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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: kevkev57 on August 20, 2009, 07:36:34 am

Title: skip find
Post by: kevkev57 on August 20, 2009, 07:36:34 am

Had a bit of luck recently. I found this meat slicer in a skip. I got word that a local private hospital was changing all their kitchen equipment. Apparently there was nothing wrong with anything ( included soup ladles, pots pans etc )  but the ' men in suits ' said it would be ' fiscally good management ' to dump it all and buy new

http://referencelibrary.blogspot.com/2007/07/hobart-model-410-meat-slicer.html

I got there just as two men put it in the skip. " take it if you want it " they said. 

It turns out that the machine I found is bit of a design classic.  It is huge and was a right struggle moving it out of the skip, but coming out and into kevs car it was.

 It is exactly the same as the one in the link. It has a service label ( 08/06/2009 )  and is in good condition. Almost silent when cutting hams.

So what else have you found in skips ?

Kevin

Title: Re: skip find
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on August 20, 2009, 10:36:19 am

well done :)

Title: Re: skip find
Post by: sellickbhoy on August 20, 2009, 10:39:42 am

BIN RAKER!!!!!!

LOL

fantastic!! amazing what stuff folk chuck out.

I suggest a quick email to your MP and councillor and highlight the WASTE going on!!!

Title: Re: skip find
Post by: sheila on August 20, 2009, 12:10:12 pm

I can vouch for waste in the NHS. having just had two broken feet. One pair of crutches, used for 3 minutes,Not returnable. It costs more to clean them then to buy new ones. One Zimmer frame, used twice, not returnable

Title: Re: skip find
Post by: kevkev57 on August 20, 2009, 12:22:11 pm

This is actually in Belgium.  Same wasteful mentality though !

Hey, ' BIN RACKER '  !!!   No I am much more classier than that. I moved from bins to skips, a different league.

Kevin

Title: Re: skip find
Post by: sandy on August 20, 2009, 01:01:59 pm

Oh, what haven't I found??? a lot of my house contents are either free or from charity shops, as well as my clothing, plants etc etc...love getting free stuff much more exciting!!!!!!

Title: Re: skip find
Post by: ballingall on August 20, 2009, 01:22:52 pm

We moved our trio of cayuga duck's into our little paddock a few months ago on a saturday. On the sunday, we packed up some rubbish and went to the local skip. The car in front of us put in a big plastic paddling pool (shaped like a boat)- it had no cracks in it, and looked in good nick. Out of the skip it came, into our van, and its now a mini pond for the cayuga's!

Beth

Title: Re: skip find
Post by: doganjo on August 20, 2009, 11:20:27 pm

I want one, it's super ;D ;D ;D - I can't get big things from the skip because i don't have the strength to get them into my car.  I'd love to get compost - badly need it for the garden but can't load it into bags nor get them in the car.

Title: Re: skip find
Post by: sandy on August 21, 2009, 08:48:00 am

I'm sure some one will help you at the tip, they don't always have a lot of compost. I want some more gravel/stones for the garden and loads have been offered on freecycle but I am the same as you, I think the weight is more as the bags get full of water!!!!!