copper wiring.

Heh...breaking into a long-abandoned nursing home once as a kid, even found an absolute fucking shiteload of unused, sterile-packed rigs needles, and a few bottles of temazepam jelly eggs too =D

Oh boy, that was quite a find, being barely into my teens at the time, if i was at all, that represented a huge boost to my usual finances. Not like anybody is going to come and renovate those crumbling old shitpits, or ever use the stuff in skips.

Throw it out? give it to somebody that might USE it (like the gutted TVs slowly but surely building up a sodding great bastard of a cap bank for railgun/coilgun experimentation), or if not use directly, then sell. There are people out there that would really welcome the extra meal opportunities afforded by a few kilos of copper (made a tenner on a slight more than just 3kg just recently actually, some lead, but almost all copper, few bits of brass etc, all saved up, any time offcuts, or scrap bits were made, metal turnings, welding garbage etc., car wheel weights in the street, I toss the lot into a bucket or two until theres eventually built up enough to scrap it all in. I always make a decent few bob off hat.

That skip with the silver and stuff in it was nuts though...wtf;...who the hades throws out antique silver jewelery ffs? Not that I'm going to sell that piece, I really quite like it for myself. Goes great with my trenchcoat and combat boots=D But if someone's tossed it, and I find something like that....its mine!

The pork eventually came, couple of plastic pigs. They were more than happy to leave, after seeing I'd stacked unwanted waste in neat piles, for sorting, and then returning to whence it came, all the more so on learning that someone was throwing out valuable antiques. Its sickening enough when stuff like that gets melted for scrap metal, but just to throw things out?

Hell....I recycle even so little as a few hundred mg of plat cat, or Pd/C. Absolutely bloody criminal to go destroying or rubbishing antiques like that.
Got a whole bit haul of cut glass drinking vessels too, a lot of REALLY ancient video games on floppy disk, including a couple of my childhood favourites, terminator-future shock, and system shock 1.

Old buildings are the best, great for casing, nobody loses out, if its just going to be pulled down or allowed to lie in mouldering ruins. Way I see things, if somebody can turn that into food on the table where otherwise, they had none, good.

I've been in that situation before-either eat, or make sure the pets have their food. And going hungry is no fun.
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Can you add a spoken sound file to these posts.

There's no way I'm reading all that.
 
festival is a speech synthesiser developed at Edinburgh Uni (iirc), yes I have it installed, along with a load of speech recognition stuff to take the strain off my fingers!

Yes not exactly Holly off Red Dwarf but it does the job!
 
Mailmonkey said:
no need to close it, but i too agree skips are fair game, the one time i have hired a skip I was pleased to see people taking stuff from it, as it gave us more room for waste that otherwise wouldn't have fitted in there
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This is the correct attitude to adopt. I have been in this exact situation before and it was only after the skip raiders had left that I realised that I should left them take as much as they wanted. Skips are expensive to hire so in actual fact they are helping you........it just does not seem right, but think about it...it is.
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
This is a fantastic idea for a new thread =D
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When i was in high school i was looking for stuff to make a bmx ramp or something out of and unearth what looked like a very good quality vacuum cleaner in a skip.

Anyway we took it back to ramp building HQ and plugged it in...........not 1 word of a lie the fucking thing spoke! It came away with thing like "Power on", "bag full", Increasing suction etc etc.

To this day I have never came across another vacuum cleaner with speech...probably because it was irritating as fuck and hence why it was in the skip.
 
Ive looked outside enough times to see them walking round the side of the house, only after theyd rang the bell and no one has answered , how dare they at 11am anyway, too early. Always suprised when I come out, "ah ey errr do you want us to scrap that car for you mate, take it off your hands? Yeah sure mate its only a classic merc, looks like it needs scrapping anyway :|"

Sneaky fuckers though must have been watching me, brothers a plumber so has a shit load of copper piping in the garage, I literally went to the shop round the corner no longer than 5 minutes, came back garage door had been ripped open, (shjt metal door must be about 4mm thick) and all the copper had gone, a good £600 worth, left all the power tools etc though.

Theyve got an eye for metal though, only have to leave anything outside for about 10 minutes and it will be gone
 
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