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Harry Bloomfield[_3_] Harry Bloomfield[_3_] is offline
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Default skip diving - whats the best you have rescued?

Dave Starling wrote :
Happened to notice a new build going up and dump some goodies in a
skip as they are just doing the snagging. Managed to get around 50
brand new, 7 newton blocks. Movin that lot certainly burnt a few
calories! Theres still more in there, but imagine they'll be gone by
the time I go back!
A couple of years ago I managed to find a skip near a commercial build
which had around 6 bales of shrink wrapped soundpoofing rockwool
slabs.

Dave


The best I found not that I have time to actually go searching, was
100yds of chain link fencing in two pieces. They were new and the
builder had used them to secure his site during construction. I managed
to work out how to stitch the two pieces together so that the length
was enough to go around the rear of our property. Until then it had
been part of a short for locals heading for the railway station.

In the process of fencing I also enclosed a useless to them section of
public land, which I was later able to legally claim as mine, because
no one had noticed or complained about it in ten years - I understand
the process is not quite so easy these days.

So I got the fencing free and got some free extra land out of the skip
too :-)

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
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