Not Bad Garbage PickingToday

[angelbeast24]

no b/c i wont allow count(dan) to throw his stuff out and sell out liek he did with his hair

[Bad_Dog]

at my dads old work, I once found three working DeWalt 14.4 cordless XR Drills, with cases, chargers and extra batteries... all in the dumpster

[Rather]

Originally posted by graycie


later on when you get into a steady relationship your girlfriend WILL make you throw all the dumpster stuff out and get new stuff.

No woman is going to pry away my garbage bounty from my cold dead ashes. Some people throw away things for the dumbest reasons.

Once I get my own place im gonna raid so many dumpsters, backalleys, and construction signs (only ones noy being used) taht the ney weight of garbage collected will be lowered! My whole apartment will have a bridge underpass theme. Ok J/king... (only the living room). Stuff I found for free means I couldn't care less if it gets trashed in a wild party at my place.

[fire1811]

only dumpster diving i have ever done was when i was younger a local nail making company went out of business.

i was walking by the dumpster one day and looked in it
the WHOLE dumpster was full of boxes of nail.

ended up with around 150 boxes of various size nails. we (2 of us) carried nails home for hours. brand new, just made. my old man does carpentry so he was extremely happy. he was also nice enough to give us $5 a box for them

[phyregod]

Back when I was a little phyregod we lived near this place that made stuff out of brass.. So their dumpster was always full of scraps.. various sized and shaped chunks of brass. Mostly rectangular sheets around 6-12 inches.. I built an entire skate park out of it.. err.. finger board skate park that is. It was neet.

My brother found a violin in a case in a dumpster.. had it appraised at $1200.00 I guess that kicks my skate park's umm... rear.

[CameraGuy]

My high school used to throw out some interesting stuff. My favourite find: two fire alarm bells (one 6 inch, one 12 inch) when they converted the alarms over to electronic buzzers, I've got them sitting in my basement waiting for an appropriate project to come along.

[ScatterPlot]

I got a HUGE squirrel cage fan the other day, just sitting there waiting to be made into a hovercraft.

[Cryer]

I'm proud to say that nothing I own was found in the trash.

[Mag89]

Originally posted by bertmcmahan
I got a HUGE squirrel cage fan the other day, just sitting there waiting to be made into a hovercraft.

i go dumpster diving for parts for my hovercraft too

[SlipknotX556]

Originally posted by cphilip
..this was actually in Florida...

Yes, since I live right near hick area, I can tell you right now that FL from Ocala to Jupiter(where I live) has many hicks. I live in Jupiter, but 2 miles away is Jupiter farms which is hick area, there every driveway has a lifted pickup and if a wild boar is see running, hicks will jump in their trucks and shoot at it while moving in the trucks. Also every hick in FL should be flocking here soon, because of mud fest. Great.

[PyRo]

I got a lawnmower last night but it doesn't start and I was more in the take stuff apart then fix stuff mode, so instead of fixing the throttle and choke, I ripped every good part off it and put them in a box in my basement

[impostal22]

hmm..how do you know which dumpsters will wield good stuff and which won't? i don't wanna just start looking in just any dumpster...

[PyRo]

I don't go in dumpsters much
When people move, spring time when they are cleaning, anytime they are emptying someones house out, lawn equipment repair places, we got tons of stuff from there dumpster but were almost arrested for us, the police made us put it all back, but we got to keep the stuff we already had home

[tony3]

Arrested for stealing trash....

[PyRo]

Originally posted by tony3
Arrested for stealing trash....

Yup, I thought it was legally considered abandond property anyway. Oh well.