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kevkev57

  • Joined Sep 2008
skip find
« 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


Fluffywelshsheep

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Near Stirling, Central Scotland
Re: skip find
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2009, 10:36:19 am »
well done :)

sellickbhoy

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Muiravonside, near Linlithgow
Re: skip find
« Reply #2 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!!!


sheila

  • Joined Apr 2008
  • Mablethorpe Lincolnshire
Re: skip find
« Reply #3 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

kevkev57

  • Joined Sep 2008
Re: skip find
« Reply #4 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

sandy

  • Guest
Re: skip find
« Reply #5 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!!!!!!

ballingall

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Avonbridge, Falkirk
Re: skip find
« Reply #6 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

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
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Re: skip find
« Reply #7 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.
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

sandy

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Re: skip find
« Reply #8 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!!!!!

 

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